Managing two worlds together : stage 3: improving Aboriginal patient journeys. Renal case studies / Janet Kelly, Kylie Herman, Gay Martin, Cheryl Wilden, Toni East, Christine Russell, Sarah Brown
Published
Bedford Park, SA : Department of Health Care Management, Flinders University ; Carlton, SA : The Lowitja Institute, 2015
1 online resource (vi, 48 pages) : illustrations, forms
Summary
"The Improving Aboriginal Patient Journeys (IAPJ) study is the third stage of the Managing Two Worlds Together (MTWT) project. The MTWT project investigated what works well and what needs improvement in the health system for Aboriginal people who travel for hospital and specialist care from rural and remote areas of South Australia and the Northern Territory to city hospitals. ... Stage 3 (2013-15) involved an expanded research team and staff participants working together in a range of health care and education settings in South Australia and the Northern Territory. The aim was to modify, adapt and test the Aboriginal PJM tools developed in Stages 1 and 2."--Page v
"This report on Renal case studies is complemented by reports on four others ... - published as part of the Improving Aboriginal patient journey study, stage 3 of the Managing two worlds together project ... . Four renal case studies are presented in this report. All four describe the ways in which six renal nurses in Adelaide, Port Augusta and Alice Springs formed the Renal Focus Group and adapted and used the MTWT patient journey mapping tools in South Australia and the Northern Territory."--Page 1