Local innovation project has expanded
OUH Odense University Hospital – Svendborg Hospital has purchased the system MySkills, which should make it easier for new colleagues as well as make it easier to keep track of the skills in the departments.
MySkills was developed by MyMedCards together with i.a. OUH’s Department of Gastroenterology in connection with the Digital Vision project.
Trine Ladingkær, clinical nursing specialist at the Department of Gastroenterology, has been a driving force in the development and has had a close collaboration with MyMedCards. She talks of how the idea came about: “We had a thick book with ticking material and intro material. Some parts contained long links that you had to sit and manuallt type in. It would just be a lot easier if it was electronic, so you could easily click around. Not to mention the paper we would save”.
MyMedCards took the idea and today MySkills is in use in several departments at OUH, in Rigshospitalet’s anesthesiology department and in several municipalities.
“The purchase of MySkills is another good example of how innovation solutions can start small and develop into a solution that makes sense for the entire hospital as well as for other Danish hospitals”, says Rikke Lyngholm Hansen-Christensen, Programme Manager at CIMT.
Makes it easier to be new
MySkills can be used on both smartphone and computer and provides electronic access to the department’s introductory material, and there can be cross-links to videos, to the patient app My Hospital, Infonet etc.
The fact that it is all digital means that the content can be quickly adapted and updated and ensures that new staff are trained in the applicable guidelines and procedures.
Trine Ladingkær says that MySkills is very well received by new colleagues – both experienced as well as students: “They feel welcome; ‘someone has gone out of their way to welcome me'”. It provides an easy overview of the start-up, skills and professional development of both the new colleague, the manager and the department’s training officer or intro officer.
Another advantage for the employee is that the skills card is linked to your profile, so if you change departments, you can easily document your skills.
“Now we have to implement”
“Nothing implements itself”, notes Trine Ladingkær. She recommends appointing a supervisor in the department who is responsible for putting the material into MySkills – “it’s as easy as Word”. But she also suggests that you rethink your intro material with the new possibilities; can something be made into a video, a checklist, a link?
The individual department can adapt both content and form so that MySkills fits the department’s needs and resources.