Welcome to Nursing the Deteriorating Patient
Recognising and responding to the deteriorating patient in order to improve patient outcomes and prevent avoidable mortality is a well recognised national and international patient safety issue.
However despite this recognition and the development of specific national guidelines and improvement interventions, there is still strong evidence that nurses are failing to detect patients whose physiological condition deteriorates in hospital. And are failing to act appropriately to prevent patients becoming more seriously unwell.
Nursing Times in association with HSJ has developed this important new conference as a practical tool to improve the recognition and treatment of the deteriorating patient in your hospital. It has been designed specifically to help you to deliver the NICE guidelines and as a practical guide to implementing the Patient Safety First intervention: Reducing Harm from Deterioration.
Featuring a series of skills development sessions and case studies, the event will provide you with all the information you need to improve nursing care for the deteriorating patient.
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"The aging population and shorter length of stay, means that patients in patients in hospital today need a higher level of care than before. It is essential therefore, that hospital staff are equipped to recognise and manage deterioration confidently and competently…There is strong evidence showing that delays in recognising deterioration or inappropriate management can result in late treatment, avoidable admissions to intensive care and in some cases unnecessary deaths."
Dame Christine Beasley
Chief Nursing Officer, Department of Health
Competencies for Recognising and Responding to Acutely Ill Patients in Hospital - 26th Mar 2009
5 reasons to attend...
...Nursing the Deteriorating Patient:
- To explore how to implement the new Competency Framework for recognising and responding to the unwell patient
- To enable delivery of the Patient Safety First intervention - Reducing Harm from Deterioration
- To improve for patient outcomes and hospital safety indicators such as cardiac arrest rates and mortality ratios
- To improve the quality of physiological observations to better enable the recognition and rapid treatment of the deteriorating patient
- To understand the use of Failure to Rescue as an indicator of nursing quality
