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| Aims, objectives and scope of JLA PSP |
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| Aim: to identify unanswered questions about community nursing from patient, carer and clinical perspectives and prioritise those that patients, carers, and clinicians agree are most important for research to address |
| Objectives |
| (i) work with patients, carers and clinicians to identify uncertainties about community nursing in England, in relation to the provision of nursing care to adults in their own homes, in community nurse led clinics, or residential homes |
| (ii) to agree by consensus a prioritised list of those uncertainties, for research |
| (iii) to publicise and disseminate the results of the PSP |
| (iv) to take the results to research commissioning bodies to be considered for funding |
| (v) to enable community nurses to expand and enhance their involvement in research |
| (vi) to change community nurses’ practice through increased engagement with evidence-base |
| (vii) to increase national collaboration and impact through partnerships with funders, community nursing organisations, and healthcare providers |
| (viii) to extend and enhance patient and public involvement |
| The scope of the community nursing PSP was defined as |
| (i) including uncertainties around community nursing in England that relate to the care of adults being cared for in their homes, in community clinics or in residential homes by NHS community nurses |
| (ii) perspectives reflective of practice-based roles of community nurses, including district nurses |
| (iii) physical and mental health and areas of overlap between them |
| (iv) perspectives of patients and carers who access community services in relation to the service provided, information, assessments, interventions, and service outcomes |
| (v) questions relating to Covid-19 and its impact on community nursing care |
| The PSP excluded from its scope questions about |
| (i) community nursing outside England |
| (ii) community nursing practice based outside the NHS |
| (iii) people accessing community nursing services who are under the age of 18 |
| (iv) specific government policies across England for health and social care |
| (v) preand postregistration education of community nursing |
| (vi) training, education and professional development of community nurses |
| (vii) services with a commercial interest |
| (viii) noncommunity nurses, school nurses, health visitors, practice nurses, and community nurses working in children’s nursing, mental health and learning disabilities |
| (ix) patients cared for in secondary care and nursing homes |
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