The Virtual Orientation Tours will provide you with a range of site-specific resources to introduce you to the health services provided, on-site clinical learning facilities, key personnel, accommodation, and other learning resources. We hope that this will allay any pre-placement fears, better prepare you for rural placement and make you feel more confident and welcome.

Instructions

You begin the tour outside the main entrance to the hospital/health centre. Use the mouse (click and drag) or navigation controls to look around, and then select a hotspot to view some information or go to another scene. Please note it may take a short while for each scene to load.

Each Virtual Tour has a floor plan to help orientate you to the site and allow you to move directly to a specific scene (blue dot).
Click the help button during the tour to provide an overview of these instructions.

Having viewed a tour, please return to Student Feedback survey to give us some feedback so we can address any issues and improve the Virtual Tours.

• • Consultations with doctors, Aboriginal Health Workers, specialist paediatrician and general physician, nurses, child health nurse and midwife, diabetes educator, dietician and Allied Health professionals;
  • Health promotion campaigns in areas such as: Nutrition; Active lifestyles; Quit smoking; Antenatal support; Oral health; Child and maternal health and Mental health.

• Counselling and social support services
• Alcohol and other drug programs
• Cardio-pulminary programs
• Advocacy with mainstream services and
• Health programs across the lifespan such as: maternal health programs, parenting programs, early learning home visiting, child health clinics, youth and aged care programs

Come and learn about Aboriginal health and culture, the health services we provide and the health supports available to Aboriginals additional to other health services.

• The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre and the health and community services it provides;
• The location and layout of each service and what is expected of students;
• The cultural implications and sensitivities of providing health care to Aboriginals;
• The TAC website and  links to other information about Aboriginal culture and health

The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) is a community controlled Aboriginal organisation that has operated since 1973. As well as being a major provider of services to the Aboriginal community, the TAC has a leading role in the protection and promotion of Aboriginal rights. Our campaign for Aboriginal rights includes: return of land; protecting our rights to our culture; protecting and rejuvenating language and culture; seeking the return of our ancestors’ remains from museums within Australia and overseas and seeking reforms to the judicial system.

The TAC is an affiliate of the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) and has links with other Aboriginal health services across Australia. We are also a Registered Training Organisation (RTO). We offer nationally recognised Certificates in Aboriginal Primary Health Care so members of the Aboriginal community can become Aboriginal Health Workers.

The TAC provides a comprehensive suite of primary health care services to Aboriginal people throughout the state from our Hobart, Launceston and Burnie sites.  Through these programs we provide direct care to individuals, families and community groups, and promote all aspects of social, emotional, cultural and physical wellbeing. A big focus of the Aboriginal Health Service (AHS) is to improve Antenatal and Child and Maternal health, provide preventative health education and to manage Chronic diseases for Aboriginal people.

We welcome students to come and learn more about us and the health services we provide.

The quality of clinical supervision is one key influence on the quality of the clinical placement, and ultimately, on the calibre of the health practitioner.

Health Workforce Australia’s (HWA) Clinical Supervision Support Program (CSSP) aims to expand clinical supervision capacity and competence across the educational and training continuum by supporting measures to:

• Prepare and train clinical supervisors.
• Deliver and develop a competent clinical supervision workforce, which delivers quality training.

The National Clinical Supervision Skills Initiative

The Skills Initiative is a program operating within the CSSP and aims to deliver a range of interprofessional education and training opportunities for new and existing clinical supervisors across Australia, as facilitated through the TCEN.

The National Clinical Supervision Competency Resources – Validation Edition (the Resource) provides the foundation for the Skills Initiative by enabling the development of a consistent and transparent approach to the provision of quality interprofessional clinical supervision education and training programs.

The Resource provides three pathways for the education and training of clinical supervisors; Foundational, Intermediate and Advanced, and describes competency domains and elements, representing activity common to the Australian clinical supervision workforce. An education calendar containing all supervision programs is currently under construction but will be located on the TCEN website. The programs in the education calendar align with the competency resource and are available to all clinical supervisors.

Download a copy of the month by month Education Planner –Click here

For further information relating to the TCSSP objectives and outcomes please refer to the Fact Sheet