From Sandy Campbell, our Systems Manager

Capturing evidence of the empowerment of mums taking part in the Australian Nurse-Family Partnership Program (ANFPP) is just one project on the 2021 to-do list for the NSS Data Team.

Empowering first time mums – their healing, gaining control, becoming strong culturally and spiritually, and their self-belief to successfully manage life’s challenges – is a critical indicator of the success of the program. 

In 2021, the NSS is planning a project specifically to explore the best way to collect data to capture this empowerment of mums where it occurs. Several ANFPP sites have already expressed interest in being involved in the project working party.

Reviewing, streamlining and revamping reporting mechanisms and forms has been a focus for the team in recent months to constantly improve its data support services.
  • Quarterly Fidelity Reports: Work is underway on a New Look Fidelity Report to be consistent across all program sites regardless of which ANFPP data collection system is used. The main purpose of these documents is to report on how ANFPP implementation is aligning with the program Core Model Elements. After our Virtual Data Workshop at the end of October, we distributed a draft of the New Look Report and received a great response to our request for feedback. We will be making further changes to the document in 2021 to continually improve the quality of the document and reporting.
  • Exception Reports: The exception (error) reporting process has been reviewed and revamped with the aim of making it easier, more streamlined and more user friendly for program sites. We now approach detected missing data and probable data errors separately. Data Quality Reporting deals with data errors and Data Completeness Reporting deals with missing data. In the process, we seek site feedback regularly – every six to eight weeks. 
  • Communicare Data Collection Project: New Communicare Data Collection forms are also on the way. The Data team has been working closely with the NSS Education team to undertake a careful review of the ANFPP forms and we look forward to piloting the new forms early in 2021.
  • Jigar Patel joined the Data team in September on a part-time basis to assist with the ANFPP National Knowledge Access (ANKA) help desk and other data tasks.
A big thank you to all of the ANFPP team members who have nominated to be a NSS Data User Group member. We had our first bi-monthly meeting in October and look forward to this forum making a significant contribution to continuous quality improvements for the ANFPP. 

We’re looking forward to a very productive 2021. COVID 19 allowing, we hope we can have a bigger focus on ANFPP site visits to provide on the ground face-to-face data support.
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