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The new National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards have been approved and come into effect from January 2019. This second edition of the national standards addresses gaps identified in the first edition, including mental health and cognitive impairment, health literacy, end-of-life care, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. It also updates the evidence for actions, consolidates and streamlines standards and actions to make them clearer and easier to implement, and reduces duplication.

Most Queensland Health clinicians use CKN, but even the most frequent users will sometimes need help understanding CKN’s potential. We know that many people are barely scratching the surface. The CKN Clinical Champions Program is helping building awareness and capacity among clinical staff to make the best use of the information resources available to them. This is your chance to get involved.

The much sought-after Therapeutic Guidelines app is now available for CKN users. You can now access the full collection of Therapeutic Guidelines and search for clear, concise, evidence-based recommendations for patient management all within the eTG complete app.

Medication Services Queensland is enhancing the usability of the List of Approved Medicines (LAM), Queensland Health’s state-wide formulary. The new-look LAM will be available from 27 September 2018.

It is not always possible to avoid taking medicines during pregnancy. Some women have conditions which need ongoing treatment, while others may develop or experience a new condition which may require medicine management. To help support clinical decision making CKN has now added one of the most highly requested resources in this field, the Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Medicines Guide (PBMG).

CKN has recently upgraded its ClinicalKey for Nursing subscription to give Queensland clinicians access to significantly more content, including 218 more books and four more journals, along with AMH Drug Monographs, Clinical Overviews, Procedures Consult and other helpful tools.

The Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment (KICA) tool has now been added as a guidelines in the CKN decision support tool, DynaMed Plus.

KICA was developed in response to the need for a cognitive screening tool for older Indigenous Australians (45 years plus) living in rural and remote areas. The needs of older adults with dementia are complex. An extra degree of complexity is added for remote or rurally located Indigenous people with dementia owing to their location and cultural context.

BMJ Best Practice has recently been updated to include drug content from Martindale, Micromedex and BNF for Children, and to integrate medical calculators from EBMcalc.

The Don’t Rush to Crush guide to safely administering oral medicines to people with enteral feeding tubes or swallowing difficulties has been comprehensively revised and is now live in MIMS Online.

This third edition of Don’t Rush to Crush contains a total of 570 oral medicines, including 50 additions, while some monographs have been combined to assist with efficiently referencing medicines.

CKN users can now access a range of 3D-animated procedural videos in BMJ Best Practice. These short guides show you how to perform common medical and surgical techniques, and include supporting information such as equipment needed, contraindications, indications, possible complications and aftercare advice.