Search the hub
Showing results for tags 'Staff safety'.
-
Content Article
Free Headspace Ap access for NHS workers
Claire Cox posted an article in Suggest a useful website
Meditation has been shown to help people stress less, focus more and sleep better. Headspace is meditation made simple, teaching you life-changing mindfulness skills in just a few minutes a day.- Posted
-
- Staff safety
- Anxiety
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleSara Albolina and Giulia Dagliana share the lessons learned from Italy and provide valuable guidance in this podcast shared on the Project Patient Care website. The podcast has been widely circulated among US healthcare provider organisations, patient advocates, and government organisations.
- Posted
-
- Virus
- Transmission
- (and 6 more)
-
Content Article
First shift on the COVID-19 ward
Claire Cox posted an article in Blogs
A trainee ophthalmologist shares his experience with BMJ Opinion of being redeployed to the frontline of COVID-19 preparation and hopes that it will allay fears.- Posted
-
- Staff safety
- Motivation
-
(and 2 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleIn this paper published in JAMA Network Open, Lai et al., looked at what factors are associated with mental health outcomes among healthcare workers in China who are treating patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). In this cross-sectional study of 1257 healthcare workers in 34 hospitals equipped with fever clinics or wards for patients with COVID-19 in multiple regions of China, a considerable proportion of them reported experiencing symptoms of depression, anxiety, insomnia and distress. These findings suggest that, among Chinese healthcare workers exposed to COVID-19, women, nurses, those in Wuhan, and front-line health care workers have a high risk of developing unfavourable mental health outcomes and may need psychological support or interventions.
- Posted
-
- Mental health
- Psychological safety
-
(and 3 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleA careful planning for a pandemic, like COVID-19, is critical to protecting the health and welfare of entire humanity. Hospitals play a very critical role within the health system in providing essential medical care to the community, particularly during the crisis. But hospitals are complicated and vulnerable institutions, dependent on crucial external support and supply lines. During the current outbreak, an interruption of these critical support services and supplies would potentially disrupt the provision of acute health care by an unprepared health-care facility. Any shortage of critical equipment and supplies could limit access to the needed care and have a direct impact on healthcare delivery and panic could potentially jeopardise established working routines. In such scenario, even a modest rise in admission volume can overwhelm a hospital beyond its functional reserve. Even for a well-prepared hospital, coping with the health consequences of a COVID-19 outbreak would be a complex challenge for sure. WHO hospital readiness checklist shows the key actions to take in the context of a continuous hospital emergency preparedness process.
- Posted
-
- Staff safety
- Board member
- (and 4 more)
-
Content Article"My blood ran cold when I was instructed to conserve personal protective equipment in the fight against COVID-19. Masks and other supplies are severely limited. Rather than following deeply ingrained safety standards, healthcare providers across the country are switching to what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls “strategies that are not commensurate with U.S. standards of care.” In her blog published in the Washington Post, Dorothy Novick, a paediatrician in Philadelphia, highlights the lack of personal protective equipment in the US and why the shortage of protective equipment is not only a crisis for healthcare providers on the front lines but also a potential disaster for patients.
- Posted
-
- Staff safety
- PPE (personal Protective Equipment)
- (and 1 more)
-
Content ArticleAhead of the Health and Social Care Select Committee’s next oral evidence session, Patient Safety Learning have raised several urgent safety issues with the Chair, Jeremy Hunt MP. Below is a blog summarising our submission to the Committee.
- Posted
-
- Risk assessment
- Risk management
- (and 5 more)
-
Content Article
COVID-19: what are you wearing? Working in a soup of droplets
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Blogs
Blog series from Claire, a critical care outreach nurse, reflecting her experiences, thoughts and fears during the coronavirus pandemic.- Posted
- 5 comments
-
2
-
- Virus
- Staff safety
- (and 4 more)
-
Content Article
COVID-19: Safe PPE poster (March 2020)
Claire Cox posted an article in Good practice and useful resources
This is an easy to understand infographic about correct PPE to wear during the Coronavirus crisis.- Posted
-
- PPE (personal Protective Equipment)
- Virus
- (and 2 more)
-
Content ArticleThe four chief nursing officers of the UK asked all nurses who have retired from nursing in the last three years to consider re-joining the register held by the Nursing and Midwifery Council and come back into practice to help health and care services to support patients with COVID-19. In this article in the Independent, Elaine Maxwell explains why she is stepping up having left the Nursing and Midwifery Council register twelve months ago and not having worked clinically for 10 years.
- Posted
-
- Virus
- Staff safety
-
(and 1 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content Article
"The tsunami is coming and we’re all terrified"
Anonymous posted an article in Blogs
I am a nurse providing specialist support to seriously ill patients at a large acute Trust in England. Today I have been working with patients who have COVID-19. I am angry and scared.- Posted
-
- Medicine - Infectious disease
- Staff safety
-
(and 1 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleWritten by Benjamin W. Starnes, MD (professor and chief) and Niten Singh, MD (professor and associate chief) in the division of vascular surgery at the University of Washington, Seattle. This letter, published in Vascular Specialist, provides statistical and personal insight into how coronovirus is playing out for hospitals, and the measures they are having to put in place to deal with overwhelmed services.
- Posted
-
- Medicine - Infectious disease
- Staff safety
- (and 3 more)
-
Content Article
COVID-19: advice for staff (updated 18 March 2020)
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Guidance
Please note, this is an evolving situation and the advice changes based on the latest published Public Health England guidance.- Posted
-
- Staff safety
- Medicine - Infectious disease
- (and 2 more)
-
Content ArticleSouth London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and St Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust have put together this occupational health advice for their staff based on current published advice from Public Health England.
