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Previous Profile: Safer Care for Older Persons (in residential) Environments (SCOPE)
Overview | Learning Session in Kelowna | QI Teams | Senior Leadership | Support from BCPSQC
Overview
Safer Care for Older Persons (in residential) Environments (SCOPE) is a two-year study (2010-2012) funded by Health Canada. SCOPE is currently being conducted in a total of seven nursing homes in Alberta and British Columbia. The purpose of SCOPE is to test a quality improvement (QI) model to improve the safety and quality of care to elderly Canadians living in nursing homes and to improve the quality of work life for staff (primarily care aides) in nursing homes. The study is modeled on the Safer Healthcare Now (SHN!) national initiative which successfully enabled frontline teams, primarily in acute care, to use QI methods to implement new knowledge into direct patient care.
AB Team BC Team
Participating staff have formed QI teams to implement strategies to improve an area of resident care (e.g., pain management, skin care). Over a 12 month period, research staff will work with the QI teams to monitor and evaluate the QI strategies using the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle of rapid change. Research staff will facilitate this process through a combination of face-to-face meetings and teleconferencing. The team will evaluate process and outcomes measures using various approaches (e.g., survey, RAI-MDS© 2.0 data). By working directly with care aides, the hope is to increase their understanding of research based care, while providing opportunities for team collaboration.
Learning Session in Kelowna
A session sponsored by the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council was held in Kelowna to bring together Quality Improvement Teams from Alberta and British Columbia, researchers, clinical and quality improvement experts.
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Representatives from 10 QI Teams in attendance
Teams for the pilot study come from Alberta and British Columbia from a total of seven facilities. Each team is made of frontline providers including health/residential care aides, LPNs and rehabilitation staff who are responsible for the day-to-day provision of care to residents. Click here for more information about the teams (pdf-47Kb).
Senior Leadership Present
Senior sponsors for all 10 teams participated in the Learning session. They were treated to a Leadership Roundtable entitled “Leadership for Quality & Patient Safety” facilitated by Drs. Peter Norton, University of Calgary and Greta Cummings, University of Alberta.
"The SCOPE Learning Collaborative is an exciting opportunity to learn from those caregivers closest to the frontline how to put knowledge (or research) into practice to improve the safety and comfort of the people in our care," says Betty Thompson, Administrator of Capital Care Lynnwood.
"Thanks for the opportunity to hi lite our involvement with this research project. I am very pleased that Interior Health is involved in this initiative. I am particularly pleased that our front line care aides are front and centre in their involvement with the project. They are the folks that are closest to our residents and their families and I am looking forward to what we learn so that this can be shared. This initiative is an indication of our commitment as an organization to evidence based practice and to improving the care that we deliver to our seniors population." Joanne Konnert, VP Interior Health.
Support from the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council
“The BC Patient Safety & Quality Council is committed to supporting residential facilities in their pursuit of safer and improved care for residents. The SCOPE project works to support front-line health care workers to reduce harm to our fastest growing patient demographic, the elderly, by targeting both the safety of patients and the quality of work life for front-line staff.” D. Doug Cochrane, Chair and Provincial Patient Safety & Quality Officer of the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council.
For more information on the SCOPE project, please contact:
Debbie Barnard, MS, CPHQ
Project Manager, SCOPE Study
(Safer Care for Older Persons (in Residential) Environments)
Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta
Phone: 780-492-6836
E-mail: debbie.barnard@ualberta.ca
