Evaluation of advanced neonatal nurse practitioners: confidential enquiry into the management of sentinel cases
- M P Ward Platt,
- K Brown,
- on behalf of the Ashington Evaluation Group
- Correspondence to:
Dr Ward Platt
Ward 35, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK; m.p.ward-plattncl.ac.uk
- Accepted 22 April 2003
Abstract
Objective: To evaluate the quality of the neonatal care delivered by an advanced neonatal nurse practitioner led service at Ashington Hospital, Northumberland.
Setting: Maternity service with no resident paediatric medical input.
Design: Comparison of quality measures on sentinel cases with five comparator hospitals using modified confidential enquiry.
Results: On six out of seven dimensions, the neonatal nurse practitioner service performed better than the average of the five comparator hospitals, and overall ranked second.
Conclusion: Good quality neonatal care can be delivered by advanced neonatal nurse practitioners alone, without the support of resident junior paediatricians.
- ANNP, advanced neonatal nurse practitioner
- CESDI, Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirth and Death in Infancy
Footnotes
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Funding: Northern and Yorkshire Research and Development grant.
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Competing interest: MPWP has publicly supported the Ashington model of neonatal care at national and international meetings.
