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Transforming Care. Two pilot wards are West 3 and West 5. Both are 29 bedded elective orthopaedic wards. Well Organised ward (WOW). West 3 ward Dynamap stations Store rooms x 2 Hoist Station Drug cupboards Sluice. Dynamaps before:. Not all in one place Untidy - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Transforming CareTwo pilot wards are West 3 and West 5. Both are 29 bedded elective orthopaedic wards.
Well Organised ward (WOW)
• West 3 ward– Dynamap stations
– Store rooms x 2
– Hoist Station
– Drug cupboards
– Sluice
Dynamaps before:
Not all in one place
Untidy
Batteries flat as not plugged in
Sats probe often broken because left on floor
Time taken to find dynamap, stock up and plug in when at the patient’s bed = 6 minutes 41 seconds
Dynamap station, After:
Dynamaps located in two defined areas on the ward
Left tidy
Plugged in
Stocked with appropriate paperwork and equipmentTime taken to collect dynamap from station and take to patient = 1 minute 41 seconds
That’s a saving of 5 minutes
The impact:• If as an average observations are required
every 4 hours and there are 6 dynamaps available, 6x6 =36 times per day
• Saved 5 minutes each use
• =3 hours a day
• =21 hours a week and 45 days over a year!
Also saved steps, 617 steps before, 107 steps after.Over a week saves 10.7 miles, 43 times around the
Millennium Stadium
Store rooms Before: After:
Store RoomsBefore: After:
Hoist Station
• Hoist station now in place, no longer kept in patients bathroom
• Slings for hoist kept in same room not on high shelf in Linen room
• Steps saved =51 steps saved per trip.– Over one year = over 1 mile saved
» One trip per week
West 3 before: West 3 after:
Drug Cupboards Before: After:
Drug Cupboards:
• Before:
• Doors were old and tatty
• Old posters and information on outside
• Inside not clearly labelled
WOW• West 5
– Dynamap station
– Sluice
– Linen Room
– Store room aka ‘the shed’
The Sluice, before:
The Sluice after:• Stock levels
clearly marked
• Spaces clearly marked and labelled
• Bowls moved to lower shelf
Spaghetti DiagramWest 5 sluice room before West 5 sluice room after
Moving Bowls
• Saved 10 steps per trip – Over one year saved one mile
Saved 15 seconds per trip
(six trips per day, 90 seconds saved)
10.5 minutes a week, 546 minutes per year,
9 hours per year saved
‘The Shed’
A Place for everything and everything in it’s place!
Sort!
The 60 minute makeover approach!
Shine!
Set• Shelves all clearly marked and
labelled• Pictures on cupboard doors• Pictures in spaces on shelves
and on floor• Dynamap stations clearly
marked
Standardise• Anti-embolic stockings moved from the
‘shed’ to the linen room. (Nearer the patients).
• This simple move saved 2 minutes 30 seconds per trip
• Over a year saving: almost 2 days!– And 87500 steps a year! That’s 44 miles!!!!
Before: After:
Sustain• Audits in place• Each area has named person
responsible for auditing weekly• Stock levels displayed
Measures BoardAction Planning• Monthly meetings around board as data
collected monthly
Next Steps:
• PSAG boards ordered and delivered
• Location decided
• Symbols agreed
• Team engaged
• Thin tape??????