Interprofessional teams with and without nurse practitioners and the level of adherence to best practice guidelines in cardiac surgery: A retrospective study.

Publisher: Blackwell Scientific Publications Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9207302 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1365-2702 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 09621067 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Clin Nurs Subsets: MEDLINE

Original Publication: Oxford ; Boston : Blackwell Scientific Publications, c1992-

Guideline Adherence*/statistics & numerical data ; Guideline Adherence*/standards ; Patient Care Team*/standards ; Nurse Practitioners*/standards ; Cardiac Surgical Procedures*/standards; Humans ; Retrospective Studies ; Male ; Female ; Middle Aged ; Aged ; Quebec ; Practice Guidelines as Topic ; Interprofessional Relations

Aim: To examine the level of adherence to best-practice guidelines of interprofessional teams with acute care nurse practitioners (ACNPs) compared to interprofessional teams without ACNPs.
Design: A retrospective observational study was conducted in 2023.
Method: A retrospective cohort was created including 280 patients who underwent a coronary artery bypass graft and/or a valve repair and hospitalised in a cardiac surgery unit of a university affiliated hospital in Québec (Canada) between 1 January 2019 to 31 January 2020. The level of adherence to best-practice guidelines was measured from a composite score in percentage. The composite score was created from a newly developed tool including 99 items across six categories (patient information, pharmacotherapy, laboratory tests, post-operative assessment, patient and interprofessional teams' characteristics). Multivariate linear and logistic regression models were computed to examine the effect of interprofessional teams with ACNPs on the level of adherence to best-practice guidelines.
Results: Most of the patients of the cohort were male and underwent a coronary artery bypass graft procedure. Patients under the care of interprofessional teams with ACNP were 1.72 times more likely to reach a level of adherence higher than 80% compared to interprofessional teams without ACNPs and were 2.29 times more likely to be within the highest quartile of the scores for the level of adherence to best-practice guidelines of the cohort.
Impact: This study provides empirical data supporting the benefits of ACNP practice for patients, interprofessional teams and healthcare organisations.
Relevance for Practice: Our findings identify the important contributions of interprofessional teams that include ACNPs using a validated instrument, as well as their contribution to the delivery of high quality patient care.
Reporting Method: This study followed the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) Statement: Guidelines for reporting observational studies guidelines.
Patient or Public Contribution: No patient or public contribution.
(© 2024 The Authors. Journal of Clinical Nursing published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)

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Keywords: acute care nurse practitioner; best practice guidelines; cardiac surgery; retrospective study

Date Created: 20240314 Date Completed: 20241010 Latest Revision: 20241010

20241010

10.1111/jocn.17117

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