Conditions of use and copyright
These pathways are intended as clinical support tools for management of the acutely unwell persons living in residential aged care facilities. They are designed for use by residential aged care facility (RACF) clinical staff (at Registered Nurse, Clinical Nurse, Clinical Nurse Consultant or Nurse Practitioner level) in collaboration with General Practitioners.
We provide no guarantee that the information provided is up-to-date or complete and in no circumstance does the information contained within constitute professional advice for management of individual people.
You are responsible for ensuring use of clinical judgement, and if concern exists on the basis of clinical judgement, additional clinical input should be sought.
The health professional should always remain within their scope of practice.
This resource is only endorsed for use for management of residents of aged care facilities where these are defined as facilities that:
- Provide residential care to older persons and are funded under the Aged Care Act and are subject to Commonwealth reporting to the System for Payment of Aged Residential Care (SPARC); or
- Are operated under the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Aged Care Program
The pathways are only endorsed for use in Queensland Health Hospital and Health Services with an operational RACF acute care support service (RaSS) that meets the RaSS guideline requirements including appropriate clinical governance.
The use of a paper-based copy of the pathways should only be undertaken if this is known to have been endorsed by the HHS RaSS and is known to be the latest version.
Copyright
This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike V4.0 International licence.
You are free to copy, communicate and adapt the work to your local context for non-commercial purposes, as long as you attribute the State of Queensland (Queensland Health), you distribute any derivative work only under the same licence and you comply with the licence terms. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
©️ State of Queensland (Queensland Health) 2019
When attributing the work to Queensland Health, please include the following citation in your resource:
Burkett E, Cranitch E, Bandiera D, Ward T, Improving the quality and choice of care setting for residents of aged care facilities with acute healthcare needs steering committee, Queensland Dementia Ageing and Frailty Clinical Network. Management of acute care needs of RACF residents: a suite of collaborative pathways for General Practitioners and Registered Nurses. Brisbane: Clinical Excellence Queensland, Queensland Health 2019.
For copyright permission beyond the scope of this licence contact: Intellectual Property Officer, Queensland Health, email ip_officer@health.qld.gov.au, phone (07) 3708 5069.
For more information contact:
Healthcare Improvement Unit,
Clinical Excellence Queensland,
Department of Health,
GPO Box 48, Brisbane QLD 4001,
Email HIU@health.qld.gov.au
Phone 07 3328 9148