{"id":3797,"date":"2021-12-14T13:24:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T03:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2022-01-19T10:33:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T00:33:25","slug":"ckw-1221-eating-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/newsletters\/caring-together-update\/2021\/12\/ckw-1221-eating-disorders","title":{"rendered":"New guidelines for managing adult eating disorders set to save lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div id=\"attachment_3798\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3798\" class=\"wp-image-3798 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/12\/staceyb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/12\/staceyb-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/12\/staceyb-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/12\/staceyb.jpg 400w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/600;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caboolture Hospital Dietician Stacey O\u2019Donnell.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Caboolture Hospital Dietitian Stacey O\u2019Donnell has led the charge on an adult eating disorder project to ensure patients who need specific or additional healthcare never slip through the cracks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEating disorder patients that aren\u2019t getting the care they need can be medically unstable and become a huge risk if they don\u2019t have access to the specialists they need,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been looking at streamlining across the hospital how we align with evidence-based practice set by state guidelines,\u201d Stacey said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI conducted a project auditing inpatient eating disorders and how they\u2019re managed across the different departments, we had a great number of responses from nurses, psychologists, doctors and others who provided feedback on how we could better manage patients of this cohort.<\/p>\n<p>Stacey says the team took that data and developed localised guidelines for Caboolture Hospital that will allow departments to make a real improvement to the way they work together to deliver care to eating disorder patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter we established the local guidelines, we then determined clearly defined roles and responsibilities for the different hospital teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing this we finalised an improved triage process so patients who need support for eating disorders can get what they need during their stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stacey\u2019s project will help capture all the patients who need specialised assistance and, at times, medical refeeding \u2013 a process that ensures those undernourished or malnourished eat properly in a step-by-step way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlowly returning of feeding is the safest way to return to eating and this, combined with evidence-based practice guidelines, means that the patient is less likely to relapse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project has really taken off\u2026 we\u2019ve already had interest from all over Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re developing modified versions to suit other health services around the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stacey\u2019s project was kindly funded by CAHRLI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caboolture Hospital Dietitian Stacey O\u2019Donnell has led the charge on an adult eating disorder project to ensure patients who need specific or additional healthcare never slip through the cracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caring-together-update"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3805,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions\/3805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}