BOPDHB Checkup October 2017 | Page 4

Innovation Awards Entries

Name
Dept / Organisation
Title of Presentation
Brief
APU & PARIS - Kate Grimwade ( lead ) Inter Professional Team Physician & Medical Leader Medicine , ED HIA & Pharmacy
Adele Dreadon - Co-ordinator Chris Bark - Surgical Operational Co-ordinator Tracey Balsom - Admin Support
Louise Fowler - Clinical Nurse , Specialist Aged Residential Care
Combined nursing , medical & Allied Health staff from APU
Reduce waiting time for acute medical patients New Model of Care
To identify & reduce unnecessary waiting time for acute medical patients by developing an interdisciplinary model of care .
Patient Information Centre
The Patient Information Centre from Go to NOW
Develop a customer services centre to provide fully customer focussed and efficient interface with patients and visitors to the BOPDHB .
WBOP PHO
CNS Aged Residential Care reducing hospitalisations & improving care to residents .
Hapū Hauora - a public health promotion initiative to support hapu & marae improve whanau needs .
Reducing inappropriate hospitalisations of residents from Aged Residential Care facilities through regular visits by a Clinical Nurse Specialist .
Developing a free , effective and sustainable resource which strengthens the health literacy of local Hapū and iwi Runanga , Maori communities , Maori organisations and whanau in relation to key public health areas . Hapū Hauora brings together a range of useful resources and information to empower Hapū to make healthy changes to their marae environment , community and home .
Enabling oesophageal dilatation in laryngectomised patients in the most cost effective and autonomous way for laryngectomy patients in the Bay of Plenty .
Providing Tangata Haora with knowledge about important physical health issues , to empower them to develop ways to improve their physical health / Hauora , tinana and well-being .
Creating a short film for patients and staff raising the profile and showing the work of Allied health and what communication means to us .
Development of a purpose-built oxygen bottle holder is ergonomically designed for ease of use and does no damage to the head or foot boards of beds , leading to significant cost savings .
Applying our values through a new model of CARE to provide a unique and valuable opportunity for medical and nursing staff to work together to improve patient care at the Whakatane Emergency Department .
Reducing medical inpatient admissions and length of stay and providing a quality learning experience for the medical registrars .
Liz Thomas - Communications Adviser Michelle Adams - Health Improvement Adviser Hayley Robertson - Senior Health Improvement Adviser Sharon Kennedy-Muru - Health Improvement Manager
Toi Te Ora Public Health
Brandon Hitchcock - ENT Specialist Fiona Hewerdine - Speech Language Team Leader
ENT Dept and SLT
Sword Swallowing in the DHB
Deb Brierley-Broad - Educator / Case Manager
Team from Adult Community Mental , Health & Addiction Service , Whakatane
Healthy Me Programme reaching its target groups
Helen Liddall - Speech Language Therapist
Speech Language Therapy Department
Allied Health Communication Video
Ken Hoffmann - Mechanical Technician
Property Services , Whakatāne Hospital
Improvement for bed maintenance at Whakatāne Hospital
Therese McBride - Physician Bronwyn Ives - Clinical Nurse Specialist Sharon Coombes - Clinical Nurse Specialist
Emergency Medicine , Whakatane Hospital
Whakatane ED New Model of CARE
Jonathan Donnelly - Medical Registrar Chris Hulett - Physician Martin Bentley Smith - Nurse Manager Julie Chapman - Hospital Co-ordinator Colleen McGregor - Nurse Manager
Dave Wood - Senior Health Improvement Advisor Alice Walker - Health Improvement Adviser Hannah Kelly - Health Improvement Adviser
Helen Parker - RN Antoinette Tredrea - RN Bert Nagels - RN
Medical Team , Whakatane Hospital
Whakatane APU Pilot Reducing & Admissions length of stay
Toi Te Ora Public Health Service
National Co-ordination of Workplace Being
Leading and implementing the national coordination of workplace well-being .
Radiology Department
PICC using ECG Guidance
Providing a timely and appropriate peripherally inserted central catheter ( PICC ) insertion service by adding the ability to insert PICCs using ECG guidance .
Providing a Rethink Pain workshop and create a community of health professionals and residents who understand what pain is , how it works and how to positively impact their pain .
Identify factors that may influence uptake of colorectal cancer screening in order to recommend robust guidelines to ensure Equity of uptake for Maori .
Enabling the Community Allied Health team to have all assessments typed up electronically and uploaded to CHIP within 24 hours of the home visit .
Developing a new approach to identify patients with diabetes admitted to Tauranga Hospital and providing patient access to a diabetes nurse within 24 hours of the admission .
Danyel Degenhardt - Community Physiotherapist
Te Koru Community Allied Health , Whakatane
Rethink Pain Workshop - Pain Workshop
Wanda Owen - RN
Medical Day Stay Unit
Colorectal cancer screening programme for Maori
Lynn Hansen - Community Physio Wendy Napier-Walker - Admin Support Maxine Orange - Occupational Therapist
Isabel Raiman - Nurse Practitioner Miranda McDonald-Brown - Specialty Clinical Nurse Kaye Boyd - Specialty Clinical Nurse Naomi Van de Merwe - RN Rose Fifield - Specialty Clinical Nurse Maureen Alleyne - Specialty Clinical Nurse
Community Allied Health Team
Upload Community Allied Health team assessments into CHIP in 24 hrs after home visit .
The MIND – Innovation Diabetes Nursing service .
Diabetes Team
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