{"id":16469,"date":"2020-04-16T12:26:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.epimedsolutions.com\/?post_type=case&#038;p=16469"},"modified":"2020-04-16T12:26:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T15:26:57","slug":"siz-nursing-and-epimed-solutions-in-the-nas-project-in-belgium","status":"publish","type":"case","link":"https:\/\/www.epimedsolutions.com\/en\/case\/siz-nursing-and-epimed-solutions-in-the-nas-project-in-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"SIZ NURSING AND EPIMED SOLUTIONS IN THE NAS PROJECT IN BELGIUM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>President: Arnaud Bruyneel, RN, CRRN, MSc<\/strong><br>Intensive care nurse at the CHU Tivoli, La Louvi\u00e8re; Assistant Professor at the Haute \u00c9cole Provinciale de Hainaut \u2013 Condorcet, Mons; Member of the Council &#8211; European federation of Critical Care Nurses association<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>SIZ Nursing, asbl:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>SIZ Nursing\nis the association of intensive care nurses in French-speaking Belgium\nthat has existed since 1982. This science-based\nprofessional association, incorporated as an <em>asbl<\/em> (non-profit association) since October 2005, is a member of the European federation of Critical Care Nursing associations (EfCCNa).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The NAS project<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The Nursing\nActivities Score (NAS) measures the workload of nurses in intensive care units (ICUs)\nto better map out their activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nobjective of the NAS project in Belgium is to assess the nurse\/patient ratio against\nthe current situation in the French-speaking region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sixteen hospitals in total participated in the project using the NAS module\nof the Epimed Monitor ICU system over two periods of one month each (January\nand June). Mr Bruyneel, who 2 years earlier had learned about the MICA\n(Monitoring Intensive Care Activities) project in Belgium through Dr\nBrimioulle, contacted Epimed Solutions leading to the collaboration in the use\nof the system as a working tool within the NAS project: \u2018\u2018The project came to\nfruition thanks to the support of Epimed Solutions Belgium, who allowed the 16\nparticipating hospitals to freely use the NAS module. We could have done the\nsame study using only Excel spreadsheets, but it would have been more difficult\nto coordinate it and retrieve the results.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Epimed Monitor ICU system:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact that the Epimed Monitor ICU system is available online (web-based software) has made it very easy to retrieve data. These data were entered into one single archive. According to Mr Bruyneel, it would have taken more than 6 months to carry out the analyses if the hospitals did not use a standardised online system such as that of the Epimed Monitor ICU: \u2018\u2018Moreover, during the study the head nurses were able to analyse their results in real-time in a clear and concise manner, as the system is able to automatically process various reports.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Results<\/strong>:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Several\nresults were obtained thanks to the study. The key highlight, however, was the\nanalysis of the mean NAS per patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We are pioneers in this type of analysis, as well as in implementing a project in a large number of hospitals, making this multi-centre study one of the most important ever done on the NAS score.\u2019\u2019 The study made it possible to analyse the time spent with patients, leading to the conclusion that patients staying longer in the ICU and deaths create a greater workload for nurses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Other\nstudies have found that the impact of nursing workload influences the quality\nof care provided, hospital-acquired infections and complications,\nand patient mortality. The NAS study\nhighlights that a change in legislation\nis required to increase the nurse-patient ratio in ICUs; once it is proven that the quality of\ncare needs to be improved, it is also necessary to adapt the working hours of\nthese professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Bruyneel considers\nthat the study would have been even more relevant if all the hospitals has also\nparticipated in the MICA Project, making it possible to establish relations\nbetween the NAS results, the pathologies of patients and their severity scores.\nFor him and his collaborators, there\nis still much room for research using the NAS score, enabling hospitals to\ncontinue to use the Epimed Monitor ICU module\nsystem, thus contributing to the management and research. Mr Bruyneel thanks his colleagues for\ndrafting the study, and also all the nurses who entered data into the NAS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-16469","case","type-case","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>SIZ NURSING AND EPIMED SOLUTIONS IN THE NAS PROJECT IN BELGIUM - Epimed Solutions<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epimedsolutions.com\/en\/case\/siz-nursing-and-epimed-solutions-in-the-nas-project-in-belgium\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SIZ NURSING AND EPIMED SOLUTIONS IN THE NAS PROJECT IN BELGIUM - Epimed Solutions\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President: Arnaud Bruyneel, RN, CRRN, MScIntensive care nurse at the CHU Tivoli, La Louvi\u00e8re; 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