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SMACCGOLD 2014 on the Gold Coast was like punk rock. Subversive, political, honest, rough at the edges and committed to thrashing out the issues that matter. Ironically, on further reflection, the second installation of Social Media and Critical Care Conference struck me as having parallels with one of my favourite […]

SMACCGOLD – Punk Rock, Paeds, Palliation & People

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  Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. ― Charlie Kaufman In Nursing, we talk a great deal about feeling, instinct, intuition. But what is it we are reacting to? I have long been a fan of the concept of the End-of-Bedogram. […]

End-of-Bedogram: The Art Formally Known as Intuition

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Simulation is a technique–not a technology–to replace or amplify real experiences with guided experiences that evoke or replicate substantial aspects of the real world in a fully interactive manner. David Gaba MD Absolute golden rule – The scenario is not an entree for a lecture. This post is pretty simply […]

Tips for Team Simulation Training

An Internal Medical Emergency Team Concept From SA Health Australia Believe it or not, 20 years after the inception of Medical Emergency Teams to manage pre cardiac arrest patients, a number of reasonably large Australian hospitals still don’t have a Medical Emergency management system. This team from SA Health have […]

No ICU? No Problem! An Internal Medical Emergency Team

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This excellent resource was first brought to my attention via Ian at thenursepath.com Since then I have found myself recommending it so often to colleagues for use as a teaching resource,that I thought it very worthy of a quick and dirt repost. Key points: Produced as part of a multi-university […]

First2Act – Stopping the Downward Trend

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This video came to my attention first via Mike Cadogan at Life in the Fast Lane and a couple of days later via Ian Miller at The Nurse Path. I was blown away by the commitment of this health service to truly connecting it’s staff to the business of health. In […]

Partnering with Consumers – What it Really Means