Using Effective Practitioner within a busy Accident and Emergency Department.

1. Using Effective Practitioner within a busy Accident and Emergency Department. Project leads: Sadie Wilson – Charge Nurse A&E Stephanie Staines – Deputy Charge Nurse A&E NES Practice Educator – Claire Bryson

2. Project Ensuring Person Centred Care for Patients with Dementia within Accident and Emergency. • Why do this project?

3. How did we use Effective Practitioner • Used the Dementia clinical practice activities to look at the environment. • Used the Dementia Activities as a starting point for staff education. • Used the supplementary resources to further support staff education.

4. Challenges • Staff pressures • Clinical pressures ‘One of the benefits of Effective Practitioner are the clinical practice activities, all are reasonably quick to undertake and are linked to KSF’

5. What's next? • Continue with staff education • Use what we have learned to influence the ‘new build’ • Future improvements including • Cognitive testing to identify patients with dementia and delirium. • Development of a frail elderly pathway.

6. Any Questions?

7. Using Effective practitioner to support Pressure Ulcer Prevention.

8. Project Aims • Identify activities that support PU prevention. • Develop learning packs for staff. • Use the learning to inform practice.

9. What worked well? • Identifying learning. • Relating the learning to changes within the area. • Record of learning.

10. Challenges/learning. • Clinical Pressures. • Backfilling of staff. • Trying to target all staff.

11. Any Questions?