Emergency NursePub Date : 2023-02-28Epub Date: 2022-10-11DOI: 10.7748/en.2022.e2134
Mohammad Ali Heydari Gorji, Azar Khodabakshi Sahebi, Tahereh Yaghoubi, Jamshid Yazdani Cherati, Salma Ahmed, Leila Zhianfar
{"title":"Investigating the link between organisational justice, positive organisational behaviour and productivity in emergency nurses.","authors":"Mohammad Ali Heydari Gorji, Azar Khodabakshi Sahebi, Tahereh Yaghoubi, Jamshid Yazdani Cherati, Salma Ahmed, Leila Zhianfar","doi":"10.7748/en.2022.e2134","DOIUrl":"10.7748/en.2022.e2134","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Human resource management and employees' performance are fundamental to the success of healthcare organisations. Therefore, it is important to consider the factors that may affect employees' performance.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To determine the relationship between perceived organisational justice, positive organisational behaviour (POB) and the productivity of emergency nurses.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This was a descriptive-analytical study that involved distributing questionnaires to emergency nurses working in hospitals affiliated with Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences in Iran. The researchers used proportionate stratified sampling to calculate the sample size. Three questionnaires were used to collect data on organisational justice, POB and productivity. The data were analysed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression tests.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The questionnaires were distributed to 284 emergency nurses and completed by 234 of them. The results demonstrated a significant relationship between the productivity of the emergency nurses and the variables of perceived organisational justice and POB.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Higher levels of perceived organisational justice and POB in the ED setting are likely to lead to increased productivity among emergency nurses, and as a result the quality of patient care is likely to improve. Therefore, healthcare organisations should pay particular attention to the application of organisational justice, with the aim of promoting POB among nurses and increasing their productivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":35711,"journal":{"name":"Emergency Nurse","volume":" ","pages":"33-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33499904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emergency NursePub Date : 2023-01-19DOI: 10.7748/en.2023.e2149
Paul McColgan
{"title":"Potentially avoidable tetanus booster in the emergency department: a service evaluation.","authors":"Paul McColgan","doi":"10.7748/en.2023.e2149","DOIUrl":"10.7748/en.2023.e2149","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Tetanus infection is caused by the Clostridium tetani bacterium, which can enter the body through a wound or puncture in the skin. Patients who present to an emergency department (ED) with a laceration, wound or bite require a risk assessment to determine whether the wound is clean, tetanus prone or high-risk tetanus prone. Those assessed as tetanus prone or high-risk tetanus prone, with an uncertain or inadequate immunisation history, should receive tetanus prophylaxis treatment. However, some patients receive this treatment unnecessarily. This article describes a service evaluation that explored whether practice in one ED was contributing to potentially avoidable tetanus prophylaxis treatment. The article outlines the results of a five-year retrospective database review, which determined that 18% of all tetanus prophylaxis treatments delivered in the ED during that period were unnecessary. The author makes some recommendations to improve practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":35711,"journal":{"name":"Emergency Nurse","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10544997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emergency NursePub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.7748/en.2023.e2127
Anna Mackway-Jones, Rachel Hornby, Kevin Mackway-Jones
{"title":"Making more nurses, one minute at a time: an efficiency and quality improvement project in emergency triage.","authors":"Anna Mackway-Jones, Rachel Hornby, Kevin Mackway-Jones","doi":"10.7748/en.2023.e2127","DOIUrl":"10.7748/en.2023.e2127","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emergency triage is a short-duration, high-volume process so small reductions in the time taken to triage one patient can have large repercussions on the total amount of triage time. At the emergency department of a large inner-city hospital, an efficiency and quality improvement project was undertaken to reduce the time taken to safely triage patients and optimise the use of triage nurses' time. The project involved removing processes that did not contribute to the primary aim of triage, supporting individual triage nurses to improve their performance where needed, and optimising the triage process. A 44% reduction in mean triage episode time was seen, equating to 18,000 minutes of triage nurses' time saved every month. This near doubling of triage capacity was associated with an improvement in triage accuracy. The article describes the project, which used lean management principles and statistical process control methods, and discusses its implications for emergency triage.</p>","PeriodicalId":35711,"journal":{"name":"Emergency Nurse","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10598572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emergency NursePub Date : 2023-01-03DOI: 10.7748/en.31.1.18.s7
Neal Scott Aplin
{"title":"How can you identify and manage patients with delirium?","authors":"Neal Scott Aplin","doi":"10.7748/en.31.1.18.s7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/en.31.1.18.s7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35711,"journal":{"name":"Emergency Nurse","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44302566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emergency NursePub Date : 2023-01-03DOI: 10.7748/en.31.1.13.s5
Victoria Briggs
{"title":"Are you getting enough sleep? Tips on how to rest well, whatever your shift pattern","authors":"Victoria Briggs","doi":"10.7748/en.31.1.13.s5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/en.31.1.13.s5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35711,"journal":{"name":"Emergency Nurse","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43398899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emergency NursePub Date : 2023-01-03DOI: 10.7748/en.31.1.17.s6
{"title":"Keep it clear to engage your readers","authors":"","doi":"10.7748/en.31.1.17.s6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/en.31.1.17.s6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35711,"journal":{"name":"Emergency Nurse","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135555476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emergency NursePub Date : 2023-01-03DOI: 10.7748/en.31.1.5.s1
{"title":"Vital that emergency nurses recognise the signs and symptoms of frailty","authors":"","doi":"10.7748/en.31.1.5.s1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/en.31.1.5.s1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35711,"journal":{"name":"Emergency Nurse","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41753952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emergency NursePub Date : 2023-01-03DOI: 10.7748/en.31.1.6.s2
E. Dean
{"title":"Everything emergency department staff need to know about hot debriefs","authors":"E. Dean","doi":"10.7748/en.31.1.6.s2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/en.31.1.6.s2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35711,"journal":{"name":"Emergency Nurse","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48815622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emergency NursePub Date : 2023-01-03DOI: 10.7748/en.31.1.10.s4
L. Pearce
{"title":"What does it take to be a major trauma nurse practitioner?","authors":"L. Pearce","doi":"10.7748/en.31.1.10.s4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7748/en.31.1.10.s4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35711,"journal":{"name":"Emergency Nurse","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44345341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}