VHIMS
This topic will help you understand the incident management process.
So what are the benefits? Click on the first aid boxes to find out.
Wherever you work in publicly funded health in Victoria, you will be using the same data set to record an incident.
Whether you're reporting and/or involved with clinical incidents, Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) incidents, non-clinical incidents or consumer feedback, you'll use the same reporting system. However this course will ONLY cover the incident management process.
Definitions are standardised, so when we say 'incident' or a 'near miss event' we can be confident that we all mean the same thing.
There’s a single, objective way to rate the severity of an incident. If an incident has an incident severity rating (ISR) of 1, 2, 3, or 4, we’ll all know what level of impact the incident has, and what review and follow up is required.
Because we’re all using one data set, state-wide trends can be analysed, feedback communicated, and quality improvements better targeted.
