Order Description
The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH)

A. Where is your organization situated? Is it in a metropolitan, regional, rural or isolated area? TPCH is a metropolitan teaching hospital located in Brisbane north.

B. What type of health care does the organization provide? Is it acute medical-surgical, a specialty area, aged care, community health, clinical education, mental health, emergency or acute care?
TPCH is a major tertiary healthcare hospital providing access to emergency medicine, cardiovascular medicine, cardiothoracic surgery, thoracic medicine, orthopaedic surgery, general surgery,
geriatric medicine and rehabilitation, and mental health.
REFER TO LINKS
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/tpch
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/tpch/html/mental_health

C. Who accesses your services? Can you find more updated data?
According to MNHS districts population profile (2006). Census data of estimated resident populations. The District is grouped into nine planning localities based on catchment suburbs for each
primary health and community health service care coordination teams.
REFER TO LINK
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/system-governance/performance
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0025/442339/doh-annual-report-part-3.pdf

D. What are the Vision and Mission statements of your organisation?
Mission statement – As a recognised teaching hospital, TPCH provides Specialist healthcare to Northern Brisbane. Access to Queenslanders to advanced healthcare, technology and research in Heart and
Lung, Joint Replacement, Care for the older person and Mental Health.
REFER TO LINK https://www.health.qld.gov.au/metronorth
Vision – Changing the face of health care through compassion, commitment, innovation and connection.

E. Does your organisation have clearly articulated values and/or guiding principles which set the standards for the organisation? Yes, see below.
REFER TO LINK
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/system-governance/policies-standards
External environment scan:
Conduct a SPELT analysis using Table 6.3 from the reading by Berends, L., Crinall, K. (2014) Management and practice in health and human service organisations. Australia, Oxford University Press,
pp. 118-141.

F. Include both current and long term perspectives where possible.

Link to information on context of practice for RN https://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/

I work in adult acute inpatient mental health and at times assessments/triage mental health as well as in the electroconvulsive therapy suite.

SWOC analysis:
Now conduct a SWOC analysis which will give you a more focused assessment. The two will give you a good ‘scope’ of your professional context and an increased understanding of your practice area.

Use this approach to conduct a SWOC analysis of your specific practice area which is mental health nursing.

Once you have collected all of this data you will have a clearer picture of your professional context and the factors that impact on your professional practice.

Use this data to develop the following:

Strategic goal and objectives or recommendations:

Using the data you have collected and issues you will have identified, develop a strategic goal that can be translated into actual practice.

Formulate three strategic objectives or recommendations related to the achievement of this goal.

Remember your goals need to be realistic and able to be translated into clinical practice.

Ensure that one of these objectives or recommendations is evidence-based.
You will need to reference the literature as required.

Now you can start writing your assignment!
Clinical Question
Preventing patient self- harm

P (population/problem) among inpatient mental health patients.

I (intervention) does constant observation beginning at admission.

C (comparison) compared to routine safety checks.

O (outcome) reduce the incidence of self- harm.