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RECRUITMENT
This multi-site RCT is currently taking place at three acute-care public hospitals in Southeast Queensland, Australia. Two of the hospitals are quaternary hospitals and the third, a tertiary facility. All sites have participated in previous clinical trials. For more details, refer to the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry: ACTRN12619000763145.Each site is supported by associate investigator (AI) nurse leaders, who provide ongoing clinical expertise and support for the study. We recruit eligible participants from general medical-surgical wards at each site. The inclusion of multiple sites and wards spreads the recruitment burden and allows testing of the intervention in a variety of acute medical and surgical settings to ensure diverse geographical, unit size, and sub-speciality representation.