Clinical trial NCT05583487: Multidisciplinary Teamwork Perceptions When Mobilizing Ventilated Neurosurgery Patients
Official title: Multidisciplinary Teamwork Perceptions When Mobilizing Ventilated Neurosurgery Patients
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Multidisciplinary Communication
Lead sponsor: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-10-17
Enrollment: 28
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Intervention model description: This study will consist of a quasi-experimental research design to examine causality between two or more variables by comparing groups following an intervention. Although the intervention itself will be randomly assigned/administered to each of the multidisciplinary groups for this proposed research study, true randomization of participants cannot be achieved. This is primarily due to each patient having a pre-assigned multidisciplinary care team for each shift. Changing this patient assignment would compromise patient safety while interfering with continuity of care and workflow, which hospital units strive to achieve. By applying the purpose and elements of a quasi-experimental approach to this proposed research study, researchers can determine if an intervention/active independent variable consisting of a nurse-led mobility protocol, has an effect on the outcome measure of teamwork perceptions , which will serve as dependent variables.
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The purpose of this research study is to decide if using a nurse-led mobility protocol affects teamwork perceptions, when mobilizing ventilated neurosurgery patients. Participants will mobilize ventilated neurosurgery patients according to either facility standard procedures or a piloted nurse-led mobility protocol. Each selected patient will be mobilized once during his/her hospitalization for the purposes of this study. Patient mobility may take up to 1 hour. Following this, participating staff will be asked to complete a survey used to measure teamwork perceptions. Participants will be given up to 30 minutes to complete the survey. Total study duration is 3 months.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* adult (18 years of age or older)
* male or female registered nurses or licensed vocational nurses, patient care technicians, respiratory therapists, and physical therapists
* currently employed by the medical center
* currently care for neurosurgery patients in a part time or full-time capacity
* may work during day shift and/or night shift hours.

Exclusion Criteria:

* staff members employed by an agency outside of the medical center
* staff not routinely assigned to care for neurosurgery patients on the neurosurgical ICU (float pool staff)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Teamwork perceptions
timeFrame: Will take each participant no more than 30 minutes to complete. Each participant will take this once following each patient mobility instance.
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Dallas
country: United States
facility: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
state: Texas
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Texas at Arlington
name: Adrianna Lall
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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