Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Judith Tanner.
Surgical draping practices throughout the UK vary between hospitals. This national survey (funded through an NATN/3M Clinical Fellowship) sought to determine the extent of various draping practices and identify practitioners' reasons for selecting specific draping products.
Children aged between six and 15 years on two paediatric wards of one NHS trust were invited to take part in a study to find out whether they preferred digital underarm thermometry or tympanic thermometry. The study was conducted as part of the Nursing and Midwifery Research and Practice Development Project for the Southern Derbyshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. In the six to ten year age group (n = 39), 74 per cent of the children preferred the tympanic thermometer, as did 91 per cent in the 11-15 year age group (n = 44). Children/young people in both age groups commented that the tympanic thermometer was quicker and more comfortable. All children over two years now have their temperature taken using the tympanic thermometer, with the exception of those for whom it would not be medically appropriate or who express dislike for this method.
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The workshop is one of a number of strategies that can be used to disseminate information. This study set out to evaluate the effectiveness of the workshop as a method of disseminating information which had as its aim the introduction of new practices. A series of workshops, attended by G and H grade nurses, were carried out in a large teaching Hospital in England. The information which was disseminated concerned recruitment and retention activities for nurses which had been proposed in recent government documents, in particular in the Strategy for Nursing in England 'Making a Difference' by the UK Department of Health. Two sample groups of 25 nurses (workshop attendees and non-attendees) were interviewed. The interviews took place shortly after the workshops and were repeated 7 months later. The first set of interviews explored the nurses' intention to implement changes in their clinical areas and the second set of interviews identified actual change. The findings from the study suggests that the workshops were an effective means of producing changes in practice. However, the interviews also identified the value of personal engagement, especially in relation to meeting individual human needs, which were facilitated through the workshop. These emotions appeared to have an influence on the success of the nurses in implementing change and it is proposed that these outcomes should be considered when determining the benefits of a dissemination strategy.
This article is based on a paper presented at the National Association of Theatre Nurses Congress and Exhibition in October 2001. In it, Judith Tanner asks why it is so difficult to recruit students to theatres, identifies some reasons given by students for not going into theatres, as well as their reasons forgoing into theatres, and gives advice on how perioperative departments can become more student-friendly.
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