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REMS

Resuscitation Medication Safety (ReMS) is a visual prompt for organising and classifying resuscitation drugs to help reduce cognitive load on staff.  It includes two plastic benchtop boards (for...

SaVE Icon

Safer Ventilation in Emergency (SaVE) is a bedside resource to promote safe care of the ventilated patient in Emergency Departments (EDs). It assists with:

  • early deterioration and...
transforming-eds-towards-cultural-safety

The gap in health outcomes between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous people is a well-documented priority area for both National and State Governments. Within Queensland...

nurse-initiated-x-ray

Nurse Initiated X-Ray (NIX) aims to streamline patient care in all areas of the Emergency Department (ED), through early initiation of investigations by nursing staff. NIX has been shown to...

prov-ed

PROV-ED aims to disseminate innovation, by sourcing and scaling value-based emergency department (ED) initiatives with demonstrated outcomes. Initiatives are selected for statewide rollout via...

Assessing dizzy patients

Vesticam goggles have been purchased to assist Doctors and physiotherapists in correctly identifying nystagmus in dizzy patients, improving the confidence and accuracy of diagnosis of dizzy...

suicide prevention in the Emergency Department

To overcome the limitations inherent to the recording of suicidal presentations to Emergency Departments (EDs), Gold Coast Mental Health Services developed a machine learning algorithm - Searching...

IeMR

Recognising the role of simulation in testing work place transition (Adler et al 2009) and the recommendation for the use of simulation to improve EMR use and patient safety (Mohan et al 2017),...

Emergency Department staff

Embedding a brief, low-intensity mindfulness‐based programme into an ED to enhance staff wellness. It includes a four-minute pause at handover, a weekly mindfulness session and information flyers...

credit

The Cannulation Reduction in Emergency Department Implementation Toolkit (CREDIT) initiative uses a multimodal educational intervention aimed at reducing insertion of unnecessary, "just in case"...

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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-...