The increasing role of healthcare assistants (HCAs) in intensive care in relation to patient monitoring has raised concerns among some clinical managers, particularly where such roles are not underpinned by a sound knowledge base and critical reasoning ability. This article describes a study which was undertaken in an attempt to identify how HCAs are currently utilized within the general intensive care environment. The results show a wide variation between units in relation to the activities undertaken by HCAs, their training and the levels of remuneration. This article seeks to open up the debate as to whether or not nurses should be challenging the nursing care that is now delivered by non-nurses and makes recommendations for the way forw...
This article examines role redesign in the National Health Service (NHS), which has been central to ...
Aim To explore the experiences of healthcare assistants (HCAs) working in general practice (GP). Ba...
Aims: Investigate the number and type of tasks performed, delayed or not completed by regulated and ...
Aim(s): This study is concerned with understanding the work of non-registered nurses (health care as...
Objectives. To explore the role of HCAs in general practice and the benefits and challenges associat...
Rationale Health care provision has moved towards an approach to patient care that challenges the tr...
Contemporaneous with the global shortage of registered nurses (International Council of Nurses and I...
Rationale Health care provision has moved towards an approach to patient care that challenges the tr...
The sociology of work has treated the assistant role in a limited way: it has been seen as a ‘cheap’...
The role of the health-care assistant (HCA) has developed rapidly in general practice and has occurr...
This paper provides an overview of the implementation and evaluation of the critical care assistant ...
The emergence of healthcare assistants (HCAs) in general practice raises questions about roles and r...
Changes to the work of registered nurses (RNs) has generated increasing concern about the ways in wh...
This study provides an evaluation of a training programme designed for developing six critical care ...
What are the experiences of home health care workers with regard to the delegation of nursing activi...
This article examines role redesign in the National Health Service (NHS), which has been central to ...
Aim To explore the experiences of healthcare assistants (HCAs) working in general practice (GP). Ba...
Aims: Investigate the number and type of tasks performed, delayed or not completed by regulated and ...
Aim(s): This study is concerned with understanding the work of non-registered nurses (health care as...
Objectives. To explore the role of HCAs in general practice and the benefits and challenges associat...
Rationale Health care provision has moved towards an approach to patient care that challenges the tr...
Contemporaneous with the global shortage of registered nurses (International Council of Nurses and I...
Rationale Health care provision has moved towards an approach to patient care that challenges the tr...
The sociology of work has treated the assistant role in a limited way: it has been seen as a ‘cheap’...
The role of the health-care assistant (HCA) has developed rapidly in general practice and has occurr...
This paper provides an overview of the implementation and evaluation of the critical care assistant ...
The emergence of healthcare assistants (HCAs) in general practice raises questions about roles and r...
Changes to the work of registered nurses (RNs) has generated increasing concern about the ways in wh...
This study provides an evaluation of a training programme designed for developing six critical care ...
What are the experiences of home health care workers with regard to the delegation of nursing activi...
This article examines role redesign in the National Health Service (NHS), which has been central to ...
Aim To explore the experiences of healthcare assistants (HCAs) working in general practice (GP). Ba...
Aims: Investigate the number and type of tasks performed, delayed or not completed by regulated and ...