MET Case Study
Background
A medical emergency team (MET) is a multidisciplinary team that is implemented with the aim to rescue patients early from deteriorating and cardiac arrests, unplanned transfers to the intensive care unit (ICU) and reduce overall mortality rate (Scholle et al, 2006). A nurse-led MET has been successful in treating near-collapse and deteriorating patient in various hospital settings (DeVita, Hillman and Bellomo, 2006), and it is newly implemented locally. The aim of this study is to explore nurses' experiences running a MET. This is also to find out if sharing their experiences could improve the workflow of MET and patients’ outcome. Paying attention to the life stories and experiences allows nurses to have their aspirations for the …show more content…
It depends on nurses that are critical care trained to act as clinical experts to assess a patient’s deteriorating condition. Nurses in the general wards expressed having a MET nurse provide them a sense of security when handling a deteriorating patient, thus finding him/her valuable and treated with respect. This explains the advantages of a nurse-led MET. After each MET activation, nurses in general ward are given an evaluation form to express their opinion about the experience. However, it did not provide any information on the importance of having the nurses in MET to express their experience during an activation. It can act as feedback in the educational sessions for the MET responders. This can help them change for the better, able to communicate effectively, develop intense leadership skills and to gain acceptance from the nurses in the general ward. Inclusion of meetings should be carried out for the nurses that are part of MET to have a chance to discuss their experiences and this could allow possible suggestions to solutions of ways to improve MET. Therefore, the researcher would also like to find out if allowing the nurses in MET to share their lived experiences can increased job satisfaction among both side of the
A medical emergency team (MET) is a multidisciplinary team that is implemented with the aim to rescue patients early from deteriorating and cardiac arrests, unplanned transfers to the intensive care unit (ICU) and reduce overall mortality rate (Scholle et al, 2006). A nurse-led MET has been successful in treating near-collapse and deteriorating patient in various hospital settings (DeVita, Hillman and Bellomo, 2006), and it is newly implemented locally. The aim of this study is to explore nurses' experiences running a MET. This is also to find out if sharing their experiences could improve the workflow of MET and patients’ outcome. Paying attention to the life stories and experiences allows nurses to have their aspirations for the …show more content…
It depends on nurses that are critical care trained to act as clinical experts to assess a patient’s deteriorating condition. Nurses in the general wards expressed having a MET nurse provide them a sense of security when handling a deteriorating patient, thus finding him/her valuable and treated with respect. This explains the advantages of a nurse-led MET. After each MET activation, nurses in general ward are given an evaluation form to express their opinion about the experience. However, it did not provide any information on the importance of having the nurses in MET to express their experience during an activation. It can act as feedback in the educational sessions for the MET responders. This can help them change for the better, able to communicate effectively, develop intense leadership skills and to gain acceptance from the nurses in the general ward. Inclusion of meetings should be carried out for the nurses that are part of MET to have a chance to discuss their experiences and this could allow possible suggestions to solutions of ways to improve MET. Therefore, the researcher would also like to find out if allowing the nurses in MET to share their lived experiences can increased job satisfaction among both side of the