How can healthcare facilities and their staff implement HIRAID®?
The HIRAID® team at the University of Sydney provides a consultancy and training service that your healthcare facility can use for this purpose.
Healthcare facilities are encouraged to engage the HIRAID® team to implement or support implementation of HIRAID® in your facility. The HIRAID® team will assess your current practices, protocols, etc and provide solutions on how HIRAID® can be best integrated into specific contexts.
To train staff in HIRAID®, an evidence-informed education program has been purposefully designed by educational experts to put structure around many of the things emergency nurses already do drawing on best available evidence regarding patient assessment, risk factors for adverse outcomes, recognising and responding to clinical deterioration, and educational pedagogy to develop deep learning of core concepts and high-order thinking.
To participate, your staff must be an EN or RN currently working in an ED. It is assumed that the course participant possesses generic nursing knowledge, has an understanding of emergency care terminology, and has familiarity with standard emergency equipment. Participants are provided with pre-reading, a workbook, eLearning, a half day workshop, and are presented with an acknowledgement of their HIRAID® training.
To maintain quality within large facilities, the HIRAID® Instructor Course permits dedicated members of your staff to deliver HIRAID® training in-house. The HIRAID® Instructor Course provides a best practice framework for nurse educators, clinical facilitators, or senior nursing staff to support participants in the development of knowledge, skills, behaviours and professional attributes necessary to apply the HIRAID® framework in clinical practice
The HIRAID® Provider Course is strategically aligned with the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia Practice Standards for the Emergency Nursing Specialist and Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards). The HIRAID® Provider Course is an Australian College of Nursing Continuing Professional Development Endorsed Course.
Please contact Professor Kate Curtis for further information on HIRAID® courses and implementation programs.
HIRAID® is a trademark of the University of Sydney.
The HIRAID® Provider Course is endorsed by ACN according to our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Endorsed Course Standards. It has been allocated 4.5 CPD hours according to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia – Continuing Professional Development Standard.