1 / 12

Be Inspired – a non pharmacological breathlessness management pathway

Be Inspired – a non pharmacological breathlessness management pathway. Sue Acreman April 2010. The 8 domains of care. Physical Practical Nutritional Psychological Informational Spiritual Financial Social. Background. Evidence review 2008 Service provision survey Audit

savea
Download Presentation

Be Inspired – a non pharmacological breathlessness management pathway

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Be Inspired – a non pharmacological breathlessness management pathway Sue Acreman April 2010

  2. The 8 domains of care • Physical • Practical • Nutritional • Psychological • Informational • Spiritual • Financial • Social

  3. Background • Evidence review 2008 • Service provision survey • Audit • Local demographics/ stats

  4. Aims Develop a sound, evidence based pathway Equity of access to care Empowerment and independence Widen knowledge and skills in managing breathlessness

  5. Resources/outputs • Pathway • Assessment measures • Handbook • Calming hand • Systematic focussing • Relaxation technique • Education programme

  6. Step 1 :Triage - Meets criteria No Yes Step 2 : Refer for BeInspired Intervention EXITpathway • Step 3: Arrange Appointment • send self assessment form & daily activity impact diary - • Step 4: Assessment and Intervention – still meetscriteria • Iniatiate Supported self management • Triggers • Beinspired handbook • Signpost Step 5: Review Are BeInspired interventions adequate for patients needs? Yes No • Step 6: Initiate referral for complex case management • Goal setting • Outcome measures • Self management plan

  7. Results – 1 (February 2010)

  8. Interim Results – 2(February 2010)

  9. Type of Intervention 17% Complex case management Self management 83% Interim Results – 3(February 2010)

  10. Interim results (4) It is nice to have all the necessary information in one place to hand If only I had known all this before All useful-good simple basic details that have helped my breathing I couldn’t believe I had been struggling so long with my breathing and the answer was so simple once explained

  11. Conclusions Dyspnoea is not routinely assessed and is an expected burden for many people with cancer Dyspnoea can affect all patients with cancer, irrespective of tumour site Early evaluation suggests that appropriate patients are being identified and the pathway and other resources are fit for purpose

  12. Contact details sue.acreman@wales.nhs.uk Work mobile: 07837163930

More Related