Work
on Really Out There Experience (Indonesia), 07/Feb/2010 12:52, 34 days ago
With my date for leaving rapidly approaching I am finding work spilling over into leisure time as I try to finish all the things I have set myself to do. I have now had two meetings with the hospital director, head of nursing, ward and department managers having a final check through Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and getting them authorised by the hospital director. I decided to group the SOPs and to concentrate of finishing all those in one section at a time. So far we have had 24 approved covering, observations, catheters, nasogastric tubes and infusions. There are another 15 covering medication ready to be presented. I am trying to finish the group on infection control but this is very challenging due to the limited resources the hospital has available. These will all be bound in a book before I leave. I have also been working on the audit tools and have agreed a programme of audit and review for all 61 SOPs we have identified. I submitted a grant proposal before Christmas and was successful in securing 10 million Rupiah which has been spent on books. These will provide reference material for the remaining SOPs as well as many other aspects of patient care. We have bought 98 books that will support all the departments in the hospital not just nursing. I have found the majority of staff have a great thirst for knowledge and have been looking through all my resources even through the majority are in English and anything I provide in Bahasa Indonesia is read from cover to cover.