Background Involvement in healthcare decisions is associated with better health outcomes for patients. For children and adolescents with intellectual disability, parents and healthcare professionals need to balance listening to a child’s wishes with the responsibility of keeping them safe. However, there is a scarcity of literature evaluating how to effectively involve them in decision making. In this context, we review the concept of health literacy, focusing on the  skills of healthcare decision making for children and adolescents with intellectual disability. Methods We describe the concept of health literacy and models explaining shared decision making (individuals and healthcare professionals collaborate in decision making process) and supported [...]

Objective: This case study assesses a microbiology and infection control education workshop delivered to rural nurses. The study assesses workshop value through changes in respondents’ self-assessed confidence using measures of microbiology knowledge, teaching, and best practice. Respondents also identified the aspects of the education perceived as most useful to their practice and barriers to implementing microbiology education in practice. Study design and methods: Pre- and post-workshop surveys were administered to the participants. The surveys used a 7-point ordinal scale to measure respondents’ confidence in explaining key concepts and their perception of the influence of such education opportunities on positive patient outcomes. Change [...]

In recent times there has been significant increase in the use of telehealth however, most workforce research to date has focused on the health practitioners’ experiences of telehealth. Little is known about the factors that may attract allied health practitioners to online therapy delivery and how this service model may impact on workforce recruitment and retention. Additionally, there are no studies that focus on organisations that exclusively use a telehealth service delivery approach. Therapy Connect, part of the Kinela Group, is a provider of allied health services solely via a telehealth service delivery model, working with allied health practitioners from [...]