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Midwives wanted for emotional well-being survey by Karen Keast A new survey will explore the emotional wellbeing of Australian midwives and create strategies to keep midwives happy and healthy at work.

Dr Sidebotham said the survey hopes to learn from the large proportion of midwives who are emotionally well in order to enhance, support and retain other midwives.

Griffith University School of Nursing and Midwifery senior lecturer Dr Mary Sidebotham said the study, the first of its kind in Australia, will gauge how midwives are coping with the demands and pressures of “emotion work”.

“We will be able to find out the people who are really well, how many hours they are working, which roles they are working in, which state they are working in,” she said.

“Emotional well-being is enormously important,” she said. “If a midwife is disconnected and burnt-out then the woman and the families who she is caring for won’t receive the same degree of connected care that is so essential for them to have optimal outcomes. “Also one of the major reasons why people leave the nursing and midwifery workforce is because of being overwhelmed or feeling overburdened by those aspects of the role that people find difficult.” Dr Sidebotham, an eligible midwife and midwife of 30 years, said midwives in New Zealand and Sweden will also use the same survey, enabling researchers to make international comparisons. “What we are hoping is to pool the results to try and see what the picture looks like, what the differences are between the three countries but then, importantly, to learn from the responses where people are obviously well and happy at work,” she said. “This will enable us to come up with an intervention or a way of supporting people who may be exhibiting signs of burn-out and anxiety at work.” The anonymous, online survey questions midwives on how they are feeling, their working environment, autonomous practice, management and women-centred care. Page 10 | www.ncah.com.au

“So we’ll be able to know what’s working well and we will use that data to provide guidance and recommendations and then link that to the international data so that employers know the best conditions to employ midwives within.” The research, a partnership between Griffith University, the Australian College of Midwives and the University of Melbourne, also hopes to determine the career aspirations of student midwives. “We are asking them what their preferred destination would be - where do you want to work, what kind of a role would you like when you graduate, because there are so many myths about what people want to do, where people want to work and what they prefer,” Dr Sidebotham said. “They are the future workforce so it’s really important that we can get a bigger picture of this data.” Dr Sidebotham said the results from the Australian study are expected to be published later this year, with the international collaborative results published early next year. The research will also be presented at the 2015 Australian College of Midwives’ national conference. The survey, which takes about 30 minutes to complete, closes at the end of June and is available at www.midwives.org.au

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Initiative creates a positive introduction to aged care by Karen Keast Many nursing students often set their sights on exciting specialities but now a new initiative is working to address the negative perceptions around nursing in aged care.

Four groups of 15 students have completed two cycles of clinical practice at the care homes while staff have also been trained as mentors for the students.

Under the Griffith University’s Centre for Health Practice Innovation and the School of Nursing and Midwifery program, first year Bachelor of Nursing students are working with small groups of aged care residents, often including a high and a low care resident and a resident with dementia, at one of Australia’s largest aged care providers.

Dr Venturato said the initiative has already provided “extremely positive” results, with staff and students working together to contribute to an improved quality of care and learning.

The program encourages students to get to know their small group in depth and has been credited for showcasing aged care as a rewarding career pathway for early career nurses. School of Nursing and Midwifery senior lecturer Dr Lorraine Venturato said a model was developed to create a more person-centred focus for clinical placements in aged care facilities. “Working collaboratively with staff from RSL Care Carrington Retirement Community and RSL Care Cazna Gardens Retirement Community, we developed a positive placement program that supports students to focus on fewer residents but in much more depth,” she said. “One of the benefits of having a deeper focus was that we were able to assign a larger number of students to placements than would have been previously possible.” Students not only assist with nursing skills, such as hygiene, medication, assessment, mobility and basic wound care, they are also encouraged to think about residents’ care plans and their personal goals. Students also consider family conferencing and utilise the skills of other health care professionals. Page 12 | www.ncah.com.au

“Previously students on placements told us that they felt they could be a burden on care home staff but this new model of care has seen them working with residents more and only coming together with staff as they interact with the resident, rather than just shadowing a staff member all day.” RSL Care acting chief executive officer Luke Greive said the model was a positive way to engage early career nurses. “By challenging the negative perceptions people have about the aged care industry and guiding our future workforce to gain first-hand experience, we can attract more people into this highly rewarding field,” he said. Griffith is now investigating rolling out the program to its pharmacy, physiotherapy, social work and medicine students. The model was developed as part of a $520,000 federal government Training and Research Aged Care Services (TRACS) grant.

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Tasmanian paramedics the third highest paid by Karen Keast Tasmanian paramedics are the third highest paid paramedics in Australia after winning a 14.1 per cent pay rise. In a major victory for the state’s 300 ambulance paramedics, a year one paramedic’s wage will now increase from $55,208 to $62,998, a year one intensive care paramedic’s (ICP) wage will rise from $66,249 to $75,597, and a year six ICP’s wage will increase from $69,010 to $78,747. The pay rise puts Tasmanian paramedics behind ACT paramedics, in the top paying position, and South Australian paramedics who hold second place on the pay scale. HACSU state secretary Tim Jacobson said paramedics are elated. “If I was to say ‘over the moon’ that would probably be understating the situation,” he said. “They are obviously unbelievably happy. “It’s a magnificent result and from our perspective it settles once and for all a longstanding disagreement we have had with the state government around the value of the work our paramedics do in Tasmania.” The State Industrial Commission awarded the pay rise after the Health and Community Services Union (HACSU) fought to have wages reflect the changes in paramedics’ education, practice and responsibility since the monetary value of paramedics’ work was last assessed 25 years ago.

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“At that point, the work was vocational and largely on-the-job training - advanced first aid,” Mr Jacobson said. “We have certainly since had very significant changes in education, scope of practice and responsibility for our paramedics and intensive care paramedics.” For the full article visit NCAH.com.au

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Hamilton is strategically located 3.5 hours from Melbourne and 5 hours from Adelaide. Southern Grampians spans the heart of Victoria’s renowned ‘Western District’ and boasts magnificent scenery at every turn. WDHS have the following position available:

Nurse Unit Manager – The Grange Permanent Full Time

(80hours per fortnight with ADO) This position offers the successful applicant the opportunity to work in a progressive and stimulating aged care environment. The successful applicant will need to be an experienced aged care manager, who is able to lead us to the next level in aged care. You will need to have strong change management and leadership skills to be considered for this role. To obtain further information regarding these opportunities visit our web-site, www.wdhs.net. Applications for these positions, together with your resume should be forwarded to careers@wdhs.net Salary and conditions are in accordance with the relevant awards. A current driver’s licence and a satisfactory police check are required. Excellence in Healthcare – Putting People First

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The changing landscape of dementia care Statistics show more than 332,000 people in Australia are living with dementia and that number is forecast to rise to almost 900,000 by 2050. An Australian university is changing the way nurses, allied health professionals and even ordinary Australians view the rising tide of dementia, and how we provide dementia care, writes Karen Keast. “Do you think you will die with dementia or of dementia?” When Professor Andrew Robinson asks this question, most people reply ‘with dementia’. And when he asks whether you die ‘with mesothelioma or of mesothelioma’, most people answer ‘of mesothelioma’. And there-in lies the problem, he says. “You die of mesothelioma - and dementia’s the same. “If you’ve got a dementia at any time, your life is limited - you are going to die, there is no cure, there is no remission and there is no treatment and you are going to die. “People do not understand that.” A Professor of Aged Care Nursing at the University of Tasmania’s School of Health Sciences, Professor Robinson is a registered nurse and social science researcher. He’s also co-director of the university’s renowned Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre, an integrated dementia centre that combines neurosciences and social sciences research and education around dementia treatment, care and the search for a cure. Professor Robinson says the university’s research shows half of those working in aged care don’t understand the people they care for, most who have dementia, are actually dying. Dementia describes the symptoms of a large group of illnesses which cause a progressive decline in a person’s functioning, ranging from Page 16 | www.ncah.com.au

memory loss to decline in intellect, rationality, social skills and physical functioning. Professor Robinson says people often ask how can you die of dementia? “Well your brain progressively shuts down until it can’t sustain life,” he explains. “If you can imagine, if you do not know even a basic fact like that then any care you provide is going to be problematic. “That’s a fundamental thing that you are going to have to take into account in the way that you configure care. “If you don’t have that knowledge and the family members don’t have that knowledge, then you can imagine, it’s no wonder there’s a whole lot of problems.” It’s this concept, of providing a palliative approach to care, that sits at the core of the university’s pioneering dementia programs. Dementia education The university last year launched Australia’s first degree in dementia care, the online Bachelor of Dementia Care, and the world’s first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), Understanding Dementia. The courses have proven to be a hit, with 500 people studying the bachelor degree while 9,500 people enrolled in the first MOOC and 12,000 people are now participating in the second 9-week MOOC. The degree covers the concepts of normal ageing, diseases that cause dementia, behaviours associated with the disease, and practical strategies to care for people with dementia through case-based learning. The MOOC, where the content is provided for free, covers three main themes, beginning with the brain and then moves on to the diseases and then the person.

Both courses have attracted health care professionals, such as nurses, allied health professionals and doctors, while the MOOC also appeals to the broader population - anyone with an interest in dementia. Professor Robinson says many health care professionals are investing in the courses to improve their knowledge in dementia care despite a lack of specialised career pathway in the area.

“Both of the courses are really orientated around how do we give people with dementia the best quality of life across that trajectory of decline and inevitable death.”

“If you’re working with older people, an increasing number of those people are going to have dementia and that is an incredibly complex condition to manage and support and it’s often done poorly. “The evidence of that is if you’ve got dementia and you live in a residential aged care facility, 40 per cent of those people will have an unnecessary burden from intervention in the last three months of their life. “That means they are probably going to have unnecessary pain and suffering because of unnecessary medical or nursing interventions.”

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Every six minutes, someone in Australia is diagnosed with dementia.

Professor Robinson predicts the future holds greater employment opportunities for nurses and allied health professionals in the field of dementia care.

Alzheimer’s Australia figures show that number is expected to grow from today’s 1700 new cases a week to 7400 new cases a week by 2050. About 24,700 people in Australia have younger onset dementia while one in 10 people aged over 65 have dementia, and three in 10 people aged over 85 have the disease. Dementia is listed as the third leading cause of death in Australia. Professor Robinson believes with the numbers of people dying from dementia on the rise and the numbers of people dying from heart disease and cancers on the decline, dementia will be the biggest public health issue of the 21st century. “There is no news on cure, there is no news on treatment, there is no news on anything,” he says. “What we can see is these radically escalating numbers of people with dementia and because these people, as a disease progresses, progressively lose capacity to make decisions, it becomes complicated because proxy decision makers have a critical role to play.

It’s an area in which the university is positioning itself to meet the expected rise in demand. “We should have a whole range of sub courses around dementia but we will also have post graduate courses - we will have Graduate Certificates, Graduate Diplomas, Masters and probably a Professional Doctorate in the next couple of years in dementia,” Professor Robinson says. “You can imagine the significance of having people who can provide high quality, efficient and effective care to people with dementia. “They will learn all sorts of information about how to care for people with dementia in an evidence-based way. “How to manage pain, how to communicate, behaviours of concern, how to actually support and care for people with dementia and their families,” he says. “If they’re not thinking about it through the lens of a palliative approach, they’ll be getting it wrong.” Nursing Careers Allied Health - Issue 08 | Page 17

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“There’s not anything that is on the table now yet they are doing this because they know they need this to do their job properly,” he says.

“If you are a nurse, an allied health person, you’re a doctor - unless you work in paediatrics or obstetrics, you are going to be working with older people.

