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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.)

 
February 1, 2011
Action!

action planToday is the first day of the "active phase" which means your team should be tackling its first objective.  At the February 22 webinar, we will hear from teams about how things are going so far. We have a limited amount of time in this initiative to try to make important and significant changes.   Let's make the most of the strong enthusiasm and commitment that were evident in the learning sessions to get off to a good start.   Please contact us at any time for help refining your team's Action Plan, completing data collection/data entry, or engaging needed stakeholders. 
 
Here's what your team needs to have in place, so you can concentrate on taking the steps described in your draft action plan to achieve your team's objectives:
 
1. Extranet access - make sure you have an account on www.pqcnc.org and that you have the option "SIVB Extranet" under Initiatives, "Support for Birth" once you are signed in to the website.  There will be lots of new content on the Extranet in coming days and weeks.  This week on the Extranet you will find:

·    all of the presentations from the learning session
·    the Action Planning Worksheet which was distributed at the learning session
·    a data report with graphs of the aggregate baseline data (all hospitals combined)
·    a document called "Patient Perspective" which combines all the responses from the patient-centered care discussion at the learning sessions
·    "Teams' goals and objectives" document showing the goals and objectives each hospital team has set for itself

The Extranet is also where you can locate the correct version of the Data Collection Form, now also available in PDF (if the formatting was not working right when you downloaded the Word document, try the PDF version).
 
2. Data team with access to the SIVB data website - make sure all team members who will be working on data collection have the correct version of the form, a data collection plan, and access to the Support for Birth data website.  Data enterers should test their access to this site this week and contact us if there are any problems getting to the data entry screen. Contact Jessica (jphipps@email.unc.edu), Kate Berrien (kberrien@unch.unc.edu) or Keith Cochran (keith_cochran@unc.edu) for assistance with the SIVB data site. 
 
This initiative is about testing changes to practice to see if we can improve the rate of vaginal birth; it is not about data collection!  The data is a tool that will allow us to measure how successful we are at reaching our goals.  Make sure your data entry team is ready to go, so that your team can focus on the important work of this initiative rather than expending all of your time and energy collecting data. 
 
3. Draft action plan - each hospital team should now have a draft action plan in place.  This should include a broad goal and SMART objectives - Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-bound objectives.  So far, only half of the teams have given us the Goals/Objectives worksheet (the last page of the Teams Worksheet from the learning session, now available on the Extranet as the "Action Planning Worksheet").  Some teams may want to ensure their objectives are "smart" enough - make sure they are concrete, describe specifically what change will take place and by when.  Then, the action steps should describe what work you will do (again, concrete steps with assignments of who will do them and by when) to fulfill those objectives.


Mark your calendars
 
 
conference call The first interactive all-team webinar is February 22 from 7:30-9am.  Make sure your team members have this date on their calendar.  We will be focusing on practices related to induction of labor with a specific focus on cervical ripening.  We will ask teams to present some of their current practices and the changes they are working on making next month.  If your team has a specific practice, challenge or strategy you would like to discuss on this webinar, please let us know (kberrien@unch.unc.edu) so we can include you on the agenda.


Contact Kate

Kate Berrien
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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