The initial “quick wins” should help motivate your team so make sure you celebrate successes.
Also learn from your failures. Examples of inadequate care (incidents) as well as examples of good care are necessary to bring about change. Use patient stories to describe the impact of improvements in care or inadequate care. Staff often relate to patient stories rather than only using quantitative data.
Run your improvement project like a campaign with senior managers and clinicians supporting the work to win hearts and minds. Make sure you have support from executives and influential staff to help remove barriers to change when they occur.
Embarking on developing programmatic changes in your health system to improve the care of the patient with sepsis is no small feat. Obvious challenges faced with limited access to structural and human resources can seem overwhelming.
You may find the WHO 6 building blocks of systems useful in determining what you need to do:
- Improving financing or funding for certain areas of care such as emergency department
- Improving health workforce such as recruiting more nurses or doctors
- Improving use of health information systems to improve data about sepsis management