Maternal and Child Health Resources
On this page:
- Resources for Services Under Severe Workforce Pressures
- COVID-19 updates
- Child Development Information System (CDIS)
- MCH Qualification Flowchart
- Consent
- Practice
- MCH Clinical Practice Videos
- Preceptorship Resources
- Aspiring MCH students
- KAS visit links
Resources for Services Under Severe Workforce Pressures
- Maternal and Child Health COVID-19 Response Recovery - April 2022 (Word - 187KB)
- Appendix 1 - MCH COVID 19 Contingency planning (Word - 1.6MB)
- Appendix 2 - MCH Prioritised Service (Excel - 60KB)
- Appendix 3 - MCH Action Plan April 2022 (Word - 87KB)
- Agreement template for councils to contract MCH Services from one LGA to another LGA (Word - 53KB)
- Victorian Maternal and Child Health Nurse Student - Employment Model - July 2022 (Word - 999KB)
- Memorandum of Understanding between ANMF (Victorian Branch) and LGA Template - July 2022 (Word - 43KB)
- Victorian Maternal and Child Health Nurse Student - Position Description - Template (Word - 64KB)
- Victorian Maternal and Child Health Nurse Student - Letter of Offer Template (Word - 42KB)
- Memorandum of Understanding between ANMF (Victorian Branch) and LGA Template - July 2022 (PDF - 851KB)
- MCHN POST Graduate Nursing and Workforce Collaboration Group TOR (PDF - 167KB)
COVID-19 updates
- COVID update - Hume City Council Experience - MCH Clinical Practice during COVID (Password required)
- COVID update – IPCAR (Infection Prevention & Control Advice & Response) session for MCH (Password required)
Child Development Information System (CDIS)
This site contains limited information about CDIS, including recent CDIS education presentations & clinical practice notes. For all other information, including the original CDIS education webinars please refer to the Department of Health.
CDIS Education resources
| MCH CDIS Education - New Reports (Password required) | Overview of the new CDIS reports, including the DH Annual report, KAS report & Integrated Program report |
| MCH CDIS Education - Referrals (Password required) | Review of all CDIS referral recording; including internal referrals, external referrals & referrals into an integrated program (EMCH/S&S) |
| MCH CDIS Education - Data Cleansing Training (Password required) | Reviewing of CDIS data entry points, common data entry errors & recommended CDIS data cleansing processes |
| Enhanced MCH Education - Frequently Asked Questions (Password required) | Explores a range of Frequently asked CDIS questions across UMCH & EMCH |
| Enhanced MCH Education - Capturing the data (Password required) | Revises CDIS data entry points, common errors, practice tips & EMCH reporting |
| Enhanced MCH Education - Documentation in CDIS (Password required) | General UMCH & EMCH documentation guidance |
| Enhanced MCH Tutorial - Scenario 1 - General Overview (Password required) | Step by step walkthrough of referring a client into EMCH; including the referral process, completing the CFAP, completing an EMCH consultation, recording time & ending the program. Jan 2021 |
| Enhanced MCH Tutorial - Scenario 2 – Use of CFAP (Password required) | Step by step walkthrough of completing the CFAP for EMCH; including developing family centred goals, adding goals to CDIS, updating goals & closing the EMCH case. Jan 2021 |
| MCH CDIS Education - Additional Assessment Tools (PowerPoint - 2.3MB) | Review of the new assessment tools. Including: Parent and carers psychosocial assessment, Parent-child interactions scale - Infant and toddler (Brigance III), Sleep Pathways Assessment form. January 2021 |
| MCH CDIS Education - Additional Tools Tutorial (Password required) | Walkthrough of the new assessment tools. Including: Parent and carers psychosocial assessment, Parent-child interactions scale - Infant and toddler (Brigance III), Sleep Pathways Assessment form. |
| Enhanced MCH Referral Guide (PowerPoint - 2.1MB) | Reviewing referral into the EMCH program, including CDIS data management. Jan 2021 |
| Enhanced MCH Tutorial (VIMEO) (Password required) | Walkthrough of a referral into EMCH; including the referral process, completing the CFAP, completing an EMCH consultation & ending the program. Jan 2021 |
