A qualitative study on the effect of nursing team leader rotation system in ICU / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To explore the effect of nursing team leader rotation in ICU nursing team, so as to provide reference for optimizing the allocation of nursing human resources, promoting the cooperation of nursing team and improving the quality of nursing care.Methods:The ICU nursing team leader rotation was implemented from October 2018 to June 2019, semi-structured interview method was used to understand the feeling and experience of medical staff in the department on team cooperation, workflow, nursing quality and other aspects after the implementation of the rotation, so as to evaluate the effectiveness.Results:According to the results of interviewing, by implementing the nursing team leader after rotation, most staff feel the improvement of care team, as well as the enthusiasm of learn and work. The new leader′ ability is got promoted, former leader feeled working pressure eased, some medical workers think that nursing quality was not affected, and there performance appraisal was reduced in an acceptable range.Conclusion:The implementation of the nursing team leader rotation may be able to improve teamwork, work enthusiasm,and the ability of overall leader team, alleviate the workload, future studies could evaluate its specific effect by quantitative indicators, and discusses the impact on the quality of care and patient outcomes, to further explore the feasibility and effectiveness of the system.