Opportunities for nurse involvement in surgical antimicrobial stewardship strategies: A qualitative study.

Background: Multi-disciplinary antimicrobial stewardship teams are a common strategy employed to optimise antimicrobial prescribing. Nurses play a pivotal role in patient care and safety; however, their role and potential opportunities across surgical antimicrobial stewardship are not well-established. This study aims to highlight health professional perspectives of the nurse's role and relevant opportunities for nurses to engage in and lead surgical antimicrobial stewardship initiatives.

Antimicrobial stewardship in Australia: the role of qualitative research in programme development.

Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) in Australia is supported by a number of factors, including enabling national policies, sectoral clinical governance frameworks and surveillance programmes, clinician-led educational initiatives and health services research. A One Health research programme undertaken by the National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship (NCAS) in Australia has combined antimicrobial prescribing surveillance with qualitative research focused on developing antimicrobial use-related situational analyses and scoping AMS implementation options across healthcare settings, including metropolitan hospitals, regional and rural hospitals, aged care homes, general practice clinics and companion animal and agricultural veterinary practices. Qualitative research involving clinicians across these diverse settings in Australia has contributed to improved understanding of contextual factors that influence antimicrobial prescribing, and barriers and facilitators of AMS implementation.

Nurse role and contribution to antimicrobial stewardship: An integrative review.

Aim: To examine existing published literature regarding nurses and antimicrobial stewardship, and their potential role and contribution, to identify what is known, to evaluate methodologies used in published research, and to review and integrate findings to inform practice and future priorities for research.

Design: Integrative review.

Methodology: The approach to this review was informed by Whittemore and Knafl's integrative review methodology.

The role of nurses in antimicrobial stewardship near the end of life in aged-care homes: A qualitative study.

Background: The excessive use of antimicrobials in aged-care homes is a widely recognised phenomenon. This is problematic because it can harm residents, and is detrimental to public health. Residents in the final month of life are increasingly likely to be prescribed an antimicrobial, commonly without having signs and symptoms of infection that support antimicrobial use.

Antimicrobial stewardship near the end of life in aged care homes.

Background: The objective of this study was to understand how aged care home health professionals perceive antimicrobial use near the end of life and how they perceive potential antimicrobial stewardship activities near the end of life in aged care homes.

Methods: Qualitative semi-structured interviews were undertaken with general practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists who provide routine care in aged care homes in Victoria, Australia. Interviews were coded using frameworks for understanding behavior change.