Table 1 The intervention
Phase | Activities | Method |
|---|---|---|
Preparation | Ward selection | Registration multidisciplinary consultation team |
| Â | Â | Literature review |
| Â | Â | Consent of 7 ward managers |
| Â | Organization | Selection of 14 palliative care nurse champions |
| Â | Â | Appointment of a coordinator |
| Â | Â | Development and planning network and education programme |
Introduction and follow-up | Composition network | Contact coordinator, ward manager and nurse champions on intervention wards |
| Â | Meetings | Every month 90Â minutes (9 meetings per year) |
| Â | Education | Targeted education programme 2Â days yearly and at every network meeting |
|  | Mission/champions’ activities | Dissemination of knowledge (lessons, bedside teaching, being a resource) |
| Â | Â | Planned activities on each ward |
| Â | Â | Promotion of consulting multidisciplinary consultation team on pain and palliative care |
| Â | Â | Implementation of problem based care pathways or protocols on wards |
| Â | Â | Acting as a role model |
| Â | Support | Coaching nurse champions in plans and activities |
| Â | Â | Information in organizational journal, information in newsletters |
| Â | Â | Discuss compliance with unit managers |