Unity targeted coaching programme: week two – recording vital signs in Unity

July 23, 2018

Monday 23 July is week two of the new Unity targeted coaching programme and the theme is – recording vital signs in Unity.

The clinical informatics team will be out and about meeting colleagues across our sites and delivering short five minute one-to-one micro-coaching sessions to ensure that our clinical colleagues are prepared for when Unity goes live later this year.

The team will demonstrate what alerts pop up when we have a high national early warning score (NEWS) and explain the risks of not reading the discern alerts. They will also show where the patient observation can be viewed by the multidisciplinary team and how to set up a task to remind colleagues to take patient observations.

In the first week of the coaching programme the team delivered sessions to over 150 colleagues. Departments were pleased to get dedicated support from colleagues who know Unity very well.

Positive comments from colleagues who took part in the coaching included:

“When I first heard about Unity, I was worried about it, but having seen it I’m confident it will work.”

“I am not very confident with computers, but I will have a go.”

The coaching programme will run for 15 weeks in total. It is critical to stress that this is not a training programme and is not a replacement for the formal end user training which is a requirement for all colleagues (including those that have already undertaken digital champion and/or early adopter training).

The clinical informatics team will endeavour to avoid causing any disruption to ward routines and have written to ward managers to allow team members the time to participate in these sessions and start to get familiar with Unity.

For further information email swbh.informaticsnurses@nhs.net