Health Times Issue 1 2016

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January 2016

New Year, New Career + Nursing the future force + Jobs demand for nurses and allied health in 2016 + Managing nutrition in critical patients + Midwifery key in perinatal mental health

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January 2016 We hope you enjoy perusing the range of opportunities included in this Issue.

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Advertiser list Barwon Health Best Practice Nursing Agency Calvary Healthcare ACT CCM Recruitment International CQ Nurse Danila Dilba Health Service Education at Sea First State Super Geneva Health Hays Healthcare Health & Fitness Recruitment Australia Health Recruitment Specialists HealthStaff Recruitment Latrobe Regional Hospital Lifescreen Mawarnkarra Health Service Medacs Healthcare Oceania University of Medicine Opal Aged Care Royal District Nursing Service Rural Health Workforce Australia Skin Science Australia University of Derby University of Tasmania

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NEW YEAR - NEW START MIDWIFERY JOBS IN NEW ZEALAND Geneva Healthcare is proud to partner with Waikato DHB in seeking Midwives for their maternity services – one of the busiest in the country.

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Clinical Manager Youth Mental Health Service Ballarat Health Services Reporting to the Executive Director Mental Health Service, the Clinical Manager – Youth Mental Health Service will ensure the service routinely provides evidence-based and best practice treatments to Youth with a mental illness and their families. The Youth Mental Health Service is a regional service that delivers community-based mental health treatment and care to Youth (aged 15-25) with a mental health disorder residing throughout the geographical catchment area for the City of Ballarat and local surrounding communities, including Ararat, Stawell and Horsham.

The service strives to provide client-centred, evidence-based, best practice, recovery orientated treatment services to its clients within a family inclusive context utilising a multi-disciplinary team framework and an integrated model of care.

The successful applicant will be someone who has the passion to be involved in an exciting and developing service, enjoys a challenging and continuously improving clinical environment. A very attractive salary and benefits package will be negotiated with the successful applicant, who will hold qualifications in an area of relevant clinical practice, have experience in the management of a Youth Mental Health team or equivalent, and ideally hold post graduate (minimally Masters) qualifications.

Full position details can be obtained from our website at:

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Enquiries should be made in the first instance to John Cross on 0417 332 598.

Email applications at: hrsa@hrsa.com.au

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For a full job description and to apply email antoinette.Walsh@calvarycare.org.au For more information call Antoinette Walsh, Maternity Unit Manager (02) 02 6229 2152 Applications close Thursday 18 February 2016 About Calvary John James Calvary John James Hospital is an acute care private hospital offering competitive rates, conditions and salary sacrifice benefits in a in a caring and compassionate values based organisation.

About Calvary Founded by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary, Calvary is a charitable, Catholic health care organisation operating in six of Australia’s States and Territories with 12,000 staff and volunteers. For over 130 years Calvary has provided health, aged and community care in a range of settings, including 4 public and 11 private hospitals, residential aged care and the community. For more information about Calvary and our values visit https://www.calvarycare.org.au/about/why-choose-calvary/

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EEN CARE COORDINATOR LEAD & MOTIVATE A TEAM Across independent living, community and residential aged care, this group consistently delivers services of high quality.

As you’ll be responsible for the unit, you’ll coordinate the provision of care to residents and provide supervision and support to direct care staff.

You must be registered with APHRA as an Endorsed Enrolled Nurse. You’ll have the ability to supervise, lead and motivate a team to provide a high standard of service.

Contact Elaine de Vos at elaine.devos@hays.com.au or 03 9946 3577.

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Mawarnkarra Health Service is a community controlled Aboriginal health service providing holistic health care to the Aboriginal communities of West Pilbara region.

GENERAL PRACTITIONER We are seeking a General Practitioner to enhance the holistic primary health care services provided to the Aboriginal people of the West Pilbara Region. The successful applicant must be a General Practitioner with at least 5 years post graduation experience in medicine. Experience in indigenous health is desirable. FRACGP and/or ACRRM are also desirable. Non clinical skills required include excellent time management and communication skills and the ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team.

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Physiotherapy research targets power training for traumatic brain injury

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allistic strength training is usually the domain of elite athletes.

But, in a world-first trial, Australian physiotherapy researchers will put the power development training to the test in a bid to improve the mobility of patients with traumatic brain injury.

The four-year project, which has received National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding, will study the impact of ballistic strength training on more than 130 patients at sites in Sydney and Melbourne, including Epworth HealthCare’s acquired brain injury rehabilitation unit at Richmond, the largest brain trauma rehabilitation centre in Australia.

