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External connections — Who did you talk to outside of your organisation?
Not loads! But listened to a few folk, we had the CXIO meeting and the SDN clinical informatics network. Theres so much going on in the world its hard to keep up!
Growth opportunities — What would you have liked to do more of?
We started to do a team Plus, Minus, Next reflection whiteboard in our friday morning meeting.
It was really great to talk about how well one of my team members handled a challenge, but also it gave people room to air their thoughts and write them down. So given me some more work to do, but we can sort those issues out now. The guys feedback was positive, so going to keep doing this each friday for 6 weeks and see how we get on. I think its good that as team we reflect together and listen to each other. Theres a lot I can learn from them!
Changes — What do you wish you could have changed?
We was alerted to an issue with our Omnicells and I spent a couple of hours trying to work out what on earth was happening. Comparing live to test. I managed to solve the issue pretty quickly before we had to do anything drastic with the cabinets but it was a bit hairy. Part of the issue was with communication, and people not realising who was on leave or in the email chain, so I’ve suggested a issue log to be shared that can be looked at daily to keep an eye on things whilst the project is in hypercare.
Emotional moments — What situation caused the strongest emotional response this week?
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It was nice to be recognised for my day dreaming abilities by my manager. There was just a small comment but it gave me a little boost
Learning — What did you learn?
That I have so much work to do for digital academy!
Enjoyment — What did you enjoy the most?
The issue with the omnicells I mentioned earlier even though i’m moaning about it. Trying to solve an issue under a time constraint and then getting to the bottom of it and fixing it, actually felt pretty good.
Achievements — What did you achieve?
Starting the weekly team reflections, I've been questioning myself about that for a while, is it the right thing to do, would the team benefit from it, is it too much managery rubbish? I think I’ve come to the conclusion its important enough to try and hopefully we’ll get some benefit from it
Looking ahead — What are you looking forward to next week?
One thing I’ve wanted to do for ages is change the way we print out prescriptions from our EPR. They come out when they get screened so someone has to sit and organise them. But I think we’ve got a way forward to schedule this out better and using our own data feeds we can put what we want on the print outs to make it easier for the teams. We are going to start looking at that next week for the disp (the learning from that we can take to the asu side, which is a bigger challenge!). I’ve got a slide deck ready!
