Coronavirus: Share your tips

Share your tips and ideas on what you and your organisation are doing in the coronavirus pandemic. Let's share our solutions to the many problems and challenges we are currently facing. Here's one posted on Twitter from the Simulation and Resuscitation Department at Gloucestershire Hospitals.

Another one here for identifying who is who.  This is from University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

Recently created by the Palliative Care Team at West Middlesex Hospital...

Available to download here

Thinking aloud ...  Please are there ways of enabling a next-of-kin to say goodbye to a conscious but dying covid-19 patient so that patient doesn't die without family?  

A voice on a phone?  A video on a phone?  A written note (in laminated, sanitised plastic pocked)?  Some form of talisman that the next-of-kin gives the patient when they're taken to hospital? 

As a cancer radiotherapy-survivor I know how comforting it was to carry a small note from my husband into the 'lock-down' radiotherapy rooms.  Obviously during this pandemic safety is paramount but a safe compromise way of farewell would help everyone involved with the death. 

@Sister_Medicine on twitter said she gave a dying patient a iPad so the family could say good bye

I attended a trauma call in my hospital the other day - dressed head to toe in PPE, we couldn't hear each other or knew who each other were.

Since this happened - we have not got these stickers to go on our PPE .  These are great for adhoc teams that come together in extremis (such as trauma calls)

 A few more resources added to the hub that may be of interest...

CARDMEDIC – Flashcards for communicating with patients in the ICU during the COVID-19 pandemic

Advice for staff on preventing pressure ulcers while wearing PPE (BTHFT Tissue Viability Team)
PPE guidance and how to keep your skin safe (DBTH, April 2020)

Useful visual from an intensive care doctor on ventilators:

 

A great way to know which member of staff has contacted the patients family and when - thought of by a Matron at Sussex and Surrey Hospitals Trust.

Can't see who is under the PPE?  A nurse from Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust is making name badges for staff.

Another way of using photos as 'Who is behind the mask'

Staff have been redeployed to many differing areas.  North West Anglia NHS Trust have designed these badges to help.  What a brilliant idea!

 

 

North Middlesex Hospital has introduced well being rooms and well being teams for their staff.  A place to unwind and have a chat.

Frontline healthcare workers in the US are sharing their creative solutions to the PPE shortage and other innovative ideas on Twitter at #MacGuyverCare

 

Keeping quality improvement going virtually - here’s some top tips from 
@mattcope16 on twitter -   for running virtual process mapping.

 

 

"I'm new here" badges. Great initiative at Frimley Health. The teams have been delivering them to wards for staff who have been redeployed or volunteered for new roles.