Empowering orthopedic nurses’ and nurse’s aides through a multimodal geriatric mobile team: a mixed methods study

• Published in: BMC nursing Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 694 - 11
• Main Authors: Genet, Bastien, Cohen-Bittan, Judith, Bonnetain, Rebecca, Amal, Alicia, Royer, Luca, Rollet, Marie-Eva, Glasman, Pauline, Bergeot, Angélique, Nicolas, Michaël, Cadwallader, Jean-Sébastien, Boddaert, Jacques, Zerah, Lorène
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 01.07.2025; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Aged patients; Aging; Care and treatment; Caregivers; Chronic illnesses; Comorbidity; Delirium; Emergency medical care; Fecal incontinence; Focus groups; Frailty; Geriatric mobile team; Health care teams; Hospitalization; Interdisciplinary collaboration; Medical personnel; Nurses; Nurses' aides; Nursing; Orthogeriatrics; Orthopedic nursing; Orthopedics; Pain management; Patient safety; Patients; Physiological aspects; Population; Postoperative period; Professional ethics; Professionals; Simulation; Simulation-based training; Social aspects; Teaching hospitals; Teams; France; Canada; Quebec Canada; Geriatric mobile team; Patient safety; Simulation-based training; Interdisciplinary collaboration; Orthogeriatrics

Despite their proven effectiveness, geriatric perioperative units face organizational constraints that limit access to care. A mobile geriatric team can extend expertise to orthopedic wards, assessing older patients at nurses' and nurse's aides' request. This study explored caregivers...