title: Experience of being a shift co-ordinator.
abstract: This reflection focuses on the experience of a nurse acting as shift co-ordinator within an intensive care unit where primary nursing is practised. The experience focuses on the difficulties faced by the shift co-ordinator in providing support to junior staff working in the attached high dependency unit when a patient appears to arrest. The experience also challenges the shift co-ordinator's previous taken-for-granted approach to assessing the needs of staff and patients and her role immediately following handover.
authors.affiliation: Chelsea & Westminster Intensive Care & Nursing Development Unit, London.
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authors.lastname: Pinnock
mesh_terms: D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000451:nursing; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007587:Job Description; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000523:psychology*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology* / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D011321:Primary Nursing; D012944:Social Support; D000078329:Workforce