Health Times December 2015

December 2015

Regional & Remote Health + Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health profession grows + Nurse and midwife awarded highest remote health accolade + Why more health professionals should log on to social media + Nurse lends voice to global action protecting health workers

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Paramedics call for an end to single-crewing

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ew Zealand paramedics fear single-crewing of ambulances is jeopardising the safety of paramedics and patients.

Paramedics Australasia (New Zealand) has joined forces with St John Ambulance and the ambulance unions to call for increased funding to double-crew all ambulances in the nation.

Paramedics Australasia (New Zealand) chair Sean Thompson said single-crewing ambulances forces lone paramedics to drive patients to hospital when they should be treating and monitoring the patient in the back of the ambulance.

Mr Thompson, an intensive care paramedic, said singlecrewing contributes to a risk of clinical errors, with paramedics unable to doublecheck drug doses, and physical injury from lifting patients while paramedics are also placed at greater risk of assaults.

“A sole paramedic has to rely on their own analysis of the safety of often highly dynamic scenes whilst at the same time attending to the clinical treatment of the patient,” he said.

“Patients, family members, bystanders are frequently stressed and are increasingly taking this stress out on paramedics.

“A single-crewed paramedic is more at risk than one who has the support of a colleague.”

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the Ministry of Health and the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC).

St John Ambulance serves about 90 per cent of New Zealand, staffed with 1625 paid ambulance personnel and 2928 ambulance volunteers this year, while WFA serves about 10 per cent of the country with 165 paid ambulance personnel and 33 volunteers.

Mr Thompson said while single-crewing mostly takes place in rural areas, it does occur throughout New Zealand.

“Both St John and Wellington Free Ambulance desire to double-crew all of their ambulances but this is not feasible under current funding,” he said.

“Single-crewing is particularly an issue faced by St John, especially in rural areas with low populations.

“Wellington Free Ambulance’s vehicles are double-crewed approximately 95 per cent of the time.”

Mr Thompson said double-crewing ensures a paramedic can care for a patient en route to hospital while there’s two staff involved in critical decision-making.

Double-crewing also results in fewer on scene delays and faster definitive care, such as enabling paramedics to implement early defibrillation and CPR in the event of a cardiac arrest.

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The community boasts a swimming pool, a store, the health centre, an art centre, recreation centre, an airstrip, a police station, barge service and a Centrelink office. Ngukurr boasts a strong local Football team; fishing is also a popular activity for visitors and locals.

There is also easy access by plane to nearby Katherine and Darwin where you can expand your horizons exploring the natural beauty of the Northern Territory.

INCENTIVES • Option of discussing FIFO schedule • Flights home per year • Attractive salary • Relocation assistance • Professional support • Education support • GP coverage available for leave THE POSITION Sunrise Health Service Aboriginal Corporation is an independent, community controlled health service, with overall direction set by a board of directors comprised of representatives from the remote Aboriginal communities of the region.

General Practitioners at Sunrise work as members of a multi-disciplinary team, led by the Director – Health Services and Planning. The role will involve direct provision of General Practice services, support for and sharing of skills with other team members and participation in key primary health care initiatives and community consultation.

The GP will operate with a commitment to the principles, practices and policies of the Sunrise Health Service and in particular ensure that Aboriginal culture is reflected in all activities.

The GP is responsible to the Director of Health Services and Planning and is expected to practice in a manner responsive to local health needs, including those expressed through community bodies and local health committees.

