The Wicking Teaching Aged Care Facilities Tripartite Project
The Wicking Teaching Aged Care Facilities Tripartite Project is a collaboration involving the University of Tasmania, Australian Catholic University and Curtin University. The universities will work in collaboration with local aged care services to establish Teaching Aged Care Facilities. This project builds on the prototype project, extending its reach into an additional two aged care facilities in Tasmania, one in Victoria and one in Western Australia. As for the prototype project, the tripartite project will pursue a whole-of-organisation approach to building capacity within the partner aged care facilities for evidence based practice and attracting high performing health professionals into the sector. This will involve driving both organisational and clinical changes in the facilities.
The project involves two concurrent processes:
- Evaluation of organisational culture and leadership capability, and design of systems and processes to support engagement; and
- Implementation of a program of quality clinical aged care placements for a range of health care students, comprising medical, nursing, paramedic, pharmacy, physiotherapy and exercise physiology students.
The project incorporates a comprehensive evaluation framework that surveys students, nursing and carer mentors, GP tutors, and key stakeholders regarding the outcome of student placements at their facilities and their perceptions of issues that impact on these placements.
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