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We provide students with a programme that leads to real opportunities and excellent understanding of Aesthetic procedures. Our trainers and staff provide students with knowledge and ongoing support vital to success in this field. On successful completion of the Cosmetic Injectables Workshop each delegate will be competent in the delivery of basic techniques to treat with Botulinum Toxin and Dermal Fillers. Skin Science now offer one day workshops in Sclerotherapy and Platelet Rich Plasma therapy. Expand your clinical skills as a healthcare professional. Enjoy additional income by offering rewarding treatments that can improve clients self esteem. Upcoming workshops: Cosmetic Injectable workshops (3 Day) 31 July, 1 & 2 August 2017 11, 12 & 13 September 2017 23, 24 & 25 October 2017 4, 5 & 6 December 2017 Sclerotherapy workshop: (1Day) 9 June 2017 4 September 2017 Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy (1 Day) Mon 9 October Visit www.aesthetictrainingaustralia.com for more information, call 1300 817 524 or email info@skinscience.co
Purple House nurse one of HESTA award finalists A remote area nurse who transformed dialysis services for Aboriginal people in central Australia is one of 12 finalists announced for the 2017 HESTA Australian Nursing and Midwifery Awards. Sarah Brown, a non-Indigenous nurse who was born in England and grew up in Queensland, helped establish the Alice Springs-based Western Desert Dialysis, known as Purple House. Purple House provides renal dialysis six days a week, social support and allied health services, but it’s also a place that patients can call their own - and make bush medicine, cook damper and kangaroo tails on a camp fire, and organise hunting trips. The Aboriginal community-controlled venture has 24 dialysis machines at 11 places, from Wanarn and Warburton in Western Australia to Yirrkala in Arnhem Land. It also has a mobile dialysis unit, the Purple Truck, which rolls out to visit other remote communities. Now in its 11th year, the annual awards recognise the outstanding contribution of graduates, individuals and teams for their professionalism, innovation and care across a range of health settings. HESTA CEO Debby Blakey said finalists were selected from an exceptional field of nominations, demonstrating the highest standards of care, ongoing commitment and innovative practices. “This year’s finalists demonstrate the profound impact individuals and teams have on the communities they operate in and the patients they care for,” she said.
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Education that cares for nurses and midwives
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ant to try mindfulness to combat workplace or home pressures, improve your sleep, or step up your level of activity? Need help with addiction, such as alcohol, drugs or gambling, or with stress, anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with diabetes, chronic pain or menopause, or with compassion fatigue or workplace violence? A new national service, Nurse & Midwife Support, features online education and provides an aroundthe-clock telephone support and referral service specifically d e s i g n e d for nurses, midwives, students, employers, educators, or concerned friends or relatives. Mark Aitken, a registered nurse of 30 years and stakeholder engagement officer at Nurse & Midwife Support, says the site provides Australia’s 380,000 nurses and midwives with the latest educational resources from leading health organisations. “We encourage nurses and midwives to engage in health promotion, so take responsibility for your own health and wellbeing - eating well, getting enough rest, getting enough hydration, and getting enough exercise,” he says. “Some nurses and midwives will probably laugh at that because clinical nursing is a
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very physical job, and nurses and midwives are walking around virtually their entire shift providing care, so that if you put a pedometer on them they probably cover a lot of kilometres, but I think there’s other exercises that nurses and midwives need to engage in, if they are not already, to stay healthy. “Our tag line is - your health matters. I really like that because it kind of says to me as a nurse that just as the health of my patients is important - so is mine, and it reminds me that I need to take care of that, and I need to take care of the health of my colleagues when I am able to or when they seek support and assistance.” The website features information and tips on staying healthy, addiction, workplace issues, mental health, life, professional obligation, and accessing support. It also provides information for nurses, midwives and students in LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or intersex), culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD), rural and remote, or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Importantly, the service is designed to ensure nurses and midwives can continue to provide professional, safe and quality care to patients. Nurse & Midwife Support is the first national dedicated telephone and online service that provides confidential advice and referral to nurses and midwives about their health and wellbeing. The service, run independently by Turning Point, is an initiative of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and comes after a research project reviewed the referral, treatment and rehabilitation services for nurses and midwives with a health impairment.
