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TRANSLATING CARING THEORY ACROSS THE CONTINUUM FROM INPATIENT TO
AMBULATORY CARE
Meghan McCann MSN, RN, NE-BCDirector Oncology Services
University of North Carolina Health Care
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• The Ambulatory Care Environment
• Translating Caring Theory to Ambulatory Care
• Translating Caring Theory to the
Emergency Department
• Sustaining the Carolina Care Culture at
UNC Health Care
Across the Continuum to Ambulatory Care
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• Times with patients are shorter
• Repetitive over time
• Span the length of treatment
• May be interrupted by inpatient stays
The Ambulatory Care Environment
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Translating Caring Theory to Outpatient Oncology
North Carolina Cancer Hospital
• Flagship site for UNC Cancer Care with 150,000 visits/year
• Clinical home of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Multidisciplinary adult and pediatric space including 101 examination,
treatment, consultation, and procedure rooms
• 72 infusion stations for adults (48), children (14), and clinical trials (10)
• 3 Linear Accelerators for Radiation Therapy
• 50 inpatient beds for medical oncology and bone marrow transplant
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SCT and the Oncology Patient
• Maintaining Belief in patients ability to come through illness with
meaningful life/dignified death
• Understanding what is most important to patients/families
• Supporting patients/families through difficulty
• Assisting patients who cannot do for themselves
• Enabling patients to progress to highest level during
• Treatment
• Survivorship
• End of life
Tenets resonate for patients treated for a chronic illness over time
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Dissemination in Outpatient Oncology
• Replication of Inpatient Success
• Effort led by Oncology Carolina Care Committee
• Multidisciplinary membership of staff and leaders
• Guidebook rewritten to accommodate ambulatory
arena
• New behavior each month
• High patient volume with different providers
across diagnoses and clinical environments
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• Few minutes of uninterrupted time to
connect and convey concern during visit
• Recognize feeling of patient
• Establish connection
• Convey concern
• Goal – Each team member spend 3
uninterrupted minutes with at least one
patient
• Registration
• Scheduling
• Waiting room
Moment of
Caring:
Knowing
and
Being With
Carolina Care and Outpatient Oncology Patients
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Multi-level
Rounding:
Being With
and
Doing For
Hourly Patient
Rounding
Schedulers and
Registration
Director
Interdisciplinary
NurseManager
Carolina Care and Outpatient Oncology Patients
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Hourly
Patient
Rounds:
Being With
and
Doing For
ARe you comfortable?
Other/the care providers accompanying patients to their visits are acknowledged
Use the bathroom? Does patient need assistance/directions?
Need anything?
Door/curtain open or closed for privacy in clinic rooms?
Safety assessment/call bell in reach?
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Carolina Care and Outpatient Oncology Patients
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• Allows Board members to
connect with patient over
shared experiences
• Offer insight and ease fears
Patient/Family
Advisory Board
Rounding:
Being With
and
Doing For
Carolina Care and Outpatient Oncology Patients
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• Patients become active participants
and decision makers in care• Guide interactions to ensure caring and
concern are consistently communicated
• Helps set and manage expectations
• Greet patients
• Correctly identify patients
• Perform hand hygiene
• Transition patient to next caregiver
Words
and
Ways
that Work:
Being With
and
Enabling
Carolina Care and Outpatient Oncology Patients
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• Entails careful listening to complaint, owning problem,
and working quickly to resolve issue
• Listen with care
• Provide blameless apology
• Thank patient/family for sharing concern
• Fix the problem
• Consider provision of service recovery item
• Follow up with patient/family to let them know how problem has
been addressed
Carolina Care and Outpatient Oncology Patients
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• By actively listening, showing empathy, apologizing
without blame, and fixing the problem, satisfaction
can be increased
• Creates opportunity for follow-up to improve systems
Carolina Care and Outpatient Oncology Patients
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• Team proactively discusses specific
patient needs, is attentive to safety, and
ensures needs are met during visit.
