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.
Midwifery 2020
Midwifery 2020 is a National UK wide programme concerning midwifery
The overall aim of the programme is to ensure that the midwifery profession and midwifery care can meet the future health and social care needs of a rapidly changing population, and improving outcomes for mothers and babies.
Click
here to view more details.
Vulnerable Families Pathways
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, on behalf of the Scottish Government, is leading the development of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency antenatal, postnatal care and early years (0-3) pathways for vulnerable children and families. Click
here for further details.
Integration, Collaboration and Empowerment
Practice Development for a New Context
The NHS QIS Practice Development Framework, Integration, Collaboration and Empowerment – Practice Development for a New Context, is now available to download. Please click
here for further information on the project and to download a copy
Connect-in-care - supporting learning & practice development in the care of older people
NHS QIS and NES have commissioned a team from the University of Edinburgh to lead the development of a network supporting learning & practice development in the care of older people. Further information about this work is available on the connect-in-care website
http://www.connect-in-care.net/
A DVD resource has recently been designed as part of this work to enable staff who care for older people to raise awareness and understanding of the issues around 'caring with dignity' with their teams and colleagues. Through the DVD, evidence-based practice around dignity can be explored using local examples and understanding of the culture.
For more information about the DVD and to access the order form to request a FREE copy, click here:
http://www.connect-in-care.net/qwho-caresq-free-dvd-resource
Nursing Network
The practice development nursing network has been relaunched and more details can be found in the
Nursing Network section of this site.
Nutrition – Eat well, get well, stay well
NHS QIS has developed a ‘protected mealtimes poster’ to support the work associated with the Integrated programme for improving nutritional care in NHSScotland. Copies have been distributed across all NHS boards in Scotland for use at ward level. The concept of ‘protected mealtimes’ gives ward staff the opportunity to limit interruptions and provide increased support to patients at mealtimes.
The latest newsletter can be viewed
here.
Positive and Innovative Resource: A Mental Health Interactive Database (Scotland) (PIRAMHIDS)
The PIRAMHIDS website was launched on 5 September 2008 at the conference - Delivering Better Mental Health - The Nursing Contribution.
PIRAMHIDS has been created in response to the Review of Mental Health Nursing (2006) and developed in response to Rights, Relationship and Recovery Action Plan -Action 23. Its function is to serve as a facility for sharing positive and innovative practice in mental health with an emphasis in evidence based practice. The aspiration for PIRAMHIDS is that it becomes the primary information sharing site in mental health. The database can be found at
www.piramhids.com.
NHS QIS is now actively seeking submissions of positive and innovative practice in mental health to be considered for inclusion on the website. Contact David Thomson, Mental Health Project Manager (
dthomson2@nhs.net) for further information and submission guidelines.
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, 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.
NHS QIS has received the interim report from the SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF HEALTH INSTITUTE (SDHI) on the evaluation of the introduction of the JBI
COnNECT tools and resources to NHS Scotland. A copy is available by contacting Jill French, Project Manager, JBI:
jillfrench@nhs.net.
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.
