A nurse-led critical care outreach program to reduce readmission to the intensive care unit: A quasi-experimental study with a historical control group

Effect of nurse‐led care on quality of care and level of HbA1C in patients with diabetic foot ulcer: A randomized clinical trial

“…There is no study in this field or review of the QOC provided . But, a nurse‐led intervention is being used in patients with pneumonia, hypertension and in different countries such as Australia, the United States and, in the UK, nurse‐led care is underway as a specific strategy for the patients with DFU who need to be hospitalized; further, it is stated that they had a positive impact on patient care which is in line with the results of the present study.…”

“…Since care is the core of nursing, it seems that presenting a specialized task as a nurse‐led one will promote nursing profession's independence . However, the nurse considers the role of caring, decision‐making, support, being protective, managerial, offering rehabilitation, relaxing, coordinating, communicating, educating; currently the role of nursing therapists is the only acceptable role for the health system . While the results of the studies indicated that the care provided to patients was not desirable, so nurse‐led care can be considered as one of the proposed strategies for eliminating care disruption and achieving optimal care quality.…”

“…The nurse‐led method is being implemented in different countries such as Australia, United States and England in critical care or general wards . Just in northern Colorado and UK, is this approach underway to care for diabetic foot patients with specific guidelines, and studies have been done on this issue…”

Routine critical care step‐down programmes: Systematic review and meta‐analysis

“…Abstracts of the remaining 178 articles were then screened leading to the exclusion of a further 157 citations. The remaining 21 papers were retrieved and read in full, with 11 excluded for not meeting the eligibility criteria, 26‐36 the most common reason for exclusion being the reporting of a selective CCSDP (n = 6) 26,28,29,32‐34 . Further 2 reports were excluded because of inconsistent reporting of outcome data 37,38 .…”

Critical care nursing workforce: Global imperatives, innovations and future-proofing – A call for papers

“…Over the last decade we have seen an expansion of extended and advanced practice roles taken on by critical care nurses. Nurse-led critical care outreach and liaison services have been shown to be beneficial in preventing readmission to critical care and hospital mortality (So et al, 2019), with many elements of the critical care nurse's role in outreach aligning with expanded or advanced practice (McIntyre et al, 2019). Where advanced practice roles such as the Nurse Practitioner and Advanced Practice Nurse, were first introduced decades ago to address a physician shortage in primary care (Savrin, 2009), advanced practice nurses now exist in some critical care settings, enabling a more flexible response to changing needs (Comiskey et al, 2014).…”