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Prof. Jackie Bridges, University of Southampton, Prof. Jill Maben, University of Surrey, Prof. Ruth Harris, King's College London and Prof. Antony Arthur, University of East Anglia
About this Project:
Funded by the National Institute for Health Research, this collaboration aims to draw on the findings of four key research studies to inform UK nursing policy and practice in preparing for a post-pandemic future.
The current context of NHS hospital care is particularly challenging with unprecedented demand on services and significant difficulties in recruitment and retention of frontline care staff. The studies provide robust evidence of four key interventions for nursing and healthcare leaders and their impact on enabling the nursing and the health care support workforce to deliver empathic and compassionate care in practice. Each of the four research studies was led by a nursing professor in a UK university. Bridges et al. investigated the feasibility of implementing a team-based practice development programme CLECC (Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care) into acute care hospital settings (Bridges et al., 2018). Arthur et al. studied the feasibility of a relational care training intervention for healthcare assistants (Arthur et al., 2017). Harris et al. conducted a study into intentional rounding in hospital wards, investigating what works, for whom and in what circumstances (Harris et al., 2019). Maben et al. asked the same questions about Schwartz Center Rounds® in healthcare settings (Maben et al., 2018).
What we found
The evidence from these studies collectively provides insights into the usefulness or otherwise of different types of interventions and the system-wide changes required to better enable hospital nurses and support workers to deliver compassionate care. This collaboration between the King’s College London, The University of East Anglia, the University of Southampton and the University of Surrey is aimed at synthesising the findings from the individual studies into a jointly constructed picture of NHS hospital nursing and wider system influences, and using the results to stimulate a national conversation with national policy-makers and hospital nursing leaders to:
- Highlight the existence of nursing interventions which may be less well known but which could be useful in current practice;
- Highlight the evaluation of a better known intervention and explore whether this is the most useful intervention to support the delivery of compassionate care; and if so, how this may be more optimally implemented;
- Present the evidence base to help determine what system-wide changes may be needed to better enable hospital nurses to deliver compassionate care, and to engage individuals and organisations needed to effect that change; and
- Facilitate a detailed conversation/discussion among professional nursing leaders and national policy-makers to identify objectives and strategies to address the challenges identified in the collective evidence from this NIHR funded research.
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Evidence Week 2020
Watch the 3 minute briefing for 4 interventions designed to support nursing teams with Prof. Jackie Bridges.
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