A survey of ward nurses attitudes to the Intensive Care Nurse Consultant service in a teaching hospital

How clinical nurse and midwifery consultants optimise patient care in a tertiary referral hospital

“…), prioritise clinical issues and coordinate multiple facets of patient care (McIntyre et al . ). These findings also strengthen earlier findings related to seeing the bigger picture (Benner , Sørensen & Hall ) and transcending traditional expectations and obstacles (Kucera et al .…”

“…CNC/CMC interventions are reported to have significant impact on patient outcomes (Redfern , McIntyre et al . ) and service delivery (Guest et al . , Austin et al .…”

“…() and McIntyre et al . () evaluated the CNC role as perceived by other health professionals. Three recent systematic reviews compare advanced practice roles from an international perspective (Jokiniemi et al .…”

Recognising and responding to in‐hospital clinical deterioration: An integrative review of interprofessional practice issues

“…Each study developed a new local survey tool to address specific study aims except one, which used a locally modified version of a previously developed tool (Beebe et al., ). Only four referenced other work to inform the development or administration of the instrument (McIntyre et al., ; Pusateri, Prior, & Kiely, ; Rotella, Yu, Ferguson, & Jones, ; Stevens et al., ). While all studies reported that the newly developed surveys had pretesting prior to distribution, none provided any convincing evidence of instrument reliability or validity.…”

“…Importantly, no papers provided sufficient information for replication of data analysis methods. Only three noted steps for handling missing data (Jones et al., ; McIntyre et al., ; Pusateri et al., ; Rotella et al., ), two described how data entry was verified (Jones et al., ; Pusateri et al., ), and one explained response rate calculations (Rotella et al., ). None explained approaches for analysis of nonresponse error, or provided definitions for complete vs. partially completed surveys.…”