Rachel DuffyPhomolo Madome

Eva van Swaaij

In Europe PH is focused on “adding life to years”(healthy ageing)

Make people aware about how they want their life to be when they're old.

General public: campaigns, commercials or workshops at schools, community centers, companies, train/bus stations, facebook,

Start from 1 to 2 then to 4 and so on

Use the few that are interested to educate others

Give them tasks to research on quality improvement projects that have been done before

Hold work-shops with them more often

Always try make reference to recent quality improvement changes

Establish a work-place Quality Committee Have Quality as a standing agenda item in

your regular staff meetings If you have an established occupational

health and safety (OH&S) Committee, include Quality into the terms of reference(TOR).

Think about creating Quality Champions amongst your staff

Have weekly/fortnightly Quality quizzes and games

Create a Continuous Quality Improvement Log and ask staff to identify one workplace activity or procedure that could be improved (however small).

Reward and recognize improvement. One of the easiest ways to engage staff members in QI is positive reinforcement through reward and recognition of their efforts. Publicize all QI projects and outcomes, or encourage a friendly competition between units and reward with food, small gifts.

Forming unit-level improvement teams that had decision-making responsibility for change

Involving staff in brainstorming sessions designed to identify problems and generate ideas for change

Encouraging staff to experiment with little changes by conducting many small, rapid tests of change

Enabling staff to measure the effects of the rapid tests on care processes and outcomes

Encouraging staff to use these measures to decide whether to abandon, adapt, or adopt the change

Pearson, M. L., Needleman, J., Parkerton, P. H., Upenieks, V. V., Soban, L. M., & Yee, T. (2009). Participation of Unit Nurses. American Journal of Nursing, 109 (11). 66-70. Retrieved from http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?Article_ID=940604

Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria Inc. (2010). What is Continuous Improvement? Retrieved from http://www.vicserv.org.au/quality-and-ohs/continuous-improvement/ci-faqs.html

Eva: I brainstormed about ideas that you coulduse to encourage QI campaigning in PH.

Phomolo: I tried to find some scholorly articles on Ebscohost and google scholor but i did not find any thing so i had to brainstorm.

Rachel: I found searching for quality improvement activities quite difficult- I used my home universities search engine and used the keys words "engaging staff in quality improvement activities".