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Upcoming
important dates, next steps for the SIVB Initiative...
(The Support for Birth initiative's weekly email newsletter comes out every Tuesday. As a reminder, it is your job as key contact to share relevant information with other team members at your hospital.)
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| Conference call/webinar today at noon! |
|  Every team should have a representative on this call. We will go over details about the data collection procedures and the data collection form. We will also allow time for hospitals to share how things are going in terms of identifying patients and collecting the data.
Dial-in number: 1-712-432-6100, passcode 96875#
To access the Elluminate webinar program, click here.
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| Are you ready for November's data collection? |
|  We've heard from several teams who were still getting up to speed with data collection during the month of October. In order to ensure you have good information to work with at the January learning session, it is important that your team is on track for the month of November. If you are not 100% ready to collect complete data for November, contact me this week so we can work out a plan that will make sense for your team. Hospitals that plan to sample but did not fully implement data collection in October should plan to collect data on all cases or a sample of 80 cases in November. Jessica (the graduate student working on this initiative) or I will follow up directly with teams we have not heard from yet about data collection. If you have not done so already, use this link to answer a brief questionnaire (5 questions) about how data collection is going at your site:
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/386530/baseline-data
Read sample responses to the survey at the bottom of this message.
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| Data submission for October data |
|  To expedite baseline data analysis, we will take care of getting your baseline data entered. Please send us copies of your October data collection forms by November 10. You may also email scanned copies, if this complies with your institution's policies (some hospitals have included patient-identifying information on the forms, in which case your hospital's privacy policies will apply). The copies you submit to us will be shredded once the data is entered.
Mail your data forms to:
Keith Cochran
PO Box 1117
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
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| Support for Birth Extranet available on the PQCNC website! |
|  Make sure you are a registered team member for this project; we will grant Extranet access to all team members. At this time, the data collection materials are posted. As the project goes into the active phase in January 2011, we will post relevant studies, best practices and sample policies. We are always open to your input about what would be useful for you on the Extranet.
To access the Extranet use the link, titled SIVB Extranet, located on the right hand menu (see illustration at right) - the link is only available to those who have registered on www.pqcnc.org and have SIVB access.
So: - If you can currently see the link when you are logged into www.pqcnc.org there's nothing you need do - you have access.
- If you have registered on PQCNC.org and do not see the link please email Keith and tell me your login ID and he will give you access.
- If you have not yet registered on PQCNC.org you can do so by visiting http://www.pqcnc.org and clicking on 'Login' on the top menu bar and selecting 'Create new account' - after you create your account please email Keith with your login ID and he will give you access.
If any of this is not clear please email Keith and he'll be delighted to assist you...
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Pre-registration is now available for the January learning session.
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Each team needs to attend one of the two learning sessions, January 11 in Winston Salem or January 25 in Raleigh. All three key team members (physician champion, nurse champion, senior hospital administrator) are expected to attend; each hospital is encouraged to bring up to six key team members, including quality/performance improvement department personnel, patient advocates, staff nurses and others. CME Category I credit (good for MDs, NPs, CNMs, and RNs), lunch and materials will be provided at no cost.
The pre-registration page has been designed so that you can inform us who ALL of your team members are, and then indicate which will attend the learning session. Several hospitals have registered with incomplete teams. Now is the team to put your team together so you will be ready in January. Make sure your team members know which learning session you are attending so they can clear their calendars. If you would like PQCNC to work with your hospital, unit or OB department to help identify key stakeholders for this initiative, contact Kate.
Please use the following link to pre-register:
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/391060/fugqy
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Survey Responses
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|  Sample of data collection challenges reported by SIVB teams:
- Getting a team together and figuring out a process so that the work is not duplicated.
- Determination of the sample of patients to use since we have 2 units within one.
- Lots of data to collect, trying to find people to help collect data. Nurses are not documenting enough data in their charts, which makes it hard to collect all info needed.
- Not capturing all patients who qualify for data collection
Sample of data collection strategies being used by SIVB teams:- Identified the first forty NTSV's combining patients from both sides of the unit. Prioritized them depending on admission time.
- We have 2 L&D nurses and myself collecting the data. We knew from past projects that we could not count on all of the staff to participate. We collect the data daily.
- We print out the del summary log and number starting at 1...I started the data collection and write down by the pt's name when I am finished with a chart, then the other data collectors can pick up where one left off.
- We have an system called Med Ex that automatically prints chart forms for specific patient populations on admission. We have put the data form through the forms committee and it now prints for every admission to L&D. The staff fill it out and I collect them every couple of days, check against the log book to make sure I have one on every patient and then fill out one for the ones that are missing if they are not qualified for the study. For the ones who qualify, I give the form to the nurse who cared for the patient and have her fill it out. This takes about 30 minutes 2-3 times a week.
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Contact Kate
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Kate Berrien, RN, BSN, MS
UNC Center for Maternal & Infant Health
CB# 7181
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
kberrien@unch.unc.edu
Phone: 919-843-9336 Fax: 919-843-7866 |
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