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NURSE UNIT MANAGER WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S UNIT Sale, Victoria

Central Gippsland Health Service (CGHS) is a subregional health service and the major provider of health and aged care services in the Wellington Shire. We serve an immediate population of approximately 42,000 in Central Gippsland, and reach a wider community in East Gippsland and parts of South Gippsland in terms of more specialized services such as perinatal services, critical care and surgery. The Women’s & Children’s Unit is located at the Sale campus of CGHS. The Unit provides perinatal and obstetric services, Level 2 neonatal care as well as paediatrics and is supported by a full range of services. Reporting to the Director of Nursing, the Nurse Unit Manager, Women’s and Children’s Unit operates in a complex environment characterised by a need: • To work as part of a large multidisciplinary team that provides services across a broad range of acute, emergency, inpatient, outpatient, rehabilitation, palliative, primary health and community support services

• To provide leadership and management support for unit staff; • To balance competing priorities and work demands and to identify and respond appropriately to critical and urgent clinical needs; • To support the management team in appropriately prioritising patient need and to operate efficiently and effectively with a view to meeting community needs and providing a financially sustainable service; • To understand and operate in a work environment driven by the need to meet clinical quality and safety guidelines; and • To work closely and in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders. To be considered for the position you will: • Be a Registered Nurse and Midwife holding current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia; • Hold relevant postgraduate qualification/s and or technical qualifications or working towards and • Have membership of relevant professional college/organization.

Applicants must hold current AHPRA registration with an eligible work permit for Australia

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Contributing to the continued provision of healthcare services to rural and remote Australians

Above: Mansfield District Hospital’s experience using the NAHRLS service was “extremely positive”.

This financial year, NAHRLS locums have made it possible for over 1000 health professionals to take a leave and contributed to the continued provision of healthcare services to rural and remote communities around Australia. Nurses, midwives and allied health professionals were given the opportunity to take leave with the confidence that their healthcare facility would continue to provide quality healthcare services to their community. Mansfield District Hospital said

“This was our first experience using NAHRLS so we were slightly apprehensive at the prospect of engaging a midwife who was unknown to us. Our apprehension was completely unwarranted as the whole experience with NAHRLS was extremely positive... “...We will most certainly utilise this service again as it enabled us to continue to provide a midwifery service during a time of unplanned leave. Without this service we would not have been able to provide a midwifery service for this period”.

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Nurses and pharmacists top ethics poll by Karen Keast Nurses, pharmacists and doctors have once again topped a poll as the most ethical and honest professions in Australia.

on 12 per cent, followed by real estate agents, at nine per cent, advertising people at eight per cent, and car salesmen, at three per cent.

The annual Roy Morgan Image of Professions Survey 2014 has found nurses are still leading the way as the nation’s most highly regarded profession - for the 20th year in a row, since nurses were first included in the survey in 1994.

Gary Morgan said one of the professions that lost the most ground this year was ministers of religion, who fell seven per cent to 37 per cent, to record their lowest ever rating since being included in the survey in 1996.

More than 90 per cent of the 644 respondents, aged 14 and over, in the April phone survey placed nurses at the top of the list while pharmacists and doctors came in second and third place, both on 86 per cent. In a statement, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia said the survey has again confirmed pharmacists are a valued and respected part of the nation’s health system.

“Other big losers included business executives (18 per cent, down four per cent) and union leaders (12 per cent, down three per cent), following much recent publicity around the conviction of former Federal Labor MP Craig Thomson on charges of corruption and the just begun Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption, which is set to hear allegations concerning corrupt union practices for the remainder of 2014.”

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“Public opinion research in Australia consistently shows that people rate their community pharmacist among the most trusted professionals,” it states. “These findings should put a spring in the step of pharmacists all over Australia. “They show they are indeed valued and respected by patients for the great work they do dispensing medicines and providing general health care services and advice.” Also in the survey, high court judges came in fourth and dentists were in fifth position, both on 74 per cent, school teachers and engineers secured sixth and seventh places with 72 per cent, police were eighth with 71 per cent, state supreme court judges were in ninth position on 70 per cent, and university lecturers came in 10th at 66 per cent. At the other end of the scale, state and federal MPs held 25th and 26th positions, both with 12 per cent, union leaders held 27th spot, also Page 22 | www.ncah.com.au

