Managing ongoing swallow safety through information-sharing: An ethnography of speech and language therapists and nurses at work on stroke units.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Speech and language therapists and nurses need to work together to keep patients with swallowing difficulties safe throughout their acute stroke admission. Speech and language therapists make recommendations for safe swallowing following assessment and nurses put recommendations into practice and monitor how patients cope. There has been little research into the everyday realities of ongoing swallow safety management by these two disciplines. Patient safety research in other fields of healthcare indicates that safety can be enhanced through understanding the cultural context in which risk decisions are made.

Aims

To generate new understanding for how speech and language therapists (SLTs) and nurses share information for ongoing management of swallows safety on str

SUBMITTER: Barnard R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9541144 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature