2007-09 program
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2007-09 Team Photo
2007-09 Fellows with the Hon Daniel Andrews, Minister for Health, and the Chair of the Victorian Quality Council, Christine Kilpatrick at the Victorian Public Healthcare Awards night
2007-09 Fellows
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Workforce strategies | Developing a consistent and coordinated approach to advancing clinical roles to maximise safety and quality of healthcare for patients. | This project will explore a specific area of advanced practice (fibreoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing – FEES), benchmark clinical practice and investigate and coordinate a consistent approach to education and processes for introducing advanced practice roles. |  Developing a consistent and coordinated approach to advancing clinical roles to maximise safety and quality of healthcare for patients (480kb, pdf) |
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Workforce strategies/ workplace culture | Evaluation of the intensive care unit liaison nurse model in Victoria - identifying best practice models and professional requirements for nurses in this role. | This project will look at the feasibility of including an early warning alert system for referring unstable ward patients to the intensive care unit (ICU) nurse liaison (NL). Additionally, the project will identify essential qualifications, experience and skills required by ICU LN staff. | Evaluation of the ICU liaison nurse model in Victoria, Australia (223kb, pdf) |
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Access/workforce strategies | Aims to develop and implement the most innovative and new method of elective surgery delivery in Australia. | This project aims review innovative models of elective surgery management, which improve patient care, challenge existing service delivery models, create new systems and use workforce substitution and redesign to achieve change. | An exploration of international innovations and key lessons for the development of the Austin Health Surgery Centre (985kb, pdf) |
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Access/mental health/ chronic disease | Developing a model of community based alcohol and drug treatment for an ageing population. | This project will investigate older person specific treatment options in order to establish what makes an effective older persons treatment service, how these are different to generic services and what staffing skills are required to provide the service. | Developing a model of community based alcohol and drug treatment for an ageing population (151kb, pdf) |
