Chris Caws

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

Stop the Pressure trolley dash across the Surgery Care Group.
aSSKINg, checking your patients skin and put in a prevention plan.

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

Frailty training across the Surgery Care Group today. Good discussions with our medical and nursing teams. More workshops and trolley dash training to come!

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

Falls Awareness Week in Surgery Care Group
Refocussing on our Lying and Standing BP training, ensuring appropriate footwear for our patients and raising the importance of assessing our patients

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

Nursing Strategy Trolley Dash for Surgery
Thank you, Tina, for joining us, it was an excellent opportunity to discuss the ways we can implement the nursing strategy into everyday practice to improve both our patient and staff experience.

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Staff within Surgery Care Group really engaging in trolley dash looking at skin assessment for patients with medical devices, completing the Pressure Care Record and preventing pressure damage.

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

‘Pressure is on, to keep the pressure off’ strategy to commence in Surgery Care Group tomorrow!
Focus on assessing our patients skin; rolling out guidance sheets in our end of bed folders to identify category of pressure ulcer or moisture damage; document, document & document!

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

@PHUSimulation @RGonzalezPHU @peterthesimtech @PHUEducation @emmawsimulation Thank you so much for supporting this in situ simulation training as part of the month of July focus on assessing the deteriorating patient within surgery. Creative learning opportunities within the clinical area is always a success, excellent feedback received.

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

Well done to the ward teams on E2 who have worked hard to roll out Digi Meds within Surgery Care Group this week.

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

Falls Awareness Month starts in Surgery Care Group focussing on the importance of Lying & Standing Bp, completing a post fall checklist, maintaining Neuro Observations and correct Manual Handling techniques.

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

Excellent feedback to the Stoma Care Team for providing on the ward training within surgery to 10 of our HCSW’s throughout last week. Focussing on individual patient-centred stoma care is so important to our patients. Thank you for delivering learning within the ward area

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

Excellent start to the month of pressure ulcer prevention training within the Surgery Care Group. Thank you to our senior nursing team and nurse specialists for supporting the training focussed around ‘aSSKINg’. Ward staff dedicated to providing high standards of patient care.

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

Welcome to our new nurses to D2. It is great to have you join our team on D2.

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

Mouth Care Matters training within the Surgery Care Group. Many thanks to Andrea and Bethany for providing training to all our wards, which was informative and so important to ensuring that our patients receive good oral hygiene.

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

@PhysioHayley @PHUEducation @QAHospitalNews @surgeryopdpht Thank you @physiohayley for all your support, enthusiasm and motivation in teaching on Hospital Acquired Deconditioning across surgery today. Much appreciated by all members of the team.

[Hayley Price @PhysioHayley]

A great afternoon teaching about Hospital Acquired Deconditioning across our surgical wards! A big thank you to @CawsChris for all of your help and to our staff for engaging in the conversation and wanting to make a difference 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 @PHUEducation @QAHospitalNews @surgeryopdpht

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

Congratulations to Paolo and Nivya for successfully completing their Foundations in Ophthalmology course via Portsmouth University. This is a newly developed course for Registered Nurses working in Ophthalmology across the Wessex region.

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

A big welcome to our new international nurse, Trish, who has just started within surgery. We are really pleased that you have joined our nursing team.

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

@JamesJohnsonPHT @annie_munks @kellycole123 @lizzie_keen86 @cath_puttock @PHUDIGITAL Thank you, James, for all your help and support in rolling out the nursing digital record of care within surgery, you honestly have been amazing! Great work. Looking forward to when all the elective pathways can go electronic too!

[James Johnson @JamesJohnsonPHU]

Well done to the surgical division who have gone live with the nursing digital record of care this week. Great effort by all in busy times. @annie_munks @kellycole123 @lizzie_keen86 @CawsChris @cath_puttock @PHUDIGITAL #InternationalNursesDay #forpatients #workingtogether

[Chris Caws @CawsChris]

We would like to welcome our new nurses to the Surgical Care Group. We are really pleased that you have joined our team and enjoy your water bottle and welcome gifts!!