The report found 66 per cent of 10,000 nursing and midwifery survey respondents had either witnessed or experienced a health impairment, while nurses and midwives reported they were uncertain about where and how to seek support, and were also uncertain about the mandatory notification threshold. Most respondents also believed health support services could be improved, while many were unaware of existing mental health, drug and alcohol support services able to provide help. Since it launched in March, the service has received numerous calls of support as well as calls from health services and managers seeking information about the service. Mr Aitken says the service has received calls from nurses and midwives experiencing occupational violence, bullying and harassment, drug and alcohol problems, and health issues including chronic diabetes and musculoskeletal problems. “Just like many nurses and midwives work 24/7, that telephone service is available 24/7, so if you’re a nurse working nightshift and you’ve got your night off or you are in your tea break and you need to call us, there will be somebody to answer your call at four in the morning,” he says. “The majority of our call centre staff are very experienced nurses and midwives and that’s important because nurses and midwives like to think they are speaking to a nurse or a midwife about a health issue.” As part of the education component of the service, Mr Aitken’s role involves meeting with nurses and midwives, students and stakeholders
to promote the service, while also providing education on how nurses and midwives can look after their own health to prevent their risk of health impairment. “We are very keen to engage in the health promotion space or early intervention space for nurses and midwives and students of the professions because we actually want to support people before a health issue develops, or much earlier.” Mr Aitken says nurses and midwives regularly undertake incredibly stressful work, and cumulative stress can lead to major health issues. “Like the rest of society, nurses and midwives aren’t immune from drug and alcohol issues or gambling problems or other health issues, such as musculoskeletal issues around back injuries,” he says. “I believe that now we’re giving nurses and midwives permission to say - ‘I’m actually not okay, and I want to seek help early, and sometimes, the work I do, I find it stressful, that it’s compounding those problems’. “Nurses and midwives care for other people, so why wouldn’t we do our utmost to care for them? “Now we can proudly say this service does, hopefully your colleagues do, hopefully your manager does, and hopefully nurses can be kind and supportive to each other, and therefore enjoy much better health and a much better quality of life.” * To access call 1800 667 877 or visit www. nmsupport.org.au
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Position Profile: Carnarvon Hospital is recruiting Clinical Nurse Managers' responsible for providing after hours administration and bed management. The position will demonstrate leadership, role modelling, and promote and ensure maintenance of clinical standards of quality of care. Area Profile: Carnarvon is a coastal town north of Perth and north of Geraldton with an approximate population of 6000. It lies at the mouth of the Gascoyne River and Indian Ocean. The popular Shark Bay world heritage area lies to the south of the town and the Ningaloo Reef lies to the north. The Kennedy Ranges and Mt Augustus lie to the East. Carnarvon is a year-round holiday destination with a beautiful environment and experiences as diverse as the many travellers. Carnarvon Hospital is a 39 bed facility which provides Maternity, Permanent Care, Paediatrics, Palliative Care, General Care, Perioperative services, Accident and Emergency Services to the local community Gascoyne pastoral region. Gascoyne Population Health and Primary Health Care is also based at the Carnarvon Hospital providing a vast range of Allied Health services. Images of Carnarvon area: http://www.gdc.wa.gov.au/image-galleries/carnarvon/ Selection Criteria: See Job Description at www.jobs.health.wa.gov.au Further Information: Please contact Karen Anstey on 08 9941 0301 Application Instructions: Apply online at www.jobs.health.wa.gov.au
Graduate nurses need training and support: NZNO The New Zealand Nursing Organisation (NZNO) has called for an injection of funds to ensure all graduate nurses are guaranteed nursing placements with additional training and mentoring support. The NZNO’s call comes after the November 2016 results of the national recruitment system, the ACE scheme, showed 853 students, or 61 per cent, of the 1404 nurse graduates seeking employment are now employed on the government-subsidised new graduate placement in 2017— leaving 551 nurses seeking employment. NZNO Associate Professional Nursing Manager Hilary Graham-Smith said while the November figures showed a small increase in the percentage of new graduates gaining places on NEtP (Nursing Entry to Practice) and the New Entry
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to Speciality Practice Mental Health and Addiction Nursing Programme (NESP), significant numbers of new graduates remain waiting in the talent pool. “While the Ministry tells us that quite a number of these nurses will be employed, our concern is that it will be outside of the NEtP/NESP programs, which is a risk in terms of them being properly coached and mentored as newly registered nurses,” she said. Ms Graham-Smith said while Health Workforce New Zealand funding for nursing, the largest health workforce, is $14 million - excluding NEtP and NESP funding, the spending for medicine is $113 million.