Dr Gavin Williams, a neurological physiotherapist at Epworth HealthCare and a University of Melbourne researcher, says research shows traditional strength training, in related fields such as stroke and cerebral palsy, is not effective for progressing patients’ walking.

“We did a big review of all of the trials ever done to use strength training to improve people’s walking, and that was 27 trials that have been done around the world,” he says.

“We knew that it wasn’t working particularly well so instead of just reinventing the wheel, I wrote to all the authors around the world and asked them to send me their protocols.

“What we found was people were primarily focusing on the muscles that act on

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the knees, so your quads, your thigh muscles and your hamstrings, and they are the biggest muscles in your legs and they’re also the biggest muscles in your body, so they’re obviously important.

“But in terms of actual walking, they don’t contribute that much - so despite making the quads and hammies a lot stronger, the patients weren’t actually walking any better.”

Dr Williams says strength training exercises have traditionally been performed very slowly, where the patient takes one or two seconds to complete an exercise, such as a leg press.

“Instead of making someone simply stronger we’re trying to make them more powerful.

The difference between strength and power is the speed at which you move,” he says.

“During walking, the movements happen very quickly and people don’t appreciate it because you just think of it as normal everyday walking but the speed at which the muscles act is very, very quick.

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Danila Dilba Health Service is going through a dynamic period of expansion, growth and review and is currently seeking Expression of Interest for possible upcoming roles in either a casual, part time or full time capacity in the following roles:

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Closing Date: COB 15th February 2016 We offer: • Attractive salary with salary packaging benefits • Six weeks annual leave • Flexible hours • Training and development • Variety of work including general practice, renal, aged care, men’s and women’s health, maternal and child health, and community outreach Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply Danila Dilba Health Service is an Aboriginal community controlled organisation that provides comprehensive, high-quality primary health care and community services to Biluru (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) people in Yilli Rreung (greater Darwin) region.

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Jobs demand for nurses and allied health in 2016

By Karen Keast

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re you looking for health sector work in 2016?

Recruitment firm Hays says most employment opportunities this year can be found in the aged care and disability sectors, and in Australia’s regional and remote areas.

Hays healthcare regional director Mark de Vink said the greatest demand is for nursing staff in aged care, where employers are seeking experienced assistants-in-nursing (AINs), registered nurses (RN), clinical care coordinators, case managers and clinical managers.

“Aged care is where new opportunity exists. It is also moving away from the traditional aged care facility to in-home care as well,” he said.

“If you wanted to consider shifting into an aged care environment, I would think you’d have a number of options at your feet.”

Mr de Vink said 2016 is shaping up as a good year for health jobseekers - the Federal Government has lifted its permanent hiring freeze while the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is set to be fully rolled out from July, and will eventually cater for more than 460,000 Australians with a disability.

Organisations in the disability sector are beginning to recruit additional staff for the NDIS, with particular demand for service coordinators, home care assessors, case managers and client services facilitators.

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Mr de Vink said there’s also a large demand for nurse managers and nurse educators.

“We’ve seen an increased number of high end roles with a number of Director of Nursing (DoN) roles, and a lot of nurse audit roles as well coming into audit facilities - where RN level people can come in and do audits for the sites to be audited and passed,” he said.

“We are also getting nurse educator roles, so there’s a lot of demand for nurses to do nonclinical work at the moment.

“A lot of the insurance providers are recruiting nurse educators. We’re seeing quite a bit in that space - we had one campaign where we had 20 RNs working for one organisation in educator roles,” he said.

“People that have gone for the nurse educator roles are often those who aren’t wanting to do the shift work anymore or who are burnt out a little bit but this way, they can still be in their relevant field.”

Radiographers and sonographers are in continuous demand in cities while there’s an extreme shortage of allied health professionals, particularly experienced physiotherapists, psychologists and occupational therapists, in the Northern Territory.

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Nursing the future force Embarking on your career or considering a change in 2016? Australia’s new pre-eminent nurse leader discusses the health care employment outlook and offers some career advice for the nation’s largest group of health care practitioners - the nursing and midwifery workforce.

By Karen Keast It’s not unusual for nurses to seek career advice from Adjunct Professor Debra Thoms.

With a career in nursing, health management and nursing leadership surpassing 30 years, Professor Thoms now holds the distinguished position as Australia’s second Commonwealth Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer, following the retirement of Dr Rosemary Bryant in mid-2015.

One piece of guidance Professor Thoms provides that often resonates with nurses and midwives, regardless of their position, skills and expertise, is simple.

She encourages them to reflect on what they find challenging in their work, consider what areas pique their interest, and to then contemplate what groundwork needs to be laid in order to achieve reaching their career goals.

