The productive ward module structure
Releasing Time to Care: The Productive Ward programme comprises 13 modules which are designed for self directed learning at ward level, and two additional guides (Executive Leader's Guide and Project Leader's Guide) which, combined with the other modules provide a no nonsense structure for implementing the Productive Ward.
A ward leader implementing the Productive Ward will start with the Ward Leader's Guide. Then, with the ward team, they will first work through the foundation modules (Knowing How we are Doing, Well Organised Ward and Patient Status at a Glance). These provide both a solid foundation for the more challenging 'process' modules (more details below) and a grounding in basic improvement principles.
A step by step guide, The Toolkit module, to all of the Productive Ward tools has also been developed to support you in your local implementation programme.
Getting Started:
Project Leader's Guide and Executive Leader's Guide:
These publications explain clearly what your organisation needs to commit, how it prepares to start and how your organisation chooses where to start.
Ward Leader's Guide:
What the ward needs to do to get ready.
Creating solid foundations:
Knowing How we are Doing
Developing ward based measures to help the team make informed decisions.
Well Organised Ward
Make the ward areas work for your staff so that your staff don’t have to work around the ward areas.
Patient Status at a Glance
Patient information that improves communication, patient experience and patient flow.
Focusing on key ward processes:
Meals:
Reduce the time the team spends physically delivering meals and allow more time for the team to assist with feeding and ensure proactive nutritional assessment for the patients in their care.
Medicines:
Ensure medicine rounds do not clash with other ward processes. Reduce interruptions on staff and ensure everything is ready.
Admission and Planned Discharge:
Remove the rush of admission and discharge by making the process planned. Ensure the team launch social and support functions, to aid discharge, at the correct point in the patient journey.
Shift Handovers:
Reduce the time the team spends on handovers, while making the information handed over more appropriate, easier to remember and easier to understand.
Patient Hygiene:
Ensure the dignity of the patients by delivering safe, clean and responsive care
Patient Observation:
Increase the standard of patient observations being carried out. Ensure they are accurate and that appropriate action is taken on the results.
Nursing Procedures:
Improve the supporting processes for nursing procedures so they are consistent, a better patient experience and achieve the standards the trust aspires to.
Ward Round:
Ensure clarity of outcome and clear planning from ward rounds while making the ward round quicker and more consistent.
