Intensive care liaison nurses
Glossary Item Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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METEOR identifier: | 593896 |
Registration status: | Health!, Standard 04/09/2015 |
Definition: | Nurses who are trained to provide specialised support services to ward staff caring for acutely ill patients. |
Context: | Admitted patient care. |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Comments: | The aim of intensive care liaison nurses is to improve patient outcomes through providing specialised interventions and other support services to acutely ill patients in hospital wards, usually but not always patients who have been discharged from an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Rapid responses to patients who are experiencing serious clinical deterioration make up one of the main roles of these nurses. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care/Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | See also Cardiac arrest team Health!, Standard 04/09/2015 See also Medical emergency team Health!, Standard 04/09/2015 See also Rapid response team Health!, Standard 04/09/2015 |
Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Episode of admitted patient care—rapid response team type, code N Health!, Standard 04/09/2015 Hospital rapid response calls cluster Health!, Standard 04/09/2015 |
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