CAHE Journal Clubs
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Port Pirie Journal Club (left) and Noarlunga Journal
Club (right): big or small, your workplace
Journal Club can have a huge impact on clinical practices, morale,
communication and cooperation!
With the importance of evidence-based practice underpinning much of today's clinical practice methodologies there is a new importance and urgency for health care services to be based on evidence derived from rigorous, high quality research. This philosophy and approach now covers all medical arenas, from nursing to medicine to allied health. CAHE's new journal clubs aim to assist allied health practitioners with the incorporation of EB research into everyday practice.
The difficulty facing many AH practitioners is the increasing number of journals and publications in allied health care health care combined with more complex and increased workloads. Practitioners are often unable to keep abreast of current literature findings and clinical outcomes due to a lack of time and research availability.
Journal clubs have been in existence for over a century and with the movement towards evidence-based health care mandates that journal clubs must also evolve to address rapidly shifting demands on health care practitioners. Journal clubs provide an avenue for accessing, evaluating and reflecting upon evidence derived from the literature, thereby promoting evidence-based practice for both the individual practitioner and the organisations they work for. An additional benefit of journal clubs for practitioners is the role they play in ongoing continuing professional development.
CAHE JC stakeholders
Allied health care practitioners play an integral role in health care service delivery across Australia, and the world. With increasing focus on care in the community, and maintaining wellness for all Australians, allied health care practitioners provide services which aim to ensure that optimum well being is maintained for all Australians. In this climate of changing health care practices, allied health practitioners need to be supported and educated in evidence based practice principles.
Recognising this, CAHE, in association with Department of Health South Australia (DoHSA), initiated an innovative pilot journal club across allied health departments in South Australia. DoHSA was represented by Principal Allied Health Advisor, SA Health, Ms. Catherine Turnbull and CAHE was represented by CAHE Director, Professor Karen Grimmer-Somers. In consultation with DoHSA and CAHE, an internal working party was constructed to progress this initiative.
CAHE internal working party members:
Professor Karen
Grimmer-Somers, CAHE Director
Lucylynn Lizarondo,
CAHE Officer
Leah Jeffries, CAHE Project
Officer
Dr Saravana Kumar, CAHE
Deputy Director
Helen
Walker, CAHE JC administrator
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