Preventative Pressure Management Program

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Preventative Pressure Management Program
Sheralee Sandison Repatriation General
Hospital Daws Road, DAW PARK, SA
Keeping you safe
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REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL
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GAINING SUPPORT

• Clinical Governance
• Nursing Division Strategic Plan

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Project Objectives

• review nursing practice
• develop framework
• develop equipment management plan
• develop education program

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Review of Nursing Practice

• literature search
• benchmark
• base line data current practice

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Baseline Data

• 29.6 Prevalence, 20.6 Incidence
• 60 at risk patients not identified by staff
• lack of uniform practice
• poor communication

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THE FRAMEWORK COMPONENTS

• Identification of risk
• Communication of the risk to others
• Documentation processes
• Evidence based interventions

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THE FRAMEWORK COMPONENTS (cont.)

• Evaluation mechanisms
• 6 monthly audits

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Equipment management plan

• gain financial support
• Purchases directed by audit results
• Equipment guidelines
• training standard operating procedures
• investigate heel preventative measures

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Education Program

• evidence based
• literature review
• key personnel sessions
• framework practices to all staff
• mandatory updates

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OUTCOMES Changes in risk profile

• Patients at risk at time of audit

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Assessment of risk
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Stages
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Risk communicated to others
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Interventions in Place
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Rates
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Ongoing Management

• Education program
• audit process
• equipment management

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• Working party members
• Lesley Jeffers, Jane Cotton, Angela Milne,
  Justin Prendergast,, Wendy Humphreys
• Benchmark Hospitals Queen Elizabeth Hospital
  FMC.
• AWMA, NSW WMA
• RGH Executive