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Telerehabilitation boosts chronic heart failure patients
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embedded audio files. Patients were asked to watch the presentations in their own time, which were followed up with online group discussions. Lead researcher Rita Hwang, a physiotherapist with the Heart Recovery Service at the PAH who is undertaking a PhD at the University of Queensland, says telehealth technology enabled patients to not only remain in the comfort of their own homes, reducing the time and costs of transportation to hospital, but enabled them to participate in group sessions where they could interact with the physiotherapist as well as the other participants. “The patients would be talking to each other and encouraging each other - like what you see in a normal exercise class,” she says. “When we do this telehealth virtual class, we still saw a lot of that coming through. I was pretty surprised to see that.” As part of the telerehabilitation approach, participants were guided to self-monitor and verbally report their blood pressure, heart rate and oxygen saturation levels at the start of each rehabilitation session. Patients were also asked to monitor their weight, blood sugar levels, peripheral oedema and general wellbeing. In the 53 participants, who were mostly male patients aged about 67 years, researchers found no major differences when it came to six-minute walk distance gains.
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Health groups tackle physical health of people with mental illness
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heart disease, increasing their risk of further heart problems. Gabrielle Maston, Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD) and spokesperson for the DAA, said people living with serious mental health illness often experience lifestyle-related conditions impacted by poor diet and lack of activity. Ms Maston, a dietitian and exercise physiologist, said she works with a variety of clients with comorbid conditions associated with mental health illness at her Sydney private practice, Changing Shape, “We know that people who suffer from mental health illness are more likely to suffer from diabetes and cardiovascular disease, therefore people usually come to see me for those reasons rather than the mental health side of things,” she said. “If people are taking antipsychotic medications, they tend to have an increased appetite and an disinhibition for eating itself so it becomes a big problem with weight control in particular. “So it’s just understanding the role, for example, that medications have in appetite stimulation and also people’s coping mechanisms with things in everyday life. “For example, people with depression sometimes cope by eating more and then they end up with weight problems,” she said.
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Choosing wisely - increasing the value of physiotherapy
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ow back pain is one of the most prevalent health conditions in our nation, with about a quarter of all Australians experiencing the condition in any one day. While the cause of acute low back pain is often benign, and the prevalence of underlying serious causes, including nerve or bone damage, infection or cancer, is very low, many patients are still being routinely sent for diagnostic imaging, such as an X-ray, CT or MRI scan. A recent Australian study revealed most people experiencing low back pain believe imaging will pinpoint the cause of their pain but trials show there are no benefits, and some potential harms, for routine imaging of low back pain. Physiotherapists are now being urged to avoid referring patients for imaging for non-specific low back pain, where there are no indicators of a serious cause for the pain. It’s one of the key recommendations from the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) as part of the Choosing Wisely Australia campaign. Physiotherapy’s peak professional body has outlined six recommendations and one proposed recommendation in a bid to eradicate low-value healthcare services that are often unnecessary and expensive, and also lead to potential harms, such as exposure to radiation. The recommendations range from urging physiotherapists to avoid imaging for the
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cervical spine in trauma patients to not using spirometry after upper abdominal and cardiac surgery. The latest proposed recommendation, now being reviewed, urges physiotherapists not to prescribe massage or electrotherapy, such as ultrasound, laser or transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), for older people experiencing pain from knee or hip osteoarthritis. Instead, physiotherapists are being encouraged to swap the over-use of imaging, diagnoses and ineffective treatments with more effective patient consultations and physiotherapy treatments. C l i n i c a l physiotherapist Dr Adrian Traeger is a member of the APA Choosing Wisely Panel who is also a Research Fellow at the Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, where he’s conducting research investigating the causes of and solutions to problems of overdiagnosis and overtreatment in modern healthcare systems. Dr Traeger says evidence suggests most clinicians know imaging for low back pain is not useful but still recommend it in a bid to reassure patients. In an editorial on low-value healthcare about to be published in the APA’s Journal of Physiotherapy, Dr Traeger states research shows drivers of low-value care include advanced improvements in technology, as well as professional and commercial factors.
