1. Improving the ward-based care of patients post-thyroidectomy
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Sridhayan Mahalingam, Sridhayani Mugilan, Rachit Singhal, and Natasha Choudhury
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Quality management ,medicine.medical_treatment ,MEDLINE ,Audit ,Subspecialty ,State Medicine ,Secondary care ,03 medical and health sciences ,Postoperative Complications ,0302 clinical medicine ,Nursing ,Multidisciplinary approach ,Perioperative Nursing ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Humans ,Medicine ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Closure (psychology) ,030504 nursing ,business.industry ,Nursing Audit ,Thyroidectomy ,General Medicine ,Quality Improvement ,United Kingdom ,Patient Care Management ,0305 other medical science ,business ,Hospital Units - Abstract
Nursing staff play a crucial role in managing surgical patients in the postoperative period. However, with an increasing risk of subspecialty wards facing closure as a result of financial pressures within the NHS, the knowledge base and expertise of ward-based nursing staff of surgical subspecialties is becoming increasingly limited. Using patients undergoing thyroidectomy as an example, a quality improvement multidisciplinary audit is presented, which shows how simple targeted interventions through a multidisciplinary approach can help maintain high standards of patient care in a secondary care setting.
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- 2016
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