ArticleThe Southern African journal of critical care : the official journal of the Critical Care Society2021
Guidelines for the hospital role of the clinical nurse in antimicrobial stewardship: A scoping review.
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- Designing an antimicrobial stewardship curriculum for nurses to strengthen knowledge and clinical practice.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Challenges and best practices for moving forward in interprofessional collaboration in critical care units: nurses' perspectives.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Knowledge, attitudes and practices of administration of intravenous antimicrobial medicines among intensive care nurses: A descriptive cross-sectional study.The Southern African journal of critical care : the official journal of the Critical Care Society · 2024Article
- Co-design of a nurse handover tool to optimise infection control and antimicrobial stewardship in a low resource setting intensive care unit: A nurse led collaboration.Wellcome open research · 2024Article
- Guideline recommendations for antimicrobial stewardship education for clinical nursing practice in hospitals: A scoping review.The Southern African journal of critical care : the official journal of the Critical Care Society · 2021Article
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Abstract
Background: Antimicrobial stewardship aims to optimise the use of antimicrobial medicines to preserve the efficacy of these medicines and to contain antimicrobial resistance where possible. Nurses constitute the largest group of healthcare workers; however, the role played by nurses within current antimicrobial stewardship strategies is largely unacknowledged despite nurses being at point-of-care at the hospital bedside. Objectives: To identify recommendations for the antimicrobial stewardship role of the bedside nurse in key global antimicrobial stewardship guidelines. Methods: Scoping review methodology was used to systematically search published and 'grey' literature in PubMed, EBSCOhost, Google Scholar, government websites, and websites of professional societies and organisations. Search dates were 1990 to 2020. Inclusion criteria were English language antimicrobial stewardship guidelines for hospitals. Screening was conducted in two stages for title and abstract and then full text relevancy and documented according to the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews. Results: Of the 1 824 articles that were retrieved, only 43 met the inclusion criteria. Inclusion of the bedside nurse on the antimicrobial stewardship team occurred in 13.9% ( Conclusion: This scoping review highlights a slow but incremental increase in recognition of the role of the bedside nurse within the operational hub of antimicrobial stewardship strategies. Contributions of the study: The present study was undertaken to fill the gap in the literature on clinical nurses' contribution in antimicrobial stewardship. The findings of the review largely demonstrate that multidisciplinary antimicrobial stewardship guidelines fail to view the bedside nurse as a contributor within antimicrobial stewardship strategies.
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