Here’s how Managers can get their teams Baret-ready!
What’s happening?
When inpatient clinical employees transition to Baret, an application within MS Teams, on Wednesday 15 November, it’s important to ensure that your teams are ready! Set the expectation for your team – all inpatient clinical employees will use Baret for clinical communication when on-site.
This will consolidate our communication to one secure platform – supporting excellence in timely care by ensuring your team can find the right person at the right time, improving communication efficiency and making sure patient details are kept secure.
The Key Message
- If your team currently pages an inpatient clinician, they will use Baret to contact them.
- If your team currently calls an inpatient clinician (on site), they will search Baret for their role first, but can still call via Contact Centre.
There are a number of training and engagement activities available to support your employees including the Baret Log On Events, which are landing next week across inpatient sites!
Managers: what you need to know
- Ensure your team have completed the 15-minute Baret training on Latte.
- Point your team to the Baret Knowledge Hub for support resources and FAQs – search ‘Baret’ in the intranet page search bar, or via the Digital Health Training and Adoption (DHTA) icon on the desktop.
- Encourage your team to drop into a Baret webinar – details are available on the Baret Knowledge Hub.
- Make sure your team has opened MS Teams with their Monash login details and registered for Baret before Wednesday 15 November. If any issues with Monash phones, please contact baret@monashhealth.org
- Make sure you and your employees know whether they will be clocking on to a role in Baret, or using Baret as an individual. The Baret Roles Directory will be available from Monday on the Baret Knowledge Hub.
Baret Log On Events: specific site locations will be updated here and on the Baret Knowledge Hub
| Site | Location | Date | Time |
| Casey | Front Entrance Foyer | Wednesday 1 November | 9.00am – 12.00pm |
| Casey | Front Entrance Foyer | Tuesday 14 November | 1.00pm – 4.00pm |
| Dandenong | Level 2 corridor to the left of Main Entrance near Cafe (in front of lifts) | Wednesday 1 November | 1.00pm – 4.00pm |
| Dandenong | Level 2 corridor to the left of Main Entrance near Cafe (in front of lifts) | Tuesday 14 November | 9.00am – 12.00pm |
| Moorabbin | Level 3, Cafe Corridor | Thursday 2 November | 9.00am – 12.00pm |
| Moorabbin | Level 3, Cafe Corridor | Wednesday 8 November | 1.00pm – 4.00pm |
| Monash Medical Centre | Lecture Theatre 1 Foyer | Thursday 9 November | 9.00am – 12.00pm |
| Monash Medical Centre | Lecture Theatre 1 Foyer | Monday 13 November | 1.00pm – 4.00pm |
| Monash Children’s Hospital | Main Entrance Foyer | Thursday 9 November | 1.00pm – 4.00pm |
| Monash Children’s Hospital | Main Entrance Foyer | Monday 13 November | 9.00am – 12.00pm |
| Kingston | Linkway Corridor | Thursday 2 November | 1.00pm – 4.00pm |
| Kingston | Linkway Corridor | Wednesday 8 November | 9.00am – 12.00pm |
Frequently Asked Questions
Which employees will use Baret?
This change will impact the way our clinical employees communicate with each other. If you are a clinician working in an inpatient area, you will need to know how to use Baret. This includes all inpatient allied health, pharmacy, nursing and midwifery clinicians as well as all other clinical disciplines who work in the inpatient setting.
If you are a clinical employee in a Monash Health outpatient or community setting and need to contact an inpatient clinician (eg doctor, nurse, allied health, pharmacist) working on site/in hours– you will also need to know how to use Baret.
When will employees use Baret?
If you are currently paging a clinical employee, from the 15 November, you will use Baret instead. This includes referrals, tasks, admissions, bed allocations, medication requests and other patient-related messages.
Emergency communication is not changing. MET Calls and codes will not be via Baret. You will continue to receive all emergency communication via the Contact Centre to your pager and/or phone.
We will continue to use the Contact Centre for appropriate phone call connection to clinicians – this is not changing especially for those working offsite, after hours and on call.
Non-clinical employees will still be contacted as currently – if they are paged or called via phone now, this will continue after the 15 November. Clinicians who don’t use Lanpage for these reasons will be contacted in the coming weeks to hand in their pager.
Always use clinical judgement to decide if Baret messaging or a call is appropriate based on the clinical situation.
What about ASCOMs and my mobile phone?
If you carry an ASCOM phone or a mobile phone, you will continue to do so. ASCOM phones also receive codes/duress alarms so they will continue to be used. If you carry a work mobile, or use your own mobile for work, you will continue to do so but ensure you have MS Teams downloaded and set up ready to use Baret.
For more information contact the Baret team at baret@monashhealth.org, or head to Latte (search ‘Baret’ for Baret training) or the Baret Knowledge Hub for more resources.