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Intensive and Critical Care Nursing (2004) 20, 245—248
NEWS AND ISSUES
Calling all Welsh Forum Members 7th October 2004
M. Connolly
The Critical Care Nursing Forum will be havinga study day for its Welsh members on the 7thOctober 2004 at the RCN HQ Cardiff. This is idealooTegl
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Project outcomesThe DOH project is multi-professional and
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pportunity to network and listen to our speakersn ‘New Ways of Working in Critical Care’ andeam competencies please contact Ellie [email protected] or Gerri [email protected]. Attendance is free andunch and refreshments are included.
Critical Care Nursing and Teamompetencies—–an updateThe forum’s plans to undertake work related to
ritical care competencies was highlighted in ourinter newsletter. In particular it was hoped thaty sharing commonalities in competencies alreadyn existence it may prove possible to provide aeaningful national framework that all can utiliseor competency development. However, in Januaryf this year the forum was invited to participates a key stakeholder in a Department of Health
est or involvement in critical care services. Itis hoped that one of the outcomes from theproject will be a set of indicators of team ef-fectiveness that may then be applicable acrossall areas of healthcare where teams are workingwith patients. The project will also undertake adetailed mapping exercise to integrate existingcritical care clinical and team competencies.The final project report, due in December 2004may move us further down the path to obtain-ing the much sought after core national frame-work.
Project StagesBy August, four regional workshops will have
taken place throughout England whereby differentstakeholder groups have met and through a values
ommissioned project to identify and develop teamompetencies for adult person-centred criticalare services in England. As a consequence ofhis, we put on hold any other plans to develop
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clarification exercise have defined the purpose andcontent of critical care competencies. Delegatesat our forum annual conference have also beengiven the opportunity to contribute to this work.Prior to the regional workshops, I attended a dayffcwiaR
ompetencies at this stage and have concentratedur efforts on encouraging as many critical careurses as possible to get involved in the DOHroject.
E-mail address:[email protected]
964-3397/$ — see front matteroi:10.1016/j.iccn.2004.08.005
or facilitators that involved nominated individualsrom key stakeholder groups sharing their vision ofritical care services and discussion on how theyould engage their own professional organisationsn the project. The stakeholder groups includedllied health professional and medical colleagues.eassuringly, although the day included much
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debate and challenge, it was encouraging that weall shared at least one common vision, that criticalcare should be a patient not a place-centredservice.
You can contribute to the Competency Mapping Ex-ercise
Currently, work is ongoing on both a systematicreview of the literature in relation to indicatorsof team effectiveness and also work in relation toanalysing, mapping, cross-referencing and devel-oping the competency framework. This has alreadyincluded some work identified from the networkwide Modernisation Agency scoping exercise andwork undertaken by the medical colleges. However,if you have any competency work that you arewilling to share with the project, either froma clinical or educational perspective, pleasecontact the project lead who is Kim Manley(details below).
Wales, Northern Ireland and ScotlandThe project is funded by the Department
of Health in England but the forum has estab-
lished some dates/venues for undertaking similarproject work in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scot-land.
Brian McFetridge is organising the date inNorthern Ireland and for further detailsplease contact Brian on 02871375642 or [email protected]
*Details of this project can be found on theDepartment of Health website.
Project contact details
Kim Manley — project leadTelephone: 0207 647 3673 (Assistant Jo Odetola)orEmail: [email protected]
Dates for your diaryThe following meetings will be held at RCN HQ
Cavendish Square
Critical Care Nursing Forum steering committeemeeting 22nd October 2004Link Members day November 12th 2004
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What a success the conference was this year,superb conference facilities held at the magnifi-cent Newcastle United Football Club, nearly 200delegates participating in debates and workshops,excellent commercial exhibition, and very profes-sional presentations and posters to allow sharing ofpractice across the critical care arena.
Rosie Winterton MP minister for Health openedthe conference by sharing with members thecurrent and future provision of critical care andemergency care. She highlighted the issues for thefuture workforce for nursing and how we as nurseshave been the main difference in achieving a majormodernisation of the NHS and in ensuring that itis the patient who was at the heart of the service.The minister also launched the new Recruitmentand retention document, which can be found onthe Modernisation Agency web site and on the RCNweb site in the near future.
