Pre-placement training requirements
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• New National Safety and Quality Health Service
Standards from 1 January 2013
• Compulsory for majority of public and private healthcare organisations
• Focus on areas considered essential to improving safety and quality of care
• Australian Council on Healthcare Standards accredits all healthcare facilities against the
Standards.

• Recent accreditation highlighted need for greater awareness of the Standards by students and staff
• AHPOQ undertook project to map existing training and develop new introductory level content for identified gaps
• Overall aim of the Standards and the project outcomes is to support patient, student and staff safety through specific training.

• Government and
Safety – off and on site
• Partnering with consumers
• Preventing HAI
• Medication Safety
• Patient ID and procedure matching
• Clinical handover
• Blood and blood products Pressure injuries
• Deteriorating Patients
• Falls

• Focus on quality and safety
• Increase awareness of NSQHS standards
• Provide quality introductory level information
• Provide consistent information for all AH staff and students
• Enable easy access to materials for learning

• Review of information and training requirements for allied health students as per the Standards,
OH&S, legislative and other authority requirements.
• Mapping of existing modules for students
• Enabled access to existing modules for students
(external access enabled)
• Developed new modules to meet Standards
(introductory level by allied health content experts)
• New modules are in video format with voiceover
• Internet access enabled

• Universities, in collaboration with Queensland
Government Hospital and Health Services, are requested to ensure that students are provided with the appropriate training to support their safe and active engagement in clinical placements .
• Implementation phased in over 2014
• The completion of training modules prior to placements will facilitate the early commencement of clinical learning on placements.

• Undertake training off-site and prior to placements
• Access the training ‘ Allied Health Clinical Education and
Training – Student Training’ website
• Download the required documents (‘Allied health student training: a guide for students’ & ‘Evidence record of allied health student training’).
( http://www.health.qld.gov.au/ahwac/html/ahst.asp
)
• Complete the linked training modules (7-8 hours in total)
• Complete the Essential Placement Requirements on the
Student Deed and Orientation Website
( http://www.health.qld.gov.au/sop/2html/eprfs.asp
).
• Maintain the ‘Evidence record of allied health student training’.
• Provide a copy of the ‘Evidence record of allied health student training’ at the commencement of each placement.

• Enable within AH program curriculums student access to all training able to be undertaken off site prior to placements
• Ensure that students complete the ‘ Essential Placement
Requirements’ on the Student Deed and Orientation
Website
( http://www.health.qld.gov.au/sop/2html/eprfs.asp
). This is reflected as a module
• Ensure that allied health students access the ‘ Evidence record of allied health student training’
• Ensure that allied health students are aware of the requirement to provide a copy of the ‘ Evidence record of allied health student training ’ at the commencement of each placement.

• Review the “ Allied Health Student Training: A Guide for
Clinical Educators ” document http://qheps.health.qld.gov.au/ahwac/content/ahst.htm
• Arrange for any on-site training requirements, within specified timeframes and/or as required as outcomes of any risk appraisal of placement need.
• Collect a copy of each allied health students ‘ Evidence record of allied health student training ’ at the beginning of each placement.
• Maintain accurate records of training completion
• Reporting template exemplar is located in Appendix 1 of the “ Allied Health Student Training: A Guide for Clinical
Educators ” document http://qheps.health.qld.gov.au/ahwac/content/ahst.htm

AHPOQ Website:
‘ Allied Health Clinical Education and Training – Student
Training’ http://www.health.qld.gov.au/ahwac/html/cet.asp
Required documents on this site:
• Guide for Students
• Evidence Record
Recording of this videoconference information session for clinical educators and university clinical education staff will be linked to from the site above.