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Remaking a children's hospital in Minecraft
Claire Cox posted an article in Patient recovery
Microsoft teamed up with staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children to recreate the hospital in minecraft so that children visiting have a 'virtual tour' before arriving.- Posted
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Content ArticleIn my previous blogs I described the investigation process and where facts come from. We also pre-empted the content in this blog by saying that human factors (HF) is the scientific study of humans done by science types. It’s now time to talk ‘people’.
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Content ArticleSeveral organisations, researchers and clinicians have discussed the need for a patient safety culture in dentistry. Strategies are available to help improve patient safety in healthcare and deserve further consideration in dentistry. Published by the British Dentistry Journal, this article: discusses the history of patient safety initiatives in healthcare and dentistry describes strategies that can be applied to identify patient safety issues in dentistry emphasises the importance of both process and cultural factors in developing a safer healthcare environment.
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Content ArticleHuman factors and ergonomics (HFE) approaches to patient safety have addressed five different domains: usability of technology; human error and its role in patient safety; the role of healthcare worker performance in patient safety; system resilience; and HFE systems approaches to patient safety.
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Content ArticleWe tend to think of burnout as an individual problem, solvable by “learning to say no,” more yoga, better breathing techniques, practicing resilience — the self-help list goes on. But evidence is mounting that applying personal, band-aid solutions to an epic and rapidly evolving workplace phenomenon may be harming, not helping, the battle. With “burnout” now officially recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO), the responsibility for managing it has shifted away from the individual and towards the organisation.
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Content ArticleIn recent years, there has been an increasing focus on the role of safety culture in preventing incidents such as medication errors and falls. However, research and developments in safety culture has predominantly taken place in hospital settings, with relatively less attention given to establishing a safety culture in care homes. Despite safety culture being accepted as an important quality indicator across all health and social care settings, the understanding of culture within social care settings remains far less developed than within hospitals. It is therefore important that the existing evidence base is gathered and reviewed in order to understand safety culture in care homes.
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Content ArticleImperial College Hospital NHS Trust have launched their new falls safety improvement video to highlight the importance of safe mobility in hospital. Watch the video and join the conversation on Twitter.
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Content ArticleIn this blog published in the New York Times, Theresa Brown explains why American healthcare has become one giant workaround. "The nurses were hiding drugs above a ceiling tile in the hospital — not because they were secreting away narcotics, but because the hospital pharmacy was slow, and they didn’t want patients to have to wait." These 'work arounds ' pose a significant patient safety risk. What work around problems do you have in your department? Theresa Brown is a clinical faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing.
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Content ArticleA written and audio commentary taken from the American news station, wbur. Dr. Ashish Jha discusses the emerging trend for hospitals to spend money opening hotel-like services and argues that too often patient safety takes a backseat to these marketing efforts.
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Content ArticleThe use of checklists can help to prevent incidents and should be part of a culture of patient safety. This guidance set out by the Royal College of Radiologists highlights key considerations when writing and implementing safety checklists.
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Museum of failure
Claire Cox posted an article in Miscellaneous
Museum of Failure is a collection of failed products and services from around the world. The majority of all innovation projects fail and the museum showcases these failures to provide visitors a fascinating learning experience. Every item provides unique insight into the risky business of innovation.The idea for the museum was born out of frustration. ‘I was so tired of reading and hearing the same boring success stories, they are all alike’ says the museum’s curator, Samuel West. ‘It is in the failures we find the interesting stories that we can learn from.’ Innovation and progress require an acceptance of failure. The museum aims to stimulate discussion about failure and inspire us to have the courage to take meaningful risks.Could we learn from our 'failures' in healthcare in the same way?- Posted
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Content ArticleThis study assesses the association of increased bed occupancy with changes in the percentage of overnight patients discharged from hospital on a given day and their subsequent 30-day readmission rate. Longitudinal panel data methods are used to analyse secondary care records (n = 4,193,590) for 136 non-specialist Trusts between April 2014 and February 2016.
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How a 'Red Stripe' can improve patient safety
Claire Cox posted an article in Implementation of improvements
In the heat of the moment it may be difficult to locate the buzzer in an emergency. The PatientSafe Network showcase the implementation of a solution to the problem. -
Content ArticleSmoking or a naked flame could cause patients’ dressings or clothing to catch fire when being treated with paraffin-based emollient that is in contact with the dressing or clothing. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) provided this update for healthcare professionals.
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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 ArticleFallStop is a quality improvement programme from the Falls Prevention Team at the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust. It was developed in 2016 when they found there was a high rate of falls at one of their hospitals and a failure to learn from incidents. A FallStop Practitioner co-ordinates the programme and delivers training.
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What it feels like working with unsafe staffing
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This blog has been written by a healthcare worker and demonstrates the reality of what it is like caring for patients and families while being chronically low on staff. They describe the impact this has on staff morale and the impact it has on patients, patients family members and the relationship between staff and patients.- Posted
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Professor Peter Brennan's top ten tips for making life work better
Claire Cox posted an article in Motivating staff
Professor Brennan gives his ten top tips to improve wellbeing, team working and improved patient safety. Professor Brennan is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and a Consultant Surgeon at Queen Alexandra Hospital Portsmouth.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis action plan from the Ipswich & East Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group and West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group follows on from an infection control norovirus outbreak.
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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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Content ArticleWhich? magazine explores ways to keep people safe in their homes and outside by using electronic devices to alert others for assistance. Personal alarms allow people to call for assistance if they have an accident or a fall at home. They can help older and less abled people to feel safer at home, and to remain independent for longer. They can also offer peace of mind to family and friends.
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The Heinrich/Bird safety pyramid
Claire Cox posted an article in In health care
Herbert W. Heinrich was a pioneering occupational safety researcher, whose 1931 publication, Industrial Accident Prevention: A Scientific Approach [Heinrich 1931] was based on the analysis of accident data collected by his employer, a large insurance company.- Posted
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Content ArticlePatient Safety Learning speaks to Ben Tipney, Managing Director of MedLed and the hub topic lead in Human Factors, about how healthcare can achieve high performance and learn from other industries, including from the sports industry.
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Content ArticleBased on the Health & Safety Executive Guidance (HSE (2013) INDG451 ‘Heat Stress in the workplace’), Dr Susan Whalley-Lloyd has produced a document and flowchart addressing what happens to us when we experience extreme heat. This can be the result of extreme outside air temperature due to the weather or heat build-up in a work area due to equipment generating heat, or restricted workspace, or large areas of glass within a building, or air conditioning problems or windows that won’t open, or a combination of conditions eg high energy tasks whilst wearing PPE and few rest breaks for fluid intake.
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Dirty Dozen and COVID-19 (webinar, May 2020)
Claire Cox posted an article in Coronavirus (COVID-19)
There are fears around maintaining personal safety whilst ensuring patient safety. Staff need to protect both themselves and their families at home. Equally, it is essential that staff feel supported in identifying risks and the potential for errors with a robust mechanism in place to reduce, eliminate or mitigate such risks. The Human Factors 'Dirty Dozen' is a concept developed by Gordon DuPont. He described elements that can act as precursors to accidents or incidents, or influence people to make mistakes. This webinar, from the Clinical Excellence Commission, looks at ways you can identify risks or 'hot spots' in your area of work and then discuss with your team at handover and huddles and plan strategies to reduce, eliminate or mitigate the risks- Posted
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