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SeminarsDesigning Hospital Units to Optimise Outcomes SeminarA proactive patient-centered care team can optimise hospital outcomes. Managed properly, hospital units can engage, support, and sustain these high functioning teams. This seminar will provide a practical overview of the convergent structure, process, management, training, and system features that can recreate hospital wards as Accountable Care Units with Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds (SIBR). The seminar will draw directly upon the implementation experiences of Emory Healthcare in Atlanta and The Alfred in Melbourne and will highlight the facilitated implementation of states such as New South Wales (NSW) and South Australia. Who should attend? This seminar is aimed at all professionals with an interest in designing hospital care towards greater quality, reliability, accountability, and patient-centeredness, including hospital unit leaders (e.g. physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals); hospital leadership (e.g. executive leadership, nursing leadership, clinical governance, and quality and safety officers); and medical and nursing educators (e.g. directors of training and professional development programs). Venue: State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Vic 3000 Seminar Program and Registration How to get to the State Library, Melb Accommodation Speaker PresentationsSession 1: Structure
Session 2: Process
Session 3: Outcomes
Session 4: Implementation in Australia and the US
VHQA November Education Session 2011Presenters include: Cathy Balding and Jo Bourke Venue: All Seasons Hotel, 171 McIvor Road, Bendigo Seminar Program and Registration Practical Human Factors SeminarSafety, efficiency and effectiveness are achieved when we recognise our inherent human limitations and take advantage of the benefits of human capabilities. Human Factors is a scientific discipline that utilises the expertise of anthropologists, engineers, psychologists and social scientists to understand the interactions between people, technology and their working environment. Human factors provides proven techniques to help the design and re-design of whole systems, organisations, teams and individuals to improve performance. This seminar will provide a practical overview for health professionals to understand the role of human factors for improving patient safety. Experts from human factors and clinical research fields will present in four separate sessions covering design, culture, team and individual influences on patient safety. The principles of human factors will be examined in plain language as the seminar explores the opportunities and challenges for its practical application in clinical practice. The seminar will also draw on the tools and techniques from high-risk industries, e.g. aviation, power generation. Who should attend? This seminar is aimed at all health professionals with an interest in patient safety: clinicians, executives and safety, risk and quality managers. The principles of human factors will be examined in plain language as the seminar explores the opportunities and challenges for its practical application in clinical environments. Venue: State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Vic 3000. Seminar Program and Registration How to get to the State Library, Melb Accommodation options Speaker PresentationsSession 1: System
Session 2: Organisation
Session 3: Teams
Session 4: Individual
VHQA August Education Session 2011Presenters include: Annette Pantle, Caroline Brand, Sue Evans and Jeremy Millar Venue: Lecture Theatre, 1st floor, St Vincent's Private Hospital, 75 Victoria Parade, Melbourne Seminar Program and Registration Speaker Presentations Sarah Michael - The importance of audit and measurement: Perspective of a health executive Climate Change and Public Health SeminarThere is now overwhelming scientific evidence that an accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is causing global warming and changes to the global climate. Climate model projections indicate trends for increasing average temperatures, greater climate variability, increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events, and rising sea levels. Climate change is becoming a prominent issue in everyday life, with daily media commentary, political debate, and exposure of many Australians to extreme weather events including heatwaves, drought, severe storms and floods. This seminar will address the potential impact of climate change on public health. Firstly, climate change science will be discussed ‘in a nutshell', and evidence of a role for climate change in recent extreme weather events in Australia explored. The question ‘Why is climate change a public health issue?' will be addressed, and speakers will discuss potential direct and indirect health impacts of climate change, including extreme weather events, vector-borne infectious disease, food and water quality, air quality and mental health. Adaptation and mitigation initiatives will be discussed, including the co-benefits of these for health. Who should attend? The seminar will be of value to policy makers, health care providers, educators and researchers involved in the assessment, management, prevention and communication of the potential health impacts of climate change, particularly regarding vulnerable groups. Venue: State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Vic 3000. Seminar Program and Registration How to get to the State Library, Melb Accommodation Options Speaker PresentationsSession 1: Climate change: the science in a 'nutshell'
Session 2: Extreme events and health
Session 3: Indirect and long-term impacts
Session 4: Adaptation, mitigation and the future
Measuring Performance in HospitalsPresenters include: Prof Peter Cameron and Dr Sue Evans, Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety Venue: The Sebel Albert Park, Melbourne Seminar Program and Registration VHQA May Education Session 2011Presenters include: Karen Luxford, Anna Sieracka, Kathryn Schubach, Wallace Crellin, Pam Berry, Suzanne Petterson and Beth Wilson Venue: AMREP Seminar Room, The Ian Potter Library, Commercial Road, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne Vic 3004 Seminar Program and Registration Alfred Map Speaker Presentations Karen Luxford - Patient-centred care: we've come a long way, but we're not there yet... Emergency Medicine Research Short Course Semester 2, 2011Registrations are closed for semester 2, 2011 Course Content
Evidence Based Medicine
When: 6 month course commencing 25th July, 2011 Program and Registration Alfred Map Accommodation Emergency Medicine Research Short Course Semester 1, 2011Course Content
Evidence Based Medicine
When: 6 month course commencing 28th February, 2011 Emergency Department Management CourseThis will be an intense 5 day workshop involving local and international experts. It will be focused on ED management; however experts from other health fields will augment the faculty. The course content has been developed from workshops held in Europe, US, South Africa and Canada. The workshop will involve pre-reading, self assessment, expert presentations on practice and theory, simulated scenario-based training, breakout sessions and much, much more. Date: Monday 7th - Friday 11th March (inclusive), 2011 Program and Registration Alfred Map Accommodation Current and Previous Seminars |