The following news articles highlight recent Practice Development activities. For more information about anything you see here, please contact our Practice Development team on 0131 623 4315.
Tissue Viability - Consultation on Best Practice Statement
Maternal Health - a new publication.
Perineal trauma and repair was identified as a high priority by the national practice development midwives network in 2004. At a network event in 2005 concern was raised that national guidance was not being adopted across Scotland. The network identified that a national procedure and standards document would be of benefit in further encouraging a consistent evidence-based approach to perineal repair. Therefore the practice development unit (PDU) of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland (NHS QIS), with input from the network, has developed a procedure and standards tool for perineal repair to support practice development. The aim of the tool is to encourage the adoption of evidence-based practice across Scotland’s maternity units.
Nursing Network
Positive and Innovative Resource: A Mental Health Interactive Database (Scotland) (PIRAMHIDS)
Training Opportunity
In 2006 the Practice Development Unit of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland supported 350 nurses to do an Asthma course in collaboration with Education for Health. Following a successful celebration event in March at which the Health Minister presented nurses with their awards, a further 100 Asthma courses were arranged for early in 2007
In addition, NHS QIS agreed to fund 200 nurses to undertake COPD Diploma courses in Scotland run by Education for Health, beginning in June 2007. The venues for these courses are spread across Scotland, and each Health Board was invited to nominate candidates for the course.
The courses were all filled, and will all be completed by the end of July 2008. All feedback to date has been very positive and overall this has been a very successful project.
Joanna Biggs Institute
The Practice Development Unit are collaborating with the Joanna Briggs Institute of Adelaide, Australia, in an exciting and innovative project. Penny Bond, Professional Practice Development Officer, recently attended the JBI Director's meeting in Australia at which 28 countries were represented, and where the JBI CONnECT in NHSScotland was launched. Click on JBI for more information on this project.
You can access JBI COnNECT Scotland through the elibrary using your athens user name and password or; through JBI COnNECTusing your NHS Board username and password. You can get your board username and password through your local JBI facilitator.
An event entitled
NHSScotland and THE JOANNA BRIGGS INSTITUTE: A dynamic partnership
was held on June 11. The report of this event is available to view or download, as is the event programme and the presentations (PPT, 968KB, 56 secs) given.
A presentation about the JBI given to the Midwifery Event may be downloaded. (PDF, 7563KB, 22mins)
The latest JBI Newsletter is available to view or download.
Midwifery Event 14 December 2007
All practice development midwives, consultant midwives, heads of midwifery and LSAMOs were invited to the midwifery event on the 14th December 2007 held in Pollock Halls, Edinburgh. Eileen Moir, director of nursing and practice development, opened the day and was delighted to be able to meet some of the network members. Tiffany Conroy, senior trainer with the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) presented to the group and invited questions about JBI and using it in clinical practice. In the afternoon the network received a presentation from Miranda Page of Queen Margaret University who presented on the findings of the perineal trauma and repair project. The group then had the opportunity to discuss membership and the direction of the network in the future. Feedback from the event has shown that it was a great success and attendees found it useful and informative.
Scottish Woman-Held Maternity Record
The project to update the SWHMR culminated in January with the publication of the new version of the record. For full details please visit the SWHMR section of this website.