Community of Practice in Early Childhood Development and Mental Health

About: What are some examples of early childhood development and mental health concerns you encounter in your MCH role? In other words, what is it about the biological, emotional, and psychological development of children you support that would be beneficial to explore further with peers in a supportive and encouraging environment?

This series of four (one hour) on-line sessions will provide you an opportunity to discuss and reflect on components of your work with children and parents with your colleagues. You will have an opportunity to influence the topics and case scenarios that are explored in these sessions. The sessions will be externally facilitated.

Facilitators: Paediatrician Dr. Billy Garvey and Facilitator Dr. Paul Prichard 
Audience: Maternal and Child Health Nurses (including students).  
Number of attendees: Maximum 30 participants 
No. of Sessions: 4 x 1-hour sessions  
Dates: 1st May, 15th May, 5th June, 19th June 2024
Time: 1.30pm - 2.30pm each session
Mode of delivery: Online via Zoom
Contact: If you have any queries please contact catherine.archer@rch.org.au

Course administrator: Cathy Archer, Sarah Davies, Billy Garvey

Diversity and Inclusion within the EMR

About this course: 

This course is for all clinical and non-clinical users of the EMR. It introduces the concepts, language and functionality of, and how to use the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) SmartForm in the EMR.

This course contains:

- eLearnings (videos) for both clinical and non-clinical staff


Course administrator training

About: This course is for course administrators and contains training videos and protocol documents.

Intended audience: Course administrators only 

Total time: 1 hour

Cost: Free

CPD points: NA

Refund eligibility: NA (free course)

Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Paediatric Acute Care

Our Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) program was created following  a generous grant from the Royal Children's Hospital's Foundation. The POCUS program has developed a hospital wide training and credentialing framework for diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound. 

We would like to freely share materials developed by RCH's POCUS program, which we hope will assist clinicians while they care for their paediatric patients. We continue to develop paediatric specific POCUS materials which will be added when completed.

Please note that these on-line materials, when used at RCH, form only part of our teaching, which also includes practical workshops and a minimum number of educational scans before clinicians can be credentialed to independently perform and report diagnostic POCUS examinations.

The materials presented here may be of interest to clinicians who care for children in acute care settings. You can choose to join as many, or as few, as you like.

Course administrator: Yolly Gangemi, Adam O'Brien

St John of God Perioperative Virtual Study Day

About: This Study Day is aimed at perioperative staff of St John of God Hospitals. This study day will cover various topics on the care of the paediatric patient in the perioperative environment such as Pain Management, PONV with an emphasis on how best to care for a patient post tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy.

This program is not recorded

Course outline:

  • Emergence Delirum
  • T’s and A’s Care
  • Pain Management
  • PACU Care
  • Post-Operative Nausea & Vomiting

 Date: Tuesday July 16th  2024 (enrolment closes on Monday, July 15th at 9am)

Time: 9am to 1.30pm

Intended audience: Perioperative Nursing Staff of St John of God Hospital

Cost: $50 including GST

CPD Points: Self Record 

Important: After enrolling in this course, you will receive email communications, please check your Junk/Spam folder. 

Mode of delivery: Virtual

Contact: education.hub@rch.org.au

Refund eligibility: Eligible within a given time period as specified in section 8.2 of our Terms of Use


Course administrator: Michael Larin