Occupational Health & Safety
Infection Control Procedures and Practices
This chapter explains the actions of the staff, management of equipment and procedures required by the residents and looks at infection control principles in all aspects of resident care so that staff can ensure that the chain of infection is broken...
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Communicating with Fearful and Frustrated Old People
A look at three shades of hostility, encountered in the health care environment. How to deal with aggression and hostility when it occurs.
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Australian Male: Illness, Injury and Death by Socialisation
Many men's health problems in Australia are preventable. They are broad public health issues such as lifestyle, health-risk behaviour and poor health care service utilisation. Improving men's health in Australia depends on a number of prerequisites.
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Organising a New Volunteer Program
This session will discuss how to organise a new volunteer program.
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Maintaining Volunteer Commitment
A snapshot of various aspects of the job requirements for effectively managing volunteers in a vibrant health service.
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Aggressive Behaviours, The Person with...
This chapter instructs readers on how to understand sources of anger and hostility, recognise a range of aggressive behaviours, and to appreciate how the solution-focused behavioural change model can help a client to change aggressive behaviour...
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Evaluating the Volunteers and the Program
This session will discuss some aspects required for evaluating the contributions of a volunteer program and how to measure the volunteer program goals.
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Physiotherapist
This job description is ideal for anyone wishing to familiarise themselves with the standard requirements and responsibilities of a Physiotherapist...
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Conducting Successful Staff Support Sessions
Caring for cancer patients can often be a confronting experience for nurses and other health care professionals. To ensure that the health care staff have sufficient support, this fast fact sheet provides a number of guidelines in establishing staff suppo
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Managing Risk
This chapter teaches nurse managers about how to manage risks proactively by assessing what can possibly go wrong, developing a plan to manage these risks, act on this plan, harness the efforts of the team and then recognise the improvements...
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Staff
This chapter discusses staff responsibilities, advises on staff health and hygiene and provides a guide on what to do if either they or a resident are infected with an infection...
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Thriving as a Health Professional -(when working with cancer patients)
This chapter identifies common challenges health professionals are faced with and the varied responses they could have...
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Building a Successful Volunteer Program-Legal Aspects
Analysis of legal risks and implications when engaging volunteers to work in an organization.
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Immunisation in Aged Care - Staff and Residents
This session will discuss the need for aged care staff and those in their care to be immunised.
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Administration, Office Procedures and Budget Issues
Guidelines for facilitating the efficient and smooth implementation and maintenance of a new volunteer program.
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Occupational Health and Safety
Elderly people are highly vulnerable to hazards and risks because they are often unable to protect themselves. Aged‐care nurses therefore must be responsible for safety issues within their own workplaces to protect themselves and those within their care..
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Choosing Volunteers
Overview of a comprehensive Volunteer Orientation Program that will effectively meet the needs of new volunteers within a health care
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Aggression
Aggressive behaviour often occurs in association with dementia. This chapter addresses aggression and allows readers to understand people who are supposed to be ‘aggressive’, assess their behaviour and attempt to avoid and manage it...
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Substances Used by Nurses and the Consequences of this Behaviour
This lecture discusses what you should do when a colleague has a problem with alcohol or other drugs in your workplace.
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Documenting Staff Issues
Human resources represent an organisation’s most valuable resource. This chapter explains the explicit procedural documents that must accompany each human-resources management policy...
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