The Education Hub - Teach Think Treat

Time Management

Whenever you have competing priorities and a heavy workload, it can be difficult to manage your time appropriately. In this episode, Steve chats with Lichin Lim and Gus Benson, who have varying levels of experience in the health-professional world. Lichin and Gus give us some tips on how to manage your time and increase your work efficiency.  

How to Go-Live with Electronic Medical Record (EMR) in a hospital setting

The RCH has been fortunate to have Epic’s Electronic Medical Record since 2016. For a majority of staff it was simply a transition from paper to a computer. However, to get to that point plenty of work had to occur in the background. Lets take a journey back to pre EMR  and hear the thoughts of those working hard to ensure a smooth transition. The EMR has since been rolled out to other hospitals in the Parkville precinct. 
 
I’m joined by Peter Sloman (Parkville ED EMR Lead), Kirsten Davidson (CNC nursing informatics AND Current Dame Elizabeth Scholarship Winner.) and Naomi Bellion (Nursing Informatics CSN).

Narrative Medicine

In this episode, we delve into the transformative power of Narrative Medicine with Dr. Fiona Reilly and Dr. Mariam Tokhi. Discover how Narrative Medicine enhances creativity, self-expression and empathy, offering new perspectives on clinical education, patient care and professional well-being. 
 
Disclaimer: The examples given by the guests may be distressing to some listeners. For support, please contact your local mental health clinician or support service for advice. 

Improving clinical student assessments

Student clinical assessments come in all shapes and sizes and largely depend on 3 main factors: The healthcare discipline, the university that the student attends and the year level of the student. In this episode, Andrew Kilgour and Giulia Mccorkell from RMIT university talk about how they have devised a multi-disciplinary assessment framework and how it can replace the current assessment systems for all healthcare disciplines.  

Challenges of Periop Education

Imagine being a new or undergraduate nurse and being placed in an unfamiliar environment. In an operating theatre, you’re aware of the different scrubs, the theatre cap and to not touch any of the drapes, but what are those “tools” the surgeon is holding. Or why is everyone counting to 5?  
In this episode we have Clinical Nurse Educator Carolyn Sahhar who will guide us through the maze which is perioperative care. 

What we can learn from Clown Doctors

The role of the Clown Doctor is to improve the hospital experience for everyone and they do this in so many ways. In this episode, we talk with David Symons from The Humour Foundation and Amy Gray, head of the Department of Paediatrics from the University of Melbourne. We discuss the role of Clown Doctors and integrate joy into a paediatric setting. David and Amy also introduced a novel program that is designed to impact health professionals and the way they approach their relationships with patients, families and colleagues. 

Career Journeys

This is the first in a series of podcasts where we explore the career journeys of different health professionals. Listen in for some sage advice and be inspired by the potential of your future in health care. 
  
In this episode we chat with Jo Miller, Director of Quality at The Royal Children’s Hospital. Starting from her early days here at The RCH Jo’s career seen her traverse the public, private and government health sectors to come full circle with her recent return to RCH. She has always held onto her passion for nursing and caring for others. It a great example of the diversity of options a career in health and particularly nursing can offer. 
  
This story is presented in recognition of international nurses’ day which is celebrated every year on 12th May.    

Developing an escape room

Escape rooms are becoming increasingly popular as an interactive and engaging tool in healthcare teams. Participating in them can be fun – creating them, just as rewarding. The RCH Education Hub’s Lichin, Benny and Steve talk about their journey in creating an escape room for campus staff, how long it took and how it drove them to create another 2 escape rooms!  

Young patient perspective

Today I’m joined by Anastazia Drake. Anastazia is a former patient of RCH, has spent a lot of time over the years as both an inpatient and outpatient and has experienced the care provided by the RCH team. She’s here today to talk a little about her experiences and how you, as a healthcare professional, can work effectively in a patient centered care environment. 

Simulation - Part 2 - Kim and Dom

In this part 2 of the simulation series, we chat with Kim Price and Dr Dom Cincotta about their experience with in-situ simulation and how they have used it to improve the care delivered to patients suffering from anaphylaxis.