ACEM - Standards and Advocacy Library

ACEM response (15 Jan 2018) regarding the National Code of Conduct for unregistered health care workers in the Northern Territory. The Code sets reasonable standards of behaviour for health care workers who are not regulated under the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme.

All Policy Statement Clinical Guideline Standards

V5.0 01 Aug 2017

S129
Statement on Intravenous Thrombolysis for Ischaemic Stroke

On current evidence, intravenous thrombolysis as an intervention for acute stroke, administered to selected patients within three hours of symptom onset, may increase the odds of a better functional outcome. This is despite thrombolysis in stroke increasing the risk of intracranial haemorrhage and conferring no mortality benefit.

All Clinician Wellbeing Workforce Reports

V1.0 01 Nov 2016

2016 Workforce Sustainability Survey Report

ACEM is committed to monitoring the sustainability of the emergency medicine workforce, against the backdrop of increasing patient demand, access block, overcrowding and system issues.

All Policy Statement Clinician Wellbeing Leadership Rostering and Staffing Workforce Standards

V1.0 01 Nov 2016

S456 (Under Review)
Statement on Night Shift Rostering of Emergency Physicians

ACEM recommends that at least one FACEM is rostered on-call at night (for annual presentations of approx. 15000). ACEM makes further recommendations on the number of non-FACEM senior decision makers that should be present overnight. ACEM does not support the introduction of night shift rosters for specialist emergency physicians.

All Policy Ethics Resource Stewardship Standards

V2.0 01 Aug 2015

P435
Policy on Resource Stewardship

ACEM supports initiatives and actions that maintain or improve patient outcomes and facilitate resource stewardship through the promotion of sustainable resource allocation and disinvestment from ineffective interventions or practices. ACEM also supports initiatives that decrease variation in clinical practice and clinical policies.

All Policy Statement Cultural safety Standards

V2.0 01 Mar 2015

S63 (Under Review)
Statement on Culturally Competent Care and Cultural Safety in EM

This statement provides a framework for the development and implementation of culturally competent practices in emergency medicine to improve the cultural safety of Australian and New Zealand emergency departments and health outcomes of all patients.

All Guideline Policy ED Design Standards

V3.0 01 Oct 2014

G15 (Under Review)
Emergency Department Design Guidelines

The Guidelines will support clinicians in the design process, and inform government, health planners, architects and designers about what constitutes a contemporary emergency department in Australia and New Zealand, including the need to integrate clinical, functional, size, aesthetic, wellbeing and cultural elements into design.

SUB369 National Code of Conduct for Health Care Workers in the Territory

S129 Statement on Intravenous Thrombolysis for Ischaemic Stroke

2016 Workforce Sustainability Survey Report

S456 (Under Review) Statement on Night Shift Rostering of Emergency Physicians

P435 Policy on Resource Stewardship

S63 (Under Review) Statement on Culturally Competent Care and Cultural Safety in EM

G15 (Under Review) Emergency Department Design Guidelines

SUB369
National Code of Conduct for Health Care Workers in the Territory

S129
Statement on Intravenous Thrombolysis for Ischaemic Stroke

S456 (Under Review)
Statement on Night Shift Rostering of Emergency Physicians

P435
Policy on Resource Stewardship

S63 (Under Review)
Statement on Culturally Competent Care and Cultural Safety in EM

G15 (Under Review)
Emergency Department Design Guidelines