A Scoping Review on Determining Australian Nurse Engagement in Eye Care Settings.

Autor: Machin HM; Surgical Research Unit, Centre for Eye Research Australia, Department of Surgery, Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.; Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia., Daniell M; Surgical Research Unit, Centre for Eye Research Australia, Department of Surgery, Ophthalmology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.; Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia., Entwistle LI; Ophthalmology Outpatients Department, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia., Hafner C; Ophthalmology Outpatients Department, Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospital, South East Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia., Huigen A; Primary and Public Health Care Urban, NT Health - Central Australia, Melbourne, Australia., Kaur H; Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia., McCulloch J; Ophthalmology Outpatients Department, Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospital, South East Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia.; Nursing Education, Research and Leadership Unit, Sydney Hospital and Sydney Eye Hospital, South East Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia.; School of Nursing and Midwifery, Notre Dame University, Sydney Campus University of Notre Dame, Sydney, Australia., Osadchiy M; Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) [Clin Ophthalmol] 2023 Jan 31; Vol. 17, pp. 393-401. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jan 31 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.2147/OPTH.S391734
Abstrakt: Purpose: As the Australian population grows and ages, the demand for eye care services, and nurses to provide the services, is expected to increase. This will impact nurses, who are Australia's largest health-care provider group. Understanding and mapping the current role and use of nurses in eye care is an essential first step for future health workforce planning and development. To map their engagement, we undertook a scoping review to gain an understanding of the current Australian nurse eye care workforce landscape, to help guide and support future workforce development activities. Secondly, we evaluated if publications in this field incorporated or mentioned the Australian Ophthalmic Nursing Association's National Standards (Practice standards) in their publication. This review also offers other nations and eye care providers the opportunity to evaluate their own health workforce plan and nurse utility.
Study Design and Methods: We conducted a review of academic and grey literature, via various search engines, and an inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Results: We uncovered 11 publications. Of those, five were academic papers examining extended and advanced nursing practice, one was a letter to the editor, two were industry feature reviews, two were industry reports and the final was the Practice Standards. Key themes throughout indicated the benefit of nurse training and nurse involvement in eye care. Overall, there was insufficient information or data to describe nurse deployment, practice and utility. Finally, the Practice Standards were not referenced in any publication.
Conclusion: There is insufficient published information to calculate the level and involvement of nurses, or describe their existing role, advancement or future deployment in eye care in Australia. Without clear information, Australia is unable to develop effective health workforce strategies to attract, train, retain, and appropriately deploy nurses to meet future eye care needs.
Competing Interests: Dr Heather M Machin reports a grant from the Australian Ophthalmic Nurses Association, to conduct of the study. Dr Machin also reports grants/funding, not related to this study, from Lions Clubs Victoria, and the Eye Bank Association of Australia and New Zealand through her employment at the Centre for Eye Research Australia; She also reports she is a Member and co-President of the Australian Ophthalmic Nurses Association (a member-based non-profit for voluntarily support) who funded this project. Of note, Dr Machin was not President at the time of the grant approval (in 2020) and was not involved in the grant revision process and decision. The modest grant does not cover the entirety of the workforce project undertaking. The authors have no competing or conflicting interest.
(© 2023 Machin et al.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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