Advancing Nursing Practices in Hospital Oncology Care

Sponsor

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (Other)

Overall Status

Recruiting

CT.gov ID

NCT05053191

Collaborator

(none)

480

Enrollment

Location

Arm

Anticipated Duration (Months)

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to find out if a new training program for nurses called PACT (Partnership, Assessment, Care, and Transition) will be effective and relevant in helping nurses gain the skills needed to provide high-quality family-centered care. Family-centered care skills include engaging family caregivers as partners in patient care, and strengthening their capacity for caregiving by assessing family support needs and facilitating access to resources when needed. The study will also look at whether the quality of nurses' family-centered care skills is associated with improved outcomes for family caregivers. Both nurses and family caregivers will be enrolled in this study. Participants will be nurses/caregivers who care for advanced GI cancer patients admitted to Memorial Sloan Kettering.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Gastrointestinal Cancer Gastrointestinal Disease Nurse's Role	Behavioral: Partnership, Assessment, Care and Transition training intervention	N/A

Study Design

Study Type:

Interventional

Anticipated Enrollment :

480 participants

Allocation:

N/A

Intervention Model:

Single Group Assignment

Masking:

None (Open Label)

Primary Purpose:

Other

Official Title:

Advancing Family-Centered Care Nursing Practices in Inpatient Oncology Care

Actual Study Start Date :

Sep 3, 2021

Anticipated Primary Completion Date :

Sep 3, 2023

Anticipated Study Completion Date :

Sep 3, 2023

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Nurses MSKCC day-shift nurses (Clinical Nurse I to IV) assigned to the GI inpatient unit (MH16) at the time of study, all of whom provide initial and ongoing assessment of patients' physical, psychosocial, cultural and informational needs	Behavioral: Partnership, Assessment, Care and Transition training intervention Partnership, Assessment, Care and Transition to psychosocial resources. Nurses who participate in PACT will receive 8 hours of training in a single, full-day workshop. We will train nurses in clusters of 10-12 nurses at one time, which will allow for cross-coverage with minimal disruption to workflow, and provide a more intimate, small-group learning environment. Other Names: PACT

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Experimental: Nurses

MSKCC day-shift nurses (Clinical Nurse I to IV) assigned to the GI inpatient unit (MH16) at the time of study, all of whom provide initial and ongoing assessment of patients' physical, psychosocial, cultural and informational needs

Behavioral: Partnership, Assessment, Care and Transition training intervention

Partnership, Assessment, Care and Transition to psychosocial resources. Nurses who participate in PACT will receive 8 hours of training in a single, full-day workshop. We will train nurses in clusters of 10-12 nurses at one time, which will allow for cross-coverage with minimal disruption to workflow, and provide a more intimate, small-group learning environment.

Other Names:

PACT

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Frequency of nurses' use of family centered care practices [30 days]
Frequency of nurses' use of family centered care practices as observed during inpatient consultations with family caregivers

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

18 Years and Older

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

Nurses:

MSKCC day-shift nurses (Clinical Nurse I to IV) assigned to the GI inpatient unit (M16) at the time of study, all of whom provide initial and ongoing assessment of patients' physical, psychosocial, cultural and informational needs
Nurse is comfortable speaking and reading English as per self report

Family caregivers (FC) - Phases 1b, 2, 4:

Adult (≥18 yrs) family caregiver (family caregiver is defined here as any informal caregiver who is a relative, friend or legal representative) who self-identifies and/or is identified by the nursing staff as involved in the care of an MSK cancer patient who either:
is currently admitted to the M16 unity for at least 12 hours OR
has been discharged from the M16 unit within the last 2 weeks
English-speaking as per self-report
Only one FC per patient case will be invited to participate.

M16 Patients (chart review only):

Adult (≥18 yrs) cancer patient who is currently admitted in the M16 unit at Memorial Hospital for at least 12 hours o English speaking as per self-report