My Ambitions for Nursing

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My Ambitions for Nursing

• Ros Moore
• Chief Nursing Officer
• Scottish Government

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National Context

• A Scotland Where Everyone
• Can Flourish Through Increasing
• Sustainable Economic Growth.
• Wealthier and Fairer
• Smarter
• Healthier
• Safer and Stronger
• Greener
• (Better Health Better Care Action Plan,Scottish
• Government 2007)

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Why we need action
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Why we need action

• Patients and public rightly demand and expect
  high quality care but it remains highly
  variable
• - National Patient Surveys
• - Mid Staffs / Maidstone / Six Lives and others
• - VoL/ombudsmen/Scottish Patients Association
  reports etc)

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Why we need action
Changing health economies To do more with the
same
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Why we need action

• National demographics

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Why we need action

• Nursing and midwifery teams really are key to the
  quality strategy harness that force

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our vision and values

• share a common purpose
• care about our patients, their carers and
  families
• promote health and well being
• care with compassion
• care with dignity and respect
• care about outcomes
• care about what we do and the way we do it

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Have to show we live them?
Ellen 76 yrs Wife of Harry Mother
Grandmother Fit well until neck of femur Now
.
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Why we need action

• We have the evidence we know what to do.

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My three ambitions

• To use taxpayer money wisely so that we come out
  the other end of this with better care and better
  services agreed through real partnerships with
  our staff, service users communities
• Achieved by getting the routine high impact
  nursing interventions right - all the time
  through productivity prevention and innovation.
• We stay connected to the workforce, their values
  motivations

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The QS is the opportunity to tackle some of these
enduring problems

• caring and compassionate health services
• collaborating with patients and everyone working
  for and with NHSScotland
• providing a clean and safe care environment
• improved access and continuity of care
• confidence and trust in healthcare services
• delivering clinical excellence

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Needs

• Vision
• Collective leadership
• Partnerships with patients professions, agencies
  stakeholders
• Accountability
• Competence
• Measurement and monitoring
• Assurance

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In the magic box

• reduced hospitalisation
• standardisation
• technology
• reducing clinical error and harm
• waste reduction
• reduce variation in outcomes experience
• systematic application of what works
  
• measurement