{"id":7690,"date":"2025-06-28T21:35:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/effectiveness-of-an-advanced-practice-emergency-nurse-role-in-a-minor-injuries-unit\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T05:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:05:34","slug":"effectiveness-of-an-advanced-practice-emergency-nurse-role-in-a-minor-injuries-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/effectiveness-of-an-advanced-practice-emergency-nurse-role-in-a-minor-injuries-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Effectiveness of an advanced practice emergency nurse role in a minor injuries unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>Effectiveness of an advanced practice emergency nurse role in a minor injuries unit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/www.ajan.com.au\/index.php\/AJAN\/article\/view\/1732' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/www.ajan.com.au\/index.php\/AJAN\/article\/download\/1732\/464' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>Objective: To evaluate the effect of an emergency department discharge initiative (EDDI) nurse on discharge processes and patient transition outcomes.<br \/>\nDesign: Prospective comparative study of two groups of patients, aged 18\u201170 years discharged from a minor injuries unit.<br \/>\nSetting: Emergency Department Minor Injuries Unit at a large tertiary hospital in South East Queensland, Australia.<br \/>\nSubjects: In total 337 patients were eligible and 231 were included in the study. Participants were recruited into two groups one before the introduction of the intervention (n= 103) and one after the introduction of the intervention (n=128).<br \/>\nIntervention: Introduction of an EDDI nurse (an advanced practice role) focusing on improving patient pre\u2011discharge care and transition home.<br \/>\nMain outcome measures: Data were collected pre\u2011discharge and one week post discharge, using self reports of discharge planning processes and the Care Transitions Measure (CTM) Questionnaire.<br \/>\nResults: Patients seen by the EDDI nurse were significantly more likely to receive written discharge information, a discharge letter, information on equipment, information on medication side effects and have follow\u2011up arranged, than those not seen. The intervention group also had a better understanding of post discharge healthcare management with a mean CTM score of 83.3 out of a possible 100 compared with the pre\u2011intervention mean of 64.4. (p&lt;0.001).<br \/>\nConclusions: The introduction of an EDDI nurse in the minor injuries unit improves discharge information provision and follow\u2011up and leads to an improvement in post\u2011hospital care transition from the patient\u2019s perspective.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Marianne Wallis<\/li>\n<li>Jeffrey Hooper<\/li>\n<li>David Kerr<\/li>\n<li>James Lind<\/li>\n<li>Nerolie Bost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>emergency service, emergency department, patient discharge, advanced nursing practice, emergency nursing, patient discharge education<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: Effectiveness of an advanced practice emergency nurse role in a minor injuries unit Original&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[4782,4108,4971,4969,4970,4972],"class_list":["post-7690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-advanced-nursing-practice","tag-emergency-department","tag-emergency-nursing","tag-emergency-service","tag-patient-discharge","tag-patient-discharge-education","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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