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Matching service need with staff development: a project management experience
Author(s) -
Wadams Beverley
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
nursing in critical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.689
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1478-5153
pISSN - 1362-1017
DOI - 10.1111/j.1478-5153.2008.00317.x
Subject(s) - process (computing) , respiratory care , service (business) , nursing , process management , matching (statistics) , intensive care unit , medicine , unit (ring theory) , business , psychology , intensive care medicine , computer science , mathematics education , pathology , marketing , operating system
Aim: This paper will investigate the development of enhanced clinical practice of the senior nurses’ role (band 6 and above) within one cardiac intensive care unit. The enhanced role was primarily patient focused and supported local need. Role development was perceived to run parallel with national trend rather than follow it directly. Method: The process and strategies used to facilitate such clinical development will be explored in depth. Conclusions: The aim of the developed senior role was to expedite respiratory care for critical care patients, specifically, requesting chest X ray and supplying and administrating limited respiratory drugs for the deteriorating patient. To enable this, an education framework was required to support new policy formulation. Wider organization issues confronted during this policy construction are additionally explored.