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JE fulfilled the following authorship criteria according to the CRediT framework: conceptualisation, methodology, investigation, resources, writing, editing, visualisation, and project administration. RE fulfilled the following authorship criteria according to the CRediT framework: conceptualisation, methodology, writing, and editing. BK fulfilled the following authorship criteria according to the CRediT framework: conceptualisation, methodology.

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Jody Ede: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing. Ruth Endacott: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing. Bridie Kent: Conceptualization, Investigation.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Professor Blot and Editor-in-Chief of Intensive and Critical Care Nursing for providing us with an opportunity to discuss our work further.

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