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Honour for neonatal nurse practitioner by Karen Keast A New Zealand neonatal nurse practitioner has been recognised for her research into the detection and management of low blood glucose levels in newborn babies. Dr Deborah Harris’ study for her thesis on neonatal hypoglycaemia, a common problem and preventable cause of brain damage in babies, has been credited with increasing international understanding of the condition. The ‘Sugar Babies’ randomised controlled trial, which ran from 2008-2010 and monitored the blood sugar levels of 514 hypoglycaemic babies for 48 hours post-birth, found dextrose gel was a safe and effective first-line treatment in late preterm and term babies. Dr Harris’ thesis has now received the University of Auckland’s Vice Chancellor’s Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis in 2013. The thesis was considered one of the five ‘most exceptional’ theses out of the 321 completed last year, and one of 18 nominated for the top prize. In a statement announcing the accolade, the University of Auckland congratulated Dr Harris on her thesis. “She found that new techniques for monitoring babies at risk were safe and reliable but not yet appropriate for widespread clinical use,” the university stated. “She showed wide variation in practice across Australia and New Zealand, leading to reassessment of current screening guidelines.

The study, which was published in The Lancet, reveals simply rubbing dextrose gel into the inside of the baby’s mouth meant the babies were less likely to be admitted to the NICU for treatment. “Our findings show that treatment with 40 per cent dextrose gel is more effective than feeding alone for reversal of neonatal hypoglycaemia in at-risk late preterm and term babies in the first 48 h(ours) after birth,” the study states. “Furthermore, babies who receive dextrose gel were less likely to be admitted to neonatal intensive-care units for management of hypoglycaemia, to receive additional dextrose or formula feeds, or to be formula fed at two weeks of age.

“Her studies have substantially increased understanding of neonatal hypoglycaemia and are likely to alter clinical management.”

“Dextrose gel did not increase the risk of rebound or recurrent hypoglycaemia, was well tolerated, and was not associated with adverse effects.”

The study was carried out at Auckland University’s Liggins Institute and took place at Waikato Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), where Dr Harris recruited families to participate.

University of Auckland Professor Jane Harding led the research, with Dr Harris and neonatal paediatrician and Auckland University’s Waikato Clinical School of Medicine clinical senior lecturer Dr Phil Weston.

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Dietetics and nutrition to take centre stage in Brisbane by Karen Keast The latest research on food and menu labelling and fortification, childhood nutrition and obesity, and technology in health care will be presented at the Dietitians Association of Australia’s 31st national conference next month.

on new and emerging evidence on the Mediterranean diet in the Australian context, olive oil and the risk of cardiovascular disease, brain health and cardiovascular disease, and Australian dietary patterns.

The May 15-17 conference, at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, will shine the spotlight on key issues affecting the health of Australians, with dietitians, nutritionists and nutrition science researchers from across Australia and around the globe converging on Brisbane for the major event.

DAA communications and marketing manager Sara Grafenauer said more than 750 local and international delegates are expected to attend the DAA’s national conference.

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Latrobe Regional Hospital Mental Health Service The Latrobe Regional Hospital Mental Health Service is the regional provider of mental health services in Gippsland. LRHMHS operates an integrated mental health program across ten sites and provides inpatient and community mental heath care for child and youth, adult and aged care service streams. LRHMHS also operates a Community Residential Care Unit and a Prevention and Recovery Care Unit. The Latrobe Regional Hospital Mental Health Service is located in Gippsland – home to sandy beaches, snowfields, mountains and national parks. Gippsland provides a fantastic rural lifestyle with easy access to Melbourne. Mental Health services are moving into an exciting period of reform. This reform will focus on early intervention, prevention, social inclusion and recovery. LRHMHS is implementing an exciting new specialist model of care in 2014 and we are seeking dynamic staff to join our team.

WE HAVE POSITIONS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:  Psychiatric Nurse Consultant – Grade 5 Mental Health Professional Development Unit  Clinical Nurse Educator Bed Based Services Grade 4– Mental Health Professional Development Unit  Child and Youth Community Clinicians - Grade 3  Adult Community Clinicians Grade - 3  Aged Community Clinician Grade - 3  Primary Mental Health Clinician - Grade 3 Please visit www.lrh.com.au and go to our employment section. For enquiries please contact Cayte Hoppner, Director of Mental Health on 03 51738549 or choppner@lrh.com.au Page 28 | www.ncah.com.au

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