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Sydney West Area Health Service (04-Nov-2008)
The Nursing Initiatives in Schools (NIIS) program aims at increasing the number of secondary students enrolling to undertake nursing studies across Sydney West hospitals by providing incentives and opportunities.
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South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service (04-Nov-2008)
Program to assist new graduate nurses and nurses new to mental health attain competence in a range of clinical skills necessary to work in mental health nursing, with a subsequent aim to increase retention rates.
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Greater Southern Area Health Service (03-Nov-2008)
Enrolled Nurse (EN) to Registered Nurse (RN) Conversion Cohort. A programme to assist EN’s to become RNs by studying locally and remaining part of the local workforce.
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Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service (31-Oct-2008)
A specialised nursing based English language and communications curriculum was developed and implemented to increase the nurse’s ability to communicate in the context of practice to ensure safe practice and professional nursing care.
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Sydney South West Area Health Service (30-Oct-2008)
Project to improve nursing assessment, care planning and documentation processes to reduce patient antecedent rates (ie. presence of altered physiological parameters with no intervention) within the Departments of Medicine and Surgery.
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Sydney South West Area Health Service (30-Oct-2008)
FAST examination has been proved accurate for diagnosing trauma when performed by non-radiologist physicians. Training of senior trauma and emergency nurses in the use of FAST (NFAST) was implemented to increase the number of available accredited FAST operators.
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South East Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service (29-Oct-2008)
Publicly funded Sexual Health services will prioritise access to and focus of services to those priority groups most in need as delineated by NSW Health.
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North Coast Area Health Service (29-Oct-2008)
Evaluation of the employment of two Assistants in Nursing to provide a personal care service, showing cost efficiencies and additional service provision.
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Hunter New England Area Health Service (24-Oct-2008)
Implementing a primary nursing care model with the patient population at the Wansey Centre satellite dialysis unit to achieve a greater level of patient care and staff satisfaction.
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Burns, Sharon (09-Sep-2008)
Flinders Medical Centre addressed the problem of delays in Exercise Stress Tests being performed by developing training for cardiac trained nurses to perform the tests.
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Justice Health; Sydney South West Area Health Service (03-Mar-2008)
Description of the Tidal model of nursing care, collaboration opportunities for people implementing this model and details of the specific implementation within Justice Health.
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Clinical Services Redesign Program (14-Nov-2007)
The Redesign Program has resulted in the development and implementation of a number of new roles that support the new models of care.
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Hunter New England Area Health Service (24-Sep-2007)
A seminar to promote the achievements in clinical practice development by clinical nurses and midwives in Hunter New England Health.
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Sydney West Area Health Service (30-Aug-2007)
This program combines the latest multi-media technology with contemporary approaches to health service teaching.
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Ashley-Coe, Christine (29-Aug-2007)
A a national framework for decision-making for nurses and midwives.
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Sydney West Area Health Service (29-Aug-2007)
The triage process was remodelled to make real and sustained improvements in the accuracy of triage category allocation.
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South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service (27-Aug-2007)
A program that enables students the opportunity to explore nursing as a career whilst still at school.
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Sydney South West Area Health Service (27-Aug-2007)
A program to decrease nursing vacancy rate and provide skilled motivated staff working in a safe environment.
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Sydney West Area Health Service. (20-Oct-2006)
Aim was to create a new neonatal nursing workforce and reduce long term neonatal nursing vacancies and to meet the future neonatal nursing demands with a known aging workforce.
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Greater West Area Health Service (20-Oct-2006)
Aim was to facilitate enrolled nurses transition into renal specialty in line with current evidence based practice for renal nursing.
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Greater Southern Area Health Service (20-Oct-2006)
The aim was to decrease overtime worked by operating theatre nurses by 40% over a six month period.
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Sydney West Area Health Service. (20-Oct-2006)
Aim was to ensure cardiac patients entering the emergency department are assessed appropriately, allocated a bed in the cardiology dept as quickly as possible or discharged safely from the emergency dept in a timely manner if the criteria for rapid discharge are met.
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Sydney West Area Health Service. (20-Oct-2006)
The aim of the program reform was to be responsive to the individual new graduate needs, increased flexibility for the new graduate career progression through tailored clinical allocation and has reliable systems to identify NGs requirements for additional support to ensure the delivery of safe patient care.
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Greater Southern Area Health Service. (20-Oct-2006)
Aim was to work collaboratively to streamline the process that would define a Scope of Practice and Clinical Practice Guidelines for Emergency Nurse Practitioners within the Greater Southern Area Health Service in a timely manner.
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Greater Southern Area Health Service. (20-Oct-2006)
Aim was to enhance the clinical outcomes of patients who present to public hospitals with substance use problems, through the implementation of a six month Clinical Practice Improvement Project regarding the application of the Alcohol and Other Drugs Policy for Nursing Practice in NSW Alcohol & Other Drugs Policy for Nursing Practice
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School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Tasmania (07-Sep-2005)
The aims of the Building Connections in Aged Care project were to explore the possibilities for developing quality clinical placements in aged care.
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Sydney South West Area Health Service; Liverpool Hospital. (21-Oct-2005)
An examination of the data flows regarding notification and management of hospital deaths reviews identified fragmented processes.
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Souther Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service. (20-Oct-2006)
Aim was to reduce the number of patient Adverse Outcomes for the clinically deteriorating patient, through the development and implementation of a Doctors And Nurses General Emergency Response System
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South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service. (20-Oct-2006)
Disjointed case management during after hours resulting in sub optimal care of acutely unwell patients with potential for deterioration and extension of hospital stay.
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South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service. (20-Oct-2006)
The aim of this project was to increase nurses' confidence in transferring their existing skills to a new clinical environment.
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South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service. (20-Oct-2006)
Aim was to provide better continuity of care for patients by establishing a stable three-tiered workforce of Assistants in Nursing, Enrolled Nurses and Registered Nurses.
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South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service. (20-Oct-2006)
Aim was to reduce unreasonable nursing workloads and overtime by 25% over a five month period in the operating suite
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Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service (20-Oct-2006)
The aims of this project was to access block issues by facilitating hospital weekend discharge to community nursing and prevent unnecessary A&E presentation by community patients within 12 months.
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Sydney South West Area Health Service (20-Oct-2006)
The Miller Early Childhood Sustained Nurse Home-visiting trial is the first Australian randomized control trial to determine the impact of a comprehensive SNHV program commencing antenatally in a population group living in an area of known disadvantage.
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The Children's Hospital at Westmead. (20-Oct-2006)
To ensure effective succession planning within Nursing we conducted the Nursing Leadership Education Program 2006.
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Greater Western Area Health Service. (20-Oct-2006)
Aim is to improve clinical skills levels in twelve nurses working in remote areas of NSW through structured learning and self-development programs within twelve months with view to spreading the project statewide.
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Hunter New England Area Health Service (20-Oct-2006)
This project in the Greater Newcastle Cluster of Hunter New England Health has seen a change in the way wound care is provided and has resulted in significant improvements for patients.
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Greater Western Area Health Service. (20-Oct-2006)
The purpose of this system was to improve skill mix and provide a distinct career and education path for the staff to follow.
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Sydney West Area Health Service; Westmead Hospital. (21-Oct-2005)
The Westmead Hospital New Graduate Transitional Support Program (NGTSP) is an important recruitment and retention strategy, providing clinical and educational support for first year registered nurses.
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International Council of Nurses (31-May-2005)
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has developed a web based resource designed to facilitate the dissemination of nursing innovations globally.
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Greater Southern Area Health Service (21-Oct-2005)
It was evident that the scope of Enrolled Nursing practice was set to escalate within the NSW public hospital system.
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South Eastern Sydney/Illawarra Area Health Service; Clinical Support Unit. (21-Oct-2005)
In 2002 the former Illawarra Area Health Service Nursing Executive and Department of Nursing, University of Wollongong combined their abilities and resources in an innovative and strategic approach to building the Area Health Services capacity.
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Greater Southern Area Health Service. (21-Oct-2005)
Aim was t have nurses reflect on and identify what their nursing career means to them and to be able to share and publicise those personal values as a means of promoting and valuing the career of nursing.
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Hunter/New England Area Health Service (29-Apr-2008)
Healthcare facilities within Hunter New England Area Health Service (HNEAHS) have for many years provided non-accredited IVC training programs targeted, in the main, at registered nurses (RNs).
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Sydney South West Area Health Service; Department of Renal Medicine - Liverpool. (21-Oct-2005)
An application was submitted to introduce Enrolled Nurses into the Renal Service, initially in Haemodialysis units.
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North Sydney/Central Coast Area Health Service (21-Oct-2006)
The programme aims to facilitate registered and enrolled nurses return to practice in acute care settings in ways that promote competence, confidence and person-environment satisfaction.
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Sydney South West Area Health Service (21-Oct-2005)
To identify the specific oral care needs of critically ill patients and to assess whether the attitudes, behaviour, knowledge and current oral care practices of nurses within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Concord Repatriation General Hospital (CRGH) affect the quality of oral care provided.
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Sydney South West Area Health Service; Fairfield Health Service. (21-Oct-2005)
The aim is; that within twelve (12) months unplanned presentations to the Health Service of Nursing Home residents requiring uncomplicated simple clinical procedures or treatments will be decreased by 50%.
