Public sector residential aged care Bulletin

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Regular bulletins are issued to Victorian public sector residential aged care services to provide information on developments and projects being undertaken by the Aged Care Branch or other relevant agencies that will assist in the delivery of responsive, high quality and sustainable services.

Latest Bulletin

Contents:

• ACFI- opportunity for excellence
• New Help for Seniors who Suffer Abuse - Seniors Rights Victoria
• 'Safe Steps' National Campaign
• Outcomes and costs of the transition of younger people from residential aged care
• The Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing
• Medicare Aged Care Online Claiming information kit
• Coming events & key dates
  

Public Sector Residential Aged Care (PSRACS) Bulletin - Issue 10, May 2008 (65kb, pdf)

Previous bulletins

Public Sector Residential Aged Care (PSRACS) Bulletin - Issue 9, December 2007 (201kb, pdf)

Public Sector Residential Aged Care (PSRACS) Bulletin - Issue 8, September 2007 (169kb, pdf)

Public Sector Residential Aged Care (PSRACS) Bulletin - Issue 7, June 2007 (203kb, pdf)

Public Sector Residential Aged Care (PSRACS) Bulletin - Issue 6, February 2007 (247kb, pdf)

Public Sector Residential Aged Care (PSRACS) Bulletin - Issue 5, December 2006 (258kb, pdf)

Public Sector Residential Aged Care (PSRACS) Bulletin - Issue 4, September 2006 (80kb, pdf)

Public Sector Residential Aged Care (PSRACS) Bulletin - Issue 3, August 2006 (255kb, pdf)

Public Sector Residential Aged Care (PSRACS) Bulletin - Issue 2, July 2006 (145kb, pdf)

Public Sector Residential Aged Care (PSRACS) Bulletin - Issue 1, June 2006 (110kb, pdf)

Public sector residential Aged Care quality improvement newsletter

Quality Improvement Newsletters were regularly published and distributed to Victorian public sector services to provide information on a range of issues relevant to the quality provision of residential aged care. (8 editions listed from November 2001 - June 2005)

Quality improvement newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 5 - June 2005 (53kb, pdf)

Contents:

• Strengthening Service Capacity Update
• Refusal of medical treatment - What do you need to know
• Falls - Lessons from coronial findings
• Continuous quality Improvement and your service
• High risk clinical indicators - Nutrition, hydration and weight change
• Business Performance Improvement Project - Stage 1
• Did you know?
• What’s happening in 2005?

Quality improvement newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 4 - September 2004 (200kb, pdf)

Contents:

• Well for Life
• Pilot project for residential aged care
• Nathalia District Hospital - One Department of Human Services funded agency acknowledged for high quality OH&S management system
• Did you know?
• Exercise and healthy ageing
• High risk clinical indicators
• Public sector residential aged care quality of care performance indicator project

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Quality improvement newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 3 - May 2004 (144kb, pdf)

Contents:

• Doing time with the Aged Care Quality Improvement Unit
• Depression in long-term care: a challenge
• Hot topic - occupational violence
• Promoting continence and managing urinary incontinence
• What’s happening in 2004?
• The Medical Treatment Act 1988 (Vic)
• Did you know?
• Check your practice - resident information
• High risk clinical indicators

Quality improvement newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 2 - January 2004 (236kb, pdf)

Contents:

• Did you know
• Casterton Memorial Hospital
• Diabetes and the elderly
• An excerpt from 'The Clinical Biochemistry of Diabetes Mellitus in Singapore'
• Coronial findings
• Introducing and leading change in the workplace
• Food contamination
• Processing residents' personal clothing in domestic laundry equipment
• Consumer focus in accreditation - project report

Quality improvement newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 1 - January 2003 (184kb, pdf)

Contents:

• What you thought - quality improvement newsletter survey
• Resident focus and accreditation mark 2
• A mark 2 accreditation story
• Preventative maintenance, safety and its relationship with certification
• The well for life dissemination project
• Aromatherapy in dementia agitation - a single case study
• Behaviour management
• Contributors in this issue: ACSAA, Cooinda Lodge, NARI, DHS Capital Management and Bernie McCarthy

Quality improvement newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 3 - August 2002 (55kb, pdf)

Contents:

• Check your practice - Medication Charts
• Assessing Resident Satisfaction
• The Importance of Dental Care
• Complaints - handling
• Accreditation Mark II - Increased focus in some areas!

Quality improvement newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 2 - April 2002 (103kb, pdf)

Contents:

• Lessons from Standards Agency Reports
• Check your practice - Medication Management
• Preventive Maintenance
• Lessons from Coronial Findings
• Accreditation Agency Website Updated
• Planning for Accreditation
• Information Privacy

Quality improvement newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 1 - November/December 2001 (98kb, pdf)

Contents:

• Lessons from Standards Agency Reports
• Physical Restraints and the Medical Profession
• Quality Action Plan
• Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency Support Contacts
• Infection Control in Laundries and Kitchens
• Chemical Restraint Demystifying the Myths

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