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Extended scope of nursing practice: a multicentre randomised controlled trial of appropriately trained nurses and pre-registration house officers in pre-operative assessment in elective general surgery |
Kinley H, Czoski-Murray C, George S, McCabe C, Primrose J, Reilly C, Wood R, Nicolson P, Healy C, Read S, Norman J, Janke E, Alhameed H, Fernandez N, Thomas E |
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Record Status This is a bibliographic record of a published health technology assessment from a member of INAHTA. No evaluation of the quality of this assessment has been made for the HTA database. Citation Kinley H, Czoski-Murray C, George S, McCabe C, Primrose J, Reilly C, Wood R, Nicolson P, Healy C, Read S, Norman J, Janke E, Alhameed H, Fernandez N, Thomas E. Extended scope of nursing practice: a multicentre randomised controlled trial of appropriately trained nurses and pre-registration house officers in pre-operative assessment in elective general surgery. Health Technology Assessment 2001; 5(20): 1-87 Authors' objectives - To determine whether pre-operative assessment carried out by an appropriately trained nurse (ATN) is equivalent in quality to that carried out by a pre-registration house officer (PRHO).
- To assess whether pre-assessments carried out by ATNs and PRHOs are equivalent in terms of cost.
- To determine whether assessments carried out by ATNs are acceptable to patients.
- To investigate the quality of communication between senior medical staff and ATNs.
Authors' conclusions This study demonstrated no reason to inhibit the development of fully nurse-led pre-operative assessment, provided that the nurses are appropriately trained and maintain sufficient workload to retain skills.
ATNs provide an acceptable and efficient alternative to PRHOs for the purposes of routine pre-operative assessment. Consideration will have to be given, however, to the positions of these nurses within the surgical team, and also to their career structure.
Indexing Status Subject indexing assigned by CRD MeSH Medical Staff, Hospital; Nursing Staff; Nursing Staff, Hospital; Preoperative Care; Surgical Procedures, Elective Language Published English Country of organisation England Address for correspondence NETSCC, Health Technology Assessment, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton, SO16 7NS UK Tel: +44 23 8059 5586 Email: hta@hta.ac.uk AccessionNumber 32001000934 Date bibliographic record published 27/07/2001 Date abstract record published 27/07/2001 |
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