Keeping up with best practice guidelines can be challenging. A good example of this are the guidelines associated with minor burns in the elderly. When an elderly care recipient is on the receiving end of a minor burn, referring them to a Burns Unit makes up part of the current recommendations issued by the Australian and New Zealand Burns Association (ANZBA).Minor burns are not so minorAs we grow older our skin becomes thinner, we develop more health-related complications, and the ability ...

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If you are operating an aged care facility, you understand that the challenges of keeping up with changing legislation and guidelines in the highly regulated aged care industry is a difficult task. An effective way of informing staff about these changes can be impossible without an effective communication system. At MedeHealth, we see first-hand the difficulty that these changes can cause for facilities that are busily rolling out and administering training programmes to cover off these changes....

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