2008-10 program
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2008-10 Team Photo
2008-10 Fellows with Ms Fran Thorn, Secretary Department of Human Services, and the Chair of the Victorian Quality Council, Dr Sherene Devanesen
2008-10 Fellows
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Access/ Workplace culture/ Chronic disease | The nurse-link project: improving the quality of palliative care provided to children through the development of a state-wide educational initiative for nurses. | The study of best practice models in the field of paediatric palliative care with a particular focus on nurse education. | |
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Chronic disease/ Quality and safety in healthcare | Identifying best practice models of care for adolescent transition in a rheumatology setting. | The project aims to identify the complexities of successful transition and the best practice model of care for adolescent transition to inform a dedicated Transition Clinic. |
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Quality and safety in healthcare | Identifying successful international outcome measures relevant to the Australian healthcare environment | Review of the use of standardised, best practice guidelines and the effectiveness of data systems to measure and monitor compliance with their intervention as a tool to produce sustainable reduction in the variation of care and ongoing improvements in the delivery of best practice intervention to improve healthcare outcomes for patients. | |
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Workforce strategies/ Workplace culture/ Quality and safety in healthcare | To develop the clinical infrastructure required to ensure that non-medical prescribing in the Victorian health service sector is safe and effective | Exploring the policy and clinical governance infrastructure supporting non-medical prescribers in the United Kingdom for lessons that can be applied in the Victorian health service sector. | |
 Addie Wootten Melbourne Health  Emma Birch Melbourne Health |
Access/ Chronic disease | Best practice models in the multidisciplinary care of prostate cancer patients | Identify best practice models in the multidisciplinary care of prostate cancer patients: towards the implementation of a holistic approach to prostate cancer care. |
