Lead:
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“The major reason we in healthcare come to work is to ensure high quality care can be provided for patients and whānau.
High quality care in EDs is safe, timely, effective, equitable, efficient, and patient-focused. As well, high quality care is integrated within the overall health system, and is mana-enhancing work for staff whose wellbeing is considered vital to the provision of that care.
As well as attending to personal and workplace culture factors, system factors that are barriers to workplace wellbeing must be addressed.”
The Executive Team
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“Distress to the point of burnout is experienced in departments of all sizes everywhere and by all team members. Aotearoa NZ emergency departments (EDs) have been proven to be experiencing high levels of it, and reported in mainstream media. In contrast, wellbeing should be easily accessible for everyone everywhere, and there are international recommendations for this.
The aim is to support wellbeing for all staff by teaching them quality improvement activities to address their local causes of distress. Actions will be locally owned by and for all staff groups and will be supported by a national executive team from a wide range of disciplines. Outcomes will be measured by the core executive team as a research project.”
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“In Aotearoa New Zealand, emergency departments (EDs) have over 1 million consultations with consumers each year. It is critical that each of these consultations is delivered by ED staff who are functioning at the best of their ability, within a high-quality, supportive and inclusive department to ensure safe, timely, equitable and patient-centred care. Unfortunately, many ED staff in Aotearoa are experiencing high levels of burnout, which is linked to increased errors, high staff turnover and impacts negatively on patient and staff satisfaction.
We are committed to improving the workplace wellbeing in our EDs by implementing a quality improvement process (QILS) which empowers ED staff to identify local issues to workplace wellbeing and uses a solution-based approach for addressing these. We want to understand if this insider-led ED intervention can improve ED staff well-being, and ultimately improve the care we deliver to both our ED patients in Aotearoa and beyond.”
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Passionate about rural workforce wellbeing and representing nursing within this research team. I believe part of growing and retaining a great workforce that works together to meet patients’ needs, is about genuinely looking out for each other and playing as well as working together.
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The Supervisor Team
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ED staff in Aotearoa want to deliver high quality care and value being a part of a supportive team. However, ED staff in Aotearoa have very high rates of burnout. Burnout not only effects staff wellbeing but also effects patient care; staff with high rates of burnout make more errors.
Our project will use a quality improvement process, known as QILS, to empower all ED staff to identify areas for improvement in patient care in their ED. Individual EDs will then try and implement these improvements high-lighted by their staff. Alongside this process individual EDs will use a range of successful strategies to improve staff wellbeing. With a focus on quality being driven from the ground up, staff empowerment, and staff engagement we hope to improve both care for ED patients and ED staff burnout.
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