Jill will reflect on her journey towards leadership over her career, in the context of the changing understanding about effective leadership, gender issues in leadership, and her experiences of the Homeward Bound Women in STEMM leadership program during 2019
We are living through the greatest disruption of the post-war era; what is likely to be the defining historical period of our lives. This may be the end of the ‘good times’ for the world, but it has been a long time coming, and Covid-19 is simply an accelerant. Therefore, it is important now to focus on what has to be done, for all that stands between us and disaster is good government.
COVID-19 has resulted in a flurry of high-stakes decision-making, at a public health level and an individual patient level, with significant impacts on how children are cared for, and how staff work. Many of these decisions have ethical dimensions.
Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) have been used for decades in clinical trials, observational studies, population health surveys, and for estimates of quality of life in economic evaluations. However, the use of PROs as part of routine measurement in clinical settings is relatively new. In this Grand Round, 3 speakers will discuss the use of PROs in the UK, in mental health at RCH and integrating PROs into the EMR.
This presentation will consider problems encountered when parents and staff disagree on how much control parents should have in medical management, and when they disagree on what is best for a sick child.
Some of the policy work the Department of Health and Human Services Child Health and Wellbeing Unit has been undertaking since its creation in November 2017.
Gillian will speak about the human rights of children established by international treaties and their application to the detention of children in immigration detention and juvenile detention, and the growing numbers of children in ‘out of home’ care, especially indigenous children.
Conflict is virtually inevitable in healthcare. Providers with widely diverse training and perspectives must collaborate interdependently to care for children and their families whose needs‚ beliefs and goals can likewise vary widely. Conflict can lead to adverse outcomes‚ patient dissatisfaction‚ and provider burnout. Whether as momentous as disputes over end-of-life, or as mundane as allocation of work responsibilities, conflicts often worsen over time as communication breaks down and people become entrenched in their positions. This Grand Round will discuss the importance of conflict resolution and introduce a “toolkit” of practical conflict resolution skills and strategies.
On April 30th the RCH Electronic Medical Record will have been in use for 12 months. It has been one of the biggest practice changes in the hospital’s history.
Although individually rare, there are many inherited and tubular disorders of the kidney affecting children and adults. This talk will offer a bedside-to-bench-and-back overview of some of the clinical issues facing patients with rare kidney disorders, together with our genetic and cell biological discoveries concerning the C-terminal tails of individual proteins, and why they are so important in ensuring normal renal tubular function.
