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    Factors influencing the implementation of Epilepsy Specialist Nurse role: Using the Consolidation Framework for Implementation Research


    Higgins, Agnes, Murphy, Rebecca, Downes, Carmel, Varley, Jarlath, Begley, Cecily and Elliott, Naomi (2020) Factors influencing the implementation of Epilepsy Specialist Nurse role: Using the Consolidation Framework for Implementation Research. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 29. pp. 1352-1364. ISSN 0962-1067

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    Abstract

    Background: Research to support the added value of including Epilepsy Specialist Nurses as members of the multidisciplinary team is developing, yet little information exists on factors influencing the translation of these roles into practice. Aim: To describe the enabling and inhibiting factors to the implementation of the Epilepsy Nurse Specialist role in the Republic of Ireland. Methods: A qualitative design involving semi-structure interviews, observation and analysis of documents, such as portfolios was used. The sample included 12 epilepsy specialist nurses, 24 multidisciplinary team members, and 35 individuals with epilepsy and family members. Data were analysed using the Consolidation Framework for Implementation Research. Reporting rigor is demonstrated using the COREQ checklist (See Supplementary File 1). Results: While there was overwhelming support for the role, barriers and enablers were identified across all domains of the Consolidation Framework for Implementation Research. Enablers included national policies and guidelines, leadership from senior nursing and medical colleagues, climate of learning and mentorship, networking opportunities, infrastructural supports, and competence of ESNs. Barriers included the limited consideration of service expansion and the increasingly complex nature of clinical cases on workload capacity. Deficits in infrastructural supports, challenges in relation to role preparation, role implementation and role responsibility, including concerns around lone practitioner models and concerns that the role was a cost saving measure, also emerged as potential barriers to future sustainability. Conclusion: The Consolidation Framework for Implementation Research offers researchers a pragmatic typology for analysing interrelationships between enabling and inhibiting factors that impact implementation of advanced practice roles, across different evidence sources, disciplines and boundaries. Relevance to clinical practice: In order to secure role sustainability, managers need to address the rate of service expansion, models of role development, deficits in supports and perceived motivations for role development on the quality, acceptability, and sustainability of services provided.
    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: This is the preprint version of the published article, which is available as: Higgins, A, Murphy, R, Downes, C, Varley, J, Begley, C, Elliott, N. Factors influencing the implementation of Epilepsy Specialist Nurse role: Using the Consolidation Framework for Implementation Research. J Clin Nurs. 2020; 29: 1352– 1364. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15197
    Keywords: : implementation; factors influencing, sustainability; role implementation, Epilepsy Specialist Nurse; advanced practitioner;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology
    Item ID: 15083
    Identification Number: 10.1111/jocn.15197
    Depositing User: Rebecca Murphy
    Date Deposited: 01 Dec 2021 17:06
    Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Clinical Nursing
    Publisher: Wiley
    Refereed: Yes
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    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/15083
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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