May 2023
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We Are Northern: This is the Concierge Service team
Yesterday, 8 May 2023, we farewelled our Concierge Service from all Northern Health campuses. As we reach the stage of the pandemic where public health directives and community expectations continue to wind down, it is time to reduce our centralised hospital entry screening in line with updated government guidelines. Concierge was first implemented at Northern Health in March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, as an outsourced program managed through ISS. Over the last three years, Concierge has formed a vital part of Northern Health’s COVID-19 response, by ensuring compliance with public health directives during uncertain times, including: Enforcing…
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Rapid Access Atrial Fibrillation Clinic
The Cardiovascular Ambassador Project involves 20 participating health services and hospitals, including Northern Health, to improve the quality of cardiac care delivered to patients, and reduce unplanned hospital readmissions. Participating hospitals have received funding by Safer Care Victoria for a cardiovascular liaison nurse to plan, lead, implement and coordinate appropriate multifaceted interventions for each site’s model of care. The model of care for this project in 2023 is focusing on atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrythmia and contributes to significant burden upon Victorians as the leading cause of stroke and a frequent cause of hospital admission.…
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Get to know: Kiri Platek
#WeAreNorthern Today is International Day of the Midwife and to mark the day, we meet Kiri Platek, Clinical Midwife Specialist Q: Tell us about your current role at Northern Health? A: My role at Northern Health is as a Clinical Midwife Specialist. I work solely in the Maternity Assessment Centre, caring for and supporting women, antenatally, with high-risk pregnancies that require frequent fetus monitoring, and those in the early stages of labour or requiring urgent obstetric care. I’m also currently a part of the Preterm Birth Prevention Collaborative team, working to reduce the incidence of preterm and early term birth…
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My month in Quality
Tessa Bruno is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Ward 19 and in the Plastics Wound Clinic. She spends her days working on the floor, interacting with patients and their families, and providing safe, kind and together care to the community. She recently completed a month-long secondment with Quality and Safety, where she took on the role of Acting Quality Coordinator, Surgical Division, while Erika Dax, stepped in as Acting Quality Coordinator, Women’s and Children’s Division, for six weeks. In their roles, both Tessa and Erika were responsible for supporting staff in their respective divisions, which included educating on quality, reviewing…
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May is Innovation Month
Have an idea but don’t know where to start? Trying to get some improvements off the ground but keep facing barriers? Let’s get them moving! May is your month! The Transformation Team is focused on fostering and supporting innovation at Northern Health. Innovation is defined as having the creative idea plus having the skills and capabilities to deliver on the idea. Innovation Month will run through the month of May and will include avenues to elicit creative and different ideas on solving issues relating to clinical or non-clinical work and building staff skills in innovation. Across Northern Hospital Epping, Bundoora…
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We Are Northern: This is the Continence Service team
At Northern Health, the Continence Service is a major public health service available to both adults and children. The clinicians working within the continence service specialise in the management of bladder and bowel dysfunction. The service provides assessment, diagnosis, management, education and support for the promotion of continence to clients. The multidisciplinary team consists of two medical consultants, four allied health staff and six nursing staff members, who work across Northern Health and can provide: Comprehensive continence assessment Client and carer education counselling and support Bladder retraining programs, nocturia assessment and management, toileting programs and bowel regulation programs Equipment/aids prescription…
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EMR survey is back
The Electronic Medical Record (EMR) survey is back! Some of you might recall completing this survey last April – thank you again to those 730 individuals who completed the survey. Since the last round, we were able to take the comments and feedback back to the team and work on ways to better inform you. Some new engagement activities include publishing regular EMR updates, increasing the frequency of publishing iNews stories, and providing more transparency on the project via the EMR website, as well as running EMR familiarisations to give you early visibility on the system before going into training.…