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Family presence during management of acute deterioration: clinician attitudes, beliefs and perceptions of current practices
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posted on 2016-08-01, 00:00 authored by M J Youngson, Judy CurreyJudy Currey, Julie ConsidineJulie ConsidineBACKGROUND: The nature of acute clinical deterioration has changed over the last three decades with a decrease in in-hospital cardiac arrests and an increase in acute clinical deterioration. Despite this change, research related to family presence continues to focus on care during resuscitation rather than during acute deterioration. AIM: To explore healthcare clinician attitudes, beliefs and perceptions of current practices surrounding family presence during episodes of acute deterioration in adult Emergency Department patients. METHODS: Clinicians (n=156) from a single study site in Melbourne, Australia completed a 17-item survey. RESULTS: Participants disagreed that family members would interrupt (59.0%) or interfere (61.5%) with patient care if present during episodes of patient deterioration. Most (77.6%) participants stated that they included family during episodes of patient deterioration. Females, nurses and Australians/New Zealanders had a more positive attitude towards including family during episodes of patient deterioration when compared to males, doctors and clinicians of other ethnicities. Nurses with post-graduate qualifications and those with more years of experience had a more positive attitude towards including family during episodes of patient deterioration than nurses without post-graduation qualification and with less years of experience. CONCLUSIONS: Clinicians had predominantly positive attitudes towards including family during episodes of patient deterioration and perceived it to be a common day-to-day practice. Gender, profession, country of birth, education level and years of experience all impacted on clinician attitudes, beliefs and perceptions of family presence during acute deterioration.
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Australasian emergency nursing journalVolume
19Issue
3Pagination
159 - 165Publisher
ElsevierLocation
The Netherlands, AmsterdamPublisher DOI
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1574-6267Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2016, College of Emergency Nursing AustralasiaUsage metrics
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AttitudesClinical deteriorationEmergency medicineEmergency nursingFamily researchResuscitationScience & TechnologyLife Sciences & BiomedicineNursingHOSPITAL CARDIAC-ARRESTMEDICAL EMERGENCY TEAMWITNESSED RESUSCITATIONINVASIVE PROCEDURESILLNESS PERCEPTIONSETHNIC-DIFFERENCESCARE NURSESEXPERIENCEMORTALITYSURVIVAL
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