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Calculating the correct ‘dose’ of QI skills required for quality care
Calculating the correct ‘dose’ of QI skills required for quality care

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has introduced the concept of Quality Improvement (QI) ‘dosing’, where different staff roles receive tailored levels of improvement science (SOI) training based on their responsibilities. 

Clinical governance
Improvement
Leadership
Training
Workforce
Using education as a change strategy: an oldie but a baddie.
Using education as a change strategy: an oldie but a baddie.

As a behaviour change strategy, education rarely achieves the desired result when used on its own. It’s ‛necessary but insufficient’ to effect lasting change. In the classic hierarchy of change effectiveness or the ‘action hierarchy’, education ranks as the least effective intervention, below new rules, policies and more system-focused categories such as forcing functions and automation. And yet, in most human services it continues to be the ‘go-to’ response to everything from accreditation recommendations to policy implementation.

Change management
Systems Thinking
Training
Handy lessons on training
Handy lessons on training

One practice the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted from the outset was the importance of hand hygiene in infection prevention and control – a practice that in the past has often been approached with a degree of complacency.  Some of the literature concludes that compliance with hand hygiene has improved during the course of the pandemic, while other studies suggest it has not.

Acute care
Infection control
Training
Train to change
Train to change

As at July 2022, there were in excess of 642,000 health practitioners registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).  In addition to this cohort, there are also non-registered health professionals who play an essential role in the delivery of care.

Culture
Training
Workforce
Using simulation for workforce upskilling and systems testing
Using simulation for workforce upskilling and systems testing

Tess Vawser from the Epworth talks through the challenge of implementing a COVID-19 rapid education plan and hospital readiness systems testing across multiple sites.

COVID-19/Infection control
Public
Simulation
Training
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