Intensive care liaison nurses

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	593896
Registration status:	Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Definition:	Nurses who are trained to provide specialised support services to ward staff caring for acutely ill patients.
Context:	Admitted patient care.

Collection and usage attributes
Comments:	The aim of intensive care liaison nurses is to improve patient outcomes through providing specialised interventions and other support services to acutely ill patients in hospital wards, usually but not always patients who have been discharged from an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Rapid responses to patients who are experiencing serious clinical deterioration make up one of the main roles of these nurses.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care/Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	See also Cardiac arrest team Health, Standard 04/09/2015 See also Medical emergency team Health, Standard 04/09/2015 See also Rapid response team Health, Standard 04/09/2015
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Episode of admitted patient care—rapid response team type, code N Health, Standard 04/09/2015 Hospital rapid response calls cluster Health, Standard 04/09/2015 Intensive care unit ACT Health (retired), Candidate 09/08/2018 Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Incomplete 17/10/2012 Tasmanian Health, Standard 10/01/2018