Choice QUM Gold Package

+ AMH Drug Handbook + 0.50c per bed, per quarter
+ AMH Drug Choice Companion – Aged Care + 0.20c per bed per quarter
+ Australia & NZ Nursing Drug Handbook + 0.20c per bed per quarter

As part of our service, we help facilitate the QUM Agreements and QUM Quarterly Reports required under Medicare funding.

The Choice QUM Gold Package is a selection of our most popular resources, all rolled into 1 package at a discounted rate. For just ~18% of your Medicare QUM funding or ~4% of your total service remuneration, you can give your nursing home/s access to a great range of resources and add immense value to your clinical service offering. Many of our existing clients have unprompted let us know how extremely happy their client nursing homes have been with the resources. If you are in doubt, feel free to utilise our 3 month FREE trial offer.

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Choice QUM's Services
The following is a list of Choice QUM's current service and resource offerings. Clinical pharmacists can pick and choose which offerings best match their individual needs and requirements.


QUM Education Kits©
This resource represents the complete in-service package. A PowerPoint lecture CD of each topic is provided, and in conjunction with the Seminar Template manuscript, allows the Pharmacist to provide professional, informative, relevant and interesting education sessions. Furthermore, a DVD copy of each session is provided with discussions led by Associate Professor Chris Bonner. These DVDs can be left at the facility to provide a convenient and flexible education resource for staff. Seminar booklets are also included to provide care staff with a hard copy reference for each associated QUM topic. Each new topic is released with an entire Kit every 6 months.

Service Components:

• 1x DVD education session per topic, per facility.
• 1x PowerPoint presentation CD for Pharmacist led in-services, per topic.
• 1x Seminar Template with guidance and directions on leading the session, per topic.
• Seminar Notes for care staff, sufficient copies per topic.

QUMscales©
This resource comprises of a series of monitoring tools designed specifically to assess the safe, effective, appropriate and judicious use of common medication categories in Aged Care. Current QUMscales exist for antihypertensives; drugs for diabetes; analgesics and antidepressants. Additional QUMscales are being developed for benzodiazepines and drugs for bone health.

Service Components:

• 1x QUMscales master folder with ample copies of the respective QUMscales, per facility.

The Crushing and Dosing Guide for Aged Care Staff©
This resource represents the most comprehensive, clinically applicable and user-friendly crushing guide available. Instead of simply indicating which drugs should not be crushed, the guide actually directs the health care team to appropriate solutions to common crushing and dosing dilemmas. As a laminated, 2 double page ring-binded resource, this guide is designed for both durability and ease of use at the point of dosage administration.

Service Components:

• 1x Guide, per 15-30 beds/medication trolley.

Drug Guides for RNs and ENs & PCs in Aged Care©
This 2 part resource has effectively answered the call from care staff for a quick, relevant and useful drug information resource – in a language that they can understand. The 2 separate guides deal specifically with the QUM issues associated with drugs commonly used in Aged Care. From the initial database of useful drug information, this guide then becomes the template for the periodic addition of relevant QUM information – as demanded by care staff: e.g. generic drug names; falls prevention; bowel management; sunlight and Vitamin D; care based therapies; pain protocols etc…

Service Components:

• 1x Drug Guide for RNs in Aged Care, per ~30 beds/nurse’s station.
• 1x Drug Guide ENs & PCs in Aged Care, ~30 beds/nurse’s station.
• New features and drugs added at regular intervals.

The QUM Times©
This quarterly newsletter distribution provides a useful and attention-grabbing medium through which to raise care-staff awareness of topical QUM issues in Aged Care. Choice QUM has commissioned a professional cartoonist to help keep things interesting. The newsletter will also be used to promote the QUM activities and other clinical services provided by pharmacists.

Service Components:

• 1x newsletter distribution per quarter.

QUMpromo©
QUMpromo focuses on innovative and appealing methods of relaying the message of QUM to care staff. Once the message is firmly entrenched, the objective then becomes the provision of tools that facilitate QUM outcomes. Initial distributions focus on the distribution of large colourful laminated posters and other information mediums, with future materials containing surprises sure to make you very popular with the facility’s care staff.

Service Components:

• 1x QUM promotional material package per facility, subsequent distributions every 6-12 months.

RESOURCES THAT CAN BE ADDED TO THE CHOICE QUM GOLD PACKAGE

AMH Drug Choice Companion: Aged Care 2nd Ed©
The revised and updated Second Edition of this guide is a widely-accepted aid to Quality Use of Medicines in Aged Care. It is an invaluable resource for anyone who works in a nursing home.

Service Components:

• 1x AMH Aged Care updated to the latest edition every 3 years, per ~30-45 beds.

AMH Drug Handbook©
This resource needs no explanation and has been found to find favour with nursing staff that have had access to its useful and independent QUM information.

Service Components:

• 1x AMH updated to the latest edition every 3 years, per ~30-45 beds.

Australia & NZ Nursing Drug Handbook©
The Australian New Zealand Nursing Drug Handbook 3rd Edition provides the busy nurse with quick access to all the essential information required for effective drug administration and monitoring. This newly updated nursing resource includes concise detailed profiles of a wide range of currently available drugs. Presented in a clear consistent format, the handbook is designed to guide the reader in finding the required information quickly and easily.

Service Components:

• 1x ANZ Nursing Drug Handbook updated to the latest edition every 3 years, per ~30-45 beds.