Escape rooms are becoming increasingly popular as an interactive and engaging tool in healthcare teams. Participating in them can be fun – creating them, just as rewarding. The RCH Education Hub’s Lichin, Benny and Steve talk about their journey in creating an escape room for campus staff, how long it took and how it drove them to create another 2 escape rooms!

Today I’m joined by Anastazia Drake. Anastazia is a former patient of RCH, has spent a lot of time over the years as both an inpatient and outpatient and has experienced the care provided by the RCH team. She’s here today to talk a little about her experiences and how you, as a healthcare professional, can work effectively in a patient centered care environment.

In this part 2 of the simulation series, we chat with Kim Price and Dr Dom Cincotta about their experience with in-situ simulation and how they have used it to improve the care delivered to patients suffering from anaphylaxis.

Simulation has many roles in clinical healthcare. It is used as a tool for education and training, as well as testing systems, pathways and equipment. In part 1 of this series on simulation, we talk with Dr Rebecca Szabo, who introduces the concept of simulation and explains its benefits and challenges.

Some clinical placements require the student to relocate a long way from home, where they may need to pay for accommodation and food. Add in the requirement of unpaid full-time clinical placement with no time to earn any money and you have a huge financial burden. Gus and Pranay are 2 students who have been through this process. They share their experiences and provide suggestions for how you can make the most out of these situations.

Remember Phoebe? She is now at the end of her student placement here at the RCH. We speak with her one last time before she goes out into the big world.

Remember Nicola? She is now at the end of her student placement here at the RCH. We speak with her one last time before she goes out into the big world.

Today we meet Claudia at the end of her student placement at The Royal Children's Hospital. Unlike other podcasts in this series, Claudia just joins us for this one. Nonetheless, she gives us a good look at her last 12 weeks of experience within the hospital environment.

Remember Phoebe? We had a chat with her in Episode 29 when she first started her Medical Imaging placement at the RCH. Phoebe is a 4th year medical imaging student midway into her placement. We check in with her again to see how she is going.

In this episode, Claire Bauer, Clinical Nurse Educator at The Education Hub Outreach Program is interviewing Nicola about her Social Work placement at the RCH - Melbourne. Nicola is at the midway point of her placement with the Social Work team at RCH. In later episodes, we will catch Nicola at the end of her placement. Hope you are enjoying this sub-series within TTT.

In this episode, Claire Bauer, Clinical Nurse Educator at The Education Hub Outreach Program is interviewing Phoebe about her Medical Imaging placement at the RCH - Melbourne. Phoebe is at the start of her placement.  In later episodes, we will catch Phoebe midway and lastly, at the end of her placement. Hope you are enjoying this sub-series within TTT.

In this episode, Claire Bauer, Clinical Nurse Educator at The Education Hub Outreach Program is interviewing Nicola about her Social Work placement at the RCH - Melbourne. Nicola is at the start of her placement with the Social Work team at RCH. In later episodes, we will catch Nicola midway and lastly, at the end of her placement. Hope you are enjoying this sub-series within TTT.

Working in healthcare can take an emotional toll as we are continuously exposed to emotionally challenging environments. In this discussion, social workers Robyn Clark and Leah Rotin, talk about strategies for how we look after each other and ourselves on a day-to-day basis, as well as the importance of a work-life balance.

Laura is a nursing student halfway through a six-week placement at the RCH. This placement is also Laura’s last clinical placement before finishing her degree. Laura talks to us about coming from a rural area to undertake a placement at a tertiary hospital, and about being involved in caring for patients and families who have experienced emergency situations.

To improve and maintain the efficiency of healthcare, the team environment needs to work very well together. But how much do you know about the knowledge and skill set of other members of your team? In this podcast, we chat with Jo Bolton from the University of Melbourne who discusses inter-professional education and why it is so important to ensuring a healthy team dynamic.  https://www.anzahpe.org/ https://interprofessional.global/australasia/ https://www.caipe.org/

Failing a student is not an easy task and can also take a toll on both the assessor and the learner. Sometimes it's just easier to pass them and handball the problem to the next assessor. In this podcast, Dr Cate Scarff talks about the ramifications of 'Failing to Fail' a student and how we all have a responsibility to maintain public safety.

It's great to supervise a high achieving student. Or is it? It may seem like they are able to learn easily and complete tasks efficiently, but what effect is this having on the student? We talk with Sophie Crotti who has researched the area of the high achieving student, where the supervision of them may not be as easy as it seems.

Being involved in highly stressful situations can take an emotional toll, particularly when you’re expected to go straight back to work following the event. In this podcast, we chat with TJ Clark who is a staff psychologist in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at RCH. TJ talks about her role and how we can help each other to deal with these situations safely.

We’re very much aware of the impact that Covid had on the teaching and learning of healthcare students. How did this affect their clinical education? Medical Imaging Clinical Tutors, Adam Steward (Western Health) and Steve Lacey (RCH) discuss the results of their research into the effects that restrictions had on clinical placement for students and their preparedness to enter the workforce?

The Education Hub ran an event on December 1st 2022, to showcase our department. Members of the Hub presented their projects and educational opportunities available to the Melbourne Children’s Campus. In this podcast, we roam around the showcase and chat with The Education Hub staff about their roles, as well as some of the visitors who share their experiences.