Month: May 2021

Mr Dung Trung Bui1, Associate Professor Tony Barnett1, Dr.  Ha Hoang1, Dr. Winyu Chinthammit2 1Centre For Rural Health, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia, 2Human Interface Technology Laboratory Australia, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia Background: During a healthcare procedure, tele-mentoring can...

Mr Dung Trung Bui1, Associate Professor Tony Barnett1, Dr. Ha Hoang1, Dr. Winyu Chinthammit2 1Centre For Rural Health, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia, 2Human Interface Technology Laboratory Australia, Launceston, Australia Background: Many rural areas in Australia suffer from the inadequate...

Mrs Carina Hartley1, Mrs Anne Coccetti, Ms  Maria  Schwarz 1Queensland Health, Logan, Australia Background: Supervision for allied health staff is required to ensure the quality of patient care, staff skill and offers a valuable opportunity to assist with staff development...

Ms Felicity Purbrick1, Ms Mirosha Manoharan1, Ms Lydia  Cvejic1, Ms. Zaneta Mok1 1Alfred Health, Melbourne, Australia Background: While dysphagia management is often associated with speech pathologists, nursing staff have important roles in the implementation of dysphagia management and speech pathology...

Ms Melinda Collins1, Ms Tamara Cajkovac-Njari1, Ms Maddison Cobbe1, Ms Kathleen Tirchett1, Ms Tarumbidzwa Nzenza1 1St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, 3065 Background Patients with a disability at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne (SVHM) frequently require support to access and navigate the...

Ms Charlene Tan-smith1 1Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand The South Island paediatric ketogenic dietary therapy service has been providing care since 2016 for children with refractory (drug-resistant) epilepsy. Suffering hundreds of seizures per day medicalised ketogenic...

Ms Elise Harding1, Ms Christine Sausa1, Ms Christiane  Boehm1, Dr Jin-Gun Cho1,2,3, Ms Winnie Leung1, Ms Abby Liu1, Ms Mary Roberts1 1Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Australia, 2Westmead Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, , University...

Ms Anita Wilton1, Dr Judi Porter2, Ms Gayle Smith1 1Eastern Health, Melbourne, Australia, 2Deakin University, Burwood, Australia A review of allied health service provision at a large multi site metropolitan resulted in a set of eight recommendations to strengthen clinical...

Ms Winnie Leung1, Dr Jin-Gun  Cho1,2,3, Ms Elise Harding1, Ms Winnie Leung1, Ms Abby Liu1, Ms Estela Pessoa1, Ms Christine Sausa1, Ms Mary Roberts1,2,3 1Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia, 2University of Sydney, School of Medicine,...

Mx Brede Davis1,2 1Melton Specialist School, Melton, Australia, 2The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia For many healthcare professionals and students, responding to the sudden need for telehealth services in 2020 involved rapidly shifting established methods of practice to a setting...