{"id":578,"date":"2021-01-11T14:16:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T04:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=578"},"modified":"2021-09-15T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:54:00","slug":"study-improvements-in-after-hours-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/newsletters\/coh-express\/2021\/01\/study-improvements-in-after-hours-care","title":{"rendered":"Study improvements in after-hours\u2019 care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>A unique new study is currently underway to assess the benefits of implementing an after-hours nurse practitioner service in Metro North\u2019s residential aged care and sub-acute settings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_582\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-582\" class=\"size-full wp-image-582 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2020\/12\/coh-ah-nurse-study.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2020\/12\/coh-ah-nurse-study-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2020\/12\/coh-ah-nurse-study-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2020\/12\/coh-ah-nurse-study-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2020\/12\/coh-ah-nurse-study-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2020\/12\/coh-ah-nurse-study.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/400;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Nurse Practitioner after hours service for sub-acute and residential care study is being delivered by David Bishop, Mary Wheeldon, Sharyn Plath and Catherine Forristal, former Redcliffe Hospital ED Research Manager (not pictured).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The study is being led by two Nurse Practitioners from Redcliffe Hospital and the Community and Oral Health Nursing Director for Service Development.<\/p>\n<p>Community and Oral Health Service Development Nursing Director Mary Wheeldon said each year, around 300 patient transfers occur after hours from Community and Oral Health residential and sub-acute facilities to Metro North Emergency Departments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor our bedded services the medical coverage after hours is primarily limited to phone advice and there are no onsite medical staff located within services to treat patients,\u201d Mary said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis can cause delays in accessing treatments for symptom relief, emergency care or end-of-life care, and could have an adverse health effect on the patient or resident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnnecessary transfers also have a significant financial and labour burden on our facilities, Emergency Departments and the Queensland Ambulance Service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Evaluation of a Nurse Practitioner after hours service for sub-acute and residential care <\/em>study started as a Metro North SEED funded project called <em>Eyes on Hands On<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The new Nurse Practitioner research study will evaluate the effectiveness of acute care nurse practitioners covering the after-hours acute care needs of a vulnerable, frail and elderly cohort of patients in a sub-acute and aged care setting in Metro North.<\/p>\n<p>Mary said the study would cover the two Metro North aged care facilities Gannet House and Cooinda House, and community-based transitional and rehabilitation services including Zillmere Residential Transition Care, Brighton Rehabilitation, Interim Care and the Brighton Brain Injury Service.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A unique new study is currently underway to assess the benefits of implementing an after-hours nurse practitioner service in Metro North\u2019s residential aged care and sub-acute settings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coh-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}