Professional leadership resources

• Learn about reflective writing and critical incident analysis with the Monash University Research and Learning online.
• From RMIT University, provide a resource for nursing students to assist with critical incident report writing. Watch their Critical incident reflection video.
• The Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood development have a series of Reflective practice information sheets. Use them to guide your reflective practice.
• From the Palliative Care Bridge website. Listen to Sandra Sullivan and Kate Weyman talk about clinical supervision - caring for the care provider.

• National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) provide access to publications relating to clinical practice guidelines. You can also register a clinical practiced guideline in development.
• To understand more about quality improvement and what it aims to achieve, the Murray PHN provide an Introduction to quality improvement.
• Many programs and toolkits have been developed within the Australian setting to support audit and feedback in the context of end-of-life care including:
• Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC)
• Safety and Quality Commission - End-of-life audit tools
• Improving Residential Aged Care Facility to Hospital Clinical Handover Produced by GPpartners
• The UK based Health care quality improvement partnership has information on strategies and guidance for providers. There is also an eLearning module that provides information about the principles and tools.
• Hoffman T, Bennett S, Del Mar C. Evidence-based practice: Across the health professions (2017) helps students and clinicians to focus on the knowledge and skills required to make decisions that are evidence based.
• Centre for Clinical Governance Research in Health, University of New South Wales: Clinical audit: a comprehensive review of the literature (2009) (706kb pdf) and Change management strategies and practice development in nursing: a review of the literature (2011) (8.48MB pdf) gives insight into practice development in nursing.
• Read the Rural and Regional Health and Aged Care Services Division, Victorian Government Department of Human Services: A guide to using data for healthcare quality improvement (2008) (3.44MB pdf) to understand more about taking a systematic approach to healthcare quality improvement.

• Central Queensland University (QLD) highlight what evidence-based practice is. Here you will find a description of the Levels of evidence.
• The Edith Cowan University (WA) describe the Levels of evidence and types of study design.
• The Clinical Information Access Portal eLearning (NSW) define the types of evidence and how they may help to answer clinical questions.
• To understand more about the types of evidence that are highly valued in academic writing, the University of Sydney (NSW) module Evaluating your evidence explains this in detail.
• The University of York (UK) offer a free electronic version of their guidance document Systematic Reviews (2009). Here you will learn more about undertaking a systematic review in healthcare.
• To understand the procedure and requirements for developing a high quality guideline, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) provide the following resources:
• Guidelines for Guidelines Handbook
• Information for guideline developers (2011).

Here are some resources that explain evidence based practice and evidence synthesis:

• From the Joanna Briggs Institute
• From the Australasian Cochrane Centre
• From the QUT Library: Evidence based practice
• From the Flinders University: Evidence Based Medicine
• From Duke University Medical Center Library and the Health Sciences Library at the University of North Carolina: An Introduction to Evidence Based Practice
• Clinical Information Access Portal (NSW): Integrating Evidence into Practice eLearning modules explains the importance of applying in the practice setting
• OvidWolterKluwer and the JBI provide a video Evidence-based practice: Improving practice, improving outcomes (part one) explains what evidence is and the benefits to improving health with evidence-based practice.

• The Australasian Cochrane Centre has a research section which has information and resources that may be of interest.
• At Finders University, the Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death, and Dying (RePaDD) develop innovative solutions and advance knowledge and evidence in palliative care.
• The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC): National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research 2007 (Updated 2018) is useful for any researcher using human participants, members of ethical review bodies, those involved in research governance and potential search participants. You must comply with this to receive NHMRC funding.