THE CANDIDATE • Possess an ability to work closely with Aboriginal people in a community controlled environment and will demonstrate a supportive attitude to the control by communities of their health service planning and delivery • Demonstrate a respect for Aboriginal people, their communities, society and culture and an understanding of the problems faced by remote Aboriginal people

• Actively support and promote the aims and objectives of the Sunrise Health Service Board and the organisation’s role as provider of primary health care services to the region • Demonstrate a commitment to practicing in a multi-disciplinary team environment with a willingness to support and promote the role of nursing practitioners and Aboriginal Health Practitioners as primary health care providers and managers • Demonstrate respect for the confidentiality and privacy of medical information pertaining to individuals and their communities SELECTION CRITERIA Essential • Medical Degree • AHPRA registration or the ability to obtain • Formal Post-graduate training in General Practice • Broad based experience in primary health care appropriate to working in a rural/remote location • Demonstrate an ability to work well in a multi-disciplinary team, including the ability to share tasks and knowledge and delegate to other health practitioners • An understanding and commitment to the principles of Aboriginal community control of primary health care delivery • A respect for Aboriginal culture and a willingness to listen, learn and to participate in cross-cultural awareness activities promoted by the Sunrise Health Service Board • A high standard of written and oral presentation; particularly the ability to communicate clearly in plain English to both clients and other health professionals • Demonstrated self-care and stress management skills appropriate to living and working in an isolated area • Current manual driver’s license • Current Police Check and Working with Children Card (Ochre card) • A preparedness to travel by 4WD and/or light aircraft to communities, including overnight stays as required Highly Desirable • Training and/or extensive experience in Chronic Disease care, Mental Health or Paediatrics • Post-graduate training and/or experience in public health • Ability to support and participate in change processes • 4WD experience or a preparedness to attend a training course in 4WD skills The Position Profile is available on the careers section of our website www.sunrise.org.au Email your application to Zoe Williams (Northern Territory PHN) recruitment@ntphn.org.au or alternatively visit http://www.ntphn.org.au/vacancy/GP-Ngukurr for further information Phone Zoe Williams 08 7912 5507.

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Nurse and midwife awarded highest remote health accolade

By Karen Keast

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andra McElligott was sitting outside a health clinic in central Australia when an Aboriginal man asked her where all the “white fella nurses” come from.

“I told him they come from the big cities and they come out here and they do work in Aboriginal communities,” she recalls.

“He said - but they only stay a little while and then they go away, but where do they all go? I told him they go back to the cities.

“They are like little minga - they are like little ants, he said. They just come and they go and we never know where they come from and we never know where they go to.”

The man then turned to Sandra and said, “but not you you’re still here”.

Originally from Kyogle in New South Wales, where she began her nursing career, Sandra moved to Alice Springs to take up remote nursing and midwifery 25 years ago.

And that’s where she’s stayed.

Sandra was recently recognised for her dedication to remote and isolated health when she was presented with the highest accolade for remote health work, the CRANAplus Aurora Award, at the 33rd annual CRANAplus conference held in Alice Springs.

A women’s health educator at Central Australia Health Service’s Primary Health Care Outreach West Team, Sandra says her long-term

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commitment to remote work has enabled her to build relationships with remote Aboriginal communities.

“They appreciate people who hang in there and you will get the benefit out of the job if you hang in there but if you come and go, no - that’s not the way to do remote work,” she says.

Sandra, who previously worked in Sydney and Saudi Arabia, ventured out bush in search of a new challenge, both personally and professionally.

“I rang a friend who I knew worked up here. She told me I’d either love it or I’d hate it. It probably took me about three days to know that I was going to love it and I have loved it.”

In her role, Sandra develops resources and educates the remote health workforce to ensure they develop the skills and knowledge to meet the complex and challenging demands of women living in small remote communities.

With leadership from local Aboriginal communities, Sandra has also helped oversee the development of three DVDs for Indigenous people on the importance of breast cancer screening, why women should breastfeed their babies, and another on the prevention of child sex abuse.

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health profession grows

By Karen Keast

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he number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioners has jumped more than 18 per cent, making it the fastest growing registered health profession for the past quarter.

Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) statistics reveal the profession grew 18.4 per cent between June and September while National Board data shows that figure has continued to rise, reaching 463 practitioners by the end of November.

Most, or 219, of the registered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioners are working in the Northern Territory, with New South Wales home to the second largest registrant base with 74 practitioners, followed by Queensland with 68, Western Australia with 62, South Australia with 22, Victoria with nine, the ACT with four and Tasmania with three.

