Décrire quantitativement les interventions téléphoniques des infirmières au service Info-Santé selon le niveau de compétence novice - compétent - expert
Nurse telephone consultation services are rapidly progressing throughout the world. It is known that nurses with a greater experience in telephone practise obtain more information on the client’s health condition when in consultation, than nurses with less experience. We can presume that Patricia Benner’s «levels of nursing experience», (1984), will provide us with an explanation for these differences. Yet, to this day, no study describes how these differences between levels of experience are manifested in conversation during an intervention between the nurse and the client. The object of this descriptive study was to identify the manifestations of this communication expertise during a telephone consultation. Using the Roter interaction analysis system (RIAS), 190 recorded calls between nurses (N = 15) with differing levels of expertise, according to Benner’ nomenclature (1984), and the callers who have consulted them were analyzed. The calls that were studied, from a larger study, were first calls from parents regarding their child aged five years or less. It was possible to observe characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses common to nurses within each level of expertise in this study. Despite the fact that there are differences between nurses with fewer years of experience and nurses with more clinical telephone experience, results seem to indicate that, regardless of their experience, nurses are strongly centered on the task of assessing the caller’s health situation; however, their interventions include few phrases aimed at establishing a true partnership with the caller. Results obtained provide information that could be used to elaborate professional developmental strategies, and guide administrators in their choice of indicators when evaluating service quality and its effect on clientele. Nevertheless, an increased number of nurse participants and a greater number of calls would enable us to confirm the results obtained from these 190 calls.
Nurse-patient relation Professional-patient relation Telephone Consultation Telephone nursing advice Telephone quality nursing Telenursing Telehealth Nursing advice protocole Teletriage outcomes