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Healthcare Events Nursing Update: Issue 2
Welcome to the second edition of the Healthcare
Events nursing update newsletter – the e-newsletter that brings you the
latest news on nursing and our related nursing conferences. PLUS your opportunity to take part in our first online
opinion survey...
‘In caring for patients, all healthcare
professional must follow a ‘golden rule’: do no harm. This rule
requires that safe environments, safe treatments and safe care are of
fundamental importance. In fact, safety and quality of care are
inseparable, and nurses cannot deliver the latter until have ensure the
former.’
– Maura Buchanan President Royal College of Nursing
and Nursing Management, Vol 14 No 10 p9 March 2008
Chaired by Suzette Woodward, Director, Strategy Unit
National Patient Safety Agency, this conference provides a guide for
Matrons, Ward Managers and Senior Nurses to proactively manage and
improve patient safety on the wards, whilst ensuring safe and high
quality nursing practice.
Conference date: Wednesday 14th May
Venue: Manchester Conference Centre
To book a place at the conference, please click here.
Suzette Woodward’s presentation on Root Cause Analysis is
currently available here
Root Cause Anaylsis (RCA) is a key tool to ensure learning from
patient safety incidents, it is covered in the conference programme,
and was recently referred to in the CNO’s bulletin, please see page 4
at http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Bulletins/Chiefnursingofficerbulletin/Browsable
/DH_082762
Based on the recommendations from ‘Handling
Concerns about the Performance of Healthcare Professionals’ and the
White Paper ‘Trust, Assurance and Safety – The Regulation of Healthcare
Professionals in the 21st Century’, this extremely popular conference
provides guidance on implementing effective systems for identifying,
preventing, responding to and managing performance concerns.
Conference date: Thursday 15th May Venue:
20 Cavendish Square, London.
SOLD OUT: to request a brochure for the next event to be held
in London on Thursday 11th September, please email us.
Handling Concerns is available at ht
tp://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4140207
Maureen Morgan Professional Officer for Policy and Practice
Department of Health and Working Group Co-Chair ‘Handling Concerns
about the Performance of Healthcare Professionals’ will give the
keynote introduction, Maureen’s presentation from the previous
conference is available here
‘Pain management has been slipping off the nursing
agenda and is no longer taught to all nurses.’
– Nursing Times: What Happened to Pain Management
26 November 2007
Aimed at ALL nurses and not just pain or pain management nurses,
this conference addresses the key areas fundamental to providing
effective pain assessment and management including education,
empowerment, collaboration and measurement. Celia Mason Nurse
Adviser in Complementary Therapies, Pain and Palliative Care Royal
College of Nursing will discuss adopting pain as the 5th vital sign in
her keynote address.
Conference date: Thursday 22nd May
Venue: 20 Cavendish Square, London
To book a place at the conference, please click here
The Chief Nursing Officers publication –
Modernising Nursing Careers sets out 4 aims to:
- develop a competence and flexible workforce
- update career pathways and career choices
- prepare nurses to lead in a changed healthcare system
- modernise the image of nursing and nursing careers
With presentations from the Department of Health, Royal College
of Nursing, Nursing Midwifery Council and Skills for Health the
conference will address these aims, plus the recent proposals set out
in the two recent consultations for pre and post-registration nursing
Modernising Nursing Careers is available at http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4
138756
The conference splits into streams after lunch; Stream B for senior
nurses looking to develop and strengthen their nursing workforce for
strategic development and redesign and Stream A which offers practical
advice for career progression. Delegates will then have the opportunity
to learn from others, with personal experiences from nurses that have
progressed in their careers.
Conference date: Tuesday 10th
June 2008 Venue: 20 Cavendish Square, London
To book a place at the conference, please click here
After seven years, the Essence of Care benchmarks
have become well established as indicators of high quality care, this
is reflected in plans for a national audit process relating to Essence
of Care. It is therefore essential that adherence be maintained.
Chaired by Linda Watterson Programme Manager, Evaluating
and Improving Royal College of Nursing and with a keynote
presentation from Maureen Morgan Professional Officer
Department of Health the sixth national conference looks at the NEW
benchmark on the patient care environment, and provides advice on
implementing, maintaining and revitalising Essence of Care in practice.
Conference date: Wednesday 11th
June 2008 Venue: 20 Cavendish Square, London
To book a place at the conference, please click here
John Badham’s (Former Professional Nurse Advisor
National Clinical Governance Support Team) keynote presentation from
our last Essence of Care conference is available here
The Stroke Strategy, launched on 5 December 2007,
sets a clear direction for the development of stroke services in
England over the next ten years and by 2010 the Government aims to
reduce the death rate from Stroke, CHD and related diseases in people
under 75 by at least 40%.
