- Title
- Staff perspectives of a cardiac short stay unit
- Creator
- Narasimhan, Seshasayee; McKay, Katrina; Attia, John
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Vol. 26, Issue 4, p. 23-28
- Relation
- http://www.ajan.com.au/ajan_26.4.html
- Publisher
- Australian Nursing Federation
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- Objective: To evaluate staff perceptions about working environment, efficiency and the clinical safety of a cardiovascular intervention short stay unit (SSU) during the first year of operation. Design: Postal questionnaire. Setting: Cardiac catheterisation laboratory (CCL), coronary care unit (CCU), general cardiology ward (GCW) and the short stay unit (SSU) of a tertiary referral hospital situated in the mid coastal region of NSW. Subjects: Cardiologists (including visiting medical officers [VMO]), cardiology fellows, cardiology advanced trainees and nurses. Results: Responses on the working environment of the SSU and the discharge process were statistically significant. A substantial proportion of both nurses and doctors had concerns about patient safety, even though no adverse events were formally recorded in the database. Conclusions: Though the participants of the survey agree on the efficiency of the SSU in providing beds to the hospital, they disagree on aspects that are important in the functioning of the SSU, including the working environment, patient selection and clinical safety. The results highlight potential issues that could be improved or addressed and are relevant to the rollout of SSUs across NSW.
- Subject
- short stay unit; procedure; discharge; cardiology; clinical safety
- Identifier
- uon:7217
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/806785
- Identifier
- ISSN:0813-0531
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