Specialists

Practising at our facilities

Becoming credentialled

Your patient's electronic records

Credentialling and practice guide

Practising documents

Practising documents are linked within the Credentialling and Practice Guide as well as in the sections below. For easy access we have highlighted some of the most commonly used documents below.

Admission and care

Southern Cross Healthcare patient admission forms

Policy for gaining informed consent

Procedure for declining patient admission or provision of services

Guidelines for continuous open communication disclosure to patients

Transfer of patients between healthcare facilities policy

Guidelines for discharging patients

Procedure for checking informed consent

Policy and procedure for ensuring patient suitability for admission and care

Guidelines for using adult observation chart and Early Warning Scores (EWS)

Sepsis: recognition, diagnosis and early management guidelines

Adverse event reporting and management policy

Operating theatre agreement to treatment form process

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Culture and conduct

Just Culture approach guidelines

Speaking Up for Safety program

Southern Cross code of conduct

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Health and safety

Practitioner guidelines for meeting responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act

Southern Cross Healthcare health, safety and wellbeing policy

LITEN UP safe handling programme

Southern Cross Healthcare health emergency policy and plan

Southern Cross Healthcare pandemic plan

Infection prevention and control

Infection prevention and control management policy and programme

Guidelines for antimicrobial prescribing

Procedure for correct surgical site side marking and verification

Recommended prophylactic antimicrobial agents and administration guide

Standard precautions

Multi drug resistant organisms (MDRO) guidelines

Surgical site surveillance programme

Blood or other body fluid exposure (BBFE) management

Surgical site skin antisepsis policy

Hand hygiene policy

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Operating theatre

Surgical safety checklist policy

Policy and guidelines for theatre list allocation and use

Guidelines for safely managing surgical plume

Policy for preventing retained surgical items - surgical count

Medical devices policy

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Privacy and media

Privacy Act policy

Guidelines for staff to comply with the Privacy Act

NZMA Clinical images and the use of personal mobile devices

Southern Cross Group media and government relations policy

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Quality and risk

Hospital Clinical Governance Committee event review guidelines

Policy, procedures and guidelines for research and quality improvement activities

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Visitors

Visitor guidelines

Medical company representatives or technical support persons in the operating theatre policy

Medical Company Representative Access to Operating Theatre Declaration Form

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