scholarly journals A survey of thickened fluid prescribing and monitoring practices of Australian health professionals

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 596-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Murray ◽  
Sebastian Doeltgen ◽  
Michelle Miller ◽  
Ingrid Scholten
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
Thickened Fluid

scholarly journals Avoiding Difficult Conversations in the Australian Health Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 237796082094197
Author(s):  
Christine King ◽  
Tanya Edlington ◽  
Brett Williams
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Clinical Supervisors ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
Difficult Conversations

Background Health professionals avoiding difficult conversations with each other can lead to serious negative consequences for patients. Clinical supervisors are in the unique position of interacting both with students as well as colleagues and peers. This study explores the avoidance of difficult conversations from the perspective of clinical supervisors in order to better understand why health professionals avoid difficult conversations. Objective This study aimed to identify the reasons why difficult conversations are avoided between health-care professionals and to gain deeper insight into the phenomenon of avoiding difficult conversations in general. Methods Convergent interviewing was used with 20 clinical supervisors to explore the following question: Why do you think that people in your workplace avoid difficult conversations? Results Major reasons for avoiding difficult conversations included the fear of negative consequences, a general distaste for confrontation, and a lack of confidence in their skills to have such conversations. Additional factors included individual qualities such as personality type and communication style, available time, size of the workplace, and a range of perceived cultural barriers standing in the way of having difficult conversations. Conclusion There is a need to encourage clinical supervisors and other health professionals to embrace difficult conversations to reduce adverse events and enhance patient outcomes. This requires additional training and educational opportunities to enhance knowledge, skills, and confidence to plan and engage in difficult conversations. Some types of difficult conversations require more skills than others.

scholarly journals Clinical supervision for allied health staff: necessary but not sufficient

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra G. Leggat ◽  
Bev Phillips ◽  
Philippa Pearce ◽  
Margaret Dawson ◽  
Debbie Schulz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Allied Health ◽  
Clinical Governance ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Allied Health Professionals ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
The Relationship

Objectives The aim of the present study was to explore the perspectives of allied health professionals on appropriate content for effective clinical supervision of staff. Methods A set of statements regarding clinical supervision was identified from the literature and confirmed through a Q-sort process. The final set was administered as an online survey to 437 allied health professionals working in two Australian health services. Results Of the 120 respondents, 82 had experienced six or more clinical supervision sessions and were included in the analysis. Respondents suggested that clinical supervision was beneficial to both staff and patients, and was distinct from line management performance monitoring and development. Curiously, some of the respondents did not agree that observation of the supervisee’s clinical practice was an aspect of clinical supervision. Conclusions Although clinical supervision is included as a pillar of clinical governance, current practice may not be effective in addressing clinical risk. Australian health services need clear organisational policies that outline the relationship between supervisor and supervisee, the role and responsibilities of managers, the involvement of patients and the types of situations to be communicated to the line managers. What is known about the topic? Clinical supervision for allied health professionals is an essential component of clinical governance and is aimed at ensuring safe and high-quality care. However, there is varied understanding of the relationship between clinical supervision and performance management. What does this paper add? This paper provides the perspectives of allied health professionals who are experienced as supervisors or who have experienced supervision. The findings suggest a clear role for clinical supervision that needs to be better recognised within organisational policy and procedure. What are the implications for practitioners? Supervisors and supervisees must remember their duty of care and ensure compliance with organisational policies in their clinical supervisory practices.

Paediatric Sleep Literacy in Australian Health Professionals

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Richardson ◽  
M. Ree ◽  
R.S. Bucks ◽  
M. Gradisar
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Australian Health

Corrigendum to: Approaches to management of complaints and notifications about health practitioners in Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 353
Author(s):  
Claudette S. Satchell ◽  
Merrilyn Walton ◽  
Patrick J. Kelly ◽  
Elizabeth M. Chiarella ◽  
Suzanne M. Pierce ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Practitioner ◽  
Handling System ◽  
National Accreditation ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
Complaint Handling ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Productivity Commission ◽  
Similarities And Differences

In 2005, the Australian Productivity Commission made a recommendation that a national health registration regimen and a consolidated national accreditation regimen be established. On 1 July 2010, the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (NRAS) for health practitioners came into effect and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) became the single national oversight agency for health professional regulation. It is governed by the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act (the National Law). While all states and territories joined NRAS for registration and accreditation, NSW did not join the scheme for the handling of complaints, but retained its existing co-regulatory complaint-handling system. All other states and territories joined the national notification (complaints) scheme prescribed in the National Law. Because the introduction of NRAS brings with it new processes and governance around the management of complaints that apply to all regulated health professionals in all states and territories except NSW, where complaints management remains largely unchanged, there is a need for comparative analysis of these differing national and NSW approaches to the management of complaints/notifications about health professionals, not only to allow transparency for consumers, but also to assess consistency of decision making around complaints/notifications across jurisdictions. This paper describes the similarities and differences for complaints/notifications handling between the NRAS and NSW schemes and briefly discusses subsequent and potential changes in other jurisdictions.

