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ISSN: 2632-251X | Volume 3 Nursing Practice 2019 & Neonatology 2019
December 09-10, 2019
Page 13
Nursing and Nursing Practice Neonatology and Perinatology
December 09-10, 2019 | Barcelona, Spain
7th Global Experts Meeting on 4th World Congress on
Journal of Nursing Research and Practice
J Nurs Res Pract, Volume 3
Rajasperi Naicker (Jessie)
Sidra Medicine, Qatar
Insights: Macro orientation journey at a Greenfield Hospital in the Middle East-successes
and challenges!
Statement of the Problem: Activation of the services for women and children in a newly commissioned hospital required
mass onboarding of clinical and non-clinical staff who have been recruited from 98 plus countries. These new hires are
culturally diverse; have varying clinical skills and practice expectations. Streamlining them into a world-class platform
with sophisticated systems, processes, technology and equipment to deliver excellent safe patient care was certainly
challenging but equally rewarding. Macro nursing and midwifery orientation is the starting point. The strategies and
implementation process required rigorous teamwork with consistent PDSA cycles which proved to be perpetual work in
progress in response to a very fluid environment.
The purpose of this presentation is to describe the impact and influence of macro-orientation strategies to ensure evidence-
based best practice, safe, clinical care in the absence of robust standards of practice. This includes a feedback analysis
from the evaluation of the processes implemented and to share the experiences learned.
Methodology & Theoretical Orientation: A review of the publication on similar situation in patient care has been
conducted. Our orientation process and uniqueness of the ideas we implemented are narrated. In order to evaluate the
impact, a pre and post survey (at the time of intake and 6 months after the in site patient care) as well as a qualitative
interview with blindly selected staff has been conducted.
Findings: The staff has expressed an immense value of the orientation, skill and diversity of culture and cohesiveness
learned. The survey and interview highlighted the skill mix, inter-professional mix and other innovative strategies
implemented to be most useful. Overall, the general theme of the limitation they highlighted is lack of time and the
multiple competing priorities resulting is staff feeling overwhelmed at times. A gap identified is that such a survey shall
include the psychosocial augmentation points as well as a learning needs assessment to build the content for orientation
in future such studies.
Biography
RajasperiNaicker(Jessie)iscurrentlyaneducatorwithinthecorporateNursingdepartment,PracticeDevelopmentatSidraMedicine.Sheisan
expatfromNewZealandwhoisbasedinDoha,Qatar.Shehasapproximately24yearsofleadershipexpertisebothfromNZandJohannesburg,
SouthAfrica. She is also a past recipient of theWDHBexcellence awards forWorkforceDevelopment, inAuckland, NZ; She leads onmultiple
clinicalprogramstostrengthentheinter-professionalworkforceatSidraMedicine.TheseincludeGeneralNursing&Midwiferyorientation,non-
clinical staff orientation,TeamSTEPPS, a US programSafeMedicate and a UK based programand various process improvement initiatives.