But perhaps, most importantly, she advises them to be prepared to take opportunity when it arises.

“Sometimes an opportunity comes up for a role that you had never thought about and you may decide to go into that, open that door and go through it, and you suddenly find that you’ve got this really amazing opportunity,” she says.

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“While they can have plans and ideas about where they’d like to go, don’t close your mind off to opportunities that may come along that you weren’t expecting.”

As the frontline of the nation’s health care, Australia’s nursing and midwifery workforce is continuing to grow.

Australia is now home to 632,488 registered health practitioners and statistics from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia show that more than 370,300 of those are nurses and midwives, up from 356,000 in September 2014.

The expanding workforce reflects major changes to the nation’s health sector.

Amid mounting challenges, from an ageing population and increasing rates of chronic disease, state and federal governments, industry and health care providers are turning their attention to the delivery of high quality, innovative and cost-effective care for patients.

With the Federal Government set to embark on significant reforms of the health space in 2016 and coming years, Professor Thoms says nurses and midwives have a major role to play in the changing health landscape.

“I’d like to see nurses and midwives used as effectively as they can be and having the skills

and capabilities that they bring to health care recognised,” she says.

“Also, that recognition that because of their intimate involvement in health care delivery, they have a lot of knowledge and understanding of how health systems operate and so they really do have a role to play in contributing to how we shape health going forward.”

Professor Thoms says reforms to the primary health care sector will provide growing opportunities for nurses in general practice and in mental health.

“I think community and primary health care, dealing with people with chronic and complex conditions, and mental health and aged care are going to continue to be areas of demand,” she says.

New nursing roles are also on the horizon in some states. In Queensland, the nurse endoscopy role is enabling nurses to perform endoscopic procedures within collaborative multidisciplinary teams with medical support.

Queensland is introducing another new role this year - nurse navigators.

The state plans to add 400 nurse navigators, who will monitor and oversee the care of high needs patients as part of an end-to-end care and coordination service in public hospitals and health services over four years.

Professor Thoms says she hopes more new and exciting roles will be considered for nurses and midwives in the chronic and complex care space.

“Given the focus of our health care system needs to move more into that primary health care, I’m keen to explore what sort of roles we can see for nurses,” she says.

“I think that the role of family health nurses overseas is an interesting one which is a broadbased role, which probably draws a bit on what some of our maternal and child health nurses do but also perhaps on some of what our generalist community health nurses do, so it’s more of a population focus.

“I think perhaps some of the overseas countries have utilised to greater effect, than we have to date, nurse practitioners in community health settings,” she adds.

“We’ve got some really good roles but I think there’s more opportunities there.”

Professor Thoms began her nursing career as a clinical nurse in New South Wales before becoming a remote area nurse in the Northern Territory.

She moved into management positions, eventually taking on the Chief Nursing Officer’s position in South Australia and became the Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer at NSW Health, and later taught nursing management at the University of Technology Sydney.

Professor Thoms became CEO of the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) in 2012 before taking on the profession’s chief role in late August, 2015.

Professor Thoms says Australia’s employment outlook is good for nurses and midwives in 2016.

Experienced nurses and midwives seeking work or those looking for a new direction in their career should consider moving outside the hospital sector to rural and remote areas, she advises.

“We still have a maldistribution. We still have challenges with rural and remote and particularly as we see some of the more senior or older nurses start to leave the workforce in the future we know that that will probably bring some further challenges around filling those gaps that are left.”

While nurse graduates are often attracted to launching their careers in city hospitals, Professor Thoms says they should also pursue other locations, such as larger country hospitals.

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Grants to go rural SUPPORT PACKAGES WORTH UP TO $25,000 If you’re a nurse or allied health professional, there’s never been a better time to go rural.

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Researcher puts muscle damage under the microscope A New Zealand post-doctoral researcher will take up a role investigating the progressive muscle-wasting group of diseases, muscular dystrophy, in the United States this month.

Dr Angus Lindsay, previously a lecturer in exercise physiology at the University of Canterbury, will begin working with Associate Professor Dawn Lowe in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, in a bid to shed light on the molecular mechanisms of contraction-induced injury in dystrophic skeletal muscle.

“The research aims to identify the contraction-induced injury-related mechanisms, associated with this genetic disease to provide valuable insight in the hope of improving the health and longevity of those people unfortunately living with this debilitating disease,” he said.

The position, funded through a National Institutes of Health grant, comes in the wake of Dr Lindsay’s PhD biochemistry research which examined the links between physical stress, post-exercise recovery interventions and muscle damage in elite athletes.

