Covid-Nurse: staff survey, version 1 [COVID-19]
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Covid-Nurse: a staff survey of meeting SARS-CoV-2 patients’ fundamental nursing care needs
IRAS ID
287288
Contact name
David A. Richards
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Exeter
ISRCTN Number
ISRCTN13177364
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 1 months, 19 days
Research summary
Nursing is hugely important to people in hospital. Nursing care makes a significant difference to the way people experience being in hospital and to their recovery. For people with COVID-19, their symptoms and the infectiousness of the virus pose unique challenges for nurses in delivering this care.\n\nThis study will inform the development of nursing care protocol specifically addressing the fundamental care requirements of hospitalised patients with the SARS-CoV-2 virus not invasively ventilated.\n\nOur principle research questions are:\n1.\tWhat are the existing clinical protocols being used by nurses and non-registered care staff for meeting the fundamental care needs of hospitalised patients with the SARS-CoV-2 virus not invasively ventilated?\n2.\tWhat specific barriers to meeting the fundamental care needs of hospitalised patients with the SARS-CoV-2 virus not invasively ventilated are experienced by nurses and non-registered care staff?\n3.\tWhat innovation strategies are being adopted by nurses and non-registered care staff for overcoming these barriers?\n\nWe have created a bespoke online series of questions including basic demographic item and questions structured according to the Fundamentals of Care model. Questions are divided into transactional, relational and psychosocial elements. For each element, we ask respondents to rate the difficulty of undertaking this element of care and narratively identify examples of missed care, barriers to care and innovations employed when nursing patients with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, excluding those who have been invasively ventilated. We also ask respondents to forward to us examples of existing protocols and procedures, if these exist, that they have used specifically for nursing patients with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.\n\nThe wider trial will involve the development of a nursing care protocol specifically addressing the fundamental care requirements of hospitalised patients with the SARS-CoV-2 virus not invasively ventilated. A further IRAS application will be submitted for the trial phase.\n
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