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A Qualitative Audit of Paediatric Patients and Carer’s Experiences of Urgent and Emergency Care
This poster outlines a qualitative audit of family experiences of emergency care at a major north-east teaching hospital in 2019. The results have since been used in teaching in efforts to improve safety and quality of communication in paediatric ED.
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Inter-professional Tripartite Alliance to Reduce Medication Errors in Children
As part of this project, we aimed to reduce the incidence and severity of medication errors on paediatric wards. We achieved this by creating a tripartite alliance between medicine, nursing and pharmacology.
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Providing Individualised Feedback to Improve the Rates of Prescription Errors
This summarises a quality improvement project which was established to reduce the rates of prescription errors by providing doctors with individualised feedback.
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Safe and Timely Step-down From an Internal PICU: A Patient Safety Priority But One Full of Challenges
Introduction of handover templates for the hospital patient management system have improved communication and documentation of discharge plans from PICU doctors to paediatric ward teams, thereby increasing patient safety and continuity of care.
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Time for a KitKat? An Analysis of Night Shift Break Habits in Junior Doctors at Evelina London
Our project looked at the night shift break taking habits of junior doctors in speciality and general teams. We identified barriers to break taking through a baseline survey and then implemented interventions to improve the level of break taking.
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Real Time Resource Locator for Acute Neonatal Transfer Service (ANTS): LocANTS, A Combined Tool and System for Efficiency Gains in Acute Neonatal Transfer
LocANTS is a unique QI project with lots research potential which is translatable to any acute care setting and beyond. We are at proof of concept stage, and was delayed from operational angle because of the pandemic. We hope to publish further evidence soon.
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Prolonged Jaundice Clinic: Are We Doing Too Many Tests?
This was a project which aimed to rationalise and reduce the number of investigations and potentially unnecessary repeat tests being carried out in our prolonged jaundice clinic.
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Transcutaneous Bilirubinometer and Home Phototherapy
This poster describes the the evidence base use of a transcutaneous bilirubinometer (TCB) in the management pathway of well, jaundiced babies and the setup of the home phototherapy system, in a tertiary emergency department.
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User Service Evaluation of the Regional Paediatric Bronchoscopy Service Focusing on Satisfaction: “Do We Pass the Friends and Family Test?”
An overview of the methodology, results and conclusions of a service evaluation assessing patient and parent/carer satisfaction of the regional paediatric flexible bronchoscopy service. Feedback was gathered using an adaptation of the NHS FFT.
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Exploring New Ways of Working in the Neonatal Unit
This project was commissioned by the London School of Paediatrics/Health Education England to explore new ways of working within neonatal units across London with an aim to provide collaborative recommendations on ways to reduce the dependence of service delivery on the paediatric medical workforce by providing a more stable, mixed, neonatal workforce. There was a […]
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Evaluating the Impact of Pre-Prepared Neonatal Intubation Premedication Kits
In January 2018, neonatal intubation premedication kits containing atropine, suxamethonium and fentanyl were introduced alongside the implementation of dose-banding for these medicines according to patient’s weight, irrespective of the patient’s gestation. A button on the electronic prescribing system was created which automatically populates the drug chart with doses based on the patient’s weight. Seven kits […]
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Reducing Medication Errors – A Tripartite Approach Small Steps Better Outcomes
Paediatric medication errors have everyday potential to cause unintended harm1, possibly due to the extra challenges of prescribing and administering medication to this patient group. The results of the initial audit showed that 88.6% (141/159) of children admitted had medication errors. An education package through a tripartite approach was implemented and it has achieved a […]
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