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I help care teams make quality on the floor concrete and achievable. Not with thick reports, but with agreements that staff understand and can apply every day.
The quality of care stands or falls with what happens on the floor. A protocol in a folder is of little help if every team, or even every shift, carries it out in its own way. That is why my quality improvement starts with practice: what do staff actually do, where is the uncertainty and which agreement is missing?
I am the developer of the wound care quality tool. Care organisations can obtain this tool under a licence. It is not a protocol, but a workable, practice-based tool to organise wound care in nursing homes safely, consistently and efficiently. You can read more about it at the wound care quality tool. Agreements that come out of it can be put on paper as described at writing a work instruction for care teams.
Many organisations notice that quality slips as soon as new colleagues, stand-ins or flexible workers join. That issue is the subject of the page safeguarding quality when staff change. If your organisation works with a quality nurse, I am happy to think along about how I can support that work. See working with the quality nurse.
The principle is always that the improvement stays with your organisation once my assignment is finished. I work with calm, overview and clear communication, and involve the people who do the work every day.
In an introductory meeting we determine which theme needs attention, who is involved and what should be different afterwards. That becomes the goal of the assignment.
I map out how work is currently done, for example with the wound care quality tool and by talking with staff.
Together with the team I draw up short, understandable working agreements. They fit your existing policy and can be applied straight away.
I make sure the agreements get a permanent place, for example in team meetings or the induction programme, and hand everything over to a permanent contact person.
Nursing homes and residential care
Area of experienceCare for clients at home
Area of experienceCare for people with dementia
Area of experiencePhysical care and nursing
Area of experienceCare in the last phase of life
Area of experienceRecovery after illness or admission
Area of experienceEverything you want to know about quality improvement.
Improvements that staff notice in their daily work. Think of one way of reporting, clear hygiene agreements or a fixed way of working for wound care.
It is not a protocol, but a workable, practice-based tool to organise wound care in nursing homes safely, consistently and efficiently. Care organisations can obtain it under a licence. In an introductory meeting I am happy to show you how it works.
No. Your organisation remains the owner of the policy. I help make it work on the floor and give advice based on my own professional responsibility.
That varies per question. We agree the content, duration and intended result in advance, and the assignment ends as soon as that work has been completed.
Yes, that works well. By working alongside the team myself I quickly see where things get stuck. We do record clearly which part of the assignment is care and which part is improvement.
Yes, gladly. I think along about how I can support your organisation, for example together with your quality nurse. The wound care quality tool and reporting according to SOAP contribute to this.
Schedule a meeting. I am happy to visit and discuss what I can do for your organisation.
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