Central Adelaide Local Health Network - Transition to Professional Practice Program (TPPP) for Registered Nurses

Royal Adelaide Hospital is the state’s flagship hospital, providing a comprehensive range of the most complex clinical care to an estimated 85,000 inpatients and 400,000 outpatients annually.

Serving the community for 70 years, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is an acute care teaching hospital, providing inpatient, outpatient, emergency and mental health services to western metropolitan Adelaide.

HRC provides transitional health care for up to 150 older patients or people with disabilities. Set in a relaxed garden environment, the nurses, allied health and medical teams that work at the HRC provide specialised, high-quality care to older South Australians.

HRC help with problems unique to old age, and for people with disabilities focusing on helping them find their next place of care either in the community or a place in a longer-term residential care facility.

Services provided on the site more specifically include:

• CO-ACT - Care of the Older Person and Community Transition program supports older adults in their transition from hospital care to community or residential living
• Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit (GEMU) — provides care for older South Australians facing age-related health challenges.
• Transition Ward — Patient centred care for individuals preparing to return to their homes and communities.
• Specialist Geriatrics Unit — Care for patients who have behaviours and psychological symptoms of dementia.

CALHN's State-wide Rehabilitation Services program located at the Repat Health Precinct offers several state-wide specialised rehabilitation services for specific types of injury or illness, including:

• The South Australian Spinal Cord Injury Service (SASCIS), located at the Repat Health Precinct, is a statewide service providing specialist rehabilitation services for South Australia. SASCIS provides services for adults who have sustained neurological impairment due to spinal cord injury from both traumatic and non-traumatic causes.
  
• The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Services (BIRS) is a South Australian statewide specialist rehabilitation service for people in South Australia, which also provides services for clients from western New South Wales and the Northern Territory. A brain injury may result from trauma, hypoxia, infection, tumour, substance abuse, degenerative neurological disease or strokes.
  

SAMI is a statewide service that provides specialist, integrated, multi-discipline, medical imaging services to public and private inpatients, outpatients and emergency department patients within six metropolitan and four country South Australian hospitals.

SAMI is the largest public imaging provider in Australia and employs staff across a variety of disciplines including specialist radiologists, medical physicists, radiographers, sonographers, nursing and administrative support staff. With 1200 staff, and approximately 700,000 examinations conducted on patients per year, the services provided by SAMI are provided by staff with expert knowledge and experience.

SAPHS is responsible for the provision of a range of primary health care services to Prisoners in State managed adult prisons in South Australia. SAPHS is a directorate of Central Adelaide Local Health Network and works in partnership with the Department for Correctional Services to provide health services to adults in custody. SAPHS provides patients with health services appropriate to their ongoing health needs in line with that which they would receive in the general community within the public health system.

SA Health has a comprehensive range of public mental health services in SA. Services are provided through community health centres and hospitals, and to consumers in their own homes. There are opportunities for a rotation within CALHN Mental Health. This could be in the acute or community setting. If this is of interest, please highlight your interest on the application form.