Resources
Orientation guide
We recommend all new doctors download and read our orientation guide
Cabrini Q&A program and sessions
- Tuesday 14 February – Child Safe Standards: how do they inform our care
- Tuesday 14 March – Clinical Documentation: an essential part of care
- Tuesday 18 April – Preventing Falls: a collaborative effort
- Tuesday 16 May – Individualising care and communication for patients with disabilities or complex needs
- Tuesday 16 June – Pastoral Care at Cabrini: what it is and why it matters
- Tuesday 11 July – Workplace decisions: how do we decide what’s best and why?
- Tuesday 8 August – Statutory Duty of Candour at Cabrini: reinforcing the positive patient experience
- Tuesday 23 November – The need for speed – ask: Could it be Sepsis?
- 15 Feb – Listening to our patients… what can we learn?
- 8 Mar – The changing landscape in women’s health
- 5 Apr – Living with COVID – looking forward
- 10 May – Executive Session – why do we care about mission?
- 21 Jun – Dementia
- 12 Jul – Health Informatics
- 9 Aug – Exercise Scientists @ Cabrini
- 13 Sep – Family violence is everyone’s business
- 11 Oct – Where board governance meets clinical governance
- 23 Nov – Clinical Trials
Grand Rounds
December| Dr Louise Creati – Cardio-Oncology updates
November | Professor Paul McMurrick – Quality assurance data: is it all about standards or does it benefit research?
October | Dr Nick Gelber – New Radiology Techniques for the non-Radiologist – – what you just have to know in 2023!
September | Dr Zoe Brown – Is all vasculitis the same? Update in Giant Cell Arteritis
August | Prof Gary Richardson OAM – Getting clinical research happening – opportunities and how we do it at Cabrini
July | Dr Jun (JK) Khoo – Interstitial Lung Disease – 2023 update
June | Dr Dilan Seneviratne Epa – Thyroid disease – an update on the highs and lows
Apr | Associate Professor Stephen Pianko – Management of Cirrhosis in 2023
Mar | Dr Hope Gates-Scovelle – Identifying patients in the Emergency Department nearing the end of life
- Jul | Dr Nick Gelber – Radiology Quiz – pit your skills against the expert
- Aug | Dr Johnathan Snider – New approaches to common problems in renal medicine
- Sep | Dr Ronnie Freilich – Current classification of gliomas
- Oct | Dr Kirsten Herbert – Warfarin: dead or alive
- Nov | Dr Josh Ihle – Pre-hospital ECMO during CPR: from hospital to the street
Forms and information
New Cabrini consent forms
Cabrini has reviewed our consent forms to align with legislative requirements, best practice and recommendations from ACHS accreditation. After extensive consultation, including with the Medical Staff Executive, two new forms have been developed:
- ‘Consent to Procedure or Surgical Treatment’ (MR002DS) – for all invasive or high-risk procedures and surgeries.
- ‘Consent to Medical Treatment and/or Blood Product Administration’ (MR002DM) – for invasive or high-risk medical treatments, such as chemotherapy, blood transfusions, or iron infusions.
The new consent forms will come into effect from the 3rd of July 2023, replacing the current ‘Acknowledgement of Consent to Treatment’ forms (MR002D).
Patients must have a completed consent form signed by the treating Medical Practitioner and the patient (or parent/guardian/person responsible) before treatment commences and/or before administering any anaesthetic/sedation.
Forms are available in both hard copy and digital PDF format – attached below. We encourage consent forms to be sent in via email ahead of time, along with the admission/booking request.
Feedback on the forms can be provided by emailing consent@cabrini.com.au (please note that feedback will be used in aggregate, and individual responses may not be provided).
Resources
Completing death certificates
The attached document, also available through the Births, Deaths and Marriages (BDM) website, provides guidelines to filling out the cause of death form and examples of this.
Correcting death certificates
If you need to correct details after submission, this can only be made by the medical practitioner who submitted the cause of death. If they are unavailable, the Senior Medical Registrar or the Treating Consultant under whom the deceased was admitted and treated. The correction email must include why the certifying medical practitioner is unavailable. To correct a submitted form:
Email bdmmedicals@justice.vic.gov.au as soon as possible with:
- Your own details
- The deceased person’s details
- The details of the correction, such as incorrect name, date of death, date of birth, place of death, cause of death
- The reason the correction is needed.
Send a corrected copy to the funeral director:
- Manually correct a printed copy
- Sign next to the corrections
- Send the corrected copy to the funeral director, either a hard copy or a scan via email. The copy with corrections should reflect the details emailed to BDM.
BDM will email a confirmation to the medical practitioner once the record has been corrected.
From 19 June 2019, voluntary assisted dying is legal in Victoria. The Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic) allows certain people in the late stages of advanced disease to take a substance prescribed by a doctor that will end their life, at a time and place of their choosing.
There are strict eligibility requirements and not all patients will be able to access voluntary assisted dying.
Cabrini’s position is that doctors and other healthcare practitioners should not intentionally cause the death of a person in their care, and should not assist a person in taking their own life. Cabrini will not be participating in voluntary assisted dying. We welcome all to our healthcare service, whatever their views and beliefs. We will support our staff in being able to respond in a sensitive and open way to any person’s desire to discuss or access voluntary assisted dying.
We will never abandon our patients and we will continue to accompany them, if they choose, from diagnosis until their death.
Resources:
Cabrini is transitioning to electronic charting of Insulin across the organisation, to address the risks associated with a hybrid system (paper and electronic). This initiative is expected to reduce the number of insulin-related incidents and improve patient safety overall.
Following a successful pilot, all regular and supplemental (sliding scale or stat dose) insulin will now be prescribed on MedChart. Insulin infusions will remain on paper charts. An updated Diabetic Observation Record (MR183) will also be introduced at this time, with track-and-trigger functionality.
The organisational GO LIVE date for these changes will be Tuesday 4 July 2023.
To support the implementation there will a series of communications, manager information sessions and bedside support provided by the MedChart team and the Clinical Education Clinical Support Nurses.
Resources
Everything you wanted to know about Ethics in the Catholic tradition but were too afraid to ask
Our session was hosted by Dr Fergus Kerr, Group Director Medical Services and we were joined by ethicist Dr Bernadette Tobin, Director of the Plunkett Centre for Ethics at The Australian Catholic University & St Vincent’s Health Australia.
- clarifying the Ethical Code of Conduct for Catholic health and aged care;
- ethical challenges during the pandemic – visitors restrictions/mandating employees/allocation of resources;
- how to talk about Voluntary Assisted Dying; withdrawal of treatment,
- any specific issues you would like addressed
Play
Everything you wanted to know about Ethics in the Catholic tradition but were too afraid to ask