Find out more about the career and education opportunities at the RMH Emergency Department.
We offer a range of exciting career choices for health professionals.
Emergency registrars
The Emergency Department has highly successful registrar teaching programs and examination success rates for registrars of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) with protected teaching time each week.
As an academic department, there is a strong emphasis on research across the department.
The emergency medicine registrar teaching program at the Royal Melbourne Hospital is a supportive program that sees high examination success rates for registrars of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.
Register your interest on the RMH jobs portal to be notified of upcoming vacancies.
Nurse Practitioners
Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are registered nurses with an advanced scope of practice. NPs are educated and authorised to function autonomously and collaboratively in an advanced and extended clinical role.
The role includes responsibilities such as:
- assessing and managing clients using nursing knowledge and skills
- referring patients directly to other healthcare professionals
- prescribing medications
- ordering diagnostic investigations
The role is grounded in the nursing profession's values, knowledge, theories and practice.
The title "nurse practitioner" is protected and can only be used by someone who has been endorsed by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) as a Nurse Practitioner.
See Endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner on the NMBA website.
Nurse Practitioners in the RMH Emergency Department
The Emergency NPs' scope of practice at the RMH ED is to meet the needs of patients presenting to the ambulatory care setting.
Within Victorian EDs, the focus of NP practice is minor injury or illness, treating patients deemed likely to be seen, treated and discharged within a 4-hour time frame.
This NP model of care in emergency departments has been shown to:
- reduce waiting times and delays to treatment
- reduce ED length of stay
- increase discharge stream National Emergency Access Target (NEAT) performance
- increase patient safety
- reduce the number of patients who did not wait for treatment
- increase patient and staff satisfaction
- provide a cost-effective and sustainable workforce
Ultrasound training
Our emergency department (ED) trainees are all enrolled in critical care ultrasound training during their term with us.
Trainees performing bedside ultrasounds are always supervised by emergency physicians credentialed in bedside ultrasound.
- Didactic teaching - Trainees receive regular ultrasound education, including practical sessions on Extended Focused Assessment using Sonography in Trauma (EFAST), basic echocardiogram, lung, Extended Focused Assessment using Sonography in Trauma (EFAST), abdominal aortic aneurysm, procedural ultrasound, biliary, renal and deep vein thrombosis ultrasound
- Bedside teaching - Weekly bedside teaching with one of the ED ultrasound faculty enables trainees to practise and hone their skills
- Feedback - Scans are reviewed weekly and emailed feedback is provided including tips and tricks to improve imaging
- Supervision - We are able to supervise Certificate in Clinician Performed Ultrasound (CCPU) training in all modalities
It is expected that at the end of a 6-month rotation, trainees will achieve RMH accreditation or a CCPU in at least eFAST ultrasound.
The RMH ED accreditation for bedside ultrasounds is recognised by all emergency departments in Victoria.
The ED ultrasound faculty provides ultrasound-guided intravenous access education to nursing staff to improve timely access to investigations and treatment to all patients.
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