This document maps the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards with the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards (Primary and Community Healthcare Standards).
This issue includes items on the revised Emergency Triage Education Kit, values and ethics in healthcare improvement, retained swabs, electronic medication management, antimicrobial stewardship, paediatric medication safety, workplace violence, behaviour, locums, telemedicine, COVID-19, and more.
Also covered are the latest from BMJ Quality & Safety, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, and Health Policy along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.
Share input on the draft Aged Care IPC Guide by Wednesday 15 May 2024.
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The Aged Care Emergency (ACE) service program addresses transitions of care for residents of aged care facilities in the Hunter New England and Central Coast areas of NSW.
This poster about the steps for hand washing can be used in your local World Hand Hygiene Day activities.
This poster can be displayed above hand washing sinks in your healthcare setting or workplace to show that there are five easy steps for hand washing.
Everyone can help to improve hand hygiene and reduce the spread of infection.
This issue includes items on pneumonia, infections, health worker wellbeing, diagnostic error in mental health, falls prevention, medication safety, COVID-19, and more.
Also covered are the latest from Clinical Communiqué, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, and Australian Health Review along with the latest from the UK’s NICE and the USA’s AHRQ.
World Hand Hygiene Day is a global initiative led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and held on 5 May each year. Show your support by downloading and sharing the content on your website, social networks or within your health service.
You are encouraged to use these resources to raise awareness about how hand hygiene can help save lives by preventing the spread of infection.
This factsheet provides an introduction to data validation for infection surveillance.