Jodie Burns, Managing Principal Solicitor from the Victorian Government Solicitor's Office, will present on some key occupational health and safety issues at this week's manager forum, Management practices in the context of COVID-19. The presentation for...
Auditing your area and work is part of our business as usual approach to good governance, safe patient care and high-quality outcomes. This is an ongoing piece of work and something that we need to...
At last Thursday’s Employee Forum, a question was asked about whether employees can donate to the COVID-19 research appeal. Ron Fairchild, Director of the Monash Health Foundation, replied that gifts to the urgent appeal were very...
Dr Anjali Dhulia, Chief Medical Officer, invites you to a special Grand Round on Cognitive Bias. Cognitive Bias is increasingly recognised as an important source of medical error. Despite the prevalence of cognitive biases, their...
Working through some familiar but hypothetical examples, Professor Clare Delany, from the University of Melbourne, highlighted the ethical challenges of COVID-19 at last week’s Manager Webex forum. Prof Delany’s presentation focused on the three challenges of...
The Department of Health and Human Services is collecting data on incidents relating to COVID-19 in all health services across Victoria. To capture this data, a new mandatory field called “COVID-19 related?” will be opened up in...
Casey Hospital’s new Intensive Care Unit is now operational. Along with other new facilities, and added specialties, the new ICU will significantly change the way Casey Hospital cares for patients and the community. Under normal circumstances, such...
*Disclaimer: The image used in this article was taken prior to physical distancing measures being introduced. Your unit’s Welcome to Ward board is often the first thing patients, their loved ones and other visitors see when entering your area and helps...
After introducing the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) across all our hospital sites, we are now focusing on ensuring the workflows are embedded as part of everyday care. Documentation of clinical activities in the EMR is necessary to ensure safe and effective care is...
Last month we announced that healthcare workers had been invited to take part in a WHO-endorsed research trial to investigate whether a BCG vaccine can help reduce the impact of COVID-19. The trial has now been amended and is reopening for enrolment. The requirement of participants having had ‘no previous influenza vaccine’...