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How to Deal with Complaints in Healthcare

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Complaints are an integral part of ensuring quality healthcare provision. All aged care service providers are required to have internal complaints resolution processes under the Aged Care Act 1997, but handling complaints can often be complicated and hard to navigate.

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Complaints are an integral part of ensuring quality healthcare provision. Knowing how to deal with complaints is crucial for professional growth, but handling the complaints of patients or their visitors can often be complicated and hard to navigate. All aged care service providers are required to have internal complaints resolution processes under the Aged Care Act 1997. This article addresses the best way to manage common complaints in healthcare settings. A common complaint is one that can be mitigated at a local level (i.e. the unit).

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Christine Suter
Christine (RN, BN, MPHC) is an RN with 40 years experience, traversing the profession as an AIN, EN, RN, RM N.ED. to DON. She is currently in transition-to-retirement and working as a casual RN on the floor in a small rural hospital with an aged care facility attached. Her interests are aged care and particularly nurses; their working relationships, team dynamics and how nurse leaders and managers deal with the day to day complexities of leading and managing.
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Kristen Simpson
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Rachel Delahenty
07 Sep 2019
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Kathryn Hoswell
11 Jan 2023
A useful resource to assert staff to deal with complaints effectively
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01 Sep 2021
Easy to understand, precise, and informative.
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