Father Inclusiveness: Working with Fathers and their newborn Infants

Dr Kevin Nugent will present findings from a range of studies about our understanding of father’s relationships with their newborn infants. Helping parents meet “the newborn as a person” using a father and family-centred relationship based approach can set the whole family off on a very positive developmental trajectory.

RCH University Academic Centre: what’s in it for your?

The presentation will discuss the proposed new structure for the University RCH academic centre. This presentation should be of interest to all scientific, medical, nursing, and allied health staff who are interested in education, research, and advocacy for the campus.

On being a good parent to a seriously ill child

The link between being a good parent and the health of the family will also explored, along with the use of the intervention in critical care and palliative care more widely

A New Electronic Medical Record for RCH

The new RCH was designed to be a fully electronic (“digital”) hospital but this didn’t eventuate – we still do most of our day to day work on paper. We will explain why this didn’t happen and outline the vision and plans to introduce a New Electronic Medical Record at RCH.