Introduction
This is a service improvement project aimed at improving patients care and safety through efficiency and speedy access of patient’s incidence record on RIO (RIO is regarded as an electronic patient’s record (Digital Health, 2017). RIO was first introduced in 2006 as part of the National Health Service IT programme. RIO is now used widely by most Mental Healthcare Hospital in recording their patient’s notes. RIO supports the entire patient journey, from admission to care delivery and discharge. The speedy access of incidence records available for staff would support increased patient and staff safety within the ward area, which in turn may ultimately lead to an enhanced and positive healthcare outcome for patients.
The introduction of a red hexagon icon to the (RIO) patient profile page would …show more content…
effectively enable nursing staff and professionals using RIO to have quicker access to the incidence notes of the patient. Icon, such as alerts have been previously introduced to alert staff at the Mental Health Hospital of patient’s allergies. The introduction of this red hexagon incidence icon would navigate RIO users to the incidence notes thereby facilitating efficient nursing intervention, assessments, care plans reviews, therapies, medication reviews, speedy admissions and, ultimately, discharge from the hospital.
Below are two are scenarios explaining one of the reasons for this innovation.
Explanation of the scenarios
Scenario B indicates that the red hexagon icon led to the efficient and speedy response of the psychiatrist when reviewing the condition and medication of patients.
This quick intervention led to patients presenting as calm, settled and safe on the ward. Calm and settled patients were able to engage with staff to improve their mental health and physical well-being. This intervention also extinguished the need for extra support staff, which in turn saved the healthcare setting money. This intervention also prevented possible assaults on staff and other patients on the ward. Therefore this quick action is believed to have induced a safe ward, and safer environment for staff to work in, thus preventing staff stress and absence. This innovation agrees with the NHS Outcome Framework (2015-16) domains 4. The domain 4 supports positive experience of care; domain 5 support treating and caring for people in a safe environment and protecting them from avoidable harm. In addition, the innovation promotes the safety, outcome and experience of the patient (NHS Framework for Quality,
2015).
Aims
To promote efficiency of assessment on the ward so as to facilitate quick admission, discharge planning, behavioural support plan for patients, care plans, risk assessments, medication reviews, to promote patient safety and a better healthcare outcome supported by NHS Outcomes Framework (2015-2016).
A brief outline of the proposed innovation and an indication of the content of the rest of the assignment.
RIO is an electronic integrated clinical information system used by some healthcare organisation to keep patients record. The innovation is to introduce a red hexagon icon on the patient profile which would give recorded incident information of individual patients. This would be a valuable change from the old system, one which requires staff to go through the whole of patient notes to identify documented incident information. This could be laborious and time-consuming when staff are preparing for ward round, care programme approach (CPA), multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings, or when staff are completing behavioural support plans, assessments plus care plans.