Page 2
Royal North Shore Hospital Nursing and Midwifery
Message from the DONM
Tracey Gray, Director of Nursing and Midwifery, RNSH
Making, however there is one specific to vaccination hesitancy on the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare website, presented by Julie Leask. Link below. https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/our-work/shared -decision-making/shared-decision-making-symposium Shared decision making is a concept that is gaining greater prominence since it was introduced as a component of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards. Whilst it is an expectation that we will incorporate this into practice across all of the accreditation standards it is a significant component of Standard 5, Comprehensive Care. Please have a look at the videos as an introduction to the concept and start a conversation with your colleagues in relation to how this applies to you and your practice. I met with the Nursing and Midwifery Education Group last week and asked them to review the videos and to think about how we might use them to begin up- skilling our nurses. Our medical and allied health colleagues will be doing the same. Over time it would be appropriate to also think about how we might introduce some interdisciplinary learning to better understand the role of the MDT in shared decision making with every member of the team having a different but related role. Finally, I have been touring the hospital and meeting staff from many of our wards and departments. I am always impressed by the attention given to improving the standard of care provided to our patients. The enthusiasm and professionalism I have witnessed is testimony to you all and certainly points to a very bright future for RNSH.
Many of you will have seen the photo of Abi Pidgeon, the first Emergency Department nurse to receive the CoVID-19 vaccination at Westmead Hospital. Over 300 staff from our Emergency Department have received their first immunisation which has been a lesson in logistics of the highest order. We were given a very short lead time to ensure that all appointment slots were filled, whilst also ensuring that the ED is staffed for business as usual. It has also been instructive for considering how we might manage immunisations for the rest of the hospital. In order to ensure no appointment times are left unfilled a standby list of staff was created to backfill slots made available when staff who are sick on the day of their appointment cannot attend. This sometimes needs to happen at short notice, however, we haven’t missed an appointment yet. Margie Webster, DNM Division of Medicine, is the RNSH Executive contact person for staff of the Emergency Department and liaison with the NSLHD Executive team. Margie has been working around the clock with ED management to coordinate this exercise and I would like to take this opportunity to thank her and the ED management and senior clinical team for the time and effort they have put into this to make it happen. The NSLHD vaccination hub will be located at Hornsby Hospital. Details regarding the opening date will be made available soon. On the subject of vaccinations, some of you will be fielding questions from patients in relation to whether or not they should be vaccinated. It can be a tricky conversation to navigate in that we have an obligation to provide patients with accurate information that is not coloured by our own biases and guide their decision making rather than overtly influence same. There are a number of video clips on Shared Decision
Made with FlippingBook - professional solution for displaying marketing and sales documents online