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Advanced Clinical Practitioners in the ED

Sponsor: King's College London

Summary

This study is designed to understand better how nurses, paramedics, and other healthcare professionals who have completed extra training to become Emergency Care Advanced Clinical Practitioners (EC-ACPs) work in emergency departments (EDs). The research questions are: 1\) What is the EC-ACP's perception of assimilation into emergency care teams, what tensions are created due to the role, and what system adaptations are required to facilitate integration? With secondary aims : 1. What are the common organisational factors that affect the implementation of the EC-ACP workforce, and what recommendations can be made to improve Trust-wide implementation? 2. How are EC-ACPs deployed in two contrasting emergency departments, what differences can be identified in their Work-As-Done (WAD), and how does this compare to the Work-As-Imagined (WAI) of the role? No patient data is being collected; the participants will all be hospital staff: 1. EC-ACP participants will be observed in practice, interviewed, or both. 2. Staff who are not EC-ACPs but work with them will be interviewed for their thoughts on how they work together.

Official title: Advanced Clinical Practitioners in the Emergency Department: a Mixed-method Study of Practice Using Resilient Health Care Principles

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