Nurses' harm prevention practices during admission of an older person to the hospital: A multi-method qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nurses' harm prevention practices during the admission of older persons to hospital have important consequences for patient safety, preventable patient harm and length of hospital stay. Novel solutions are needed to assist nurses to balance complexity, high workload burden and patient safety during admission processes.

Aim

Explore the nurses' experiences of harm prevention practices during the admission of an older person to the hospital.

Design

A multi-method qualitative study informed by frameworks of behaviour change and human-centred co-design.

Methods

The purposive sample included 44 nurses, 5 clinicians from other disciplines and 3 consumers recruited from five general medicine wards across three hospitals of a large public health service in me

SUBMITTER: Redley B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9796868 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature