What is it about?
As the demand for emergency care grows and the role of the advanced clinical practitioner (ACP) expands, this article looks at how the ACP can drive forward high quality care provision on a same-day emergency care unit, using their skills across the 4 pillars, carefully evaluating the compounding variables, leading to demonstrable improvement for patient care and flow.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that the patient selection, streaming and triage for same-day emergency care can be extremely challenging but with robust data analysis to quantify the impact of interventions any changes can be monitored for impact against set values, enabling the ACP to be at the forefront of improvement led change.
Perspectives
Carrying out the analytical data for this service improvement and subsequent article has shown how the value of ACPs in their clinical setting with expert knowledge can have an impact on service delivery and high quality provision. The project was very thought provoking and as SDEC is in it's infancy this has shown how a large, very busy SDEC requires the correct staffing to patient ratio for standards to be adhered to.
Sally Gibson
Northumbria University
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This page is a summary of: Enhancing quality in same-day emergency care: a service improvement perspective, International Journal for Advancing Practice, January 2024, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/ijap.2024.2.1.8.
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