An immersive digital tour of the neonatal intensive care unit on the Royal Hospital for Kids in Glasgow went stay in July 2024 to assist alleviate the nervousness mother and father really feel when visiting their new child.
The interactive device gives mother and father with the prospect to grasp what to anticipate on the unit and meet a few of the staff who work there.
It additionally explains how the unit will look, really feel and sound, in addition to making factors about hand hygiene and psychological well being.
The tour, which went stay on Friday 26 July 2024, incorporates actual audio from the neonatal unit, like beeping, to assist mother and father really feel extra comfy after they stroll in for the primary time and contains info factors explaining what totally different items of kit could also be used for.
Dr Neil Patel, advisor neonatologist on the Royal Hospital for Kids and scientific director of HI Scotland, mentioned: “We hear from households how demanding it may be having a child admitted to neonatal intensive care and we need to assist them in each manner that we will.
“This new neonatal digital tour is a extremely revolutionary know-how that we co-developed with households in our unit.
“It means they now have a novel option to familiarise themselves with the unit, meet our staff and different households and reply a few of the questions they might have.
“We additionally hope it’ll present reassurance and make it a a lot much less daunting expertise”.
The tour, which is supported by HI Scotland and the West of Scotland Innovation Hub and hosted by NHS Larger Glasgow and Clyde, is totally accessible with translation for each the textual content and voice components, and a British signal language model accessible.
It was the concept of senior cost nurse Tracey Clinton and developed in collaboration with sufferers’ households and the hospital’s neonatal staff.
The tour was created by graphic designer David Springford, from Atom Design, who has first-hand expertise of being a guardian within the neonatal unit.
Springford mentioned: “This undertaking has supplied an important lifeline to households, enhancing their preparation, lowering nervousness, and bettering the general affected person expertise”.
Additionally in July 2024, Nice Western Hospitals NHS Basis Belief, Royal United Hospitals Tub NHS Basis Belief and Salisbury NHS Basis Belief introduced plans to digitise their maternity providers with System C’s BadgerNet maternity system.