Dr Lindsay’s work monitored the level of physiological stress and the recovery response of sports athletes including Olympic road and track cyclists, semi-professional body-builders and martial artists along with professional rugby players.

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General Manager Acute Services Senior Management Position - Fixed Term until July 2017 Latrobe Regional Hospital (LRH) is a 289 bed hospital and is the largest regional hospital in Gippsland providing a range of health care services including acute, sub-acute, and ambulatory care.

A unique opportunity has arisen for an innovative and exceptional leader to join LRH’s Senior Management Team as General Manager Acute Services.

The GM Acute Services is responsible for providing high levels of leadership and operational management to acute services which include the Emergency Department, Acute units, hospital coordinators, operating theatres, Pre-Admission and patient services LRH seeks a first class leader with proven management experience who is able to demonstrate effective working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, senior health professionals and all other levels of staff. Managing budgets, teams, mentoring and developing team performance will also be your key strengths.

Reporting directly to the Director of Nursing, Midwifery and Clinical Services, the General Manager will provide strategic advice and contribute to the Executive Management Group.

For all enquiries please contact Amanda Cameron, Director Nursing, Midwifery and Clinical Services on (03) 5173 8824. For a copy of the position description, including the selection criteria and how to apply, please visit the website, www.lrh.com.au (Careers at LRH).

The successful applicant will be required to apply for and satisfactorily obtain a National Police Check.

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Managing nutrition in critical patients

By Karen Keast

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utrition therapy plays a crucial role in the care of patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) across Australia.

Critical patients are at greater risk of developing malnutrition due to the state of their disease or clinical condition, and the onset of malnutrition places critical patients at risk of increased morbidity and mortality.

Melbourne’s The Alfred Hospital is not only home to one of the largest ICUs in Australia, which also has the most complex case mix, it also holds the title of having the best nutrition practices for critical patients in the world.

Last year, and for the fourth time, The Alfred ICU was recognised as ‘the best of the best’ in the International Nutrition Survey for its work in providing nutrition therapy to critical patients in line with best practice recommendations.

Alfred Health nutrition services manager Associate Professor Ibolya Nyulasi, who was one of the first Accredited Practising Dietitians (APDs) to work in an Australia ICU, says optimal nutrition therapy introduced from the moment a patient is admitted to ICU can significantly improve critical patient outcomes.

“A study done by Darren Heyland in 2004 in Canada showed in hospitals where their nutritional support of ICU patients was very haphazard and wasn’t monitored, where they didn’t have guidelines or any systems in place compared to hospitals that did have that, the patients had increased mortality compared to those where they did have a good system and were able to monitor their patients and meet energy goals.

“If you provide optimal nutrition and have that vigilance then what the data shows is that we are going to have better survival rates.”

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Nutrition therapy for critical patients can facilitate wound healing and improve the maladaptive metabolic response to critical injury or illness.

Assoc. Professor Nyulasi says nutrition therapy works to minimise the development of malnutrition in critical patients.

“A burn injury is the most metabolically challenging injury you can have,” she says.

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Midwifery key in perinatal mental health

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A new Griffith University study will build on its previous research which found many midwives look to develop their skills to address perinatal mental health while organisational constraints also hinder midwives.

Professor Jenny Gamble, a leading researcher with Griffith’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland and a midwife of more than 30 years, said the research aims to tackle the barriers that prevent midwives from helping pregnant women overcome their fears around childbirth.

She hopes the study will lay the foundations for the widespread uptake of evidence-based counselling to improve mental health in pregnancy while facilitating normal childbirth.

“It is already well understood that around one in four women report being fearful about their upcoming birth and this may be associated with a variety of factors such as anxiety, depression and stress, as well as isolation and poor social support,” she said.

“We also know from prior work that an evidence-based intervention, in the form of counselling provided by a midwife, can significantly lower these levels of fear and enhance the overall childbirth experience for a woman.

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“What we want to do in this two-year, threephase study is to translate these results into everyday midwifery practice.”

Under the study, which has received a state government grant of more than $119,000, researchers will partner with the Gold Coast University Hospital’s multidisciplinary maternity team.

The research will initially focus on the enablers and barriers to organisational change in maternity units.

Professor Gamble said the project will examine the scheduling of antenatal appointments, clinical protocols, skill mix and other factors that can impact on the integration of midwives’ skills to practice, which will lead the research team to develop a range of strategies to support organisational change.

More than 20 midwives will then complete a five day training program that teaches them the skills needed to integrate structured counselling into their midwifery practice.

Professor Gamble said the project will then move to assess the changes or trends in the levels of fear, depression and birth mode across the service.

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