Cultural factors also play a part - such as ordering tests as a matter of habit, having a fear of litigation in the event a serious disease is overlooked, and feeling pressured by patients. “Certainly some patients want a scan or want a test but others just want a good explanation. I think sometimes clinicians wrongly assume that every patient wants a scan without having actually discussed it with them,” he says. “Unfortunately we know that those tests don’t tell us very much about where the pain is coming from, and they don’t really inform management - so they can’t lead to more specific treatments that will help people recover better. “In actual fact, they can be harmful. Imaging results can make you worry more because they often detect changes in your spine that are normal for age but might not look that pretty on a scan. That can lead to treatments that target those incidental findings from the scan, and these treatments usually cause more harm than good. “We know from large scale research that when people with low back pain have scans they tend to feel worse afterwards, they tend to use more healthcare, and that healthcare doesn’t improve their outcome.” Dr Traeger says physiotherapists can detect the potential risk of more serious causes of low back pain with a thorough consultation. “A good clinical history, examination, and explanation by the physiotherapist can replace a lot of these tests,” he says. “If you take a good history and do a good physical examination, and explain to the patient exactly what you think is going on - that has actually been shown in the research to be more reassuring than providing someone with the results of imaging tests. “That’s why we discourage imaging and we encourage talking about the problem a little bit more.” The Choosing Wisely campaign, an initiative of NPS MedicineWise, is designed to encourage
conversations between health practitioners and their patients about the tests and procedures of low value - that provide patients with little or no benefits and which may even cause harm. The APA’s six recommendations are the result of a survey of almost 3000 physiotherapists, which were put to the APA’s panel of clinicians and researchers. The physiotherapy body states the recommendations are not prescriptive - they should be used as a guide to prompt clinicians and consumers to question and discuss what is appropriate care in each individual case. The recommendations join an evolving list of recommendations for tests, treatments and procedures to question, from a range of colleges and societies representing health practitioners, including nurses, hospital pharmacists, pathologists, radiologists, GPs, surgeons and palliative care specialists. Dr Traeger says the Sydney School of Public Health, as part of the NHMRC-funded Wiser Healthcare Research Collaboration, is now examining a range of tools that may be able to assist physiotherapists and their patients make wiser choices. “We are looking at methods that have worked in other health areas, and investigating how we can apply these methods to physiotherapy problems,” he says. “This involves talking to physiotherapists, GPs, radiologists and the public, and finding out why they use certain tests and treatments.” Dr Traeger says it’s vital physiotherapists are supported to provide patients with the right care at the right time - to improve health outcomes. “It’s difficult – there are significant time pressures, patient pressures - physiotherapists treat lots of different conditions and it can be difficult to manage these pressures and stay on top of the current evidence base,” he says.
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Transforming birth rooms to advance normal birth
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irth rooms with projected images on surrounding walls, moving the bed out of the centre of the room, adding baths for water immersion, and including a mantel for the woman to lean on during birth. These are just some of the ways birth rooms are gradually being redesigned in Australia and overseas in a bid to facilitate normal birth, and drive down medical interventions during labour in hospitals. Other options for birth rooms range from concealing medical equipment, removing overt surveillance, to adding a private corridor that leads to the birth rooms to guarantee privacy. Maralyn Foureur, a Professor of Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney, is a midwifery researcher who has contributed to the design of birth rooms in Wellington, New Zealand, and at the Royal North Shore Hospital, in New South Wales. Professor Foureur says more hospitals are now beginning to embrace innovative and evidence-based designs that promote a more comfortable, private and safe way for women to give birth. “We know already from The Birthplace Study in the UK that women are much more likely to have a straightforward normal birth without intervention if they are birthing out of tertiary hospitals, we are repeating a similar study here in Australia, and I imagine we will find similar things,” she says.
