We have planned our meetings for the year and are giving early notice of meetings so put these dates in your diary.
Please update your diaries, and stay tuned for further updates.
– Gail Harding, ACQA Committee
Medication management for aged care recipients — benefits of using the National Residential Medication Chart The NRMC is a medication chart specifically developed for the residential aged care sector. It has been designed to improve medication safety for residents and to minimise the administrative burden on aged care staff when ordering, administering and supplying medicines….
Share the load and get support and practical ideas from other nurse managers and consultants. It is so important to remain connected with your peers during this time of incredible uncertainty because it is too easy to fall into despair created by fear and isolation. The aged care industry has been rocked by the effects…
The Aged Care Quality Association was invited to participate on an inquiry into the Aged Care Amendment (Staffing Disclosure) Bill 2018 at Parliament House in Canberra on 26 October 2018. Prior to manking it’s submission, input and feedback was sought from nurses, nurse managers and directors of member Aged Care providers, and their feedback was…
Today ACQA has released a greatly enhanced set of built-in printable reports which are now available for all users of the ACQA platform. Features for these reports include Report on sites based on selecting individual sites, selecting a group or by site type Graph and compare audit results visually with built-in graphing Review detail in…
ACQA has been invited to attend an Inquiry into the Aged Care Amendment (Staffing Ratio Disclosure) Bill 2018 at Parliament House, Canberra on Friday 26th October. ACQA will be representing our memberships’ feedback, making suggestions for improvement and relaying the impact this will have on their organisations. We have created a short-form member survey with…
Today ACQA is pleased to announce a major revision of our Residential Aged Care Audits is going live today. The revisions were designed after a substantial review process by our team after our involvement seeing many facilities through their accreditation preparation, assessment audits and audit response preparation.Updates include: Changes to questions targeting specific feedback from…
