SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 4 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Four areas of the Canary Islands Health Service (SCS) have been designated by the BPSO Host Canarias Regional Coordinating Center, dependent on the SCS Directorate, as candidates for Centers Committed to Excellence in Care (CCEC/BPSO) for the implementation, evaluation and dissemination of good practice guides.
Specifically, the Health Services of La Palma and Fuerteventura, the Primary Care Management of the Health Area of Gran Canaria and the Nuestra Señora de Candelaria University Hospital Complex, in Tenerife, all attached to the Ministry of Health, have been designated as candidates. of the Government of the Canary Islands.
After completing the scientific and strategic evaluation processes, these four areas of the SCS have been selected from among eight others that submitted to this call.
Candidate institutions for Centers Committed to Excellence in Care acquire the commitment to implement, evaluate and maintain, for a period of three years, at least three of the RNAO Good Clinical Practice Guidelines. After this period, and once the proposed objectives have been achieved, the BPSO Host Canarias Regional Coordinating Center will certify that they acquire the status of designated center. This certificate will be renewed every two years, as long as the institution continues with the activities of application, maintenance and expansion of good care practices.
Always under the principles of universality and equity, and on the three pillars on which the program is based: scientific knowledge, implementation among professionals and evaluation of the results in health of the population, the SCS Management is committed to continuing and extend this program that contributes to change the provision of care to citizens and focus them towards an evidence-based practice.
BPSO IN THE SCS
This new call constitutes the second cohort of candidate centers for Centers Committed to Excellence in Care at the regional level. In 2019, the first cohort of candidate centers was announced, made up of the Primary Care Management of the Tenerife Health Area and the Dr. Negrín University Hospital Complex of Gran Canaria.
In this way, the SCS, which had already been participating in this international program since 2012 through the Doctor José Molina Orosa University Hospital, in Lanzarote, as a designated center dependent on the BPSO Spain National Coordinating Center, incorporates four new departments, being one total of seven health organizations linked to the BPSO Program in the archipelago.
This initiative is part of the international Best Practice Spotlight Organizations (BPSO) program of the Ontario Nurses Association (RNAO), in collaboration with the Health Care Research Unit (Investén-ISCII) and the Spanish Center for Nursing Care. Evidence-Based Health: a Center of Excellence of the Joanna Briggs Institute, through the National Coordinating Center BPSO Spain. The CCEC program was selected as a good practice by the WHO European Region in 2016.
Coordinating the Regional BPSO Host from the Canary Islands is an opportunity to expand its implementation among Canarian health organizations and weave a network of centers where excellence in care can be deepened. Through the implementation of new Nursing roles and strategies to improve nursing care practice, this program highlights the involvement of nurses and their commitment to innovation, to the health system and, above all, to the Canarian population and its results. in health.
BPSO PROGRAM
The international BPSO program seeks to achieve excellence in care, valuing care based on scientific knowledge, the impact of care on improving health outcomes, and the importance of nursing leadership to improve care.
At the SCS, this program currently implements some six good practice guides, which address fall prevention, vascular access care, childhood obesity, care for patients with ostomies, diabetic foot care, and pressure injuries, all of them problems that affect people’s quality of life and in which the intervention of nurses is key.
With the incorporation of the new candidate centers, the implementation of good practice guidelines is expanded, adding asthma care in adults, tobacco use, breastfeeding, pain assessment and management, and the use of restraints.
The implementation of evidence in care is strategically aligned with the reduction of variability in clinical practice, the improvement in the approach to complex chronic patients, and the strengthening of primary care, on which the SCS has been working intensively in recent months. .
