The Nursing & Midwifery Research Grant recipients for 2021 were announced today, with a recipient for each midwifery and for nursing:
Midwifery:
Research team: Katherine O’Driscoll, Tija Blums, Fika Tamiru, Vidanka Vasilevski and Linda Sweet
Title: Maternity care of migrant women from refugee backgrounds – ensuring cultural safety and relevance
The aims of this study are to explore the needs of refugee women of childbearing age and the potential enablers and barriers to accessing care within the Western Health maternity care system. The study will also examine the experiences of Western Health midwifery and obstetric staff and their information needs for supporting women from refugee backgrounds in their care
Nursing:
Research team: Paula Lyons, Dr Sara Holton and Bodil Rasmussen
Title: Nurses’ experiences of caring for the deteriorating COVID-19 patient and Medical Emergency Team (MET) response
This study aims to investigate the nurses’ experiences of caring for deteriorating COVID-19 patients in the ward environment and explore their perceptions of MET response escalation for these patients.
The study objectives are to:
- understand the nurses’ experiences of monitoring a COVID-19 patient and delivering time critical care when deterioration occurs.
- identify the supportive and challenging aspects that occur during a MET call for COVID-19 patients that may influence a nurses’ experience.
- understand how interactions, communication and decision-making with nursing and medical members of the MET team influence the nurses’ experience of caring for COVID-19 patients.
- understand the impact of changes in clinical processes due to COVID-19 on nurses’ ability to manage clinical deterioration in the ward environment.
Congratulations to the grant recipients, and we look forward to hearing about their findings.