title: Sustaining care delivery--team nursing with intensive care assistants.
abstract: The Cardiothoracic Centre Liverpool faced an acute nursing recruitment problem, which is accentuated in the specialist area of intensive care. To ensure that activity through the 20-bedded unit remains broadly in line with contracted levels, a number of initiatives were implemented to help maximise the financial and non-financial resources available.
authors.affiliation: Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Cardiothoracic Centre Liverpool, NHS Trust, Liverpool L14 3PE.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Cleary
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D009728:Nursing Assistants / Q000458:organization & administration; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D009746:Nursing, Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D000078329:Workforce