scholarly journals How Australian Health Care Services Adapted to Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey of Telehealth Professionals

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Taylor ◽  
Liam J. Caffery ◽  
Hailay Abrha Gesesew ◽  
Alice King ◽  
Abdel-rahman Bassal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Society Newsletter ◽  
Chi Square Analysis

Background: In Australia, telehealth services were used as an alternative method of health care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a realist analysis of a survey of health professionals, we have sought to identify the underlying mechanisms that have assisted Australian health services adapt to the physical separation between clinicians and patients.Methods: Using a critical realist ontology and epistemology, we undertook an online survey of health professionals subscribing to the Australian Telehealth Society newsletter. The survey had close- and open-ended questions, constructed to identify contextual changes in the operating environment for telehealth services, and assess the mechanisms which had contributed to these changes. We applied descriptive and McNemar's Chi-square analysis for the close-ended component of the survey, and a reflexive thematic analysis approach for the open-ended questions which were framed within the activity based funding system which had previously limited telehealth services to regional Australia.Results: Of the 91 respondents most (73%) reported a higher volume of telephone-based care since COVID and an increase in use of video consultations (60% of respondents). Respondents felt that the move to provide care using telehealth services had been a “forced adoption” where clinicians began to use telehealth services (often for the first time) to maintain health care. Respondents noted significant changes in managerial and medical culture which supported the legitimisation of telehealth services as a mode of access to care. The support of leaders and the use personal and organisational networks to facilitate the operation of telehealth service were felt to be particularly valuable. Access to, and reliability of, the technology were considered extremely important for services. Respondents also welcomed the increased availability of more human and financial resources.Conclusions: During the pandemic, mechanisms that legitimise practise, build confidence, support relationships and supply resources have fostered the use of telehealth. This ongoing interaction between telehealth services, contexts and mechanisms is complex. The adoption of telehealth access to enable physically separated care, may mark a “new context;” or it could be that once the pandemic passes, previous policies and practises will re-assert themselves and curb support for telehealth-enabled care.

Australian health professionals’ social media (Web 2.0) adoption trends: early 21st century health care delivery and practice promotion

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne T. Usher
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Initial Data ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Australian Health

This study was concerned with indentifying reasons behind patterns of social media (Web 2.0) usage associated with eight of Australia’s major health professions. Attention was given to uncovering some of the more significant motivations for the resistance or adoption of Web 2.0 technologies for health care delivery and practice promotion by Australian health professionals. Surveys were developed from a common set of questions with specific variations between professions negotiated with professional health societies. Survey questions were constructed in an attempt to identify Web 2.0 adoption trends. An online survey (www.limesurvey.org) was used to collect data. Initial data preparation involved the development of one integrated SPSS file to incorporate all responses from the eight surveys undertaken. Initial data analysis applied Frequencies and Crosstabs to the identified groups and provided a profile of respondents by key business and demographic characteristics. Of the 935 respondents, 9.5% of participants indicated that they used Web 2.0 for their professional work, 19.1% of them did not use it for work but used it for their personal needs and 71.3% of them did not use Web 2.0 at all. Participants have indicated that the main reason for ‘choosing not to adopt’ Web 2.0 applications as a way of delivering health care to their patients is due to the health professionals’ lack of understanding of Web 2.0 (83.3%), while the main reason for ‘choosing to adopt’ Web 2.0 applications is the perception of Web 2.0 as a quick and effective method of communication (73.0%). This study has indicated that Australian health professionals ‘choose not to adopt’ Web 2.0 usage as a way of delivering health care primarily due to ‘a lack of understanding as to how social media would be used in health care’ (83.3%). This study identifies that Australian health professionals are interacting with Web 2.0 technologies in their private lives but are failing to see how such technologies might be used throughout their professions. Australian health professionals are willing to undertake online educational courses (n = 553, 58%) designed to upskill them about how Web 2.0 may be used for practice promotion and health care delivery.

scholarly journals Health workforce design for the 21st century

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J Duckett
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Health Workforce ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Demographic Transition ◽  
Workforce Planning ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Australian Population ◽  
Educational Preparation ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
Common Foundation

The Australian health workforce has changed dramatically over the last 4 years, growing in size and changing composition. However, more changes will be needed in the future to respond to the epidemiological and demographic transition of the Australian population. A critical issue will be whether the supply of health professionals will keep pace with demand. There are current recorded shortages of most health professionals, but this paper argues that future workforce planning should not be based on providing more of the same. Rather, the roles of health professionals will need to change and workforce planning needs to place a stronger emphasis on issues of workforce substitution, that is, a different mix of responsibilities. This will also require changes in educational preparation, in particular an increased emphasis on interprofessional work and common foundation learning.

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