Creating a safety culture is essential for improving patient care and healthcare staff satisfaction. It allows facilities to function smoothly and keeps everyone in them – both staff and patients – out of harm’s way. Everyone in a healthcare facility has a role to play when it comes to maintaining a safety culture. Here we …
How To Invest in Healthcare Worker (HCW) Safety
Tight healthcare budgets have forced facilities and organizations to focus on cost-avoidance when relating safety in the workplace. It is often difficult to calculate the definitive value of investing in worker safety. However, there are proven benefits in investing in a long-term staff safety program,1 including: Reduction in workplace incident risk and exposure to liability …
Celebrating World Health Organisation’s Year of Nurses and Midwives
Nurses and Midwives play an extremely important role in healthcare. Renowned for working tirelessly and in high pressure situations, nurses have devoted their lives to others’ wellbeing. They are often the first point of contact for sick and injured people and in some cases are the only healthcare providers. Even with such an important role, …
Breast Cancer Awareness – McGrath Foundation and Qlicksmart
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women around the world, impacting 2.1 million women every year. In Australia, 1 in 7 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer by the age of 85. All women are at risk of developing breast cancer. Risk factors for breast cancer can include family history and genetic …
Qlicksmart Co-Founder Presents at World Patient Safety Day!
This September, the World Health Organisation (WHO) launched the first-ever International Patient Safety Day. Qlicksmart’s Co-Founder Dr. Michael Sinnott had the privilege of presenting at the Malaysian World Patient Safety Day event, hosted by the Malaysian Society for Quality in Health’s (MSQH). What is Patient Safety Day About? World Patient Safety Day aims to highlight the …
Performing an In-Service Demonstration For The First Time
G’day, my name is Oscar and I am Qlicksmart’s Sales and Marketing Assistant. Last month, our international Business Consultant, Mr Mel Reynolds and I went to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital to work with the theatre nurses and provide an in-service demonstration of the Qlicksmart’s sterile scalpel blade removers. As it was the first time …