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To systematically analyse expert perspectives on paediatric-friendly care in the emergency department and establish specific indicators.
With an increasing number of children seeking emergency care, nurses must understand the specific needs of paediatric patients and their families.
A two-round modified Delphi method was used in this study.
In this study, experts from clinical practice and academia assessed 56 paediatric-friendly care criteria in the emergency department. Data were collected to establish a consensus and ensure content validity.
Thirty experts completed two survey rounds with response rates of 100% and 93.3%, respectively. In the initial survey, no consensus was reached for eight items. After the items were consolidated, 37 paediatric emergency-friendly care needs were identified. For each need, the item-level content validity index exceeded 0.79 for importance and feasibility. The average scale-level content validity index values were 0.95 and 0.92 for importance and feasibility. These needs were categorised into six dimensions: timely comfort (3 items), emotional care (5 items), frontline safety (11 items), emergency response (10 items), human resources support (5 items) and treatment efficiency (3 items).
Paediatric emergency nurses play a vital role in caring for children, improving soft skills through compassion and training and ensuring a well-equipped, safe environment in the emergency department.
This study offers valuable insights for emergency department nurses on the needs of children and their families, emphasising the importance of patient and family education, environmental considerations and the role of certified child life specialists in supporting the emergency healthcare team and ensuring appropriate paediatric care.
No direct patient, service user, caregiver or public involvement existed in this study.
To describe the characteristics and perceived effectiveness of clinical supervision mental health nurses are receiving and further explore any statistical correlations between the perceived effectiveness and satisfaction with the supervisee, supervisor and supervision characteristics.
A cross-sectional survey.
An online survey was distributed to nurses working in public mental health services in Victoria, Australia. A universal recruitment approach was used, and 422 nurses participated in the survey. Of these, 220 nurses who are participating in clinical supervision were eligible for the MCSS-26 survey.
A licensed MCSS-26 questionnaire.
Mental health nurses in the studied environment were likely to receive individual supervision from a senior mental health nurse, with the most common frequency being monthly for 31–60 min, and half receiving it within their workplace location. Half of the participants chose their own supervisor. Our findings indicate that nurses who engage in clinical supervision outside of their immediate workplace and receive individual supervision from a nurse of the same grade perceive higher effectiveness. We also found that clinical nurses may find it most difficult to engage in effective clinical supervision due to time constraints.
This study uniquely contributes to the current clinical supervision literature by reporting the uptake and detailed characteristics of supervision, a facet often overlooked in existing research.
This study reported the characteristics of the supervision, supervisor and the supervisee that are associated with the effective clinical supervision. These insights can lead to tailored implementation strategies that consider the specific roles and settings of nurses.
CROSS (Sharma et al. 2021).
No patient or public contribution.
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