Table 1 Characteristics of organisations participating in the implementation of nursing guidelines
| Â | Best Practice Guidelines | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Organisational Characteristics | Asthma | Breastfeeding | Delirium, Dementia, Depression | Diabetes Foot Care | Smoking Cessation | Venous Leg Ulcers |
Type and Number of Hospitals | Community (1) | Teaching (1) | Teaching (3) | Community (1) | Teaching Mental Health (1) | Community Chronic Care (1) |
Units | Emergency, Urgent care, Medicine | Labour & Delivery, Post-partum | Surgery, Medicine, Rehabilitation | Medicine | In-patients, clinics | Long-term care |
Community Nursing | Â | Regional Public Health Unit (1) | Â | Home visiting (1) | Â | Home visiting (1) Wound clinics (3) |
Number of Clinical Resource Nurses (CRN's) | 2 part-time | 1 full-time | 1 full-time manager as CRN, 7 APNs†| 2 part-time | 1 full-time manager as CRN, 7 APN's†| 1 full-time |
Number of nurses educated | 200 | 68 | 211 | 179 | 67 | 65 |