Improving children’s outcomes through community action
Early childhood development is critical for developing the human capital we need for a prosperous and sustainable society.
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Communication Conundrums: Avoiding mistakes and errors
This presentation will explore common challenges clinicians face including lack of previously established relationships, misaligned surgical or treatment expectations, language and cultural misunderstandings, heightened emotionality, time pressures, family-staff conflict, and fractured teamwork. Impediments to good communication and relationships will be highlighted.
To Cure and To Care: The Science and Practice of Psychological Care in Paediatric Heart Centres
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in infants and contributes more than 9,000 Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) to the total burden of disease in Australia.
E-health education to prepare clinicians for e-patients
Participatory health technologies include wearable sensors for self-quantification of physiological status (quantifiedself.org) and social networking sites for people to share their healthcare experiences and to analyse their shared health data as well (patientslikeme.com).
Workplace Bullying & Harassment: Mock Court – You be the Judge
1 Synopsis:The RCH Culture Survey which was conducted in November 2012 identified that bullying & harassment is a major concern for staff. To improve the culture of zero tolerance of bullying and harassment, the RCH Executive would like to encourage staff to attend a Mock Court training exercise. The Mock Court is a one hour … Continued
Budget pressures and health.What do pressures on Australian government budgets mean for health? What choices do we have?
Grattan Institute is an independent think tank dedicated to developing high quality public policy for Australia’s future. It was formed in 2008 in response to a widespread view in government and business that Australia needed a non-partisan think tank providing independent, rigorous and practical solutions to some of the country’s most pressing problems.
Aboriginal Child Health is Everyone’s Business. What does this mean?
This Grand Round will highlight how Wadja Aboriginal Family Place as well as other RCH staff/Departments are working in partnership to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal children and young people.
Grand Rounds opens the 5th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference hosted by the Children’s Bioethics Centre. The Theme for the conference is “Who’s listening to me? Who’s speaking speaking for me?”
The literature on child disclosure of family abuse (i.e. sexual abuse, physical abuse, exposure to domestic violence) will be reviewed with a focus on how parental and community response to disclosure predicts long-term recovery for the child. Subtle and overt forms of non-supportive responses to disclosure will be examined through the prism of recent research on priming and neuroethics- a literature that can help elucidate the multiple pathways that adults might unconsciously employ to discourage children from fully communicating details of their victimization.
A special RCH Grand Rounds
The Grand Round will be part history, science, personal reflections, a tribute to patients and their families, and the multidisciplinary teams involved in their care at RCH over the last 40 years.
Early probiotic interventions in the first 100 days…… A natural miracle for infant colic?
Probiotics, live microorganisms with potential for beneficial health effects, are increasingly added to infant formulae and used as food supplements.