Baret supports excellence in timely care by ensuring you can find the right person at the right time, improving communication efficiency and ensuring patient details are kept secure.
Here’s what you can do to get ready to start using Baret at Go-Live.
What to do before Go-Live
Clinicians in inpatient areas must register for Baret – it takes less than 5 minutes. The Baret app should already be pinned to your MS Teams toolbar.
Before Go-Live, learn about Baret via:
- Baret Latte training – 10 mins
- Optional Baret webinars – 30 mins
- Baret Log On Events – get help knowing which Baret role to clock on to!
- NaMES educators can stop by and collect their Monash Wi-Fi-enabled phone (to eventually replace your pager)
- Further information is available on the Baret Knowledge Hub page
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 (e.g. 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 Go-Live, 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 Go-Live. 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.
How will I report Occupational Exposures when Baret goes Live?
Clinical employees will now report occupational exposures in Baret. If you need to report an exposure, send a message to your site’s ‘Occupational Exposure Coordinator’ role (24 hours). There is no change to the way community clinicians and all non-clinical employees report occupational exposures. This remains via Lanpage (pager numbers found on occupational exposure posters and in the PROMPT procedure).
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.