This Insight Forum offers a rich 2-day multidisciplinary meeting of sharing learning and networking. Whether you work directly with patients or are supporting clinicians to deliver safe, high-quality care to children and families, this meeting provides an opportunity to network with peers from Paediatric Units across Australia and New Zealand, to share insights on common challenges and to learn about successes in meeting the needs of children & their families.
The CHA community brings together people from all disciplines and a multitude of roles who have a common passion for making a difference to children and families requiring hospital care. This not to be missed meeting will provide an opportunity to tap into the rich expertise of peers who really ‘get’ the challenges and opportunities of delivering care outside the tertiary children’s hospitals. The program is specifically designed to provide practical examples of innovative approaches to common challenges while giving time for participants to share ideas and learnings with a multitude of other paediatric teams in both roundtable and whole group discussions.
What will the program cover?
Priority Populations – Social Determinants of Health Screening on the Ward – what is the impact and how does screening better support the patient and family?
Dysregulated Behaviours – What strategies and tools are helping to reduce the distress of children, families, and staff when a child/young person has challenging behaviour in your ED and/or children’s ward?
Eating Disorders – Thinking outside the square – Nurse-led Eating Disorder Clinic – reducing review time, re-admission rates, and length of stay
Outpatients – How can we work smarter not harder in outpatient clinics to reduce/eliminate long waits and ensure timely assessment and care provision?
Shared-care Models – 1) Paediatrician & pharmacy shared-care model to reduce waitlists, increase number of reviews, and improve cost saving and 2) ADHD GP shared-care program – a GP, paediatrician, and psychiatrist collaboration.
Medication Administration Errors – Over 1/3 of medications administered to children contained one or more errors with potentially serious implications. A deep dive into the risk factors of age and administration methods.
