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Mrs Angela Mucic1, Mrs Prue Deckert1 1Western Health, St Albans, Australia Background: An inpatient referral audit conducted in 2017 at a metropolitan public health service found that 43% of allied health referrals were inadequate and did not allow prioritisation, equating...

Ms Yvette Rouse1, Dr Lydia Garside1, Ms Nicki Wickham1 1Child Protection Unit, Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick, Randwick, Australia Vicarious trauma (VT) is the cumulative and detrimental effect of working with and being repeatedly exposed to traumatic information. VT is a...

Sandra Parr1, Simone Niejalke1, Nicolette Varvounis1 1Northern Adelaide Local Health Network, Australia Allied Health disciplines (Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Social Work, and Speech Pathology) extended their clinical service hours from 8am-4pm to 8am-6pm Monday-Friday across acute inpatient wards at Lyell...

Jana Havlis1, Nicolette Varvounis1, Dr Joanne Murray2 1Northern Adelaide Local Health Network, , Australia, 2Flinders University, South Australia The Australian Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Management (2017) recommend that people with acute stroke have their swallowing screened within four hours of...

Ms Leigh Moore1, Associate Professor Narelle Campbell1 1Flinders University, Darwin, Australia Background: Escape rooms are a purposeful physical adventure game requiring a team to ‘escape’ by solving a series of puzzles through clues and strategy. Inspired by the team-building and...

Dr Jeanne Marshall1,2, Nicky Graham1 1Queensland Children’s Hospital, Children’s Health Queensland, South Brisbane, Australia, 2The University of Queensland, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, St Lucia, Australia Background: Although dysphagia management is a well-established area of speech pathology (SP) practice,...

Maria Schwarz1, Professor Elizabeth Ward3, Anne Coccetti1, Katrina Dunn2, Dr Craig Bond2, Associate Professor Bernard  Whitfield1, Dr Marjoree Sehu1, Erin Lawlor2, Cal Winckel2 1Logan Hospital, Meadowbrook, Australia, 2West Moreton Hospital and Health Service, , Australia, 3Centre for Functioning and Health...

Dr John Drayton1, Ms Kristine  Flint2 1University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, 2Queensland Health, Brisbane, Australia The process of facilitating ‘viewings’ of the bodies of deceased people for bereaved relatives is a confronting but not uncommon role of Allied Health...

Dr Anthony Tuckett1, Dr Sharon Hetherington2, Ms Jodie  Goddard3, Professor Helen McCutcheon1, Professor Abby King4 1The University Of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, 2Healthy Connections Exercise Clinic, Burnie Brae Ltd, Chermside, Australia, 3Community Support and Wellness Services, Burnie Brae Ltd, Chermside,...

Lucy Whelan1, Jamieson Sebire1 1Monash Health,  Australia Background: In 2016 an Allied Health Assistant (AHA) scope survey at a large public healthcare network indicated only 83% of respondents were receiving Clinical Supervision (CS). These results raised awareness that the current...