The SPPC Annual Conference in 2018 featured 48 poster displays, sharing work and research underway across Scotland. Each month, this blog focuses on the content of a few of these posters. This month, we focus on six of these:
Inspiring Leadership leading self; leading with others in a palliative care setting |
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Author(s) |
Claire O’Neill, Jane Miller, Susan Jackson, Fiona Wylie. |
Aims: Pilot and evaluate a leadership programme for band 6 Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Specialist’s working within NHSGGC acute and hospices. The programme focussed on the leadership behaviours set out in the NHS Scotland Leadership Qualities Framework. Methodology: The programme aims included to build participants personal effectiveness, resilience and create a network of support, develop leadership behaviours consistent with an enabling culture and deliver a quality improvement project demonstrating impact on patient and families’ care experience. Participants attended master classes on: • Myers Briggs and Working with Differences • Quality Improvement Methodology • Influencing skills • Strategic landscape for Palliative Care. They undertook 360 review with feedback sessions linking with PDPs, Action Learning Sets, shadowing opportunities and completed a work-based QI project. The programme was evaluated using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data collection methods. Results: The evaluation data indicates that this was a very effective programme. The line manager / key person qualitative data supported the views of the participants by giving tangible examples of the impact of the programme at individual, patient, team and organisational levels. Recommendations: The outstandingly positive evaluation of the programme supports the view there is a need for this programme to continue. |
Author(s) |
Joy Rafferty |
A scoping exercise assessed
the need for palliative care among people who are homeless in Scotland. Published homelessness data estimated the
number of homeless people in Scotland.
Literature review examined morbidity and mortality, challenges of
providing palliative care to homeless people and their views on palliative care.
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Kilbryde Hospice to Kirriemuir Nursery: See how our garden grows! |
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Author(s) |
Karen Kilpatrick; Melissa Woodhouse |
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Lessons learned from integration of IPOS into the Community: Building relationships and sharing learning and understanding between Specialist and Generalist Palliative Care Services |
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Author(s) |
Neill Cree; Dr G Dunnet; Dr S McConnell; Dr J McKane; Janice Renfrew; Dr C Sime; Dr John Thompson; Dr Margaret Thompson |
The aim of the project was
to embed the use of the Integrated Palliative Outcome Scale (IPOS) within the
Inverclyde Community Primary Care teams. IPOS is a validated and reliable
tool used to identify unmet needs for people living with a life limiting illness.
IPOS use within primary care is an innovative strategy. IPOS use in
Specialist Palliative Care Services is well established.
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Lifetime in Pebbles |
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Author(s) |
Shona Crain; Mairi-Ann Higgins; Ishbel Murdoch |
The poster displays a creative project that tells the story of the growth of the Accord Hospice in Paisley where a large pebble mosaic has been hand painted by patients, families, volunteers, staff and local school children. The creation of the mosaic has involved the therapeutic benefits of art and is a reflection of the community the hospice is embedded in. It is installed in the gardens of the Accord Hospice. |
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Making a Difference – The Provision of Palliative and End of Life Care within a Community Hospital |
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Author(s) |
Lynne Hoffin; Linda Kerr; James Mack; Dr Jillian Nicoll; Dr Kathleen Sherry; Morag Thomson; Karen Wilson |
Patients in their last year of life use 30% of all acute hospital bed days. Evidence shows that over 50% of Scotland’s annual deaths take place in hospital. About 50% of NHS complaints relate to end of life care. Community hospitals such as the Biggart Hospital play an important role in the provision of healthcare. They are at the forefront of shifting the balance of care from acute services into the community and they are ideally placed to develop a range of services focussing on the provision of palliative and end of life care. MacMillan ward is a 23 bedded which specialises in palliative, end of life and Hospital Based Complex Continuing Care for patients with the need for frequent, sometimes not easily predictable, clinical interventions. During a planned Leadership Walk round it was identified that there appeared to be issues with patients’ treatment being deemed unnecessarily escalated who were approaching the end of their life. Other factors identified during the transfer process were the lack of treatment plans, recognition or assessment of the palliative identity or needs of these individuals. These complexities and lack of recognition of palliative care needs were having an impact on establishing and implementing an individual’s wishes in regard to their plan of care. This project focused on enhancing the experience for patients and their families with generalist palliative care, death, dying and bereavement needs, through the provision of specialist palliative care support/education for nursing and medical staff within MacMillan Ward. |