Best Practice Statement Children receiving Home Oxygen Therapy

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Best Practice StatementChildren receiving Home
Oxygen Therapy

• Dawn Moss
• Community Childrens Nursing Network
  Co-ordinator

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Why home oxygen?

• childs journey from hospital to home
• inconsistencies in practice - equipment
• risk of isolation
• access to information

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Background

• Aim of statement - promote consistency in care
• Involving and informing parents
• Birth - transitional services

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Key principles

• Child-focused
• Communication sharing of information between
  services
• Involving informing parents/carers
• Consistent approach needed re funding of equipment

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8 themes

• initial management plan
• discharge planning
• risk assessment management
• information for parents / carers
• provision of equipment supplies
• transport of oxygen
• oxygen therapy at school
• oxygen therapy outside the home

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Communication

• Initial management plan
• Discharge planning
• Forward thinking - Involvement

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Information for parents / carers

• where to go for advice support
• risks associated with oxygen therapy
• provision of equipment supplies

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Inclusion

• transport of oxygen
• oxygen at school
• using oxygen outside the home

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Putting it into practice

• Dumfries Galloway

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Recommendations / whats needed?

• central funding policy
• research recommendations??
• Scottish Executive Review - implications for the
  future ---- development work

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