Going home checklist has been created by the NHS. Based around caring, listening and improving work-life by encouraging reflection and mindfulness at the end of each working day.
Thinking of the role of the NHS staff taking care of others each and every day. Turning that round to remember to take the time to ensure we look out for them after what can be a very stressful and long day.
Going Home Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a tool to manage your well-being and mental health. Giving you the ability to see experiences occurring in the present moment. Using techniques like meditation, breathing and yoga.
Paying more attention to the present moment and your own thoughts and feelings at the moment. Mindfulness helps mental wellbeing, makes you feel better while reducing stress, and enables people to enjoy life a little bit more.
Going Home Checklist
Going home doesn’t mean you switch off from the day’s events. Giving people skills to deal with their work-life stresses helps strengthen mental health. Producing a simple checklist to make sure steps are not missed.
Step by step Going Home Checklist
- Take a moment to think about your day.
- Acknowledge one thing that was difficult during your work day – Let it go!
- Consider three things that went well.
- Check on your colleagues before you leave – are they ok?
- Are you ok? We are here to support you.
- Now switch your attention to home – Rest and recharge.
Checklist Poster
Many NHS hospitals have made the checklist into posters to prompt staff to action the steps. They have all used the same checklist but with slightly different images to personalise.
Love seeing Checklists saving lives and helping people balance work-life stresses using mindfulness.
Downloadable version of mindfulness going home checklist to help relax after a stressful day working in a hospital. Mental Health must never be forgotten.
Checklists Help Save Lives
Checklists are now commonplace within the health and surgical services within hospitals as they can help reduce errors and improve patient outcomes.
This was discovered in a depth investigation by Atul Gawande and explained in detail in his book the Checklist Manifesto.
Discovering that breaking down complex, high-pressure tasks into smaller individual steps can radically improve success in the area of heart surgery offers such convincing arguments for adopting the use of a checklist that the World Health Organization (WHO) implemented the Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC).
World Health Organization (WHO)
Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC).
The World Health Organization after extensive consultation they developed a 19 point hospital surgical safety checklist to be implemented with the aim of decreasing errors and increasing team communication in surgery to reduce complications.
It was discovered that using a checklist enhanced the communication between all members of the surgical team, which resulted in improved outcomes, while decreasing complications due to steps being forgotten, thus reducing errors and increasing patient safety. Further research suggested for the SSC checklist to be effective, proper implementation and compliance were imperative.
One of the most recent studies will lead to improved care processes and subsequently reduction postoperative complications when implemented well.
The SSC checklist has been a great success while significant reducing both morbidity and mortality and used by the majority of hospitals around the world to help save lives.
Transfer These Benefits To Business
Within Health, Hospital and Surgery checklists have been proven to save lives.
This can be transferred to many different industries to offer the same benefits. It might not be aimed at saving lives but can be aimed at improving productivity, accountability, reducing errors and breaking jobs into small manageable tasks where no step can be missed and completed the same way every time.