Colin Macduff1, Anne Marie Rafferty2, Alison Prendiville3, Kay Currie4, Enrique Castro-Sanchez5, Caroline King6, Fernando Carvalho7, Rick Iedema8. 1. Senior Research Fellow, School of Design, Glasgow School of Art, UK. 2. Professor of Nursing Policy, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery and Director of Academic Outreach, Academic Lead for Arts and Health, King's College London, UK. 3. Reader, Designing for Service, University of the Arts London, UK. 4. Professor of Nursing and Associate Dean Research, School of Health & Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. 5. Consultant Nurse, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK. 6. Research Fellow, Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention Research Group, School of Health & Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK. 7. Research Assistant, RIPEN project, University of the Arts UK. 8. Director, Centre for Team-based Practice & Learning in Health Care, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, Kings College London, UK.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Efforts to address the complex global problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) highlight the need for imagination and innovation. However, nursing has not yet leveraged its potential to innovate to prevent AMR advancing. AIMS: This paper focuses on the initial phase of an ongoing research and development study that seeks to foster nursing imagination and innovation by enhancing the meaningfulness of AMR for practising nurses and by facilitating their creative ideas. METHODS: This aim is addressed through application of arts and humanities approaches, in particular the use of visualisation, co-design and historical methods, underpinned by the Design Council Double Diamond process model. The first phase with 20 UK participants explored how hospital and community-based nurses understand and respond to the priorities and consequences of AMR within their everyday working lives. RESULTS: Nurses varied in their conceptualisations of AMR and in their depictions and explanations of its meaning and priority within everyday practices. Some saw infection prevention and control as bound up with AMR, whereas others differentiated in the context of specific work activities. Insights into related reasoning and practice tactics were also generated. CONCLUSIONS: The initial project phase provides a basis for fostering nursing innovation in this important field.
BACKGROUND: Efforts to address the complex global problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) highlight the need for imagination and innovation. However, nursing has not yet leveraged its potential to innovate to prevent AMR advancing. AIMS: This paper focuses on the initial phase of an ongoing research and development study that seeks to foster nursing imagination and innovation by enhancing the meaningfulness of AMR for practising nurses and by facilitating their creative ideas. METHODS: This aim is addressed through application of arts and humanities approaches, in particular the use of visualisation, co-design and historical methods, underpinned by the Design Council Double Diamond process model. The first phase with 20 UK participants explored how hospital and community-based nurses understand and respond to the priorities and consequences of AMR within their everyday working lives. RESULTS: Nurses varied in their conceptualisations of AMR and in their depictions and explanations of its meaning and priority within everyday practices. Some saw infection prevention and control as bound up with AMR, whereas others differentiated in the context of specific work activities. Insights into related reasoning and practice tactics were also generated. CONCLUSIONS: The initial project phase provides a basis for fostering nursing innovation in this important field.
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