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10 yrs in Day Therapy UnitWednesday, 21 June 2017

News from Logan and Beaudesert Hospitals

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New development trial targets pressure injuries

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Logan Hospital plays host to Health Inspiration Day

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All about Vlad:Manager, Decision Support Services

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Featured: Logan Hospital Day Therapy Unit staff with some of their longest visiting patients celebrate the Unit’s 10th birthday.

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Logan and Beaudesert hospitals are set to champion an innovative new module of Patient Flow Manager (PFM) intended to provide clinical staff with an intuitive and high visibility system for managing patients with pressure injuries.

LBHN Director Nursing and Midwifery Services and Executive Sponsor Lorraine Stevenson said Assistant Director of Nursing, Patient Flow Program Fiona Butler had explored new strategies for mitigating risks associated with pressure injuries before the Logan pressure injury

Featured: Michael Abbey, Michael Stoddart, Morgan McAdam, Duncan Jaffery, Fiona Butler and Lorraine Stevenson.

Trial of innovative new development to

prevention team of Sandie Lenehan, Michelle Reardon and Duncan Jaffery provided expert guidance to the development team including Michael Stoddart (Systems Manager, CITS), Michael Abbey (Nurse Manager, PFP) and Morgan McAdam (System Support Officer, CITS) on the establishement of a cost-neutral module.

Mr McAdam said the PFM Pressure Injury module was designed to enable clinicians a one-click method for recording a patient’s Pressure Injury status and whether there were single or multiple sites.

“Once data is entered, it immediately appears in multiple locations on the Inpatient View screen visible on digital display panels, PCs and BYOD devices.

“Any changes to PI status are automatically logged and will be available on standard handover reports as well as a custom Pressure Injury report that can display PI status changes over time,” he said.

“Further built-in logic can indicate if a PI was acquired in community or hospital, and the module can be configured to send e-mail and SMS

alerts to stakeholders if a patient’s PI status deteriorates.

“The module will be published in the live system in the very near future with a trial period to be determined.

“If the trials at Logan and Beaudesert are successful, the PI module will be made available to hospitals across Metro South Health with Telstra Health and Health IQ indicating they are interested in rolling out the module nationally.”

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Vladimir Matus > Manager, Decision Support Services

I’ve been with Logan-Bayside in my current role since February 2012, so almost 5.5 years.

My role involves providing advice, analysis and information to senior management and key stakeholders, managing a team of analysts across Logan-Bayside and overseeing ongoing reporting solutions and clinical costing processes. We are ultimately reliant on the quality of the data being entered into our clinical systems and the subsequent clinical coding as the basis for a lot of our reports. Without complete confidence in the integrity of clinical information, a lot of the information we produce could be called into question and the organisation’s decision making capabilities would be impaired as a consequence.

How many reports per week/month/year do you pull?Our reporting workload usually involves upward of 200 ad hoc and routine reports between Logan-Bayside each month. The craziest data request I’ve had involved trying to identify deceased patients that were inadvertently included in a report produced at another facility using a foreign dataset. The reason this was both crazy and weird is because it was after 6pm and extremely time-sensitive to prevent letters from being posted to deceased patients and their families.

How did you decide to work with data for a living and how does it inspire you?I am one of those people who didn’t and still doesn’t know what they want to do when they grow up. I’ve always had an affinity with maths and data (was the life of the party as you can tell) so pursuing this seemed like a logical idea initially.

It is inspirational because data can be considered to be like the threads which form a tapestry; it provides the detail to the story and essentially forms the chronicles of an organisation; it is able to be used to identify areas worthy of celebration as well as for further improvement but at the very least to provide an understanding of what’s happened, happening and possibly going to happen.

Presuming that data is so geeky that it’s cool, which character from the Big Bang Theory are you and why?This is a tough one, all of the characters represent the polar extremes of the different facets of geekiness but if I had to pick one I’d pick Leonard as he’s the closest to mainstream of the group, is sensible and pursues the practical/experimental side of physics and I guess I’ve always considered myself practical in that regard.

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Longest serving staff and patients celebrate

DTU’s 10th birthdayLogan Hospital’s Day Therapy Unit staff have celebrated their 10th birthday with some of their longest and most loved patients.

Staff said the unit began as a support unit to the Princess Alexandra Hospital before becoming its own supportive care unit and transferring as a Day Therapy Unit in Building 2 around six years ago.

“We were originally in Building 1 next to Dialysis and then we came over here where we have expanded with more patients and more staff.

“It’s a fabulous place to work,” they said.

Happy 10th birthday!

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ips Logan Hospital has hosted another successful Health Inspiration Day for

students from across Logan City and surrounding areas.

School Based Trainee Program site Co-ordinator and Assistant Director of Nursing Karen Webster said 63 students from 18 schools attended the latest event, the third since the School Based Trainee Program was reintroduced in 2015 after ending in the 1990s.

Karen said the Health Inspiration Days were designed for school students interested in a career in the health sector by providing them with health and community service career presentations, career centered activities and tours of the hospital.

She said the days were specifically tailored towards students who had a keen interest in health and who wanted to continue further study in nursing or associated occupations within the industry.

“Students gain a valuable insight into the various careers on offer within the industry that is caring for our community,” she said.

She said the trainee selection process was a rigorous one with students undergoing an Expression of Interest process, formal application, a Harrison Assessment, short listing and group information session before profiles were presented to the employer who then held interviews and made offers of employment and held a formal induction with family members.

Karen said Logan Hospital, in partnership with the Department of Education and Training TAFE had supported 13 students from Logan

schools over the last 12 months and would welcome another 10 in the coming weeks.

She said the partnership program, established through the South East Health Pathway Alliance (SEPHA), had been a resounding success with a 100 per cent completion rate compared to an average traineeship/apprenticeship drop out rate of 50 per cent.

“We are committed to continuing to support young people in our community follow a career in health.”

Students embrace Health Inspiration Day 2017

• Beaudesert State High School

• Beenleigh State High School

• Boonah State High School

• Cavendish Road State High

School• Calamvale Community College

• Chisholm Catholic College

• Flagstone State Community

College• Kingston State College

• Loganlea State High School

• Mabel Park State High School

• Marsden State High School

• Park Ridge State High School

• Rivermount College

• Rochedale State High

• Shailer Park State High School

• St Francis College

• Trinity College

• Woodridge State High School

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GP access to The Viewer is coming

From late June 2017, Queensland General Practitioners (GPs) will have secure online access to The Viewer. This will allow GPs to access patient health care information from Queensland’s public hospitals, such as blood test results, medical imaging results, details of prescribed medications, and information about the patient’s diagnoses. Patients can opt-out at any time by calling 13 HEALTH (13 43 25 84). Visit metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/about-us/accessing-information/gp-access-to-the-viewer

Queensland Health

From late June 2017, Queensland GPs will have read-only access to ‘The Viewer’.

Patients can opt-out by calling 13 HEALTH

Queensland Health

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