Chinese medicine was the second fastest growing profession for the quarter, with the number of practitioners increasing 2.1 per cent to 4588.

The majority of Chinese health medicine practitioners work in New South Wales, at 1878, followed by Victoria with 1262, Queensland with 842, Western Australia with 241, South Australia with 178, the ACT with 72, while there are 38 in Tasmania and 14 in the Northern Territory.

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Most Chinese medicine health practitioners, with 656, are aged 50-54, 644 are aged 40-44 and 623 are aged 35-39, while almost 54 per cent are women.

Optometry experienced the third fastest growth among the 14 registered professions with a 1.4 per cent rise taking its number of practitioners to 4983.

A snapshot of the optometry profession shows most of the nation’s optometrists, at 793, work in Victoria, followed by 481 in New South Wales and 405 in Queensland.

Women slightly outnumber men 50.91 per cent of optometrists are female while most optometrists, at 736, are aged 25-29, 697 are aged 30-34, and 630 are aged 35-39.

Australia is now home to 632,488 registered health practitioners, with 370,303 nurses and midwives, 17,353 occupational therapists, 2001 osteopaths, 29,150 pharmacists, 27,543 physiotherapists, 4399 podiatrists, 32,766 psychologists, and 14,866 medical radiation practitioners.

The nation’s 13,000 paramedics are set to become the 15th health profession to be regulated under AHPRA, which is expected to take place in 2017.

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Nurse lends voice to global action protecting health workers Brisbane nurse and midwife Ruth Jebb was carjacked at gunpoint while working for the Australian Red Cross in war-torn Darfur, Sudan.

Alighting from her Red Cross-marked vehicle at her accommodation after a long day spent working in a feeding centre for severely malnourished children at the rebel-held Gereida internally displaced people camp in 2008, armed assailants ambushed Ruth and her driver before stealing their vehicle.

While Ruth and the driver escaped unharmed, the carjacking forced the camp to go into lock-down for more than three days, resulting in the death of children who were unable to attend the camp to receive their lifesaving therapeutic milks and foods.

“There wasn’t so much fear but rather frustration in not being able to do the work that I was there to do,” Ruth said.

“That one incident stopped me and all my staff from working for the next three days, which meant that the 2500 children that I had on my feeding program didn’t get fed for three days.

“Children died as a result…I’m still angry about that and that’s seven years ago.”

Ruth, who works as a clinical nurse consultant at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, has thrown her support behind a new global action to protect health care in armed conflicts in the wake of escalating violence against health workers and hospitals.

Despite medical personnel and facilities being protected under international humanitarian law, figures from the International Committee of the Red Cross show there were almost 2400 attacks against health care personnel, facilities and vehicles from 2012 to 2014, alongside dozens of recent attacks on health care facilities in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan and South Sudan.

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The Australian Red Cross, International Committee of the Red Cross, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, World Medical Association, World Health Organisation, International Council of Nurses, International Committee of Military Medicine, International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations, International Hospital Federation and the World Federation for Medical Education have joined forces as part of the Health Care in Danger project.

The project outlines a raft of recommendations and practical measures for states, weapon bearers, international and national humanitarian agencies and health organisations, all designed to increase the protection of health care services in armed conflicts and other emergencies.

Ruth, who has spent the past 11 years working with the Red Cross across major disasters including in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes in Nepal this year, said it’s vital governments and health care professionals make a stand to stop the violence.

“This is unacceptable and there are things we can do to make a difference,” she said.

“That is by raising awareness and by moving or motivating governments to try to bring in policies and procedures around the way that they all train their combatants and military personnel to respect health care professionals and respect the work that they do.

“It’s such a complex situation health care and in particular in the context that we seem to be increasingly working in, in places like Syria and Afghanistan and those areas where it is such a challenge just to provide basic health care.

“It’s not an easy thing to solve but it’s important we continue to have a voice and come up with practical solutions.”

