PIP: One Paediatric Department’s Quality Improvement Journey

The Paediatric Improvement Plan (PIP) is a 12 workstream plan covering the main paediatric areas in the hospital as well as key themes such as medicines management. Objectives included documentation of policies and practices; ensuring nursing training competencies were met, documented and used to facilitate safe rostering; standardising paperwork and practices; and improving governance communication. 56 action points were identified that were then split into 3 time divisions based on importance and feasibility of implementation.