NSLHD staff celebrating Administrative Professionals Day
Administrative Professionals Day Earlier this month administrative employees across the district celebrated National Administrative Professionals Day.
information. NSLHD Chief Executive Deb Willcox joined staff members for part of the day and thanked attendees for always going above and beyond for fellow staff members. “The support you offer with a smile means so much to all of us – and over the past two years, when our professional lives, and sometimes personal lives, have been manic, you have always been there,” she said. “You go above and beyond in your service and your support is greatly appreciated.” medication list. The project will focus on the top five languages based on the proportion of speakers and their English proficiency across NSLHD. The translated version of the medication list will contain both English and a translated language. The translated medication list will also include translated warning statements regularly placed on medications to promote the understanding of the warning statements by CALD patients. Translated medication lists will be released by the end of this month.
The day is celebrated on the first Friday of May and celebrates our administrative staff members and recognises their achievements. The day gives administrative employees a chance to have a say on their careers, as well as undergo professional development and provide a networking opportunity. On the day, two sessions were conducted at the Kolling Building on the Royal North Shore Hospital campus and featured guest speakers, masterclasses and development
Improving medication safety for CALD patients Medication lists used to give patients information on the medications they are taking will soon be translated into languages
to promote safety in the culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) patients. The NSLHD electronic medication management (eMM) team is working on the Multilingual Medication List project that aims to provide CALD patients with a translated medication list to improve their understanding of their medications and increase patient safety. Currently pharmacy departments across NSW use an English version of the
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