The oppor­tu­ni­ty

HIRAID® stands for Histo­ry (includ­ing Infec­tion risk), Red Flags, Assess­ment, Inter­ven­tions and Diag­nos­tics and is the only val­i­dat­ed frame­work designed to enable emer­gency nurs­es to sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly and con­sis­tent­ly assess patients. 

Fol­low­ing exten­sive con­sul­ta­tion, the Emer­gency Care Sub­com­mit­tee of the Urgent and Emer­gent Care Statewide Clin­i­cal Net­work (UEC­SCN) iden­ti­fied the oppor­tu­ni­ty to decrease clin­i­cal prac­tice vari­a­tion in nurs­ing assess­ments, across met­ro­pol­i­tan and region­al Emer­gency Departments. 

The project focus­es on deliv­er­ing the HIRAID frame­work designed to improve equi­table access to care and pro­mote work­force sustainability. 

Part­ners

Uni­ver­si­ty of Syd­ney HIRAID® Frame­work — Fac­ul­ty of Med­i­cine and Health

Out­comes

We are imag­in­ing a sys­tem that pro­vides all emer­gency nurs­es with an evi­dence-based sys­tem­at­ic approach to ini­tial patient assess­ment to enable ear­li­er recog­ni­tion of clin­i­cal dete­ri­o­ra­tion and improve com­mu­ni­ca­tion between nurs­ing and med­ical staff. 

The final phase of this ini­tia­tive will extend across met­ro­pol­i­tan and region­al Local Health Net­works, mark­ing the com­ple­tion of a statewide imple­men­ta­tion in every Emer­gency Department. 

Have a ques­tion?

Please email CEIHUrgentandEmergentCare@​sa.​gov.​au