This provides “step-by-step guides for over 1,700 evidence-based procedures and skills in a variety of specialty settings” and has been implimented in NZ in partnership between the South Island Alliance and the Midland region.
It can in some circumstances replace some of the hospital’s “Policys and procedures” type documents (eg documents in MIDAS at SDHB).
I’m interested in hearing examples of where people have used it and found it useful, or identified any challenges that need to be addressed.
Hi Damon, Nursing @ CDHB are using Lippincott’s procedures. The paragraph below this message is taken from our intranet link page for Lippincott and explains the expectations. For example, when we updated the CDHB Adult Oxygen guidelines I also reviewed the Oxygen administration guideline in Lippincott so I could refer and link to it rather than duplicate the information. Lippincott has guidelines on what device does what and how to set it up etc. I found some American information that was older and contrary to the ANZ best practice so I filled out a form and sent it in the to South Island review team so it could be updated.
I hope that this helps.
John
How Lippincott procedures will be used at Canterbury DHB
Lippincott procedures are ready to be used now. There are many procedures in Lippincott that mimic our own manual documents. The DHB expectation will be that when our documents are up for review that we review the content with any equivalent Lippincott procedures and utilise the Lippincott URL or procedure name in the document while maintaining our local policy and procedure direction, as required. Where local policy or procedure direction is not required replace the document with Lippincott.
The DHB are requesting that any hardcopy service manuals are replaced with a team sites on SharePoint so our documents can be viewed electronically and links added from Lippincott where possible
We have used the procedures for medicines management, infusion therapy and vascular access since 2011. They have been a great resource, not perfect but from
a resource perspective easier to maintain than our old procedure manual.
Lippincott clinical procedures are used in numerous aged residential care services where an increasing number of nurses are internationally trained and have not worked in aged care clinical services previously. This in conjunction with the recently published Frailty guidelines have been supportive of implementing best practice for this group of nurses in particular.