Some of Ryde’s patient story takers
IMPROVING RYDE PATIENTS’ EXPERIENCE ONE STORY AT A TIME Collecting patient and carer stories from the bedside is Ryde Hospital’s latest initiative to improve its patients’ experience.
“The most powerful thing about the initiative is finding out what we can improve on from the patient’s perspective – and it won’t necessarily be the things that we thought we needed to improve on.” In the longer term, Sophie hopes the story taking will become part of Ryde’s culture. “Eventually we hope all our consumers’ stories will be heard and their feedback incorporated into the way they are cared for and for future patients,” she said. Once enough stories are recorded, the teamwill collaborate with clinical governance and the quality team to identify trends and theme the stories.
Earlier this year the nursing team at Ryde, led by Deputy Director of Nursing Sophie Lange, set themselves a challenge: how could they use their consumers to educate staff and improve their practice. “It’s a really difficult thing to do,” Sophie said. “We thought if we could give our consumers an opportunity to tell us their experience while they’re in our care, we could capture that and use it to improve our performance – and that’s when we came up with CAPE.”
The new ‘capturing the patient experience’ initiative, also known as CAPE, involves staff undergoing story taking training so they can sit down with patients and collect direct feedback on their care. So far 14 nursing staff and one allied health worker have been trained to collect stories, and Sophie said after the first month the group had collected 26 stories between them. “CAPE will initially focus on gathering the stories of various cultural groups and falls patients to gather feedback – positive or constructive – and change practices as required,” she said.
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