Aurélie Guérin

Introduction of pharmacy technicians onto a busy oncology ward as part of the nursing team

A project was planned to explore the practicality of using pharmacy technicians to support the workload of nursing teams on a busy haematology oncology ward of 28 beds in a university acute care childrens hospital of 300 beds. The question asked was, could pharmacy technicians be part of the nursing team to undertake what has traditionally been considered a nursing role? Three pharmacy technicians were trained and participated in the study. Assisting in the preparation and administration of 509 intravenous injections out of a possible 1123 (45%) of all intravenous injections prepared on the ward during the study period. The results indicated a reduction in adverse events of 1–2 a day during the study period, a reduction in work-related stress by nursing staff associated with preparing complex medication and releasing a nurse, 4u2005hours a day to enable them additional time to care for patients.

Cultivons le faire savoir : an II !

Pour ce numero, nous sommes ravis d’avoir renouvele le partenariat avec l’equipe du SIPHIF (Syndicat des internes en pharmacie et biologie medicale des hopitaux d’Ile de France) qui organise sa deuxieme journee du SCINPHAR (Journee scientifique des internes en pharmacie) le 1er avril 2017. Nous en publions dans ce numero les 11 travaux d’internes selectionnes anonymement par le jury. Tout juste avant, le mercredi 22 mars, nous allons avec la plateforme EFP-SYNPREFH-FNSIPM BM et [...]

Développement personnel continu, encore et toujours !

En echo, au numero du Journal de Pharmacie Clinique de septembre 2016, notre editorial en cette rentree de 2017, s’interesse a nouveau au developpement professionnel continu. Et pour cause, notre numero de septembre 2017 comprend un article decrivant un programme d’enseignement visant a developper ses competences en pharmacie clinique pediatrique et trois articles proposant un retour du congres de l’ISPOR (International society for pharmacoeconomics and outcomes research) realise [...]

CP-001 Paediatric nurses’ adherence to oral medication preparation and administration procedures in a children’s hospital: an observational study

This abstract was published in error and withdrawn at the author’s request.

CP-002 Expanding the role of pharmacy technicians as a dose double checker during the oral medication administration process: a pilot study

This abstract was published in error and withdrawn at the author’s request.

OHP-016 Postgraduate pharmacy independent prescribing course: overview across the uk

This abstract was published in error and withdrawn at the author’s request.

Investigating the cost and efficiency of incident reporting in a specialist paediatric NHS hospital and impact on patient safety

Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate the incident reporting process (IR1s), to calculate the costs of reporting incidents in this context and to gain an indication of how economic the process was and whether it could be improved to yield better outcomes. Methods A retrospective analysis of a sample, 10.47% (n=150) selected from 1432 medication incident report summaries, generated at Birmingham Childrens Hospital, a specialist tertiary referral paediatric centre, during 2014 and collated through the national Datix incident reporting system software was analysed and the associated staff time required to complete each step of the incident reporting process was costed. The staff costs for various grades of staff were averaged across the staff actually involved, using data calculated by the Personal Social Services Research Unit. Results The analysis showed that the incident reporting process involved 262 staff on 2942 occasions (19.16 staff episodes per incident form completed) at a cost of £337.16 per incident form completed. Conclusions The study showed that the incident reporting system was a labour intensive process. The numbers of staff involved in the process particularly as a result of the email distribution activity did appear to have room for efficiencies. However, it proved to be relatively inexpensive from a cost perspective. With redesign, arguably the emphasis could be moved away from the recording process to learning in order to gain improved patient safety outcomes.

La gestion du changement

Travailler ensemble differemment : une nouvelle approche de gestion. La pharmacie hospitaliere evolue et nous faisons face a de nombreux changements. Les chefs de service doivent etre prepares au changement afin de le mener au mieux. Cet article compose de trois parties reprend les points cles d’un atelier de gestion : « Working together differently: a new approach to quality management”, organise par l’Association europeenne des pharmaciens hospitaliers a Bucarest, 30 septembre-1er octobre 2016. Afin de mener au mieux ces evolutions, nous devons mener le changement, etre familier avec le concept de gestion de la qualite en pharmacie hospitaliere et avec le concept du lean.

Gestion par la méthode lean

Travailler ensemble differemment : une nouvelle approche de gestion. La pharmacie hospitaliere evolue et nous faisons face a de nombreux changements. Les chefs de service doivent etre prepares au changement afin de le mener au mieux. Cet article compose de trois parties reprend les points cles d’un atelier de gestion : « Working together differently: a new approach to quality management”, organise par l’Association europeenne des pharmaciens hospitaliers a Bucarest, 30 septembre-1er octobre 2016. Afin de mener au mieux ces evolutions, nous devons mener le changement, etre familier avec le concept de gestion de la qualite en pharmacie hospitaliere et avec le concept du lean.