Library News September 2020
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What is in this issue
Spring into new growth with this bumper issue of New to the Library
App in focus: CALD Assist
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Paediatric Injectable Guidelines (Online) now available on the Clinicians Health Channel, also linked on the Medication Info page on the intranet.
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Researchers from the Australian eHealth Research Centre, together with Western Health, developed CALD Assist, an innovative app to help clinicians and patients from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds communicate when an interpreter is not available. The CALD Assist app features
- more than 200 commonly used phrases professionally interpreted into ten languages: Arabic, Cantonese, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Macedonian, Mandarin, Serbian, Spanish and Vietnamese
- convenient language grouping into six different disciplines: dietetics, speech pathology, podiatry, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and nursing
- images, video and pre-recorded audio to further aid communication between clinician and patient
Currently Available as an iPad app.
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From the Hospital archive -
"The influenza epidemic has taxed the members of the staff to the utmost, and the community is under a debt of gratitude to them for the manner in which they rose to the occasion. The general training of the nurses has been interfered with, but an endeavor will be made to find a remedy. The Matron has been untiring in her efforts to meet the extra demands thrown upon the institution."
- 1919, Committee's Report, To the Life Governors and Contributors of Warrnambool Hospital and Benevolent Asylum.
100 years on may we continue to rise to the occasion.
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Reminder, if you choose to eat your lunch in the Library please replace your mask before exiting. A donning/doffing station is set up for you at the front door. Wipes are also available at the reference desk to clean your desk after use.
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