PPEs are unfriendly and confronting to children and impact on the rapport building of clinicians with children during treatment. With a design-led and co-design approach, QUT Design Lab partnered with Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Children QLD and Sunshine Coast University to research and co-design child-friendly PPEs as more than a cute thing to do. This presentation show some of the research work done to date, and some initial concept ideas for the design of new PPEs. Australian college of children and young people nurses webinar ppe project v2

6. The Problem
cannot see the person
cannot see the smile
cannot hear the tone of voice
PPEs conceal clinician emotions and interfere in therapeutic rapport building.
cannot see who s/he is

9. The HCD/ pilot design process
Participants
See their
emotional
response
See who they
interact with
What
activity is
happening

10. The HCD/ pilot design process
• Interviews: clinician-child interactions during a therapeutic procedures
• Observations: clinician-child-nurses-parents-environment-tools interactions with PPEs

11. Interviews: clinician-child interactions during a therapeutic
procedures

12. Video Observations: interactions between HCP-child-parents & their
interactions with environment, tools and PPEs

13. Thematic coding

14. Initial Insights

16. Product investigation

17. Design opportunities

18. Brainstorming

19. The design solution: a pilot
Buddy Sunny

20. The design solution: a pilot
Buddy
(for young children)
• Ultra light
• Custom face shield
• Easy clip-ons
• Easy to clean
• Interchangeable
• Emotion chart

21. The design solution: a pilot
Sunny
(forteenagersand
adults)
• Standard face shield
• Interchangeable parts
• Easy clip-on
• Customisable head
piece
• Halo light

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24. Contacts:
SCUH
Lauren Kearney lkearney@usc.edu.au
Clare Thomas clare.thomas@health.qld.gov.au
QCH
Julia Clark julia.clark@health.qld.gov.au
QUT
Marianella Chamorro-Koc m.chamorro@qut.edu.au
Rafael Gomez r.gomez@qut.edu.au
Isabel Byram i.byram@qut.edu.au