Mornington
Morni ngton
1 July 2014
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Weather bomb MORNINGTON pier was lashed by monster swells as a fierce “winter weather bomb� hit the peninsula last week. The elements conspired to produce wild conditions on Port Phillip as gale-force winds gusting up to 122km/h combined with driving rain and a king tide to overwhelm bayside towns and suburbs. The Mornington Peninsula was the state’s worst hit region during the brief but violent storm, with electricity cut to thousands of properties and emergency services receiving hundreds of calls for help. This picture, catching a wave breaking over the pier, got 350,000 hits on Facebook and appeared in media outlets both here and overseas. Full story and more pictures on Pages 4-5. Picture: Cameron McCullough
Health watch at schools Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au TWO Mornington primary schools are providing “evidence-based� care to pupils who are injured or become ill at school. Benton Junior College and Mornington Park Primary School have begun trialling the Healthcare Resource for Schools (HR4Schools) program
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that “guides and supports staff in providing care for pupils in an informed and consistent manner�. The program contains more than 100 clearly written guidelines for the rapid assessment, treatment and management of illness and injury. It also offers injury and illness-related reports for principals, administrators and school boards, and comprehensive health information letters and advice sheets, for parents and carers.
“When putting in data, there’s a special section telling us what care is required for a certain pupil and when we get reports we can look at them, or even detect ‘hotspots’ of accident activity, such as a dangerous area of the playground, that we can modify,� Mornington Park Primary principal Beverley Dadds said. “Or, if a child presents straight after recess on a particular day every week, we now have data showing the time
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children during a healthcare episode to do the right thing, for the right reasons, at the right time, in an informed and consistent manner.� Benton Junior College principal Marcus Batt said schools had a “moral and legal obligation to exercise a duty of care to ensure that appropriate medical assistance is provided to sick or injured pupils�. Continued Page 7
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and frequency. “It may be that the child hates a particular subject and seeks to avoid it. Now we can correlate these bouts of anxiety and look at how we can manage them.� Eddie Dunn, executive director of program developer The Mordun Group, said it supported consistency and quality-of-care in treating injuries or illnesses. “We want school staff caring for
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