Discharge from WHIN Coordinator program

Clients can be discharged from the WHIN Coordinator program when an appropriate intervention and/or referrals have been made. The client can re-engage with the WHIN Coordinator program if new needs develop or circumstances change or re-emerge, provided the client is a student enrolled at a school allocated a wellbeing nurse or is an immediate family member of the student.

The wellbeing nurse discharges clients from the WHIN Coordinator program for any of the following reasons:

• the client has been referred to and linked to appropriate services to receive support and no longer requires active support from the wellbeing nurse
• the presenting concern has been resolved without the need for intervention
• the client and/or their family members cease engaging with or responding to the wellbeing nurse
• the client and/or their family members has requested the discharge
• the student no longer attends the school.

To discharge the client from the WHIN Coordinator program, the wellbeing nurse:

• contacts the client, or if appropriate, their family member, prior to discharge to determine their needs have been met before formally exiting them from the WHIN Coordinator program
• provides client and/or family members with a follow up health care plan if required
• provides a handover of a student’s care to the student’s new school if required and is able to do so
• records the date of discharge in the eMR
• informs the school learning and support and wellbeing team, school principal or school executive as appropriate and/or records in the school’s centralised record system that the student has been discharged from WHIN Coordinator program.