The All Ireland Practice and Quality Development Database

Launch

Dublin Castle

5th April 2006

All Ireland Practice & Quality Development Database

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS PART OF NIPEC’S CORPORATE STRATEGY FROM 2002

TAKEN FORWARD via PROJECT GROUP TO SPECIFICATION

TESTED WITH NIPEC LINKS NETWORK AND TENDERED

DATABASE DEVELOPMENT – MAY - SEPTEMBER 2004

WENT LIVE – JANUARY 2005

PROMOTION ACTIVITY

COLLABORATION WITH NCNM – SEPTEMBER 2005

Database iconson NIPEC web site Homepage

All Ireland Practice & Quality Development DatabaseDatabase Specification

18 FIELDS

12 FREE TEXT

6 MENU SUPPORTED

NO ACADEMIC CRITERIA TO BE MET

RETAIN THE UNIQUE QUALITIES OF YOUR PROJECT

ACCOMMODATES ALL TYPES OF PROJECTS

TOTAL NUMBER OF PROJECTS = 50

NORTHERN IRELAND = 43 REPUBLIC OF IRELAND = 7

Summary of Database Contents

BREAKDOWN BY CATEGORY

Practice Development 16

Service Improvement 9

Quality Improvement 6

Audit 6

Other 5

Benchmarking 4

Research 2

Care Pathways 1

Cost Improvement 0

Literature Review 0

Value for Money 0

BREAKDOWN BY SUBJECT (Select up to three)

Acute Care 16

Public Health 9

Community Care 9

Older People 8

Cancer Care 8

Mental Health 7

Learning/Intellectual Disability 4

TSN/Equality/Human Rights 3

Primary Care 2

Paediatric 2

Midwifery 2

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Help and Support – The Database Booklet

National Council Mission

The National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery exists to promote and

develop the professional role of nurses and midwives in order to ensure the

delivery of quality nursing and midwifery care to patients and clients

in a changing healthcare environment.

National Council Strategic Plan Provision of continuous professional development,

education and research opportunities for nurses and midwives

Working in partnership with other agencies on research projects and practice development projects that are relevant to service and professional development needs

Developing and maintaining meaningful databases on research and practice development activities being carried out in nursing and midwifery in Ireland as a key resource for the profession

Continuing to develop the website of the Council as a key element in the information collection and dissemination strategy

Vision to Action

Strengthening the Nursing Contribution to Public Health

Recommendation:

Development of an All Island Practice Development Forum

Practice Development Sub-Group& Database Sub-Group

Identified NIPEC and the National Council as the

preferred host agents for a database of practice initiatives

National Council & NIPEC Collaboration

Initial discussions Signing of a Memorandum of

Understanding Development of a Service Level

Agreement Amendment of the database to fit the

All Ireland context

Database amendments Adjustment of fields

Types of organisation Specific terms

Expansion of operating procedures to include National Council

Technical adjustments to database to direct southern entries to National Council

Pilot Phase

Workshops with key stakeholders

Nursing practice development co-ordinators Public health nurses Regional practice development co-

ordinators for care of the elderly

Examples of initiatives on the database Dementia Care

Mapping Pilot Project

NMPDU HSE-Dublin

Project Manager-Mary O’Donnell

34 nurses trained to evaluate quality of life from the perspective of person with dementia and work with staff to develop plans to enhance care

Examples of initiatives on the database Essence of Care-

Nutrition Benchmark

NMPDU HSE South

Project Manager-Sheila Doyle

Essence of care framework used by the MDT to evaluate and improve practice in relation to nutrition of clients. Patients surveyed key improvements identified for example menus changed, assessment of nutritional status introduced

Examples of initiatives on the database Paediatric Neonatal

Clinical Facilitator Project

HSE West

Project manager-Kathy Kennedy

This project established a regional approach to the development of evidence based practice in neonatal care by establishing evidence based guidelines and procedure through consultation and developing staff skills in this area.

Examples of initiatives on the database Perinatal Liaison

Mental Health Service

HSE South

Project Manager-Elaine Healy

A nurse-led service that provides a comprehensive mental health assessment and focused interventions for families in addition to providing education to other staff involved in perinatal care

Future

Publicity campaign Populate the database Review of submissions