Making Waves June 2011 - James Paget University Hospitals

INMPP Update
We have had a very successful 5th call for proposals and hope to start on some very exciting new projects. We are hoping to
fund a further three projects submitted by nurses from across the Trust.
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Michaela Woods, the Charge Nurse
from the Charnwood Suite, is
hoping to study how an information
and support package can reduce
falls in our patients. This service
improvement work will be tested
on one ward area and it will be
very interesting to see the results,
and plainly, very important for the
patients.
Linda Ewart, Nurse Practitioner
in paediatrics is hoping to study
the benefits of promoting familycentred
care within one of our adult
in-patient wards. Family-centred
care has long been practiced in
paediatrics, but involving family
with adult patients in an acute
hospital setting has not been so
common. And this despite some
evidence to show how beneficial
to patients, families and indeed,
staff, such an approach is. This
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project will fit well with our
attempts to improve our patients’
care, particularly in view of the
proportion of elderly and dementia
patients we look after.
Cherry Townsend, Nurse Educator,
is looking to study how the
development and implementation
of a customer care package will
improve our patients’ experiences.
She hopes to examine this in one of
our acute ward areas. This will be
another important step to seeing
how we can do things better for
patient benefit.
All these projects will contribute to
our patients’ care and importantly, we
have much evidence that well looked
after patients and families means
happier and more satisfied staff.
So, lots of interesting things to look
forward to.
Innovation in Nursing
and Midwifery Practice
Project (INMPP)
The results of our previously funded
studies will be available shortly and
we are pleased to say we have got
some very good
evidence that
patient care has
been improved,
and hopefully,
will continue to
be so!
The funding
for these five
calls is coming
to an end,
so the INMPP
steering group are working on
ways to continue this initiative, with
the support of the School of Nursing at
UEA. We are hopeful we will be able to
continue calling for proposals and can
get more good ideas into practice.
Katharine Kite –
Chair, INMPP Steering Group
Caring for our School Age Children
The Great Yarmouth School Health Team are a skill mix team consisting of three Administrative staff, four qualified School
nurses (Specialist Community Public Health Nurses), one Specialist ADHD nurse, four Staff nurses and one Nursery Nurse.
The team cover 45 schools, both mainstream, special schools and ‘offsite provision’ in the Great Yarmouth area and its
surrounding villages.
The main objective of the team is to promote the health
and wellbeing of school age children so they can attain their
full educational potential. Health promotion and education
are an essential aspect of this role.
The core school health service provides
• Vision and hearing screening in Reception years
• Confidential health interview between pupils and the
school nurse in Year 6
• Diphtheria/Tetanus/Polio booster immunisation to pupils
in Year 10.
• Pupils in Year R (Reception) and Year 9 are risk assessed
for TB to determine whether the BCG vaccination is
required.
• Drop-in clinics.
• Health Education and Health Promotion.
The school nurses are available to support education staff
in the delivery of Personal Social Health Education (PSHE)
and deliver sessions within schools related to healthy eating,
hygiene, puberty and sex education, amongst other topics.
Safeguarding young people and supporting families is
another integral aspect of the role at various levels including
involvement at CAF (Common Assessment Framework)
meetings, Child in Need Meetings (Section 17) and Child
Protection Conferences (Section 47). Collaborative working
with other agencies and adequate training and supervision
strengthens this process.
The school nurse plays a pivotal role in referring young
people and families to other agencies for more specialist
help including Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
(CAMHS) to help deal with both newly emerging and long
term emotional and behavioural difficulties; paediatricians
for specific medical conditions and Children’s Services for
support in safeguarding children and young people.
Referrals to the school nurses can be made via several
routes, via telephone, in person or in writing. School nurses
will accept referrals from parents/families, education staff,
other agencies/professionals, GPs and Health Visitors or from
the young person themselves, depending on age. For further
information and advice, please telephone School Health
Administration GY 337615 or 337616 or Amanda Norman
School Nurse Team Leader on 337917.
Amanda (3rd left) with some
of the team.
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