Exploring priority areas to establish quality improvement education partnerships: A nominal group technique study.

Background: Quality improvement partnerships between higher education and healthcare organizations are emerging as a valuable way to engage pre-licensure nursing students in this content. There are no agreed guidelines to assist with the establishment of these partnerships.

Aim: To convene key stakeholders with the objective of reaching consensus on the following question: What needs to happen to establish quality improvement education partnerships between higher education and healthcare organizations?

Methods: A nominal group technique was used, adhering to the STROBE guidelines.

Development and Psychometric Testing of a Comprehensive Cancer Nurse Self-Assessment Tool (CaN-SAT) for Identifying Cancer Nursing Skills.

Aim: To develop and psychometrically test a comprehensive Cancer Nurse Self-Assessment Tool (CaN-SAT).

Design: Modified Delphi to assess content validity and cross-sectional survey to assess reliability and validity.

Methods: Phase 1: An expert group developed the tool structure and item content.

Where Are the Greatest Risks for Choosing Unwisely? A Survey of Emergency Department Clinicians.

Background: Quality improvement activities targeting low-value care are important to ensure that scarce healthcare resources are used responsibly. However, there has been little systematic research into what diagnostic testing is considered by emergency department (ED) clinicians to be at risk of unwarranted variation or potentially low value.

Objectives: This study aimed to determine the views of ED clinicians on which diagnostic tests are highest risk for variation and/or low-value care.

Implementing best practice for peripheral intravenous cannula use in Australian emergency departments: a stepped-wedge cluster-controlled trial and health economic analysis protocol.

Introduction: Over one billion adults attend emergency departments (EDs) internationally every year, including 6.6 million in Australia. Up to half of these patients have a peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) inserted.

Towards an Integrated Person-Centred Care Pathway to Support the Recovery Journey Post Hip Fracture: A Qualitative Study.

Aim: To explore the pathway of care for people post hip fracture and define what is important for person-centred recovery.

Design: Qualitative design using interpretive descriptive methodology, guided by the Health Empowerment theoretical framework.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted from March to October 2021, focussed on the lived experience of recovery post hip fracture.

Nursing informatics and patient safety outcomes in critical care settings: a systematic review.

Aim: Conduct a systematic review to analyse how nursing informatics influence patient safety outcomes in critical care settings.

Research Methodology/design: The following database searches were conducted: Ovid MEDLINE, Cochrane library, Cochrane CENTRAL, CINAHL plus, Ovid Emcare, PsycINFO, and Ovid Embase. Two reviewers conducted the data selection and critical appraisal independently, following the JBI evaluation guidelines.

Emergency clinical nurse specialist practice in Victoria and New South Wales: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Emergency Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) are experts in treating patients across the lifespan in the dynamic, unpredictable and busy Emergency Department (ED). The aim of this paper was to create a profile of the Emergency CNS role and practice, and assess work satisfaction.

Methods: An online cross-sectional survey based on the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia's Practice Standards for the Specialist Emergency Nurse was conducted in the Australian states of Victoria and New South Wales.

Development and Pilot Psychometric Testing of the Cancer Nurse Self-Assessment Tools for Early and Metastatic Breast Cancer.

Aim: To develop and psychometrically test two newly developed Cancer Nurse Self-Assessment Tools for early and metastatic breast cancer (CaN-SAT-eBC and CAN-SAT-mBC).

Design: Instrument development and psychometric testing of content validity, reliability and construct validity.

Methods: A three-phase procedure was conducted.

Experiences of Emergency Nurses Providing End-of-Life Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Aim: To explore the experiences of emergency nurses providing end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design: A qualitative descriptive study.

Methods: Data were collected between May and August 2023.

Workforce research priorities for emergency nurses in Australia.

Background: The current nursing shortage is a critical issue facing healthcare systems. Workforce research priorities foremergency nurses are limited.This study aimed to identify, collate, and prioritise areas of workforce research for emergency nursing in Australia.

Envisioning quality improvement education partnerships to teach pre-registration nursing students: A qualitative study.

Background: Quality improvement education partnerships occur when higher education and healthcare organisations collaborate to teach quality improvement. These partnerships have been used to increase pre-registration student engagement through experiential learning. However, there is limited evidence on the perspectives of higher education nursing academics and healthcare organisation participants in these quality improvement education partnerships.

Development of the quality improvement collaborative questionnaire (QuIC) to explore quality improvement partnerships to teach pre-registration nursing students.

Background: Quality improvement partnerships between healthcare organisations and higher education require further research to explore their potential to provide a valuable education experience for pre-registration nursing students.

