September 2023
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Broadmeadows Hospital is now fully transitioned to the EMR!
Today, we welcome Broadmeadows Hospital Unit 2 and 3 under the wings of EMR. Today also marks the end of week one EMR go live! Lucia Bento, Site Director and Director of Nursing at Broadmeadows Hospital, recognised the importance of the preparation pre-go live. “The preparation, organisation and lead up to EMR, is what we have found at Broadmeadows Hospital to be very important in the go-live implementation,” she said. “The teams at Broadmeadows Hospital have done very well. The EMR team and super users have been supportive, enthusiastic and hands-on to ensure a smooth transition, well done to everyone!.”…
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Get to know: Tony McGillion
#WeAreNorthern Meet Tony McGillion, Divisional Director, Education and Training. Q: Tell me about your career before you started at Northern Health earlier this year? A: Gosh, at my age that could take a while! I trained as a Registered Nurse in the UK in 1985 then spent a couple of years working in Saudi Arabia, where I gained a great perspective on working and living with different cultures. I arrived in Melbourne in 1989 with one suitcase. I knew nobody but had a sense of adventure – fortunately I had a job and a Visa! I did my Critical Care…
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Welcome to the EMR: Broadmeadows Hospital!
Today, we are going live with the EMR at Unit 1, Acute – BIPU, BIPU Aged, Operating Theatres, and Recovery at Broadmeadows Hospital. We had the first patient transitioned on Unit 1 at 9.21 am. When asked if there are any go live key learnings, Jamie Duffy, Nurse Unit Manager, Unit 1 said, “As impossible as it may sound, we need to stay calm and relaxed to allow the EMR team and clinical transition team to transition patients to the EMR, and lean on our super users when help is needed.” Key messages of the day: Bundoora Centre is going…
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The new Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022: The top five changes
From 1 September 2023, Victoria has a new Mental Health and Wellbeing Act (MHWA). The Act is the outcome of recommendations from the Royal Commission into Mental Health in Victoria. A copy of the Act and more information is available on our Intranet as well as the Department of Health and Chief Psychiatrist website. Associate Professor Vinay Lakra, Divisional Director of Mental Health, believes one of the main objectives is to reduce inequities in access to services. He says, “This is important, given long standing issues on equity and access.” He lists below the top five changes which impact clinical…
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Welcome to the EMR: Percy Cleland Wing and KAW-Mental Health!
Today we are excited to bring Percy Cleland Wing (PCW) and KAW-Mental Health at Bundoora Centre under the wings of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR). Today’s clinical transitions were completed before 2 pm. A big thank you to our clinical transition team, super users and Nurse Unit Managers (NUMs) for their support and hard work for the past two days. Key messages of the day: If you are a nursing/midwifery/doctor, make sure you perform a password sync before your ward goes live – click on this link and enter your new password. This will take up to 24 hours to…
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Co-designing with consumers
The Clinical Leadership, Effectiveness and Outcomes (CLEO) team recently began a co-design project to recognise the value of lived experience and create safer, higher quality and more efficient care. Known as the Co-Design with Consumers@Northern Health project, the project aims to create and implement a co-design framework and toolkit that will support clinicians and non-clinical staff to work confidently and effectively with consumers and/or carers with lived experience when designing or redesigning models of care. This framework will provide staff with a convenient reference to equip them with the tools and approach to deliver improved experiences. The toolkit will provide…
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It’s EMR go time!
After two and a half years in the making, the Northern Health Electronic Medical Record (EMR) is going live today at Bundoora Centre! Ward 1 and Kath Atkinson Unit (KAW-Age) goes live today, followed by KAW-Mental Health and Percy Cleland Wing on 6 September. During go live, staff will be supported by EMR Super Users and EMR Command Centre. There will be 24/7 support during the first two weeks of go live. Staff can also call the EMR Help Desk at 8345 5555 and press 2 for EMR when promoted. Staff will also see the EMR support team roaming around…
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We are Northern: This is the Advance Care Planning team
Advance Care Planning is a process whereby a person with capacity prepares themselves and their Medical Treatment Decision Maker for a time when the person may lack capacity to make their own decisions, or to communicate those decisions. Advance Care Planning asks and answers the question “who would speak for you, and would they know what you would want?” The Northern Health Advance Care Planning (ACP) program supports consumers aged 18 and over throughout the Northern catchment. The team consists of three staff members, A/Prof. Barbara Hays, Clinical Lead, Ella Critchley, Advance Care Planning Program Manager and Karen Overall, Administration…