| MCH CDIS Education - Sleep and Settling Outreach Guide (PowerPoint - 1.9MB) | Review of the Sleep & Settling Integrated Program; including referral process, the case summary screen, completing a S&S consultation, recording time & ending the program. Jan 2021 |
| MCH CDIS Education - Sleep and Settling Outreach Program Tutorial (Password required) | Walkthrough of the Sleep & Settling program; including referral process, the case summary screen, completing a S&S consultation, recording time & ending the program January 2021 |
| MCH CDIS Education - Group Administration (Password required) | Review of the CDIS group administration process: adding new group dates & facilitators, adding & managing clients, recording attendance & group troubleshooting |
| MCH CDIS Education - Groups Reference Tipsheet (PDF - 162 KB) | Snapshot reference for CDIS group processes & troubleshooting |
CDIS Clinical Practice Notes
| CDIS Enhancement Update - October 2021 (PDF - 696KB) | Changes to service provider wording, sms templates & multiple assessments. |
| CDIS EMCH Practice Note - July 2021 (Word - 2.7MB) | Covers a range of processes and practices to support delivery of the EMCH Program |
| CDIS- Example of UMCH vs EMCH calendar breakdown (PowerPoint - 103KB) | Example of a CDIS calendar appointment broken down between UMCH, EMCH & family consultation time. |
| CDIS Client Not Present User Guide (Word - 828KB) | Review of the client not present section in CDIS. Including the purpose of each field & time recording. July 2021 |
| MCH CDIS Practice note- Recording a stillborn birth notification (DOCX - 182 KB) | Step by step process for recording a stillborn birth notification in CDIS |
MCH Qualification Flowchart
Consent
Practice
- Enhanced MCH Online Session (VIMEO)
- Practice Note 1 Learnings from the March 2016 Coronial Investigation into the death of Baby D (Word - 62KB)
- MCH Transition to Practice Guidelines (PDF - 1.05MB)
- Enhanced MCH Guidelines 2018 (PDF - 2.3MB)
- Enhanced MCH Guidelines 2018 (Word - 710KB)
- Privacy fact sheet for families using the MCH service
- Privacy framework - MCH Services (Word - 349KB)
- Mandatory Reporting Fact Sheet (Word - 200KB)
- MAV Mandatory Reporting Presentation 2019 (PowerPoint - 787KB)
MCH Clinical Practice Videos
COVID-19 caused MCH postgraduate student placements to be significantly postponed and reduced the opportunity for students to attend clinical placement. Clinicians needed to adapt to a telehealth model, with little preparation or training.
Due to feedback from the MCH sector and the universities, the Department of Health and MAV developed a series of practice-based clinical skill videos to provide both MCH postgraduate students and clinicians with the opportunity to view a series of consultations and assessments.
- Click here to view the videos (Password required)
Preceptorship Resources
These resources have been developed by the 3 universities that provide the MCHN courses in Victoria (La Trobe University, RMIT and Federation University).
They are to be used in lieu of the Preceptorship course which has been run each year for those planning to or currently precepting MCHN students.
- Using the common clinical tool (PDF - 1.2 MB)
- 2022 Webinar Adult Learning and Preceptor Skills (PDF - 4.8 MB)
- Webinar 1 - Adult learning and Preceptor Skills (Vimeo, password required)
- Webinar 3 - How to use the Common Clinical Assessment Tool (PebblePad) (Vimeo, password required)
- Preceptor Q&A 7 June 2022 (Vimeo, password required)
- Preceptor Q&A 9 June 2022 (Vimeo, password required)
Aspiring MCH students
Information about MCH Scholarship Applications for 2023 is available below:
- 2023 LGA Guidelines for MCH Clinical Places updated (Word - 165KB)
- 2023/2024 Clinical Place Availability Table 26 July 2022 (Excel - 21KB)
- 2022/2023 Federation University Graduation Diploma of Health Child and Family Health FAQ (Word - 1MB)
- 2023 MCH Applicant Information Pack and EOI updated (Word - 155KB)
- 2023 FAQ for La Trobe Child Family and Community applicants 15 July (Word - 1.1MB)
- 2022 FAQ RMIT Grad Dip Child Family Health - 29 August 2021 (PDF - 427KB)
- Maternal and Child Health Workforce professional development
KAS Visit Links
Please access these links via this page on The Better Health Channel.