Productive ward releasing time to care

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Hello out there,

I'm a new memeber and I'm looking for information about a programme from the NHS in the UK. Are there any UK nurses working on a ward where they have been participating in the productive ward program????? I would realy like to no, because we are going to start in the Netherlands. I'like to share some information. Hope to here from someone

Greetings from the Netherlands

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Specializes in Acute medicine.

Hi there Jenze,

I am also a new member on this forum.

I work in the NHS in the UK. My hospital is just starting out with the productive ward project and my ward has been chosen as a 'showcase ward' i.e. the launch ward for the project. The project involves alot of work to start out with but I'm told the benefits are well worth the work eventually. We only launched on 1st December but I'll keep you posted on our progress and how things work out and we can exchange ideas / advice once you get started.

Good luck!!

Oxoncats :paw:

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Moved to the UK forum for further input

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Specializes in ICU.

Hi

there is information here http://www.institute.nhs.uk/quality_and_value/productivity_series/productive_ward.html on an NHS website. Some of the wards in my Trust have been implementing this, but we aren't yet.

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Thank you for youre response. We are starting in january, and i would like to chanche information tips etc. So Il hope to hear from you again,

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Hi Jenze,I work on a cardiac intensive care unit and we have been involved with the productive ward for several months. Currently working on handovers I believe. I am not part of the working group but obviously am involved to a degree. Any questions feel free to ask. Regards, Heather

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Specializes in medical.

I've done a study day on this today. We looked at the 5 areas our trust will be working on...including admissions and discharges, meal times and drug rounds. We watched two really interesting videos on a medication round and on a meal round, and the number of things that you pick up on when you have chance to sit back and look from outside the box is pretty surprising. I've picked up on a few ideas already that our ward could benifit from...such as making sure each nurse has a full set of keys so we don't run around chasing each other for the one set we have (I mean...why do we have to function on just one set). There was ward that give their nurse doing the medication a red apron to wear with a 'do not disturb me - medication round' sign...might not stop staff interupting, but visitors and relatives may well find someone else if they need assistance. One ward even made little laminated signs for the patient tables for meal times that said 'meal time - do not disturb' to help preserve the protected meal times. Small things like that which could make a huge difference.

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I know this is an old thread.

We are a phase 2 rollout ward in my trust.

we nene to use out organizing tools more effectivley (patient status at a glance etc).

Just WOW(well organized ward) like moving hosue were you get rid of items you need or use and are clutter. Whislt organizing clearly the clincal room in colour coded drawers(this is meant to go trust wide) a little confusing at present as everything was moved yesterday .

We are getting conrtience supplied back in the bays after they were removed as being untidy by a matron so common sense over apperance.

However one productive ward outcome was Red aprons worn by RN during medication rounds to prevent needless distraction and could cause mediucation error. This does not work as it is ignored by eveyone who feels they need that particlaur nurse now espically senior nurisng staff.

We are also now a acute ward, and the trust is in constant bed crsis so pushing pt through the system is a high prioty so having a ward set up to make they system work better is more and more important.

nursing documentation needs to be streamlined however more not less paperwork is what happening.

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

Thanks for the update Ayla, it's good to know what works and what doesn't

Interesting about the red tabard, the senior nursing staff should know better

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Specializes in med/surg.

We used to wear a flourescent orange tabbard with DO NOT DISTURB written in big black letters on the back when we did drug rounds. All it did was highlight where there was a nurse to all the visitors/doctors!!!

I got interrupted way more often when I was wearing the darn thing than when I wasn't!!

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