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“What I suggest from the perspective of my research is that tertiary hospital labour wards are not designed to facilitate straightforward labour and birth, and either we set up more alternative birth centres so that women can birth out of tertiary hospitals or we have to majorly modify what we are designing in terms of hospital ‘labour wards’. Even the language of ‘labour ward’ has to change. “And it is possible - Royal North Shore Hospital has managed to design radically different birth spaces in a public hospital, so there is absolutely no reason why it can’t happen.” P r o f e s s o r Foureur says hospital birth spaces, which often resemble modified operating theatres, have a major impact on the way in which women give birth. “They are frightening spaces and from a neurophysiological level you can actually articulate what happens in terms of the neurohormones of labour,” she says. “If a woman is particularly fearful in labour… and these environments are fairly frightening on every level…the woman’s brain starts to secrete adrenalin and this interferes with the production of oxytocin, which is the hormone that makes her labour progress towards birth. “So, her labour slows down or may stop, which is one of the main reasons for intervention in childbirth, once labour has started. “The other thing that happens if she’s particularly frightened is that blood can be
diverted away from the abdomen in the automatic fight, flight or freeze response - and that means that blood is diverted away from the uterus and away from the placenta, and the baby’s oxygenation is interfered with,” she says. “The second main reason for all intervention in childbirth once labour has started is foetal distress. “So, there’s a nice plausible, theoretical pathway that suggests when putting women into spaces where they feel unsupported and frightened we may actually cause the very things that require us to intervene in childbirth.” Professor Foureur says her research shows birth room design also affects the way midwives practice, preventing midwives from providing the kinds of support women need in order to have a normal labour and birth. “There is hardly anywhere to move the bed out of its most prominent position, the place is so full of equipment there’s hardly room for the woman’s support person to sit down, let alone any space for the midwife to be able to spend time properly supporting the woman in labour, so the spaces we build inhibit good midwifery practice.” Effective birth unit design should consider every sense modality, ranging from what the woman might perceive through her sense of smell, or what she can hear, and also the visual messages the room communicates - such as the central position of the bed which may suggest to the woman that this is where she should passively position herself. “In thinking about designing spaces for birthing women, we have to start with the brain in mind - what is it that’s going to send messages of calmness, confidence, trust, and suggests this is a safe place? “Of course for some women, having emergency equipment on display around the bed makes them feel safe but those women are actually in the minority.
“For most women, having equipment, such as the neonatal resuscitaire or IV stands and pumps on display actually sends quite frightening messages.” Professor Foureur is now working with midwives in Denmark studying the stress reducing effect of projecting moving or still nature-based images of different environments, such as a beach or forest, on to the walls of birth rooms. A similar study will soon be conducted at Blacktown Hospital. Once birth rooms have been redesigned, she says it’s important to up-skill midwives on the potential use of each of the design elements to ensure they are able to assist and educate women on how to maximise the benefits of the birth space. “For example, in every one of the birth rooms at the Wellington Women’s Hospital in New Zealand and at Royal North Shore there is a mantel piece or a leaning place where women can stand and lean forward, which is the optimal position for helping the baby to rotate into the best position for birth,” she says. “However, only some of the midwives were part of the design team and understood what they were intended for.” Professor Foureur encouraged midwives interested in transforming hospital birth rooms into environments more conducive to normal labour and birth to speak up and be included in the design of new or the redevelopment of existing birth rooms. “It’s not a simple process and it’s not merely decoration - it’s much more profound than that,” she says. “There is plenty of material now that will provide midwives with information and insights that they can bring to the table, but fundamentally it’s about guaranteeing privacy and getting that bed out of central stage mode,” she says.
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