Projects
The Intensive Care Pillow (ICP)
The purpose of the project was to design and develop a pillow for our patients. The pillows we have currently are often either too large or too small for our patients, which challenge the optimal positioning of patients’ heads. The idea is to make a pillow that both provides comfort for the patient, prevent bedsores, and ensure sedated patients have an optimal positioning of the head in different situations. A big challange is the fact that there needs to be room for necessary equipment surrounding the pillow (Cl, tube etc.). The pillow has been developed in collaboration between the department’s occuoational therapists, physiotherapists, nurses and a pillow factory. The staff contributed with their professional expertise in terms of shape, design and multifunctionality of the pillow. Taking this to the pillow factory, we have begun the proces of developing and producing the pillow. A third party is now involved in distributing the pillow, as it can be beneficial for other patients.
Patient Proximity
The project was based on the move from multi patient rooms to single patient rooms. The use of single patient rooms (which exist in all new hospital constructions worldwide) is incredibly good for the patients in terms of preventing delirium and ensuring calmness and rest for the patient and their relatives, but single bedrooms are challenging in terms of staffing nurses, as single rooms require a larger number of nurses. In the move from multi patient rooms to single rooms, there was significant nursing opposition, as nurses would be further away from each other in single rooms. The solution has become the project Patient Proximity, which is a video monitoring project where a camera in the patient’s room can recognize specific patient movements and advise the nurse via live stream of the patient. This is helpful e.g. when the nurse briefly needs to leave the patient’s room to help a colleague or get medication. The purpose of the video monitoring is thus both patient safety in the use of single bedrooms, but also to bring nurses’ autonomy and professionalism into play, as the use of monitoring is based on a professional indication.
VR-simulation training
Simulation training helps maintain professional knowledge and skills, but simulation training is costly and resource-intensive as training of complex scenarios requires attendance and cooperation between many professionals. Therefore, we are developing and designing simulation training that can take place in a virtual environment using VR-goggles. The purpose of the project is, like classic simulation training, to train critical patient scenarios in a safe and realistic environment with VR-goggles. By using VR-goggles instead of having to meet physically, it is hoped that simulation training will be more accessible to the staff, so that they can train frequently and practice complex scenarios and thereby experience greater confidence and resilience when the complex scenarios arise in reality.
