Developing a website to demonstrate clinical holding techniques

Page, Andrea and Warren, Alison and Vanes, Nicola (2017) Developing a website to demonstrate clinical holding techniques. Nursing Children and Young People, 29 (2). pp. 20-24. ISSN 2046-2336

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Abstract

Healthcare staff routinely use clinical holding to help infants, children or young people stay still when treatment is being administered, to prevent children or young people from interfering with the treatment, or when invasive examinations are being carried out. However, healthcare
staff rarely have any formal discussion with children and young people, or their parents, on the techniques used for clinical holding. Visual tools are important when talking to children or young people about their healthcare, and a website with images of clinical holds would allow staff to
discuss relevant holds with their patients. In this article, we describe a collaboration between Birmingham City University and Birmingham Children’s Hospital to develop a website that presents 3D images of clinical holds, outlining how we introduced it to staff in the clinical areas that would benefit from it and how we have been evaluating its effectiveness. We hope this website will
formalise the professional discussion of clinical hold techniques. This will allow information on the
appropriate holds for different situations to be documented, which will enhance best practice. In addition, the website should provide information needed to allow children, young people and their parents to give true informed consent.

Item Type: Article
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.7748/ncyp.2017.e801
Dates:
DateEvent
6 March 2017Published
9 November 2016Accepted
Subjects: CAH02 - subjects allied to medicine > CAH02-04 - nursing and midwifery > CAH02-04-01 - nursing (non-specific)
Divisions: Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences > School of Nursing and Midwifery
Depositing User: Andrea Page
Date Deposited: 26 Apr 2017 11:32
Last Modified: 12 Jan 2022 11:25
URI: https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/4272

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