- Posted
-
- Medicine - Infectious disease
- Staff safety
-
(and 1 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleNHS staff are asking the same questions as everyone else about coronavirus. How deadly is it? How do we protect ourselves? Are the government’s tactics right? And how will the health service cope when – and it is when – it leaves large numbers of people seriously ill, many fighting for their lives? A senior consultant at a leading hospital for respiratory conditions such as pneumonia and cystic fibrosis talks to the Observer about his concerns.
- Posted
-
- Medicine - Infectious disease
- Staff safety
- (and 2 more)
-
Content Article
"I'm losing faith in the leadership": an NHS doctor's story
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Blogs
In this blog published in the Guardian, a doctor on the frontline of the UK coronavirus outbreak talks about how he and others are ‘terrified’ about the lack of protection – and a plan. Working on the infectious diseases ward of a major UK hospital, which has now become the coronavirus ward, or 'red zone', the doctor explains why he is terrified. "I’m seriously considering whether I can keep working as a doctor. I may be OK – I’m young and healthy – but I can’t bear the thought of infecting other patients with a disease that could kill them. And that is the risk, without proper PPE. It’s terrifying; it’s indescribable. This is not seasonal flu. This is a new virus with greater mortality and we know much less about it."- Posted
-
- Medicine - Infectious disease
- Staff safety
-
(and 1 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleThis is the first edition of guidance on infection prevention and control (IPC) strategies for use when infection with a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is suspected. It has been adapted from WHO’s Infection prevention and control during health care for probable or confirmed cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection, based on current knowledge of the situation in China and other countries where cases were identified and experiences with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV and MERS-CoV.
- Posted
-
- Medicine - Infectious disease
- Staff safety
-
(and 1 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleThis infographic developed by the World Heath Organization, pictures how to put on and take off personal protective equipment safely.
- Posted
-
- Staff safety
- Staff support
- (and 4 more)
-
Content Article
Intensive Care Society: Wellbeing resource library
Claire Cox posted an article in Mental health
The Intensive Care Society is delighted to share their wellbeing resource pack developed with Dr Julie Highfield, Clinical Psychologist. The poster series aims to improve our understanding of psychological wellbeing at work, the impact reduced wellbeing can have and what we can do in response, and includes tips for dealing with extraordinary situations such as COVID-19 and everyday working in critical care.- Posted
-
- Mental health
- Motivation
- (and 3 more)
-
Content Article
"Toilet paper and ventilators" – preparing for the unknown
Claire Cox posted an article in Blogs
I am going to write a series of blogs about my situation: what I'm seeing, my thoughts and my fears on the coronavirus, personally and professionally. I am a critical care outreach nurse one day a week and for the rest of the time I work non-clinically for the charity Patient Safety Learning. My personal situation will not be unlike many. I have worries just like you – money, job, health, kids, elderly relatives (my parents will kill me for saying that!), food… It is important to capture our stories, no matter who you are or what you do. The impact of the coronavirus is widespread. It is affecting our daily lives and our future.- Posted
-
4
-
- Medicine - Infectious disease
- Staff safety
- (and 2 more)
-
Content ArticleIn this short video, anaesthetic staff at Brighton and Sussex University Hospital demonstrates how to put on and take off the power hood safely. These hoods are used by staff who are caring with patients who are either high risk or have tested positive for COVID 19.
- Posted
-
1
-
- Influenza / pneumonia
- Training
-
(and 3 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content Article
Brighton Anaesthesia FFP3 Donning & Doffing
Claire Cox posted an article in Good practice and useful resources
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trusts Anaesthetic Department has produced this video demonstrating how to 'don' (put on) and 'doff' (take off) PPE pre- and post-intubation of a high risk/infected patient with COVID-19.- Posted
-
1
-
- Anaesthetist
- Anaesthesia
-
(and 4 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content Article
COVID-19 Mental Health Improvement Network
Claire Cox posted an article in Mental health
The COVID-19 Mental Health Improvement Network has been set up by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) on behalf of NHS England & Improvement. Its aim is to support mental health teams to share and learn from each other to maintain and improve safety in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This flyer has more information on the network and they are sharing changes that mental health providers have put in place to respond to COVID-19 challenges /safety issues on social media using #MHSIPCV19.- Posted
-
- Secondary impact
- Staff safety
-
(and 1 more)
Tagged with:
-
Content ArticleDuring the COVID-19 pandemic it is important to reduce the variation in individual ward/service/organisational practices and try as much as possible to adopt a shared, safe standard for staff looking after ward patients. SPACES (Sharing Patient Assessments Cuts Exposure for Staff) is a standardised approach to the management of ward care. It is based on the principles of 'maximum patient contact, minimum staff exposure'. SPACES can help keep staff safe and reduce PPE use. It is for everyone working on a ward with suspected or proven COVID-19 cases, and particularly for multi-professional teams. Attached is more information and a poster for the ward area.
- Posted
-
- Transmission
- PPE (personal Protective Equipment)
- (and 2 more)
-
Content ArticleBetween 25-30 April 2020, three nurses working at Waitakere Hospital, New Zealand tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). In the week prior to testing positive, the nurses had been working on a ward caring for a group of elderly patients with COVID-19. The patients were from an aged residential care (ARC) facility in West Auckland.
- Posted
-
- Investigation
- Staff safety
- (and 4 more)