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Medi-Nav Orientation Resource v6, 2024
Message from the Chief Medical Officer, Queensland Health
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About this resource
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Contents
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Healthcare system in Australia
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1.1 Australia’s public health system
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1.1.1 Health system funding
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1.1.2 Medicare Benefits Schedule
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1.1.3 Schedule fee
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1.1.4 Medicare levy
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1.1.5 Bulk billing arrangements by medical practitioners
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1.1.6 Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
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1.1.7 PBS prescribing
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1.1.8 Patient charges
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1.1.9 PBS Safety Net
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1.2 Primary Health Networks
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1.3 Australia’s private healthcare system
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1.3.1 Private health insurance
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2.1 Queensland Health
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2.2 Structure of the public health system
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2.2.1 Department of Health structure
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2.3 Queensland Health Vision
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2.3.1 The vision
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2.3.2 Underpinning principles
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2.4 Hospital and Health Services
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2.5 The health professional team
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2.6 Clinical governance
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2.6.1 Clinical Services Capability Framework
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2.6.2 Credentialing and scope of clinical practice
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Working as a medical practitioner in Queensland
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3.1 Medical career structure
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3.2 The multidisciplinary team
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3.3 Medical education
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3.3.1 Continuing professional development
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3.4 Role expectations and responsibilities – junior doctors
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3.4.1 Expectations of professional practice
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3.4.2 Communication / handover
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3.4.3 Interactions with nursing staff
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3.4.4 Discharge planning
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3.4.5 Communication and discharge summary
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3.4.6 Ward rounds
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3.4.7 Attendance in operating theatres and specialist outpatient clinics
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3.4.8 Evidence-based medicine/practice
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3.4.9 Documentation
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3.4.10 Referral to specialists and specialist services
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3.5 Disease and infection prevention
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3.5.1 Acute respiratory infections
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3.5.2 Communicable Diseases and Infection Management
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3.5.3 Disease transmission
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3.5.4 Standard precautions
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3.5.5 Transmission-based precautions
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3.5.6 Hand hygiene
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3.5.7 Sharps management
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3.5.8 Aseptic technique
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3.6 Systems and standards
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3.6.1 The digital hospital
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3.6.2 Queensland Health IT systems
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3.6.3 Professional behaviour in the workplace
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3.6.4 Cultural capability
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3.6.5 Closing the gap in Queensland
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3.7 Wellbeing and support for junior doctors
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3.7.1 Wellbeing education and training
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3.7.2 Queensland Health Employee Wellbeing
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3.7.3 Prioritising wellbeing through legislation
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3.7.4 Employee assistance services
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3.7.5 Your own GP
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3.7.6 Peer support programs
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3.7.7 Organisations that provide support
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3.8 Recruitment and Employment
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3.8.1 Overview
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3.8.2 Wages and benefits
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3.8.3 Payment of salaries
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3.8.4 Employment conditions
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3.8.5 Superannuation
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3.8.6 Performance management
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3.8.7 Term dates for interns and RMOs
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3.8.8 Information for interns
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3.9 Professional Associations
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3.9.1 Australian Medical Association Queensland
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3.9.2 Junior Medical Officer Forum of Queensland
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Legislation and professional practice
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4.1 Relevant legislation
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4.2 Accreditation and registration bodies
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4.2.1 Australian Medical Council
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4.2.2 Registration – Medical Board of Australia
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4.2.3 Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
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4.3 Accreditation
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4.3.1 National accreditation
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4.3.2 Prevocational accreditation
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4.4 Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights
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4.4.1 Ryan’s Rule
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4.5 Child safety
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4.6 Investigative and healthcare complaint entities in Queensland
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4.6.1 Coroner
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4.6.2 Office of the Health Ombudsman
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4.6.3 Aged Care Complaints Commissioner
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4.6.4 Crime and Corruption Commission
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4.6.5 National Boards and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
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4.7 Information privacy and confidentiality
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4.8 Informed Decision-Making and Consent
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4.9 Medical indemnity insurance
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4.10 Organ transplantation and hospital autopsies
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4.11 Voluntary Assisted Dying
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4.12 Right to information
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4.13 Whistleblowers and public interest disclosures
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Rural and remote health services in Queensland
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5.1 Rural and Remote Health in Queensland
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5.2 Rural and remote medical practitioner classifications
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5.2.1 Medical Superintendents with Private Practice and Medical Officers with Private
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5.2.2 Rural Generalists
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5.2.3 Visiting Medical Officers
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5.3 Remuneration/incentives for rural and remote medical practitioners
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Appendices
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Appendix 1: Emergencies internal and external
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Appendix 2: Statewide emergency services
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Appendix 3: Statewide Systems
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Appendix 4: Government and non-government referral agencies
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Appendix 5: Common medical abbreviations
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Appendix 6: Common medication terminology abbreviations
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Appendix 7: Route of medication administration abbreviations
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Appendix 8: Government abbreviations
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Appendix 9: Common health industry abbreviations
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