BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3- M3//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191210T140713Z DTSTART:20200120T140000Z DTEND:20200120T150000Z SUMMARY:IHPO/HOPE seminar: Suzanne Grant: Using video-reflexive ethnograp hy to examine the hidden dimensions of inter-professional safety work in an acute medical unit UID:{http://www.columbasystems.com/customers/uom/gpp/eventid/}s4p-k3zqytk 0-hanibo DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the IHPO and HOPE joint seminar on Monday\, 20th January 2020 2-3pm\, Williamson Building 5th floor\, seminar room 1 (5.14- directions attached) \n\nSpeaker: \n\nDr Suzanne Grant\n\nUnive rsity of Dundee\n\nLecturer in Medical Anthropology \n\non topic “Using video-reflexive ethnography to examine the hidden dimensions of inter-pr ofessional safety work in an acute medical unit”. \n\nSeminar is free to attend and no registration is required.\n\n\nAbstract\n\nAlmost all eme rgency medical admissions in the UK are now initially managed via specia list wards known as acute medical units (AMUs). The AMU is a busy\, shor t-stay environment oriented towards rapid assessment\, where patients ar e usually either sent home or moved to a speciality ward within 24-48 ho urs. As such\, it is a site of significant risk due to the high throughp ut of very sick patients and staffing by multidisciplinary teams working multiple shifts. Dominant approaches to improving patient safety usuall y employ a ‘measure-and-manage’ approach to identify and manage risk\, b ut this approach is less suitable when care is very complex and overlook s the fact that most risk does not cause harm because clinicians work to gether to continually mitigate these risks. Newer approaches to examinin g safety have therefore focused on the hidden and tacit dimensions of in ter-professional work\, and the adjustments and trade-offs made by profe ssionals when balancing safety with the need to deal with very high work loads. The aim of this presentation is to examine the inter-professional ‘safety work’ (Strauss 1985) undertaken by AMU team members using video -reflexive ethnography (VRE). VRE is a collaborative methodology that co mbines ethnographic methods with negotiated video filming of clinical pr actice (‘video ethnography’). Selected video footage is then shared with participants during video reflexive sessions to stimulate collaborative analysis and reflection (‘video reflexivity’). The primary aim of this process is to reflexively engage with clinical team members on how they work together in order to make care safer. Drawing on video reflexive et hnographic fieldwork conducted in an AMU with a high turnover of patient s (~15\,000/year) and over 200 staff members that change daily\, this pr esentation examines the hidden and tacit aspects of inter-professional s afety work in the AMU\, the key formal and informal contexts where this takes place\, and the value of VRE for understanding and improving inter -professional collaboration in the AMU setting and beyond.\n\nBio \n\nSu zanne Grant is a lecturer in Medical Anthropology at University of Dunde e. Suzanne studied Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews ( MA First Class Honours (1999) and PhD (2006)) and an MSc in Public Healt h Research at the University of Edinburgh in 2010. Suzanne is a medical anthropologist and her research is located at the interface between anth ropology\, medicine and healthcare safety and quality. The overarching a im of her work is to improve understandings of safety\, risk\, wellbeing and dignity within and across healthcare organisational contexts throug h research that is both methodologically innovative and theoretically en gaged. Drawing on insights from social and medical anthropology and soci ology\, her research adopts a novel approach to understanding and improv ing healthcare safety and quality through the application of innovative ethnographic and video reflexive ethnographic (VRE) methods. Her researc h focusses on the co-creation of safety\, wellbeing and dignity by profe ssionals\, patients and their families across different healthcare organ isational contexts\, and the development of ethnography and VRE as resea rch and improvement methodologies. Suzanne’s full research profile and p ublications are available: https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/persons/suz anne-grant\n\n STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:seminar room 1\, Williamson Building\, Manchester END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR