📣 RESOURCE NOW LIVE 📣
Your Tracheostomy: Education and Support
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Free, multimedia resource aimed to support patients, carers, families + clinicians with all things tracheostomy 🗣
🚨 EXCITING NEW ROLE 🚨
Tracheostomy Specialist Practice Educator within Lancashire & South Cumbria Regional Tracheostomy Team
Passionate about education, service improvement and high quality tracheostomy care? Come and join us!
📣 Tracheostomy Specialist Practice Educator 📣
Thrilled to announce our service expansion as we look to welcome a passionate individual to support with education + training provision to pts, carers, families and clinicians across Lancs + S.Cumbria
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Is there an area of healthcare that you would like to improve? - tell us! https://t.co/QXBgV3I1MC
You might be proposing a topic for next year.
Step 1 - fill out 'PART1' form - it's really short, and we will guide you from there. @HQIP@HealthFdn@NHSGIRFT@NICEComms@AoMRC
@YvonneElley@BelfastTrust Hi Yvonne, I would recommend reaching out to your trust patient experience lead for support. Please email our team account and a member of the team will be in touch.
#SwallowAware2023@thetracheteam@KellyYoud@VanyaRCN@trachezey
MDT photo with patient consent. Recent decannulation = dysphagia & laryngeal rehab: cuff down, OWV, EF swallow, FEES, VF, NMES, IQoro, return to eating & drinking prior to decannulation✅️🙌
4. Whilst mouth care reduces infection, it also supports oro motor control, provides routine to the day along with ADL rehab, maintains dignity and comfort and so much more!
#EveryMouthCounts#MDTApproach#EveryInterventionCounts
🦷🪥 Tracheostomy Mouth Care Week 2023 🪥🦷👄 comes to an end… It has been a busy week but valuable week focusing on oral hygiene across the region. Common themes from this week:
This week we have:
✅ Trained 23 staff in oral hygiene
✅ Visited 5 care homes
✅ Completed 29 oral hygiene reviews
✅ Implemented 11 oral hygiene care plans
✅ Completed 2 SCD referrals
And brushed lots of teeth!
#EveryMouthCounts#MDTApproach#EveryInterventionCounts
If you are unsure about Mouthcare for your NBM patients, or concerned about harming your patient, ask for support from your nursing, SLT or dentist colleagues. Patients who are NBM are particularly at risk of dry, sore mouths #MDTApproach#EveryMouthCounts
If you are concerned about patient hypersensitivity impacting on Mouthcare, request a referral to Speech & Language Therapy. SLT can implement desensitisation programs if appropriate #MDTApproach#EveryInterventionCounts 🪥🦷👄
If you are unsure about appropriate equipment for Mouthcare, see our NHS Supply Chain product code list below #everymouthcounts@thetracheteam Mouthcare Week 2023 👄🦷🪥
📢 Poll results!! We asked what concerns do you/others have about keeping patients’ mouths clean and healthy. 7% pt hypersensitivity, 21% worried re: harming pt, 31% NBM, 41% no appropriate equipment #EveryMouthCounts#MDTApproach#EveryInterventionCounts
If you are concerned about patient hypersensitivity impacting on mouth care, request a referral to Speech & Language Therapy. SLT can implement desensitisation programs if appropriate. #EveryMouthCounts#MDTApproach#EveryInterventionCounts
There is no requirement for specialist equipment when delivering mouth care. SLS free toothpaste is readily available and cheap to buy. Oral suction and standard tooth brushes can be used. #EveryMouthCounts#MDTApproach#EveryInterventionCounts