The Stroke Strategy is available at http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_0
81062
An important conference for Stroke Nurses to attend, the programme
covers the areas in the ten-point plan which are used to summarise the
stroke strategy including – awareness, prevention, patient involvement,
urgent care, rehabilitation, service improvement. The strategy also
uses Quality Markers which are clearly identified throughout the
programme.
Professor Roger Boyle CBE National Director of Heart
Disease and Stroke Department of Health provides an overview of the
strategy, its implementation and the nursing contribution to improving
stroke services. With contributions from the National Stroke
Nursing Forum and The Stroke Association.
Conference date: Tuesday 1st July
2008 Venue: 20 Cavendish Square, London
To book a place at the conference, please click here
Releasing time to care: The productive Ward,
launched earlier this year focuses on improving ward processes and
environments to help nurses spend more time on patient care thereby
improve safety and efficiency.
Further information is available at http://www.institut
e.nhs.uk/quality_and_value/productivity_series/productive_ward.html
The Productive Ward programme has been implemented at Luton and
Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cathy Adcock, Improvement
Manager at the Trust presented an overview at our previous
conference. Her presentation is available here
New for this conference is a session which follows on from the
Productive Ward on implementing lean principles.
Conference date: Monday
7th July 2008 Venue: Manchester
Conference Centre
To book a place at the conference, please click here
Suitable for current and aspiring Ward Managers
The NPSA highlighted the issue of patient
deterioration in July 2007 with its report ‘Safer care for the acutely
ill patient: learning from serious incidents’, which included a
detailed analysis of 576 deaths, reported to the NRLS over a year. More
than 11% of these deaths related to patient deterioration not
recognised or acted upon. Together with NICE guidance released at the
same time, an emphasis has been placed on improving patient safety by
recognising and responding to acutely ill patients.
This second national conference follows the success of the first
held in London in February. Since the last conference implementation
guidance has now been released:
‘Recognising and responding appropriately to early signs of
deterioration in hospitalised patients’; a new report which explores
patient deterioration and offers practical help to NHS staff on how to
recognise and act upon it, available at - http://www.npsa.nhs.uk/corpo
rate/news/deterioration-in-hospitalised-patients/
and NICE Acutely Ill Patients in Hospital, Implementation Advice,
available at - http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/pdf/AI
Pimplementationadvicev7.pdf
Also worth a look… Department of Health consultation: ‘Competencies
for recognising and responding to acutely ill patients in hospital’
available at
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/DH_083630 Jane
Eddleston Chair of the Working Group will be giving the
keynote presentation at the conference.
Kate Beaumont Deterioration Project Lead NPSA will
present ‘Why are deteriorating patients not recognised or acted upon
and what can we do about it?’ Kate’s presentation from the previous
conferences is available here
Conference date: Tuesday 8th July
2008 Venue: Manchester Conference Centre
To book a place at the conference, please click here
A large multi-stream conference and exhibition
aimed at nurses who run, or a planning to run, clinics and those who
support them from a number of specialties including Cancer Care,
Cardiology, Urology, Medicine, Surgery, Mental Health, Colorectal and
Stoma Care, and Wound Care. With separate streams, focus sessions,
networking forums and a workshop, delegates will have the opportunity
to hear from nurses that are successfully running clinics and working
at an advanced level of practice.
Dr Richard Hatchett Author ‘Nurse Led Clinics: Practice
Issues’, and Principal Lecturer London South Bank
University will chair the conference and The Department of Health
and Nursing Midwifery Council will give keynote presentations.
The conference is accredited by the RCN Accreditation Unit, supported
by Education for Health and endorsed by the Association for
Perioperative Practice, the British Association for Nurses in Cardiac
Care and the UK Oncology Nursing Society.
Dr Richard Hatchett’s previous presentation is available here
and details of his book are available at http://www.routledgenursing.com/books/Nurse-Led-Clinics-isbn9780415283120
At only £160 (+VAT) delegates will receive a free copy of Dr
Richard Hatchett’s book, free entry to the exhibition, lunch and
refreshments and a copy of the conference handbook, which will cover
all sessions.
To request a brochure, please email us.
If you have information that you would like to share in the next
newsletter or have an idea for a future conference, alternatively if
you are interested in speaking at a Healthcare Events conference,
please email us.
Previous issues and an up to date list of Healthcare Events nursing
conferences are available at www.healthcare-events.co.uk
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