Tag: Model for Improvement
Blocking the Pain!
Introducing Fascia Iliaca Blocks for patients with a fractured neck or femur in the Emergency Department
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Facilitating earlier discharge by Identifying babies suitable for Newborn Examination (NIPE)
Facilitating earlier discharge by Identifying babies suitable for Newborn Examination (NIPE) by midwives.
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Do you need that COAG?
Reducing the amount of coagulation samples sent from the emergency department.
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The Wessex Acute Frailty Audit
People living with frailty are at risk in hospital. We don’t always identify them when they arrive So we don’t always give them the care they need!
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Seen and not heard! A QI project to enhance young people’s voices in their own care
Authors: A M Taylor, A Okereafor, E Parish, G Hann, N Davey
Young people don’t always share problems if parents/carers are present. Ideas on enhancing young people’s voices in their own care.
3minuteQI Video
3minuteQI – Quality Improvement in bitesized pieces – ‘On the go’ – via smart phone, tablet or laptop.
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Self improvement – a change within your reach!
Like all robust methods of learning to implement lasting change it takes a good amount of practice and some inevitable failures.
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A moment of reflection can lead to a smarter improvement aim
So, when I say ‘take a little time to reflect’ – I’m advising us all to give our problem some quality thought, do some simple diagnostics, and think about it from our end users’ perspective.
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Paediatric QI Change Champions Poster
Authors: Nicola Davey, Jane Runnacles, Alice Roueché, Mithalia D’Sousa We coach those we...
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Action on Audit: Injecting a few PDSAs to deliver service improvement
For decades the medical profession has worshipped at the altar of audit: embracing the method in...
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PDSA – Injecting a little improvement into Audit
For decades the medical profession has worshipped at the alter of audit: embracing the method in everything from large national confidential enquiries, increasingly complex extensions to NICE guidance and a key competency for all doctors in training. In the last decade even our NHS Masters have got in on the act – mandating nurses to complete weekly and monthly audits (think Safety Cross) to ‘maintain’ standards in everything from infection control to waiting times.
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