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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 ArticlePete Smith is nothing without the energy and commitment of the amazing people who surround him. Increasing the technical skill of a healthcare clinician makes for incremental change. Improve the culture within which they work, think and communicate and suddenly quantum change is possible. Two perioperative nurses from a regional hospital in Victoria, Australia, innovated a simple, elegant solution to the problem of noise and distraction in the operating room. Pete Smith was one of them.
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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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Content Article"It’s time to halt, take a break, and redraw the relationship between patient care and self-care. Self-care isn’t an optional luxury. It must sit at the heart of what we do, to ensure our teams can continue to rise to the challenges of working in the 21st century NHS, to give our patients the best of both ourselves, and the organisation so many of us are proud to be a part of."
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Content ArticleClinical governance is an umbrella term. It covers activities that help sustain and improve high standards of patient care. Nursing staff may already be familiar with some of these activities, quality and safety improvement, for example. What is different is the effort to bind these activities together and make them more effective. Healthcare organisations now have a duty to the communities they serve for maintaining the quality and safety of care. Whatever structures, systems and processes an organisation puts in place, it must be able to show evidence that standards are upheld. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) aims to promote a better understanding of clinical governance with this web resource. It wants to help those working within the nursing family to become more involved with local and national quality improvement projects. The resource describes services and support available from the RCN and these match to five key themes of clinical governance. It also shows where to find support from other agencies.
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Content ArticleIn this video, clinicians from Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital who are involved in the SAFE project talk about how the ‘huddle’ technique – a ten minute free, frank exchange of information between clinical and non-clinical professionals involved in a patient’s care every few hours – is helping them to improve their situation awareness, resolve risks to patient safety more quickly and reduce harm.
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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 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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Content ArticleStaff at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital, Michigan are adopting a new approach to safety. By picking up near misses, close calls, deviation off protocol and investigating each one via a daily huddle, they are able to enable change system wide.
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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 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.
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Content ArticleThis document provides guidance for nurses, midwives and nursing associates on raising concerns (which includes ‘whistleblowing’). It explains the processes you should follow when raising a concern, provides information about the legislation in this area, and tells you where you can get confidential support and advice.
