Nurses’ and Physicians’ Ideas on Initiatives for Effective Use of the Early Warning Score: A Participatory Study

Ineffective use of the early warning score (EWS) can compromise recognition and response to patients’ deteriorating condition. This study explores nurses’ and physicians’ ideas on initiatives for supporting the effective use of the EWS in a hospital setting. Participatory workshops were conducted, a...

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Autores principales: Mølgaard, Rikke Rishøj, Jørgensen, Lone, Grønkjær, Mette, Madsen, Jacob Østergaard, Christensen, Erika Frischknecht, Voldbjerg, Siri Lygum
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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Single-Method Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10676632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38028737
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23333936231210147
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Jørgensen, Lone
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Madsen, Jacob Østergaard
Christensen, Erika Frischknecht
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description Ineffective use of the early warning score (EWS) can compromise recognition and response to patients’ deteriorating condition. This study explores nurses’ and physicians’ ideas on initiatives for supporting the effective use of the EWS in a hospital setting. Participatory workshops were conducted, and data were analyzed using content analysis. Ideas generated for integrating new functions into the EWS protocol to facilitate effective use are described. Also recommended was that all users receive training and an update on how to use the EWS score to support acceptance and confidence using the protocol and thereby increase adherence to the EWS. Further research is needed on the efficiency of incorporating nurses’ clinical judgment in the EWS protocol within different specialties and the effect on adherence to the tool.
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spelling pubmed-106766322023-11-25 Nurses’ and Physicians’ Ideas on Initiatives for Effective Use of the Early Warning Score: A Participatory Study Mølgaard, Rikke Rishøj Jørgensen, Lone Grønkjær, Mette Madsen, Jacob Østergaard Christensen, Erika Frischknecht Voldbjerg, Siri Lygum Glob Qual Nurs Res Single-Method Research Article Ineffective use of the early warning score (EWS) can compromise recognition and response to patients’ deteriorating condition. This study explores nurses’ and physicians’ ideas on initiatives for supporting the effective use of the EWS in a hospital setting. Participatory workshops were conducted, and data were analyzed using content analysis. Ideas generated for integrating new functions into the EWS protocol to facilitate effective use are described. Also recommended was that all users receive training and an update on how to use the EWS score to support acceptance and confidence using the protocol and thereby increase adherence to the EWS. Further research is needed on the efficiency of incorporating nurses’ clinical judgment in the EWS protocol within different specialties and the effect on adherence to the tool. SAGE Publications 2023-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC10676632/ /pubmed/38028737 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23333936231210147 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Nurses’ and Physicians’ Ideas on Initiatives for Effective Use of the Early Warning Score: A Participatory Study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10676632/
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