Recording Care: Evidencing Safe and Effective Care Professional Officers Sonya McVeigh & Siobhan Shannon BHSCT & NHSCT
Leading Care, Leading Teams – Shaping the Future Ward Sister/Charge Nurse and Team Leader Conference, 17 th April 2013 Background Themes Arising from Northern Ireland Public Inquiries Incomplete records through poorly documented: Admission / discharge arrangements Risk assessments Essential monitoring reports Engagement with family members Engagement with other professionals
Leading Care, Leading Teams – Shaping the Future Ward Sister/Charge Nurse and Team Leader Conference, 17 th April 2013 Recent Context Public Inquiry into the outbreak of Clostridium Difficile in Northern Trust Hospitals (2011). 3 –Trust Board must review governance arrangements and satisfy itself that it is meeting in full its responsibilities for patient safety, quality of care and record-keeping. Mid Staffordshire Inquiry-Francis Report Hypotnatraemia
Regional Record Keeping Initiative (2009/10)(RRKI) Literature Review: 1.Value and Purpose of Record Keeping 2.Audit 3.Information Recorded 4.Competence to Record 5.Professional Supervision 6.Patient Awareness/Inclusion 7.Issues Related to Time
Good record keeping helps to protect the welfare of patients and clients’ (NMC, 2002) The Nursing and Midwifery Council states: ‘Good record keeping helps to protect the welfare of patients and clients’ (NMC, 2002) Good record keeping is a mark of a skilled and safe practitioner, while careless or incomplete record keeping often highlights wider problems with that individual's practice.’ (NMC 2007) Jane Doe
Leading Care, Leading Teams – Shaping the Future Ward Sister/Charge Nurse and Team Leader Conference, 17 th April 2013 Recording Care Project 2012 Aim: To implement an agreed Regional HSC Nursing Document, and improvement methodologies, tools and resources developed during the RRKI to facilitate improvement in the standard of nurse record keeping in Northern Ireland and to promote a culture which supports person-centred record keeping practices.
Leading Care, Leading Teams – Shaping the Future Ward Sister/Charge Nurse and Team Leader Conference, 17 th April 2013 Strand 1 Piloting a new Regional Nursing Assessment & Plan of Care document Standards for nursing and midwifery record keeping practice
Leading Care, Leading Teams – Shaping the Future Ward Sister/Charge Nurse and Team Leader Conference, 17 th April 2013 Strand 2 Practice Improvement Programme
Leading Care, Leading Teams – Shaping the Future Ward Sister/Charge Nurse and Team Leader Conference, 17 th April 2013
Leading Care, Leading Teams – Shaping the Future Ward Sister/Charge Nurse and Team Leader Conference, 17 th April 2013
Leading Care, Leading Teams – Shaping the Future Ward Sister/Charge Nurse and Team Leader Conference, 17 th April 2013 Safer person centred care Evidenced through improved record keeping practice. Robust assurance regarding record keeping standards. For the Person For the Nurse For the Trust Outcomes
Leading Care, Leading Teams – Shaping the Future Ward Sister/Charge Nurse and Team Leader Conference, 17 th April 2013
Leading Care, Leading Teams – Shaping the Future Ward Sister/Charge Nurse and Team Leader Conference, 17 th April 2013 What’s The Future? Phase 2 Mental health, Learning disabilities and Paediatrics Potential for movement into the community Improvement methodologies implemented NOAT amended
Leading Care, Leading Teams – Shaping the Future Ward Sister/Charge Nurse and Team Leader Conference, 17 th April 2013 What’s The Future? E-record developed for acute in-patient services Under 24 hour stay document Care-planning explored – development of nursing informatics system Launch of Standards document Abbreviations policy development
Leading Care, Leading Teams – Shaping the Future Ward Sister/Charge Nurse and Team Leader Conference, 17 th April 2013