Aims: Develop and validate a questionnaire for nurse academics to evaluate quality improvement content in pre-registration nursing curricula and the extent of partnership with higher education providers in developing this content. Conduct a pilot test of the questionnaire.

Registered Nurses' Familiarity With Delegation Standards and Confidence Delegating to Unlicenced Care and Support Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Aim: To survey registered nurses' familiarity with delegation standards and confidence to delegate to unlicenced workers within their practice.

Design: Cross-sectional exploratory survey design.

Methods: The survey focused on Australian registered nurses (n = 420).

Transforming researchers into writers through a series of semi-structured writing retreats: a mixed methods study.

Aim: To evaluate the experience and effectiveness of six semi-structured writing retreats on research publication quantity and quality for nursing and midwifery academics and research students.

Background: Research publications are necessary to develop a track record to gain competitive funding and for promotion. Publications also improve the standing of universities because their performance is measured in-part by research outputs.

Making the most of what we have: What does the future hold for Emergency Department data?

Over 10 million ED visits occur each year across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Outside basic administrative data focused on time-based targets, there is minimal information about clinical performance, quality of care, patient outcomes, or equity in emergency care. The lack of a timely, accurate or clinically useful data collection represents a missed opportunity to improve the care we deliver each day.

Vital signs monitoring in Australasian emergency departments: Development of a consensus statement from ACEM and CENA.

Background: Emergency Department (ED) care is provided for a diverse range of patients, clinical acuity and conditions. This diversity often calls for different vital signs monitoring requirements. Requirements often change depending on the circumstances that patients experience during episodes of ED care.

Barriers to communication with people with developmental disabilities: A reflexive thematic analysis.

People with Intellectual Disability and/or autism internationally experience some of the worst health outcomes of any population group. Registered nurses have been identified as having educational deficits in this domain, which include knowledge of adjustments to communication. This study aimed to explore perceived barriers to communication with people with Intellectual Disability and/or autism.

'You don't see what I see': Co-designing simulation to uncover and address cognitive bias in healthcare.

Educational Challenge: Each year, adverse events are reported in healthcare, of which many relate to healthcare workforce cognitive bias. The active involvement of workforce and consumers in the review and co-design of effective training for the healthcare workforce to recognise, monitor, and manage unconscious bias is required.

Proposed Solution: We used participatory action research to co-design an innovative, interprofessional simulation based on 'real world' clinical incidents and lived experiences to improve the delivery of safe, high quality, consumer-focused healthcare.

Reforming allied health service provision in residential aged care to improve the rehabilitation reach: a feasibility study.

Objective My Therapy is an allied health guided, co-designed rehabilitation self-management program for residents of aged care facilities. This study aimed to determine the feasibility of implementing My Therapy in a residential aged care setting. Methods This observational study was conducted on a 30-bed wing, within a 90-bed metropolitan residential aged care facility, attached to a public health service, in Victoria, Australia.

The impact of integrating bioscience and nursing subjects in a first-year nursing curriculum: A retrospective study.

Aim: The aim of this study is to explore the effects of integrating bioscience and nursing units on academic achievement and perception in the first-year nursing curriculum.

Background: Nursing students have historically found biosciences difficult and struggle to relate it to nursing practice. In response, nursing and non-nursing academics have employed different teaching modes and integration strategies to enhance learning.

Using contribution analysis to evaluate health professions and health sciences programs.

Introduction/background: Course evaluation in health education is a common practice yet few comprehensive evaluations of health education exist that measure the impact and outcomes these programs have on developing health graduate capabilities.

Aim/objectives: To explore how curricula contribute to health graduate capabilities and what factors contribute to the development of these capabilities.

Methods: Using contribution analysis evaluation, a six-step iterative process, key stakeholders in the six selected courses were engaged in an iterative theory-driven evaluation.

The Impact of Noise on Nursing Preceptors' Assessment of Student Performance: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Noise is a relatively new concept highlighting the variability of cognitive inputs people grapple with when making a judgment. In this case, preceptors make a judgment of students' clinical performance during clinical practicum. There is scant literature examining the impact of noise on nursing student assessment.

Practical infection control training for Victoria's aged care workforce at the time of COVID-19 pandemic: a community case study.

The need to improve career development and training for residential aged care workers in Australia to achieve required essential competencies, including infection prevention and control competencies, has been repeatedly highlighted. In Australia long-term care settings for older adults are known as residential aged care facilities (RACFs). The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to light the lack of preparedness of the aged care sector to respond to emergencies, and the urgent need to improve the infection prevention and control training in residential aged care facilities.