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FOI 0017 2019/20 Different Policies and Procedures

Freedom of Information Request: 0017 2019-20

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

What are the duties of a qualified haematology nurse and what skills should they possess?

Please see attached ‘Band 5 JD’.

Registered nurses are in addition competent in the administration of chemotherapy and the administration of stem cell transplants. There is a clinical educator attached to the team, and regular input and educational support from the CNS team. The nurse have to attend the JACIE course and encouraged to participate in the in house palliative care course. Please see attached ‘CytotoxicSafePrescribingHandlingProcedure’.

What are the duties of a band 2 health care assistant on ward 625?

Please see attached ‘HCA JD’.

What is your cross infection control policy?

Please see attached ‘Infection Prevention and Control Policy v6’.

What is your policy regarding supervising and ensuring patients have taken their oral medications?

Please see attached ‘578 Guidelines for Patient Self-Administration of Medicines V3 August 2017’ and ‘Medicines Code Section 9’.

What is your policy on safeguarding vulnerable adults? Do you have a policy to ensure that sick vulnerable patients are not neglected with respect to meals and hygiene?

Please see attached ‘safeguarding adults UHB’, ‘Enhanced Care Procedures version 3’, ‘red equipment mealtime procedure’, ‘Mealtime procedure flow chart_V3’, ‘See Me Care Bundle Induction Book_2’, and ‘UHB Nutrition Strategy v3. June 2016’.

How many patients died on Ward 625 between 6th November 2018 and 10th January 2019?

 

 

 

Infection Prevention and Control Policy v6

Mealtime procedure flow chart_V3

Medicines Code Section 9

red equipment mealtime procedure

Safeguarding adults UHB

See Me Care Bundle Induction Book_2

UHB Nutrition Strategy v3. June 2016

578 Guidelines for Patient Self-Administration of Medicines V3 August 2017

B5 Staff Nurse JD August 2018Cytotoxic

SafePrescribingHandlingProcedure

Enhanced Care Procedures version 3 HCA JD Final August 2018

 

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