• Multidisciplinary daily team meeting in clinical
area to encourage information sharing
• Promotes care team partnership
• Enhances patient care
• Creates forum to address safety concerns
• Fosters teamwork
Clinic
Huddle:
Knowing
Carolina Care and Outpatient Oncology Patients
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• During huddle• Review of clinic schedule
• Discuss care needs that require focused
attention/support
• Identify opportunities to improve clinic flow
• Kudos are shared
Clinic
Huddle:
Knowing
Carolina Care andOutpatient Oncology Patients
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Evaluation and Sustainment in Outpatient Oncology
• Sustained scores highest in clinics across system
• 19 percentile increase for overall
• 4 percentile increase for nursing
• Consistent Top 5 Clinics of eligible clinic locations (Meg’s
graph?)
• Review of PG data on monthly basis
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Evaluation and Sustainment in Outpatient Oncology
• Coordination of improvement efforts with Oncology Operations Team
• Participation of Oncology leadership in organization wide CCIOC
• Repeat of roll out 2 years post initial implementation
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Translating Caring Theory to the Emergency Department (ED)
UNCH Emergency Department
• Annual visit volumes of approximately 72,000 adults and 10,000 pediatric patients
• One of the largest referral centers in North Carolina
• Admit rate near 30%
• Certified Level I Trauma Center for adult and pediatrics
• State Burn Center
• Joint Commission Stroke Center
• Chest Pain Center
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Caring Theory and the ED Patient
Tenets resonate for patients treated in an ED
• Stressors compounded
• High Acuity
• Mixed patient population
• High patient volumes
• Entry point for 50% of inpatient admissions
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Dissemination in the ED
• Replication of Inpatient Success
• Effort led by CNO and ED Director
• Multidisciplinary membership of staff and leaders
• Multiple week roll out
• Each behavior introduced across shifts
• High patient volume with different providers
across diagnoses and clinical environments
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• Convey presence and empathy despite
pressures of busy/changing environment
• Pat on shoulder
• Kind words
• Talking with patient during assessment
• Sitting down to connect while starting an
intravenous line
Moment of
Caring:
Knowing
and
Being With
Carolina Care and ED Patients
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Multi-level
Rounding:
Being With
and
Doing For
Hourly Patient
Rounding
Health Unit Coordinator
(HUC)
Director
Interdisciplinary
NurseManager
Carolina Care and ED Patients
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• Hourly Comfort Rounds by Nurses
and Nursing Assistants
• Focus on personal needs• Offers of food and drink when permissible
• Pain management
• Helping patient and family understand wait time
• Communication of Plan of Care
Hourly
Patient
Rounds:
Being With
and
Doing For
Carolina Care and ED Patients
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• Time compression makes 1st
impression essential
• Wait times and the unexpected are key
drivers of dissatisfaction
• AIDET organizes all major components
into one tool• Acknowledge• Introduce• Duration• Explanation• Thank you
Words
and
Ways
that Work:
Being With
and
Enabling
Carolina Care and ED Patients
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• Other important Carolina Care
behaviors and messages
• Closing curtains for privacy
• Washing hands for safety
• Stepping out to document care
• Posting important info on the white board
in each room
Words
and
Ways
that Work:
Being With
and
Enabling
Carolina Care and ED Patients
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• Entails careful listening to complaint, owning
the problem, and working quickly to resolve
issue
• Listen with care
• Provide blameless apology
• Thank patient/family for sharing concern
• Fix the problem
• Consider provision of service recovery item
• Follow up with patient/family to let them know how
problem has been addressed
Blameless
Apology:
Being With
and
Enabling
Carolina Care and ED Patients
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Evaluation and Sustainment in the ED
• Increase from 15th percentile and sustain at 65th despite
volume/capacity constraints
• Current focus
• Improving patient throughput
• Increasing survey returns through discharge calls
• Introduction of Bivaris
• Sends discharged patients text or email with link to electronic survey
