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Content ArticleThis project is led by the Department of Anaesthesia at Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with Northumbria University Newcastle. The aim is to co-design a fatigue risk management strategy at the Trust to help teams effectively manage night shift fatigue.
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Delirium awareness and management of delirium superimposed dementia
Claire Cox posted an article in Dementia
Delirium in older adults often goes unrecognised by healthcare professionals and can be poorly managed. People with dementia have a higher risk of developing delirium. Health Education England North East have produced this video to raise the awareness of delirium superimposed dementia and signposts ways of managing it using a tool developed (delirium wheel) that can be used in a care home, hospital or community setting.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis quick guide from the NHS explains what to expect if you need to stay in hospital for a period of time.
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Delirium - What NOT to do
Claire Cox posted an article in Care settings
This infographic designed by Dr Dan Thomas and Dr Lynda Dykes gives advice on what NOT to do if your patient has delirium.- Posted
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Content ArticleHomerton University Hospital started a journey with some of its closest suppliers to develop a digital-health tech app. Initially starting with action cards for sepsis, expanding to other topics, and then developing into a smart phone app used trust-wide, with the primary goal of addressing high-risk incidents within the trust.
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Content ArticleBack in January 2019, we started a regular team newsletter. Initially this was aimed at only the critical care unit (CCU) team; however, very quickly it developed into an all trust audience. In this post I discuss the multiple benefits the newsletter has offered as well as the challenges I came across. I want to share my experience on developing the newsletter to encourage other teams to consider writing a regular newsletter if they don’t already have one. This followed on from several outreach teams contacting me personally for assistance in writing their own newsletters.
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Content ArticleBased on the concept of safety advice given on planes before they take off, the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has produced a short film to help patients look after themselves during their hospital stay.
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Kathryn's story
Claire Cox posted an article in By patients and public
Kathryn recalls her personal experience of temporary paralysis and respiratory arrest after residual anaesthetic drugs were not flushed from her lines and cannulae following surgery. The video supports the Patient Safety Alert 'Confirming removal or flushing of lines and cannulae after procedures' issued by NHS Improvement in November 2017. More recently, the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) have carried out an investigation looking at the risks to patients when intravenous (IV) drugs are retained in cannulae and extension lines and made a series of recommendations.- Posted
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Crossing The Chasm - blog from Rob Hackett
Claire Cox posted an article in Barriers
In his blog, Dr Rob Hackett explains how new ideas, concepts or practices can spread within a community by using the 'Diffusion of Innovation' theory'. He also discusses the barriers hindering change.- Posted
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Content ArticleIn February 2019, Claire, a Critical Care Outreach Sister, and Patient Safety Learning's Associate Director, had the great privilege to visit Rush University Hospital, Chicago, as a visiting nurse scholar to shadow the critical care outreach team. The objectives of this visit were to (1) collaborate to harness and direct the strengths of two teams from two different countries, in two unique settings; and (2) to promote best practices that facilitate early recognition and management of patient deterioration to improve patient outcomes. In this blog, Claire talks about this amazing opportunity to see how the UK and USA systems differ and how we can learn from one another.
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Content ArticleReact to Red Skin is a pressure ulcer prevention campaign that is committed to educating as many people as possible about the dangers of pressure ulcers and the simple steps that can be take to avoid them. The prevention of avoidable pressure ulcers in the community is one of the biggest challenges that care organisations face - a challenge which currently costs the NHS and care organisations in the UK around £6.5 billion per year. Pressure ulcers affect around 700,000 people in the UK every year and many of these will develop whilst an individual is being cared for in a formal care setting (hospital, nursing home or care home). Many pressure ulcers are avoidable if simple knowledge is provided and preventative best practice is followed. Hear three stories from patients who have been affected by pressure ulcers.
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Content ArticlePublished by NHS England Patient Safety Domain and the National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures Group to help NHS organisations provide safer care and to reduce the number of patient safety incidents related to invasive procedures in which surgical Never Events can occur. The NatSSIPs cover all invasive procedures including those performed outside of the operating department.
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Releasing Time to care, The NHS Productive Series (NHS Improvement)
Claire Cox posted an article in Environmental
The successful NHS Productives series, from NHS Improvement, are about ‘the how not the what’ and use a learning by doing approach that builds knowledge and skills to support frontline teams to make real and lasting improvements for themselves.- Posted
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Content ArticleCall for Concern is an initiative from the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust enabling patients and their families to directly refer patients to the critical care outreach team.
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Content ArticleNHS Improvement have published a number of case studies on appropriate use of clinical risk assessment tools, developing new evidence-based alerting systems and developing personalised risk management plans for people who use services, to manage risks positively.
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Content ArticleThis decision tree, used at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, was developed as a ‘quick reference’ aid for nurses setting up non-invasive ventilation (NIV). It highlights key settings and signposts users to the full trust policy for more detailed explanation. It is adapted from the British Thoracic Society guidelines for acute NIV.
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Content ArticleKat Dalton, Critical Care Outreach Sister in Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, reflects on her experience training nurses using non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in ward areas. The Trust’s NIV steering group reviewed how they could improve NIV care and keep up with current national recommendations. The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD)’s report ‘Acute Non-invasive Ventilation: Inspiring Change’, published in 2017, highlighted 21 recommendations for acute NIV care, including that: “All staff who …make changes to acute non-invasive ventilation treatment must have the required level of competency as stated in their hospital operational policy. A list of competent staff should be maintained.” With this in mind, and as part of the NIV steering group, Kat volunteered to take on training nurses using NIV in ward areas.
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When doing your 'best' isn't enough
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Stories from the front line
Blog by critical care outreach sister, Claire Cox, on a typical night shift and how it led her to the Darzi Fellowship.- Posted
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Content ArticleThe Midwifery Matrons at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust (NGHT) led on service development to address unwarranted variation in practices identified in complaints being made to the midwifery team. This has led to improved experiences and better use of resources within the Trust.
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Gina's Story (13 August 2018)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Process improvement
Video from the Clinical Human Factors Group highlighting the importance of embedding human factors within secondary care.- Posted
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Content ArticleBlog by the Practice Team at the Nursing Times.
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Whole system flow: From front door to front door
Claire Cox posted an article in Processes
The Whole System Flow programme has been accepted for presentation at the International Conference of Integrated Care in San Sebastien in April 2019. This poster provides an overview of the programme’s structure and outputs. We will be opening applications in April for the next group of systems to work with on a system pathway that they choose.- Posted
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Content ArticleThe perspective of Megha Prasad, a New York cardiologist leading a COVID-19 infections disease service, discusses leadership qualities of being available, communication, adaptability, humility and gratitude as key to effective leadership during challenging times.
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Content Article'The Productive Ward: Releasing time to care' was a quality improvement programme developed by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (NHSI) and introduced in 2007. It was designed to improve efficiency, productivity and performance at ward level in acute hospitals. It was based on three principles: good ward organisation so that materials were readily accessible displaying ward-level metrics such as patient safety and experience use of visual aids to understand patient status at a glance.
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Content ArticleThe government response to the care failures at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust led to the policy imperative of ‘regular interaction and engagement between nurses and patients’ in the NHS. The pressure on nursing to act resulted in the introduction of the US model, known as ‘intentional rounding’, into nursing practice. This is a timed, planned intervention that sets out to address fundamental elements of nursing care by means of a regular bedside ward round. This study, published by Health Services and Delivery Research, aimed to examine what it is about intentional rounding in hospital wards that works, for whom and in what circumstances.