Inside St John's May 2015

May 2015

Welcome to many years of caring for our patients in Welcome to the May issue of Inside St a fresh new environment. John’s bringing you the latest news and developments from across the site. Smokefree Lothian Thanks to all staff, visitors and patients St John’s 25th Anniversary for their support in ensuring our hospital A special four-page feature celebrating grounds are smokefree and for continuing 25 years at St John’s is available in the to abide by the policy. A gentle reminder latest issue of Connections. that staff members must maintain the highest standards of professionalism, Cuddle cot particularly in changing out of uniforms if Celtic footballer, Kris Commons and his they leave the campus for a cigarette or partner Lisa Hague, have made a special when they are travelling to and from presentation to St John’s Hospital in work. memory of their daughter, Lola. Trakcare PaperLite The couple donated a CuddleCot to the Programme hospital’s Neonatal Unit to help bereaved families. The CuddleCot is a cool eCasenotes mattress, which allows parents to spend eCasenotes have been live in outpatients more time with their little one before they since 11 May – approx 50 percent of have to say goodbye. appointments have been ‘paperlite’ with The Lola Commons fund for SiMBA, paperwork generated in clinics being founded in 2013 by Lisa following the scanned within two working days of it stillbirth of her first baby Lola Grace being returned to health records. Commons, has raised over £100,000 to Approximately 40 people have given help support bereaved families across feedback on this new system, of which 50 Scotland and throughout the UK. You can percent of respondents thought it was read the full West Lothian Courier article easy to use and 50 percent found it here. difficult/very difficult. The project team is keen to make this as easy a process as possible and so will be looking to address ICU/HDU Upgrade issues raised wherever possible. Intensive Care Unit/High Dependency Inpatients will go live at the end of May. Unit (ICU/HDU) moved into their newly refurbished unit this month. The unit has Nursing and AHP Forms been refurbished to an excellent Wards 4 and 14 have been live since standard. April and training is underway for Allied There has been a lot of effort and work Health Proffesional’s (AHPs) across St carried out by nursing and facilities staff John’s and nurses in the next group of to plan and complete this work. We are wards (Observation ward, wards 9, 21, delighted by the results and look forward 22, 24, 25). The aim is to be live in late May/early June for both these groups. well as relatives in supporting earlier Hardware is being upgraded/replaced to discharges. support this programme of work. Older People in Acute For further information please visit the Hospitals intranet or contact Sandra MacGillivray, NHS Lothian received an announced visit eHealth Project Manager at: on 14 April from Health Improvement [email protected]. Scotland. Each acute hospital presented their current position including an update Clinical Change Cabinet on the work being done to give assurance The second Clinical Change Cabinet that standards of care are being met at St meeting took place last week. You can John’s. find information on what was discussed and dates of future meetings on the Over the last month additional work has intranet. This meeting brings together been happening with Charge Nurses, clinicians to discuss how NHS Lothian Clinical Nurse Managers and the Site can meet the challenge of providing Chief Nurse with a particular focus on the sustained healthcare for the people of screening and assessment tool used Lothian. when patients are admitted to hospital. In addition, we are focusing on improving Catering Strategy documentation and are undertaking consultation awareness sessions for the multi NHS Lothian’s draft Catering Strategy - disciplinary clinical team as part of our Our Food, Our Health, Our Care - is out continuing preparation to meet the for public consultation. Further standards of care expected for all of our information on the strategy and how to patients. feedback can be found here. Antimicrobial Stewardship Discharge by noon The vital role that nurses and midwives We are continuing to focus on supporting can play as part of the multidisciplinary more patients to be discharged by noon approach to antimicrobial stewardship each day. This is beneficial for lots of has been recognised in recent years and reasons. It helps patients avoid staying this has led to the development of a novel in hospital any longer than they need to. educational resource by NES (NHS Importantly it also helps patients who are Education for Scotland). being admitted avoid any delay in getting to the right ward as early as possible. For ward staff it helps reduce the likelihood of patients arriving later in the day. For the emergency department it helps reduce the potential for over-crowding which is important for patient and staff safety. Achieving this requires lots of teamwork and planning from all groups of staff as 2 The purpose of the interactive work  Ten minute workstation workouts: programme is to support nurses and a fun ten minute stretch and tone midwives learning around antimicrobial session provided at your stewardship and support the care of workstation. For groups of four or patients with infections to promote more. Pre-booking essential. optimal outcomes. Bookings being taken for the mornings of Friday 12 June and The workbook allows learners to assess Wednesday 17 June. Please book their current level of knowledge and in by calling ext. 54183. The identify potential development needs in telephone line is open from Friday each topic area. The resource can be 29 May. If no-one answers, please accessed here. For further information leave a message with your name, contact: workplace and time/date [email protected] requesting and your contact number for confirmation. All bookings must be confirmed. Workout @ Work Day NHS Lothian Staff Physiotherapy Service is hosting “workout at work day” on Friday 12 June. On this day (and for a week), a series of fun and active events will be run. Get involved and have some fun, as well as get some tips on fitness and exercise to help you stay healthy and happy - smiles guaranteed! The activities at St John’s include:

 Treasure Hunt: a 10-15 minute walking route (with prizes to be won! - individual and inter-site challenge). Pick up a map and questions from physiotherapy reception on the ground floor.

Please drop off your answer sheet after your walk also at physiotherapy reception. The inter- site challenge runs from Friday 12 June to Friday 19 June, so get your colleagues along too! No pre- booking required for this event. Only one entry per person.

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