Nursing Training for Early Clinical Deterioration Risk Assessment: Protocol for an Implementation Study (Preprint)

Abstract

BACKGROUND The Nursing team is usually the first to identify clinical changes in patients. However, although we know that early recognition of clinical deterioration is the key to early intervention and that early intervention leads to better results, we do not always obtain the most appropriate intervention. OBJECTIVE To describe a study protocol of a professional training program developed for nurses to implement early clinical deterioration risk assessment. METHODS This is an intervention protocol structured according to the recommendations of the SPIRIT Declaration 2013. RESULTS This paper presents the layout of a nurse-driven intervention, which will allow other people to reply to it. A systematically mapped intervention will subsidize better allocation of resources and optimization of results, improving the performance of nurses in detecting clinical deterioration. CONCLUSIONS It is hoped that this study will help health professionals improve their approach to patients who present clinical deterioration early. CLINICALTRIAL This Study Protocol was forwarded to the Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials (ReBEC) with the number RBR-5hq9y3k.