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Clinical Excellence Showcase 2023 project

Category 2 walk-in chest pain patients are at the highest risk in the Emergency Department (ED) waiting room because of an inability to access electrocardiogram (ECG) within recommended timeframes...

Central Venous Catheter - six Cs for safety poster

Staff at the Ipswich Hospital Emergency Department (ED) realised there was an opportunity to standardise processes and streamline interdepartmental transfers, particularly for patients transferred...

Townsville University Hospital Emergency Department

The physician assistants at Townsville University Hospitals' (TUH) Emergency Department (ED) help support doctors and facilitate a smooth patient experience. They are particularly helpful for...

Scribes in emergency department

Medical students have been trialled as scribes at the Emergency Department (ED) of Redland Hospital  (Metro North Hospital and Health Service) to support Emergency Physicians (EP) in Acute, Fast...

Reducing ED pressures

The Rapid Access Clinic (RAC) program enables specialist clinical units to maintain ongoing care, responsibility, and oversight for the non-elective care of their patients when they experience an...

Clinical Excellence Showcase 2022

Speeding up documentation allows clinicians to discharge Emergency Department (ED) patients more quickly. This may only be by five to 10 minutes (often more) but applied to more than 100 patients...

Start with Topical Anaesthesia, Replacing Procedural Sedation

This PROV-ED initiative promotes a specific technique to optimise the use of topical anaesthetic gel for effective pain relief of certain skin lacerations, aiming to reduce the need for procedural...

RESUSMENU

RESUSMENU is a paper resource for medical staff to indicate and prioritise Rapid Sequence Induction (RSI) and/or cardiac arrest drugs to be prepared in advance of a patient requiring...

Example dashboard for staff display

Logan Hospital Emergency Department (ED) has developed several data capture solutions to enable informed analysis of its functioning, capacity, presentations, growth predictions, clinical...

SWIFT PROV-ED

Safe, Well organised, Inter-Facility Transfer (SWIFT) is a safety process and consists a 60 second bedside check conducted immediately prior to patient transfer. Undertaken by the Senior Doctor,...

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The Rural Immersion Placement Program – Allied Health (RIPPAH) is a wrap-around support clinical education initiative. Students express interest in a RIPPAH experience to...

HERCULES is a heparin quality improvement project that aims to improve safety, care and experience of patients on IV heparin through a holistic, evidence-based approach. Every...

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Addressing cardiac risks for psychiatric patients in rural and remote areas has led Cairns Hospital and Health Service (HHS) to conduct a validation study of a new, ultra-...