Health, Care or Voluntary Sector Role: Advanced Clinical Practitioner in Specialist Palliative Care
Supporting Organisation: St Nicholas Hospice Care
I thrive on learning and developing my knowledge in palliative care. I love to learn and educate others to help build their knowledge, support practice and drive new innovations in patient care.
I view the ability within my advanced practice role to be professionally curious and develop wider practice as a privilege. I am driven to enhance the awareness and implementation of interventions which advocate patient choice. Being able to upskill willing family members to deliver timely subcutaneous symptom control medications at home provides an effective way to empower patients and their family carers.
About Daisy's fellowship project
Title: Broadening awareness and further implementation of the Families Administering Medications programme across Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System
The FAM (families administering medication) programme is considered a beacon of excellence in the region using co-ordinated documentation and simplified handheld records. It is a collaborative approach across SNEE ICS and we need to be able to understand the following to advance practice. The aims of the project are to:
- Understand what works well and what needs to improve
- Broaden awareness and practical implementation of FAM across SNEE
Unknowns about the FAM programme include:
- Are there gaps in the knowledge of the training for staff?
- Are staff readily available to support family carers through the process and troubleshoot as needed?
- Is there a perceived improved patient experience in symptom control?
- How do healthcare professionals feel about the FAM programme implementation?
- Would any adjustments to the FAM programme help in the future?
My Impact project will bring key stakeholders together within a series of three workshops to allow a fluid knowledge exchange and meaningful group discussion. This engagement and co-production will include policy creators, community healthcare professionals and healthcare organisational stakeholders from across SNEE. 'Have your say’ groups could be included to help ascertain the public view as potential user groups.
Daisy's Supervisor: Dr Ben Bowers, University of Cambridge
Contact Daisy: Daisy.jacobs@stnh.org.uk