Prompt is your first stop for Clinical Reference Documents at NHW. It is NHW's document management portal for policy, procedures and guidelines and also contains forms, templates, checklists and other documents. Many of the documents simply link to an external guideline that has been adopted for use at NHW. The Prompt database can be searched from the quick links on the NHW intranet homepage. 
Registration for offsite access is available if you have access to NHW email at home.
The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) is NHW's preferred next stop for policy, procedure and guidelines. JBI is one of the world's leading evidence-based practice (EBP) organisations. JBI's evidence-based practice resources assist healthcare professionals to implement an effective evidence-based practice program to provide the best possible patient care.
JBI Manuals for Aged Care:
JBI Evidence-Based Carers Manual for Personal Care Workers employed in residential aged care organisations to provide care to consumers living in one of their homes and is based on Recommended Practices that relate to aged care.
JBI Aged Care Evidence-Based Practice Manual is a comprehensive resource which complements and extends from the JBI Carers Manual. Developed with industry leaders including Nursing Directors, public and private sector experts and safety and quality representatives, this manual includes evidence for advanced care needs.
Key JBI documents for Aged Care:
Influenza outbreaks in aged care facilities : infection prevention and control measures [Offsite Athens Link]
Wandering management [Offsite Athens Link]
Antimicrobial stewardship program: residential aged care [Offsite Athens Link]
Healthcare-associated infection control: hospital management [Offsite Athens Link]
Medication management (residential aged care): Medication review and reconciliation [Offsite Athens Link]
Infection surveillance (older people): residential aged care [Offsite Athens Link]
Basic hand hygiene: health professionals [Offsite Athens Link]
Long-term catheter: management and care [Offsite Athens Link]
Catheter-related urinary tract infections (long term aged care): prevention. [Offsite Athens Link]
Urine sampling: midstream urine specimin [Offsite Athens Link]
Dehydration in older adults: prevention and treatment [Offsite Athens Link]
Dehydration in older adults: assessment and diagnosis [Offsite Athens Link]
If, after searching Prompt and JBI, you have still not found what you need, try the following :
A guide for the management and control of gastroenteritis outbreaks in aged care, special care, health care and residential care facilities
This guide has been produced to assist in the management and control of outbreaks of gastroenteritis (gastro) in aged care, special accommodation, hospitals and other residential care facilities such as supported residential services (SRS) and disability group homes. | More Information and Download
The first 24 hours in managing a confirmed COVID-19 case in a residential aged care facility (RACF) is critical to minimise the spread of the virus and its impact on residents and staff. This checklist is to help residential aged care providers and their staff to manage a COVID-19 positive case or outbreak in the first 24 hours. The steps listed in this document are relevant to the Delta and Omicron variants. Please visit the links within the checklist for more information. | Download
No longer active. If you are looking for clinical practice guidelines, visit the Guidelines International Network – Guidelines Library.
Therapeutic Guidelines provide clear, concise, independent and evidence-based recommendations for patient management that have been developed by Australia's leading medical experts.
Point of Care Tools are clinical overviews for diagnosis & treatment designed for clinicians to quickly look up information when they are with a patient. They are summaries of evidence from peer reviewed sources and are updated regularly by specialty experts. Some also contain a variety of resources from primary source (eg. Medline) searches to eBooks and eJournals, guidelines, images and videos.
UpToDate is an evidence-based, physician-authored clinical decision support resource which clinicians trust to make the right point-of-care decisions. It includes a collection of medical and patient information, access to Lexi-comp drug monographs and drug-to-drug, drug-to-herb and herb-to-herb interactions information, and a number of medical calculators. NOTE: UpToDate Anywhere registration is available to NHW staff by registering from this link when onsite at NHW.
BMJ Best Practice is a easy-to-use decision-support tool that provides authoritative answers to clinical questions. It contains information relating to over 10,000 diagnoses, more than 3,000 diagnostic tests and over 4,000 diagnostic and treatment guidelines. At its core, Best Practice contains the internationally renowned Clinical Evidence. Drug information is provided by Martindale: the Complete Drug Reference. Martindale can be accessed via the Drugs menu or by selecting a drug when viewing a condition or symptom.
Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) is one of the world's leading evidence-based practice (EBP) organisations.
Most Primary evidence databases also have filters for a variety of publication types - Reviews, RCTs, Guidelines and so forth.
The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) database covers the literature of nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, nutrition and dietetics, and other health-related professions.