Committee Information and Documentation

Thank you for joining the Day of Treatment (DOT) Assessment Tool review committee.

The aim of the committee is to develop a version of the DOT tool for nurses providing systemic anti-cancer therapies to a cancer patient.  The tool was originally developed in the United Kingdom and our committee will be changing it to reflect the Australian health care context. 

Your clinical knowledge, expertise and experience in oncology will help us to develop a tool that is applicable, easy to interpret and use in a clinical setting.

Our progress

Review 1 documentation and instruction - due before 14 March 2021

DOT Tool

Step 1:  Please download the tool.

Step 2: Please answer the questions in this survey.  You will need the tool open to answer these questions.

Step 3:  Provide mark-ups on the tool using track changes and send back to cinsw-eviqed@health.nsw.gov.au 

When providing your changes

  • Think about when you are assessing a patient in the moment – what is your process?  What is your current documentation?  What are the tools you use?  What don’t you use?  What’s missing?
  • You are not required to provide feedback on formatting – all formatting will be completed as per the Cancer Institute style guide

 

Log Sheet

Step 1: Please download the log sheet.

Step 2:  Please answer the questions in this survey.  You will need the log sheet open to answer these questions.

Step 3:  Provide mark-ups on the log sheet using track changes and send back to cinsw-eviqed@health.nsw.gov.au 

When providing your changes

  • Think about when you are assessing a patient in the moment – does it flow correctly?  Does it do all of the things you need it to?
  • You are not required to provide feedback on formatting – all formatting will be completed as per the Cancer Institute style guide

 

Surveys and documents with track changes are due back before 14 March 2021

Meetings

Meeting 11 February 2021

About Joan Thomas - our subject matter expert

Joan has worked in Cancer Care for 33 years, the past 10 years here in Australia. She was the Lead Chemotherapy Nurse and Advanced practitioner for her organisation in the UK, and is currently Nurse Manager of the Chemotherapy Day Units at Peninsula Health. 

Joan led the development of the Australian version of the Telephone triage toolkit with eviQ and has joined the team in 2020 to once again lead the adaption of an international tool to the Australian context.
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