New Zealand Blood Service (NZBS) is commissioned to support the health care community through the collection, testing, processing and supply of blood, blood products and other controlled human substances. NZBS makes over220,000 collections through its 9 blood donor centres and mobile units, which are then processed at the 4 processing sites across the country.
NZBS has a licensing and accreditation requirement to create and store complete, accurate and legible records to maintain a clear audit trail. Some poor practice was identified during an audit, prompting the need to reinforce the principles and practices of good documentation.
Given that everyone has already attended a 2-3 hour quality session within their first month, were commended a fun approach to good documentation practice as part of the wider GXP (Good X Practice) initiative. Were commended a two-part solution:
The Challenge adopted the first-person perspective, where they are presented with a series of visual record-related issues requiring them to take practical action (in line with SOPs). For example, they see a portion of a document where they’ve made a mistake and need to correct it, by dragging on their chosen correction method, selecting from: whiteout to cover and rewrite over it, a thick pen to redact and correct, a biro to strikethrough and alter, or a biro to strikethrough, amend and sign.
The Challenge is gamified through the use of contextual interactions, with natural consequences and feedback for their chosen action, blood drop “lives” or points which they lose for taking poor actions, and a final scoreboard showing how well they did. Upon successful completion (all blood drops retained), they are awarded a digital badge from the GXP series.
The GDocP solution has been effective at reinforcing correct documentation practice with greatly reduced errors identified during Audit, and giving NZBS confidence that it is meeting licensing and accreditaion requirements.
"Nicola, Jo and the team at Optimism were amazing to work with, great communications, excellent and timely work output and really listened to our very unique needs and requests. We have ended up with an interactive and easy to use set of learning modules. Thank you team!"
- Director Quality & Regulatory Affairs
