Guy Tucker
Northumbria University
8 Papers
13 Citations
Guy Tucker is an academic researcher from Northumbria University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Patient safety. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications.
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The use of early warning scores to recognise and respond to patient deterioration in district nursing
Guy Tucker,Adele Lusher +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that there is no consensus over the use of EWSS in district nursing and culture of practice is varied, rather than standardised.
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Assessing human factors during simulation: The development and preliminary validation of the rescue assessment tool
TL;DR: Development and preliminary validation of a human factors rating tool specifically designed to assess the non-technical skills associated with the recognition and rescue of the deteriorating patient and Rescue appears to be a well-structured tool with good levels of inter-rater reliability.
First do no harm: Teaching and assessing the recognition and rescue of deteriorating patients to nursing students
TL;DR: The paper describes the development of an integrated Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) and the subsequent evaluation of this using survey data, student performance results and unobtrusive methods, and suggests that it is possible to use an integrated OSCE to assess students even at such an early stage in their course.
Identifying Sources of Moral Distress Amongst Critical Care Staff During the Covid-19 Pandemic Using a Naturalistic Inquiry
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored the sources of moral distress during the COVID-19 pandemic and the meaning that staff attached to these events and found that providing care which was counter-intuitive, concerns about the risks to the staff and their families and the additional burdens associated with leading teams in times of uncertainty were identified as sources of emotional distress.
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Man versus Machine: the importance of manual blood pressure measurement skills amongst registered nurses
TL;DR: The suggested infrequent use of aneroid devices raises a concern that nurses skills in manual blood pressure recording may be subject to decay over time, which could result in practitioners and hospitals being open to negligence claims.