C01-1 Engaging Frontline Staff to Optimize Quality Improvement and Performance

 

Authors: Michelle O’Connor, RN, BScN, MN, PNC(C); Claudia Browne-Bynoe, RN, BScN; Beverly St. Martin, RN, BScN, MHSc; Barb Scott, RN, MN; Tharshini Kamalachandra, BASc

 

Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to showcase one organization's strategy to optimize the integration of innovation into quality improvement and performance in the perinatal setting.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the importance of displaying unit-specific data in a meaningful way.
• Utilize Pareto charts to understand unit-specific barriers to process measures.
• Apply tools to engage staff to improve performance and outcome measures.

Presenters: Michelle O’Connor, Claudia Browne-Bynoe, and Beverly St. Martin, Scarborough and Rogue Hospital, Scarborough ON

 

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C01-2 Saskatoon Health Region's Journey to Single Room Maternity Care

 

Authors: Leanne Smith, RN, BSN, MHA, CHE; Jade Odermatt, RN, BScN

 

Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to share with the audience how the Saskatoon Health Region has used lean tools to engage care providers in developing the model of care for the new maternal and children's hospital scheduled to open in 2019 in Saskatoon. The Maternal Care Unit in the hospital will consist of 49 single room maternity care rooms which is a large departure from the current model with separate Labour and Birth and Post-Partum Units.

 

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how lean methodologies can be used to develop a model of care.
• Understand how staff and physician engagement can assist in changing a culture.
• Describe how single room maternity care will be operationalized in a large tertiary hospital.

Presenters: Leanne Smith and Jade Odermatt, Saskatoon Health Region, Saskatoon SK