Health Protection Guideline A Board Health Protection Nurse Perspective

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Health Protection Guideline A Board Health
Protection Nurse Perspective

• Mary Quinn, Health Protection Nurse Specialist

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Declaration of Conflict of Interest

• I am the current chair of the Health Protection
  Guideline Group HPGG( previously HPN)
• Been in post for 21/2 yrs and involved with the
  HPN for 5 yrs
• This is my perspective of what I would think as a
  Health Protection Nurse should I be on a
  guideline working group with no previous
  knowledge of guidance development
• The HPGG planned to have a similar learning
  workshop with previous chairs and members of
  working groups as described by Dr Nickdel with
  HPS staff who have been co-ordinating working
  groups

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Opportunities

• Be proactive at a national level
• Multidisciplinary, multiprofessional working
• Learning and CPD
• Consider practice from a wider perspective
• As practitioners understand the complexities of
  practice and have real life experiences to
  offer
• Use of up to date evidence
• What constitutes as evidence
• More likely to implement guidance if involved in
  production

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Challenges

• Time frame for guidance production
• Medium to long term commitment
• Reactive work can take precedence
• Maintaining focus
• May never have limited experience of guidance
  production process
• May have rusty skills in evidence searching,
  appraisal and synthesis
• Minimal available admin support
• Whole guidance can seem a daunting task

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Needs

• Meetings planned in advance (face to
  face/virtual)
• Need for expert help
• in developing primary questions
• Scientific, grey and other evidence from
  literature searching
• Appraising the evidence in relation to answering
  the key questions
• Synthesising this into guidance
• Need for a chair to distribute tasks and into
  sizable chunks
• An team to project manage and keep to tasks