Feasibility of the McIntyre audit tool for haemodialysis nurses
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McGuire, Amanda
Bonner, Ann
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Background: Nurse-sensitive indicators (NSI) assess the quality of nursing care provided to patients. These indicators assess the structures (supportive measures), processes (nursing actions) and outcomes of care. The McIntyre Audit Tool (MAT) was developed to measure haemodialysis NSIs. Objectives: The objective of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and utility of the MAT in measuring haemodialysis NSIs in clinical practice. Design: Multisite nonrandomized feasibility study. Participants: A convenience sample of nurses (n = 30) were recruited from two haemodialysis units in Australia. Measurements: Participants completed the MAT once daily for 1 week, to measure the extent the clinical indicators were being met. Feasibility data including utility and acceptability of the tool was collected once from each participant. Data were analysed descriptively. Results: Participants completed a total of 97 audits. Results revealed the majority of structural (75%) and process indicators (73%) were being achieved although some variation between sites was observed. Results for the outcome indicators showed more variation (5.9%–94.1). Feasibility results found most nurses (79%) took <5 min to complete the MAT and found the tool easy to use (91.7%). Most participants (83.3%) reported audits could be completed during a shift and auditing was easily implemented (79.2%). Conclusion: Use of the MAT in clinical practice is a feasible and acceptable way of auditing the quality of haemodialysis nursing practice. The tool could be used to establish minimum standards and improve the quality of nursing care in haemodialysis units, also enabling benchmarking between services.
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Journal of Renal Care
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© 2023 The Authors. Journal of Renal Care published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Dialysis & Transplant Nurses Association/European Renal Care Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Haematology
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McIntyre, D; McGuire, A; Bonner, A, Feasibility of the McIntyre audit tool for haemodialysis nurses, Journal of Renal Care, 2023