This guideline provides recommendations for WA Country Health Service (WACHS) staff involved with the safe handling of cytotoxic drugs and the delivery of low risk systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT) to medical oncology patients via video supervision.
Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) issued recalls and notifications relating to medical devices are to be managed in a consistent, effective, timely and accountable manner as described in this policy to ensure a safe healthcare environment.
A doula is a companion who understands the emotional and physical needs of a woman and her family throughout her pregnancy, labour, birth and early postnatal period, and provides continuous non-clinical support and non-clinical care for a woman throughout her whole experience. Doulas are usually engaged by women in a private fee for service arrangement. Choice of support person/s for labour, including a doula, is the woman's decision.
This document seeks to clarify and standardise the use of Ketamine for the acute sedation of the agitated patient. It is to be used only by experienced practitioners who are familiar with the specific properties of Ketamine i.e. indications, contra-indications, side-effects and who are able to manage potential complications.
This flowchart sets out the process for referral, risk assessment and booking process for patients requiring therapeutic infusions in the WACHS South West.
The purpose of this document is to establish minimum practice standards for the care and management of patients requiring pleural fluid aspiration in WACHS hospitals.
This policy ensures that higher risk patients are managed by those appropriately skilled and trained, and in appropriate facilities, a tonsillectomy, with or without adenoidectomy, may be performed on a paediatric patient in a WACHS hospital regionally approved for tonsillectomy.
This document outlines the standard / endorsed WACHS approach (along with alternatives) for staff purchasing accommodation and incidentals. It applies to travel where an allowance / reimbursement is applicable.
