Improving The Safety And Quality Of Emergency Nursing Care
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$1,498,877.00
Summary
Failure to assess, treat comprehensively and escalate emergency patient care can be catastrophic. However, there is no emergency nursing framework in use for the 29,000+ emergency nurses working in Australia. We aim to improve access, consistency, safety and quality of emergency care for the best possible patient outcomes through system wide implementation of HIRAID - the only validated framework designed to teach emergency nurses how to systematically assess and manage emergency patients.
Parent Initiated Response To Escalate Care Of The Deteriorating Child: The PARTNER Project
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$176,410.00
Summary
Successful management of the deteriorating patient hinges on rapid identification and reporting, yet the deteriorating patient is often not recognised or responded to in a timely way. A key feature of rapid response systems is to bypass the traditional hospital hierarchy and includes involvement of families. This is particularly relevant in the paediatric setting where we will develop an evidence-informed process for parent initiation of escalating care of the deteriorating hospitalised child.
This study investigates how much an individual's genes and environment account for the wide variation in brain structure and function. Using MRI we will examine in what way a twin's brain is the same or different from that of their co-twin, and carry out analysis of their DNA to identify some of the many genes influencing the structure and function of the brain. The study will provide fundamental information on genetic mechanisms influencing variation in brain structure and function.