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Physiotherapists trial telehealth for knee osteoarthritis

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group of Melbourne physiotherapists will trial treating knee osteoarthritis patients across Australia over the telephone.

Under the innovative telehealth trial, a partnership between the University of Melbourne, Arthritis and Osteoporosis Victoria, Medibank and HealthChange Australia, eight physiotherapists will provide exercise education, treatment and ongoing monitoring to 175 patients over 12 months.

Knee osteoarthritis is a common condition and one of the main causes of disability in Australia.

A report from Arthritis and Osteoporosis Victoria, A Problem Worth Solving, shows there were 1.9 million people with osteoarthritis in 2012.

With our nation’s rapidly ageing population and obesity rates, that number is forecast to increase by another 1.1 million people by 2032, affecting 3 million people - a growth of 58 per cent.

University of Melbourne Associate Professor Rana Hinman, a former clinical physiotherapist and member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association who has worked in research and academia for the past 12 years, says the trial aims to reduce surgical and pharmaceutical interventions through ongoing exercise and treatment.

“We don’t have a cure for osteoarthritis so really the only way of managing end-stage disease at the moment is surgical intervention with a joint arthroplasty, and that’s certainly

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something that most patients really do want to avoid,” she says.

“Surgical intervention is not without its risks and there’s certainly no guarantee that patients’ problems are all resolved with arthroplasty either.

“There are some drug strategies which are typically around analgesics and anti-inflammatories but increasingly research is showing us that they are not as benign as we once thought they were and they are associated with increased side effects.

“There’s also increasing concern about the harms of some of these drugs particularly when we look at the systematic reviews and metaanalyses that have been done that show that the benefits are generally small and not often long-lasting.

“It really does mean that we need to be looking at other options other than drugs and surgery and certainly, at the moment, all of the clinical guidelines for managing knee osteoarthritis advocate exercise self-management and weight control as the core components of managing the condition.

“Drugs are only seen as an additive therapy in addition to those core treatments and exercise is advocated as one of the mainstays of treating knee osteoarthritis.”

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Why more health professionals should log on to social media It’s time health professionals, particularly those working in regional and remote Australia, began better connecting with patients, clients, colleagues and the community on a digital level. Social media delivers your health message direct to patients and the community.

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hese days, Debra Cerasa rarely has a mobile device out of reach.

And like many Australians, this nurse, midwife and recently appointed CEO at Otway Health is tapping into the benefits of social media.

Debra has a personal Facebook and Twitter account, which also doubles for professional use, plus Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts and a blog, all for her family’s small business.

And, in her new role in the small coastal town in south-west Victoria, she appointed a full-time communications officer to oversee the health service’s social media accounts in a bid to improve engagement and share information with the local community.

Debra first championed social media as a powerful tool for nurses when, as CEO of the Royal College of Nursing Australia, she led the development and release of social media guidelines for nurses in 2011.

“At the time, people were saying we shouldn’t be getting on to social media - that we’ll breach privacy and confidentiality, and to me that didn’t make sense,” she says.

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“Privacy and confidentiality is a principle and it’s a practice that people have to do. You don’t make rules about it, people either practice it or they don’t.

“If they don’t follow the rules, it doesn’t matter what the medium is, it will be breached.

“What we did was just basic common sense.”

Australia’s social media statistics are staggering.

In October alone, there were 14,000,000 people using Facebook, 2,800,000 on Twitter, 13,900,000 hits on YouTube and 5,000,000 people using Instagram.

Patients are better informed than ever before. Many are using social media to access breaking information about health topics, reviewing videos about managing their condition, discussing health topics with other patients and medical practitioners, and reading up on the latest research.

Patients are posting and reviewing pictures about their disease journey, and also researching medical practitioners’ skills and backgrounds before attending their appointments.

Despite the expansion of social media, Debra says health practitioners are often reluctant to embrace the potential of social media.

“Patients are getting onto the bandwagon but the health professionals are being really slow to pick up on it,” she says.