• Has increased response rate from 5% to 30%
• Patients respond within 24 hours versus 30 days
• Provides more detailed comments yielding more actionable format
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Sustaining the Carolina Care Culture at UNC Health Care
• Accountability
• Sustaining Carolina Care in Changing Environment
• Carolina Care 2014
• Evaluation and Sustainment of Carolina Care 2014
• Sustaining Excellence – The New Frontier
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Accountability
• Multidisciplinary Monday Morning Carolina Care
• Carolina Care Implementation Oversight Committee
• Big 5
• Geriatrics
• Pulmonary/Infectious Disease
• Family Medicine/Nephrology
• General Medicine
• GI Surgery
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• Inclusion in Performance Evaluation
• Inclusion in Nursing Professional Expectations
• Weekly Updates and High 5
Accountability
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Unit FY 15 Proposed Goal
3 AD 87.5CTSU 89.15 AD 88.5
3 WST 856 BT 868 BT 84
6 WST 85
4 AD-N 895 BT 88.2
5 EST 915 WST 917 NSH 916 NSH 87.56 EST 87.5
6 WH 88.15 WH 88.13 WH 89
7 CH 916 CH 875 CH 89
4 ONC 90BMTU 91
Annual goals: mean goals for each unit
Accountability
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Key Outcomes from Big 5
• GI Prep with Gatorade
• Care of floors
• Temperature control
• Development of unit brochures
• HUC initiated rounding
• Warm afternoon washcloths
• EVS on Demand
• New food tray activators to keep food warm
• Nutrition Food Service leadership rounding
Accountability
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Sustaining Carolina Care in Changing Environment
New challenges
• Organization adopted integrated Press Ganey Hospital Consumer
Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) patient
satisfaction survey in July 2013
• Implementation of new Electronic Medical Record
Goal - Increase UNCH overall patient satisfaction scores
during implementation of new electronic medical record and
adjust focus to align with HCAHPS
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Carolina Care 2014
Created Carolina Care 2014 Interprofessional Taskforce
• Nursing
• Pharmacy
• Pastoral Care
• Nutrition and Food Services
• Environmental Services
• Supply Chain Services
• Patient and Family Advisors
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Carolina Care 2014
Taskforce divided into eight working groups, with each
group assigned an area of focus• Patient engaged report
• Nurse-physician rounding
• Communication through care boards
• Narrating care
• Active listening
• Positivity
• Communication in an electronic environment
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Carolina Care 2014
Creating Carolina Care 2014
• Taskforce met for an all-day off-site work session
• During session, team members
• Reviewed goals of the initiative
• Created educational materials for staff
• Devised a rollout plan to ensure implementation prior to the
transition to the EMR
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Implementing Carolina Care 2014
• Carolina Care 2014 content was introduced in weekly segments
• Information was reviewed during weekly Carolina Care Huddles
• Managers utilized standardized template that included a weekly topic of
focus with
• Set goals and tasks
• Tools to educate staff members and weekly metrics to determine success
• Electronic access Carolina Care tools on a shared network drive
Carolina Care 2014
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Carolina Care 2014 Implementation Tools
• Weekly Huddle Guides
• Words and Ways that Work
• Evidence-based literature to support interventions
• Pocket cards with key weekly topic information
Managers also shared information and tools with staff members during
monthly staff meetings and through weekly email messages
Carolina Care 2014
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Evaluation and Sustainment of Carolina Care 2014
• Following implementation, scores improved to 76th percentile in March 2014 and reached high of 95th percentile week of March 16, 2014
• Post-intervention metrics: outperformed FY14 organizational goal (75th percentile) for patient satisfaction. These improvements were sustained in May 2014 (82nd percentile) and June 2014 (83rd percentile)
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Sustaining Excellence – The New Frontier
• Ambulatory Improvements across Medical Center and Physician led clinics
• Physician Engagement
• Carolina Care across affiliate hospitals within UNC Health Care System
• Annual Competency for all Nursing staff
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Tonges Translational Model for Theory-Driven Practice