Focus on team
In this section we get to know teams across our organisation. If you would
like your team featured here, contact [email protected]
How have these roles
helped you with your new
TrendCare roles?
Kim
From my previous roles, I’ve developed working
relationships across all clinical departments.
Managing the Nursing Bureau involved working with
all the teams to help meet their ability to manage staff
workloads to match patients acuity requirements.
I also trained as a Midwife so I’m excited to help
Maternity services engage with TrendCare.
Aroha
Like Kim, I’ve forged working relationships with many
of the nursing staff using TrendCare and having
worked in many different clinical areas. This gives me
a good foundation to support staff with TrendCare and its future
functional development. Still working as a Registered Nurse in the
Bureau, means I’m in a good position to know how we can best
support and teach staff who use TrendCare every day.
Aroha (left) and Kim (right) talking TrendCare with Whakatāne Hospital Medical Ward Nurse
Manager Viv Robertson.
The TrendCare Team
Meet our dynamic duo otherwise known as the TrendCare team.
Quite possibly one of the newest teams in our DHB. The team
came on board in February, as one outcome of the Nursing
and Midwifery MECA settlement. Part of the settlement was
additional money provided to DHBs to fund dedicated TrendCare
co-ordinators.
Under the umbrella of Care Capacity Demand Management
(CCDM), TrendCare is a fundamental and validated acuity tool
that measures patient demand. Using the tools to monitor and
match capacity to care with patient demand aims to ensure safety
of nurses, midwives and their patients. Checkup spoke to Kim and
Aroha about their new roles.
You both had previous roles
within the DHB, tell us about
those roles.
Kim
I started working at the DHB in 2011. My first position was as the
Nursing & Midwifery Recruiter. In 2014 I took up the Associate
Clinical Nurse Manager - Nursing Bureau and Transit Lounge
position in Tauranga, managing the Nursing Resource team, and
pool of casual nursing and health care assistants.
Aroha
I did my New Graduate year at Whakatāne Hospital’s Emergency
Department in 2010 and then spent five years in APU in Tauranga.
Since then I’ve been working in the Bureau. This TrendCare role
is a part time position for me, I’m still in the Bureau working across
the hospital, so I’m familiar with many faces out there.
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For those who use TrendCare,
tell us what they can expect
from your new team.
Kim
We want to fully realise all the benefits of the TrendCare system in
meeting the CCDM standards and working towards best match of
staff available to patient care required.
We’ll be supporting all TrendCare users to achieve this.
Aroha
We’ll also be supporting staff to use new aspects of TrendCare
being developed such as Risk Assessments, Care Plans and Care
Pathways. You can expect that we will be available to help with
any questions, troubleshooting and visit your wards to help staff
and managers understand and use TrendCare in the best way to
support your teams and our patients.
What’s the best way people can
reach you for assistance?
Call Kim on 5378 or email [email protected]
Call Aroha on 5379 or email [email protected]
Or drop in to see us. We are at the end of the 3rd Floor Women
and Children’s Admin Corridor, Tauranga Hospital. Or stop and ask
us anything TrendCare related when we are out and about on the
wards in both hospitals.