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Content ArticleAs the professional regulator of nurses and midwives in the UK, and nursing associates in England, the Nursing and Midwifery Council work to ensure these professionals have the knowledge and skills to deliver consistent, quality care that keeps people safe.
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NHS Improvement: A Just Culture guide (updated 14 December 2018)
Claire Cox posted an article in Good practice
The fair treatment of staff supports a culture of fairness, openness and learning in the NHS by making staff feel confident to speak up when things go wrong, rather than fearing blame. Supporting staff to be open about mistakes allows valuable lessons to be learnt so the same errors can be prevented from being repeated. In any organisations or teams where a blame culture is still prevalent, this guide will be a powerful tool in promoting cultural change. -
Content ArticleThis case study shows how Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust sought to reduce their staff turnover by adopting a development opportunity created by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust for newly qualified recruits – the Chief Nurse Junior Fellowship.
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NHS at 70: The Story Of Our Lives
Claire Cox posted an article in Stories from the front line
NHS at 70: The Story Of Our Lives is a national programme of work supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and led by The University of Manchester recording stories from people who worked and were cared for by the NHS since its creation in 1948. These stories will be available on the public Digital Archive and will provide a lasting resource for audiences to discover NHS history through the voices of the people who have worked and were cared for by the NHS since 1948. -
Content ArticleProfessor Anne Marie Rafferty, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) President, has been involved in two decades of vital nursing workforce research. She explains in this interview for the RCN how the evidence could help us achieve safe staffing.
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Content ArticleEveryone should be treated with dignity and respect at work. Bullying and harassment is unacceptable and constitutes a violation of human and legal rights that can lead to criminal prosecution and civil law claims. Employers have a duty of care to provide a safe and healthy working environment for their staff, and this is an implied term of every contract of employment. Bullying and harassment undermines physical and mental health, frequently resulting in poor work performance. Possible consequences include: insomnia and inability to relax loss of confidence and self-doubt loss of appetite hypervigilance and excessive double-checking of all actions inability to switch off from work.
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Content ArticleIn this article published in JAN Interactive, Catherine Best critiques the importance of understanding Human Factors in ensuring the delivery of safe and effective care.
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Birmingham University Hospitals Trust: Poster for staff going home
Claire Cox posted an article in Good practice
This poster from Birmingham University Hospitals Trust is aimed at staff leaving to go home after their shift. -
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10,000 feet - Patient Safety in the operating theatre
Claire Cox posted an article in Process improvement
This video by theatre staff from East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust explains how the 10,000 feet initiative promotes patient safety within the operating theatre. -
Content ArticleIdentification of hospitalised patients with suddenly unfavorable clinical course remains challenging. Models using objective data elements from the electronic health record may miss important sources of information available to nurses.
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The Point of Care Foundation – Behind closed doors (July 2017)
Claire Cox posted an article in Culture
This briefing highlights evidence on NHS staff, their experience at work, the pressures they face and the consequences for patients. The Point of Care Foundation believes that it’s critically important that NHS employers pay attention to staff and their experience at work because when staff feel positive and engaged with work it has a positive impact on patient experience. -
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Oxford University surgical lectures: Retained swabs
Claire Cox posted an article in By health and care staff
Dr Clare Dollery reflects on a retained swab 'never event' in Churchill Hospital theatres. Incidents, such as operating on the wrong body part or leaving instruments inside patients are categorised by the Department of Health as 'never events'. Dr Dollery is Oxford University Hospital's Deputy Medical Director. The Surgical Grand Rounds lecture series, hosted by the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at Oxford University, is the key educational meeting for consultants, juniors and medical students. Presentations revolve around clinical cases. -
Content ArticleThis 15 minute video from the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust gives an introduction to what human factors is within healthcare.
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Content ArticleThe purpose of this study was to describe patient engagement as a safety strategy from the perspective of hospitalised surgical patients with cancer.
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Content ArticleThis report from the King's Fund explores in more detail the role of leaders in engaging a range of significant others in improving health and healthcare.
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Content ArticleThis guide published by the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) is a tested, evidence-based resource to help hospitals in the United States work as partners with patients and families to improve quality and safety.
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Healthier Lancashire & Cumbria - Digital Future
Gary Saunders posted an article in Implementation of improvements
A case study on how Healthier Lancashire and Cumbria have been driving forward their digital strategy. This strategy includes how they are standardising and redesigning digital systems to improve patient safety (see Theme 4 - Manage the system more effectively). -
Content ArticlePotentially preventable adverse events remain a formidable cause of patient harm and health care expenditure despite advances in systems-based risk-reduction strategies. This quality improvement study from Suliburk et al., published in JAMA Network Open, analysed the incidence of human performance deficiencies during the provision of surgical care to identify opportunities to enhance patient safety.
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Content ArticlePolicy to date has mostly focused on the role of 'whistleblowers' in raising concerns about quality and safety of patient care in healthcare settings. However, most opportunities for personnel to identify and act on these concerns are likely to occur much further upstream, in the day-to-day mundane interactions of everyday work. Using qualitative data from over 900 hours of ethnographic observation and 98 interviews across 19 English intensive care units (ICUs), Tarrant et al., in a paper published in Social Science & Medicine, studied how personnel gave voice to concerns about patient safety or poor practice.
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Content ArticleThe second blog from Claire, a Critical Care Outreach Sister, and Patient Safety Learning's Associate Director, on her visit to Rush University Hospital, Chicago.
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#TheatreCapChallenge: Where’s the evidence?
Claire Cox posted an article in Implementation of improvements
PatientSafe Network in Australia has been promoting the theatre cap challenge across the world. By wearing your name on your theatre cap it can improve team work and patient safety. The PatientSafe Network is a registered non for profit charity. It has been developed by front line healthcare staff and is for anyone to use – patients, relatives, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, healthcare managers, equipment and system developers, insurers – who wants to improve patient safety. -
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A Day in the life of a Matron
Claire Cox posted an article in Stories from the front line
This article gives a brief description of what a matron does on a daily basis in an acute hospital. -
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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Content ArticlePatients with delirium have changes in their thinking and are often confused and cannot pay attention. About half of patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) have delirium during their stay. Research has shown that patients with delirium are more likely to die or to have long-term brain problems, including posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental health issues, than those without delirium. Although nurses and doctors have tools to measure delirium in the ICU, it can be hard to identify and, in some cases, may be missed. Family members may be the first to notice that their loved ones have changes in their thinking or cannot pay attention. There are tools called the Family Confusion Assessment Method (FAM-CAM) and Sour Seven questionnaire that can be used by family members to detect delirium. However, neither of these tools has been used in an ICU. This study from Krewulak et al., published in CmajOPEN, shows that these tools can be used by family members to measure delirium in the ICU. The results from this study could lead to a change in policy that would involve partnering with family members to improve the diagnosis of delirium in the ICU. In turn, this would improve patient and family care and outcomes in the ICU.
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Content ArticleFollowing the investigation into the Mid Staffordshire Hospital (United Kingdom) and the subsequent Francis reports (2013 and 2015), all healthcare staff, including students, are called upon to raise concerns if they are concerned about patient safety. Despite this advice, it is evident that some individuals are reluctant to do so and the reasons for this are not always well understood. This research study from Fisher and Kiernan, published in Nurse Education Today, provides an insight into the factors that influence student nurses to speak up or remain silent when witnessing sub-optimal care.