The minister took open questions from the floorasking delegates what were the main issues thatwere causing concern for critical care nurses. Thishighlighted the areas of, funding for outreachservices, the role of the Networks and how thePrimary Care Trusts (PCT’s) and commissioning ofcpns
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this network they can utilise a whole range ofopportunities which may serve to enhance theirknowledge, skills and professional development.It also enables nurses to function more effectivelywith a multicultural society.
Friday was a very busy day with plenary presen-tations from many practitioners across the criticalcare service. These varied from junior nurses ex-periences in critical care, changes in educationalpractices to support nurses in the workplace, RAFexperiences in the hostile military environment,to the development of competency based pro-grammes across the network. All sessions evaluatedexcellently and gave delegates the opportunity toshare and experience what is happening acrossthe UK.
Saturday brought with it an early start fordelegates, many of whom had enjoyed the sitesof Newcastle at night and into the early hours!!The first speaker was John Badham ProgrammeDirector of Essence of Care, Clinical GovernanceSupport Team—–Modernisation Agency. He gave ahumerous but serious presentation giving delegatesa true understanding of what clinical governanceis about and the contribution that they can maketcetrg
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ritical care services will shape the future. Nurserescribing and how it as yet does not meet theeeds of nurses working in acute areas trying toupport out reach services.Wendy Quinn, Network Manager West Yorkshire
ritical care Network, shared with delegates howhey had used a model to secure fundings for a crit-cal care outreach service network wide.Wendy discussed the concept of collective bid-
ing to commissioners and how this added greateight to their argument to the commissioners anduccessfully secured them the finances to deliverhe outreach service.Integral to the success was understanding how
etworks and PCT’s can work together in develop-ng and funding critical care services. Wendy ac-epted that this was only one model that workedor them but key outcomes and learning points mayelp other networks taking their issues forward.Maura McElligot Chair of RCN Critical Care
ursing Forum shared with delegates the teamompetency work recently commissioned by theepartment of Health.Finally, towards the end of a successful first
ay Chris Smith (Chair of BACCN) gave an enlight-ning presentation of their European Affiliationith the European Federation of Critical Careursing Association (EfCCNa). This partnershipllows critical care nurses to provide members thepportunity to shape critical care nursing policiest European level. If UK nurses utilise and access
o making a difference to the delivery of patientare. This included explaining what clinical gov-rnance is about, and what are the componentshat make up the portfolio of Clinical Governanceesponsibilities for staff in delivering clinicalovernance.Chris Hargraves who is Chief Executive of Na-
ional Confidential Enquiry into Patients Outcomend Death (NCEPOD) was welcomed on her re-urn to conference. She presented a summary ofhe 2003 NCEPOD report—–who operates when?I and to advise delegates of future NCEPODtudies.Jeri Coates as Information programme manager
or the National Critical care Programme sharedith the conference the Critical Care Minimum Dataet (CCMdS) and how eventually this will be anxtension of Augmented Care Period (ACP) datand supercede it. Jeri shared the background forhe creation of the CCMDS and the planned timecale for implementation. Further information andey papers can be found on the following web siteCIAG (Critical care Information Advisory Group)ttp://www.modern.nhs.uk (follow links for sec-ndary care/criticalcare/programmes of work/ in-ormation for CCIAG papers).The conference ended with an interactive dis-
ussion on Agenda for Change led by Mathew Har-is (Regional Officer RCN Newcastle). He focusedn the pay and career progressions that agenda forhange will offer nurses in the NHS.
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Questions from the audience were varied buthighlighted the anxiety and worries of nursesin relation to where they will be assimilatedonto the pay band, will it be fully funded, howdo the gate ways work and when will we getmore information from the early implementersites.
Maura closed the conference by giving the In-tensive and Critical Care Nursing journal RCN CCNFAnnual Awards and prizes for best presenters/posters:
Best presenter: £300 Award—–Judith Berbow andRehena Mohay-Ud-Din—–‘Reflection’ on the pro-cess of ‘reflection’ by a critical care student andlecturer
2nd prize—–Journal Subscription: Michelle Kelle-her and Kathryn Ross—–User involvement in criticalcare; results of a visitors satisfaction survey
Best first time presenter—–Journal Subscription:Karen hill/Nichola Raval—–Swallowing: an essenceof life
Best Poster: £200 Award—–Rosie Wilkinson/AlastairGreason—–Hyperbaric medicine: an added dimen-sion to critical care
Overall the conference was a superb success andwe look forward to seeing everyone in ManchesterJune 17th and 18th 2005, so book this date in yourdiary now, and start thinking of posters and oralpresentations.
