Louise O’Riordan, Acting Executive Director
Our staff flu vaccination campaign is off to a great start. In just the first few days, more than 400 hospital staff have rolled up their sleeves for their free flu vaccination and appointments with the pharmacy team were booked out.
Infection Prevention and Pharmacy will work together for the next few weeks to make getting your free flu vaccination as easy as possible. If you still need your vaccination, here are all your options.
A reminder, if you’ve made a booking with the pharmacy team that you no longer need, please be sure to cancel it so someone else can take your place.
Being vaccinated for the flu is one of the easiest ways to protect yourself, your family, and our patients this winter.
Move it May
Move it May starts next week in 4 East and DAFU. A ward-based initiative, it’s designed to encourage inpatients to be more mobile and to move more – especially those with us for an extended period.
During Move it May, the team on 4 East and DAFU will have information displays for staff and carers and activities designed to encourage patients to mobilise and move the recommended 900 meters daily.
Raise it for Redcliffe Hospital – update
Raise it for Redcliffe Hospital is looking for volunteers to help raise funds at the next Dolphins home game at Kayo Stadium on Thursday, 25 May. Raise it for Redcliffe Hospital will be the official 50-50 Charity Partner, and last time, they raised nearly $6,000.
Read more if you’d like to help.
Making it count
We’re continuing our focus on making our clinical work count. Health Information Service’s tip this week is:
Does the patient have an infectious condition?
Document if an infectious condition is present on admission or not present on admission.
To find out more, talk to Health Information Services on 3883 7295.
Kind, safe and inclusive quality care every day
Our preparation for short-notice accreditation continues.
At our Managers Forum this week, we heard about our recent National Safety and Quality in Health Care Standards Workshop.
We will meet regularly to cross-check our progress with short notice assessment readiness and conduct more walkarounds to talk with staff.
There are, however, some actions everyone can take now around Standard One – Clinical Governance:
- Check to ensure you know where to find policies, procedures and work instructions, and escalate to your line manager if any need updating.
- Complete and update your mandatory and requisite training.
- Make sure your Professional Development Plan (PDP) is current.
- Check that you know how to report an incident on RiskMan.
Talk to your line manager if you need a refresher with any of these.
Accreditation Assessors will use a range of assessment tools to rate our progress with the action items in the eight National Safety and Quality in Health Service Standards. One of these is the PICMoRS framework. Fact sheet available.
Metro North’s Vidcast series on providing kind, safe, and inclusive quality care every day continues next week, with Chief Executive Jackie Hanson and Consultant Pharmacist Martin Canning discussing National Standard Four – Medication Safety. Join that Vidcast from 12:30pm on Friday, 5 May.
The Medication Safety Vidcast will be the fourth in this series, with more to follow between now and July.
If you’ve missed any, they’ve available for viewing anytime on QHEPS.
Privacy Awareness Week
Next week is also Privacy Awareness Week. This year’s theme is ‘Privacy 101: Back to Basics’, and it’s a call for everyone in healthcare and the public sector to focus on the essential things that protect our privacy and our patients’ privacy.
The Office of the Information Commissioner has some good factsheets and resources available to help us all get back to basics, including:
Find out more about how to get involved with Privacy Awareness Week.
Celebrating our nurses and midwives
Our International Nurses Day and International Day of the Midwife celebrations begin next week.
The celebrations at Redcliffe kick off with Battle of the Service Lines – this year featuring a series of fun and informative debates.
To help everyone share in the fun, the debates will be broadcast live on Teams.
- The first debate will be on Friday, 5 May, from 1:30pm. Watch the debate.
- The second debate will be on Wednesday, 10 May, at 2pm. Watch the debate.
- The third and final debate will be on Thursday, 11 May, at 1:30pm. Watch the debate.
On Monday, 8 May, everyone is invited to help judge the Nursing and Midwifery Quality Improvement Poster Competition. Quality Improvement Posters will be displayed in Lecture Room One in the Education Centre from 9am.
The winners of both Battle of the Service Lines and the Quality Improvement Poster competition will be announced during the highlight of the week, the Nursing and Midwifery Awards, on Friday, 12 May.
Awards to be presented here will include our Nurse of the Year and our Midwife of the Year.
Those awards will be broadcast on Teams from 1:30pm, join that celebration.
We celebrate the good things, the small things, the big things, they all matter. #IamRedcliffe.
Louise.