“This incredible explosion of information and access to information and access to knowledge is there for every single person that can get an internet connection.

“To me, that’s the most mind-boggling possibility - so how could we not love something like that?”

Debra recently spoke about the importance of social media for rural and remote nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and other health practitioners at the 33rd annual CRANAplus conference, held in Alice Springs.

Health professionals must harness the power that they have right at their fingertips and communicate with their patients and community, she says.

“One of the interesting statistics is that a third of people who go to their health practitioner have already Googled for a self-diagnosis and 40 per cent of the time their provisional self-diagnosis is correct now I think that’s a powerful statistic.

“If health is going to continue to be the most costly social expense in our societies, the way that we can overcome a lot of that is to start to trust in what our patients are saying.

“The flip side of that for me is that I’m all about everybody having their responsibility and ownership about their own health and body and wellbeing themselves.

“If people actually know more about themselves and can actually take greater control, we will change the whole social determinants of health. I see it as being incredibly powerful and dynamic.”

Debra says social media is even more important for rural and remote health professionals because of its ability to overcome vast distances to help them remain connected while

sharing information with their community, colleagues and professional networks.

Health professionals can also engage in public debates and dialogue with their community and colleagues, help the public access accurate health information, and improve patient access to services through social media.

Debra says nurses, midwives and allied health professionals will often use social media to connect with family and friends but they often fail to consider using social media on a professional level.

“When you think about how patients are using social media, you have to be a responsible health practitioner and actually get this,” she says.

“You have to understand that they’re getting access to incredible information, so if they’ve got a diagnosis of something, especially something that’s a chronic illness, and they are now going on and reading the latest research information, you really must have a new respect for your patients, clients and residents.

“We are in a world where we can access so much incredible information - let’s use it to our advantage, let’s not just try and treat it like it’s a sinful thing.

“The greatest opportunity for using technology, the internet or social media is being able to get your message across - that’s powerful stuff.”

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The rubber hits the road for the Flying Doctor The use of aircraft to deliver medical services coupled with the pedal radio and then the diversification from emergency retrievals into the delivery of a wide range of primary and allied healthcare services to remote, rural and regional communities are examples of the innovation that has become a hallmark of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS). They have been delivering the finest care to the furthest corners of Australia for almost 90 years.

Now one of the world’s first and largest aeromedical services is launching a fleet of Patient Transfer road vehicles in regional and metropolitan areas of NSW to support the movement of nonemergency patients between medical facilities. In the past year the RFDS’ South Eastern Section transported 8,500 patients.

There are currently 261,734 people in the Western NSW Local Health District, which is the second most sparsely populated area in NSW .

The first Patient Transfer road vehicles, equipped just like RFDS aircraft, will be based in: Bourke, Cobar, Dubbo, Lightning Ridge, Orange and Sydney (Bankstown airport), which will serve as a metropolitan hub. The vehicles are able to carry a wide variety of patient types and have compatible patient handling systems with RFDS fixed wing aircraft. The focus of the initial deployment is to support the Western NSW Local Health District centred on Dubbo.

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extension to the services the Flying Doctor already offers to those living in remote, rural and regional areas,” said Greg Sam, Chief Executive Officer of the RFDS SE. “The Patient Transfer road vehicles will be based in the areas where most of our patient flow originates, but we can scale up the operation to include other locations, according to need,” he added.

“This is a big win for the bush. However, it’s important not just to see this as a one-off announcement, but to view it in the context of our 2015-19 strategic plan that will see the RFDS SE making a series of announcements about new and enhanced services during the next few months,” said Mr Sam. “The principal aim of this plan is to reduce the welldocumented gap in health and wellness between those living in remote, rural and regional areas and those in cities.”

“In the past year RFDS SE healthcare clinics reached almost 40,000 patients – another year-on-year increase. Our clinics are in high demand and we are continuing to review and plan our services and operations to ensure that we are able to treat more patients in the most effective way.”

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