Events

This web conference is an opportunity for the CHA Directors of Nursing to connect with their peers to discuss workforce challenges at their service. Given the compounding challenges experienced by Directors of Nursing across the nation, CHA has arranged this web conference as a networking opportunity for you to connect and share your challenges, achievements and strategies to reduce the impact of staff losses, burn-out and low morale. Please join us for an hour of networking investment: an opportunity to share with peers; to listen; and to take home ideas to implement improvements at your service.

Snotwatch is an ecological platform that aims to identify associations between key population health outcomes and virus circulation in both time and space. In this analysis of asthma, we address the potential relationship between asthma in children, respiratory viruses and other important environmental factors.

The My Rehab My Journey’ website is a web-based toolkit that provides tools and resources for clinicians caring for Aboriginal people and their families who are participating in rehabilitation following an accident, injury, stroke or hip replacement. The objective is to improve the skills, knowledge and confidence of staff caring for and working in partnership with Aboriginal people (adults, children and carers), thereby improving the experience and outcomes.

The aim of the ‘Safe communication for kids’ project was to create a safe and effective clinical bedside handover (CBH) process tailored to meet the needs of children admitted to the surgical/oncology unit and their caregivers of J1, JHCH. The project followed an Essentials of Care (EOC) methodology, which examines the experience of patients, caregivers and staff.

Co-design is about designing with, not for and consumer voices are central to this experience. Hear from Kristine Pierce who has generously contributed her ‘lived experience’ perspective for over 25 years to improve care for children and for the parents, families, carers, and the community who support them on their healthcare journey. 

Connected Care Clinics improve healthcare access for children who experience significant social adversity, via a multidisciplinary clinic which provides holistic paediatric assessment, enhanced interagency communication, and appropriate referrals for longer term care over a six-month period. Since the commencement of this clinic, it has provided a service for 110 patients with an additional 137 patients who have been referred and triaged. The clinic brings together elements of trauma-informed care and integrated care models to ensure complex needs of these vulnerable children and their families are being met.

Neonatal intensive care is, by its very nature, intensive in both care and energy consumption. However, NICUs can play an important role in reducing the carbon footprint of healthcare. Identifying leaner pathways, and determining sustainable alternatives must form part of the domains of quality care.

The Toolkit is designed to be used to assist LHD and specialty health networks in adopting the NSW Paediatric Rehabilitation Minimum Standards (MS). The PRS will outline the process of development of the MS and toolkit; and strategies to implementation.

In June 2021, the NSW Government announced new funding for mental health as part of the 2021-2022 State Budget. This included the funding of 25 “Safeguards” MDT Mental Health Response Teams across the state between 2021 – 2024, costing $109.5M. The Safeguards team are community based and will provide rapid, mobile, intensive and flexible short-term support to help during a mental health crisis. They will provide extended hours mental health services and partner with relevant health services to ensure 24/7 support to young people and families while in crisis.

Acquired brain injuries are leading cause of disability in children and young people. Prior research highlights that poor mental health outcomes are a key predictable and preventable consequence of moderate-severe brain injury in children and young people. Unfortunately, most young people with a brain injury and mental health needs do not access the mental health care they require. When a child’s post-injury mental health needs remain unmet, they are at risk of poorer social, emotional, and vocational/ academic outcomes. This presentation will describe the process of developing and implementing a collaborative care approach to adding mental health care (specifically psychiatry consultation) to an existing brain injury rehabilitation team.

The RECARDINA pilot project evaluated two possible approaches to an innovative screening protocol for congenital and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in school-aged children and young people, using briefly-trained healthcare workers conducting handheld, single parasternal long axis (PLAX) view echocardiography. Both approaches could potentially be scaled up to allow for screening very large numbers of children in a short period of time.