October 2015 Issue of JBI Matters is now online

Dear Members, Gail Harding represented ACQA feedback, concerns and suggestions to the the Staffing Ratio Disclosure Inquiry earlier today. Details of our submission are now available on our new website. https://www.acqa.org.au/2018/10/26/acqa-submission-to-staffing-ratio-disclosure/ Special thanks to all those who contributed their thoughts and insights via our feedback survey and directly to the Committee. We appreciate your input….

Presentation sides from the 2016 Annual ACQA Conference are now available for download. To download the slides, please click on the relevant link below: Medicine Wise – Scott Boerth, Clinical Pharmacist, Healthwise Medication Services Delirium Depression Dementia – Matt Kowald, General Manager Residential Services, Barossa Village Best Practice in Managing the Use of Social Media…

Major update to Environment and Safety Audit.

Dear Members, In the recent past, common browsers like Google Chrome and others have phased out flash support in their browsers. Our data export functionality had been reliant on flash. As of today, we introduced the ability to export data without flash. This means that members who have had issues in the past exporting data…

Advance Health Directive July 1st 2014 marks the commencement of the Advance Care Directives Act 2013 and associated amendments to the Consent to Medical Treatment and Palliative Care Act1995 (Consent Act) and the Guardianship and Administration Act 1993 (GA Act).

Dear Members, Today we have made a minor update to the timetable for Medication Management. Previously, Feedback Management** was scheduled for April and September. Today we have moved the April audit back to March to help level out workloads and make the audit schedule more consistent across the board. To ensure that your current timetable…