Transcript How do you get nursing staff involved?

How do you get nursing staff
involved?
Jo Dickson
Lead Nurse – Informatics / CNIO
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
E-prescribing Masterclass webex
Clinical leadership is key
If you always do what you always did…
…....you’ll always get what you always got
Florence Nightingale 1820-1910
The founder of modern nursing was
a pioneer in the visual presentation
of information and statistics to
highlight seasonal sources of patient
mortality in military hospitals.
Is there a role for nurses?
• e-Prescribing systems help reduce the risk of medication errors to:
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Produce more legible prescriptions
Alert for contra-indications, allergies and drug interactions
Guide inexperienced prescribers
Support timely and complete administration (reduce errors or
omissions)
Access to further information
Clear guidance on what to do next
Improved formulary guidance and adherence
No more rewriting drug charts
Order sets
Discharge prescriptions prepared in advance
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The role of the nurse
• Nurses as leaders at all levels of the organisation
• Understanding of the impact of effective design and use of the IT system
(always keen to test)
• Partner with multiprofessional colleagues
• Coordinate care across disciplines
• Work to improve quality and safety
• Advocates for engaging patients and families
• Contributors to standardised care
• Understanding that technology (when combined with best practice and
evidence based care delivery) will improve the nursing care of patients
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The nursing role
Pre-implementation
– Process mapping
– Understanding of key
challenges (including
choice of devices)
– Engagement with ‘end
users’- building contacts
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Implementation support
• Visible and accessible
– a ‘can do’ team
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Technical
Clinical - Translating ‘IT Speak’ ‘Nurse speak’
Training
Change management / transformation
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Post implementation
• Ongoing contact/review
• Involvement in policy/
process change
• Benefits realisation
• Product development
• Facilitating feedback /
Being a bullet sponge
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Real life technology
• “Can I have an ipad?”
– Nurses need to embrace
new technologies and
try them out – touch and
feel
– But remember
everyone’s different!
Think of eMedicines -Think of the team…
• Clinical leadership is key but one person (or clinical
group) cannot do it on their own
• Electronic prescribing and medicines administration
is an important and powerful innovation for the
whole care team
• All health care professionals must be involved in
planning and implementation and remain involved as
the system is used
Discussion / Questions
Twitter - @JoD1905
E-mail - [email protected]