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New app secures patient photos by Karen Keast An Australian-designed app that enables nurses and allied health professionals to securely capture and store images of their patients has been released. The PicSafe Medi app, developed by two Victorian doctors, allows health professionals to obtain full legal patient consent, via a verbal recording or screen signing, for the photos to be taken and stored in a highly-secure, Australian-based cloud storage system. The photo is taken through the app, so that the image is not retained in the smart device’s camera roll, and can only be accessed through a uniquely generated short URL which grants access to the photo to other users, nominated by the photographer, for up to five minutes before the URL is then inactivated. The PicSafe Medi system also separates photos from patient identity to ensure it complies with electronic health record and patient privacy legislation, and stores patient data for a minimum of seven years. PicSafe Medi project manager Pete Saunders said the app meets current healthcare legislation requirements and also looming amendments to patient privacy, due to take effect in March 2014.
“It’s secure – nothing is ever stored on your phone. You take a photo and it sends it directly to a cloud based server.” Mr Saunders said the app had enormous potential in the Australian health sector and abroad, and would become an indispensable, every-day tool for students, nurses, allied health professionals and doctors. “A nurse might actually wrap a burn and before they do, they can take a photo of the
He said under the changes to federal law, health professionals with unsecure patient images on their smart devices face fines of up to $340,000 and institutions face fines of up to $1,700,000 for any breach of patient privacy.
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it up,” he said. “When the doctor comes around, instead of unwrapping the burn, the doctor can look at a secure document of that burn.”
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We trust in paramedics, nurses and pharmacists by Karen Keast Who can you trust? Well, as it turns out – we trust our paramedics and firefighters the most, with nurses and pharmacists also rating high. Paramedics and firefighters tied for first place in the annual Australian Readers Digest ‘Most Trusted Professions’ survey, followed by rescue volunteers, nurses, pilots, doctors, pharmacists, veterinarians, air traffic controllers and farmers rounding out the top 10 on the list of 50 jobs. About 1200 people were asked to rank 50 different professions for the poll, with one South Australian respondent commending the nation’s paramedics, stating: “They have the most responsible job of all to do, saving lives first hand”.Another respondent stated firefighters are worthy of our trust because “anyone running into a burning building when everybody else is running out deserves your full trust”. Police came in at number 13, dentists at 14, hairdressers at 20, builders at 26, alternative health practitioners at 27, professional sportspeople at 34, financial planners at 36 and lawyers at 39. The least trustworthy professions to round out the final 10 include CEOs, taxi drivers, journalists, talkback radio hosts, real estate agents, sex workers, call centre staff, insurance salespeople, with politicians coming in at 49 and door-to-door salespeople claiming last place. Meanwhile, nurses have been voted as the most ethical and honest profession for the 19th year in a row in the recently released annual Roy Morgan ‘Image of Professions’ survey. For the full article visit NCAH.com.au Page 8 | www.ncah.com.au
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Forty nursing and care jobs to go at RDNS SA by Karen Keast RDNS SA has blamed “a steady reduction in referral volumes� for its decision to cut 40 nursing and non-nursing jobs. The organisation, which is run by Silver Chain Group and delivers home-based health care in South Australia, has revealed it will offer voluntary redundancy packages to 30 nursing full-time equivalent (FTE) employees and 10 non-nursing FTE employees until June 26, when it may move to forced redundancies. “Decreasing referral volumes directly and adversely affect the organisation, specifically the numbers of staff required to deliver services,� RDNS SA said in a statement. “Until now, RDNS SA has been actively managing this situation through recruitment freezes, attrition, and closely monitoring volume and shift patterns.�
The organisation, which is in no way connected with RDNS (Royal District Nursing Service), employs 500 nurses, allied health professionals and care workers, making more than 15,000 visits each week across Adelaide. “We will also consider the implementation of other measures, such as reduced hours and alternative shift patterns across our workforce,� RDNS SA added. “Depending on the level of participation, we may be required to implement a program of involuntary redundancies.� The organisation, which has been operating since 1894, said it was working with the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation SA Branch (ANMF-SA) to offer redundancies“well above� the national employment standard. For the full article visit NCAH.com.au
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Study shows massage can reduce severity of pain in labour by Karen Keast In her dual roles as a physiotherapist and a midwife, Heather Pierce has witnessed the pain women go through in labour and helped women in their recovery post-birth. So it comes as no surprise the New South Wales practitioner has welcomed a new study that provides evidence to support the use of massage to control pain during labour. The study, conducted by researchers in Brazil and published in the Australian Physiotherapy Association’s Journal of Physiotherapy, found health professionals should encourage massage to assist women in labour as it “reduced the severity of pain in labour”.
the women’s uptake of other pain control measures,” she said. “It doesn’t mean she hasn’t had to have an epidural or that she hasn’t had a caesarean. “It’s certainly something that can be explored further. Everyone is looking for better outcomes for women and that includes supporting them in labour and helping them cope with pain and empowering them to make choices in labour around pain management. “If it’s cheap, if it’s non-invasive and makes a difference, I think there certainly is a role there for physiotherapists to get involved in this.”
Researchers also found massage provides the birthing woman with direct contact with another person during the active stage of labour, providing emotional support, and they also discovered there were no adverse effects on the path of delivery or the newborn.
The study involved 46 women pregnant at 37 weeks gestation with a single fetus, with spontaneous onset of labour, 4-5cm of cervical dilation, intact ovular membranes and no use of medication after admission to hospital.
Heather, a physiotherapist of 30 years who also moved into midwifery more than 10 years ago, said the results help to give women more choice when it comes to their birth.
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Heather, who works in two separate jobs as a women’s health physiotherapist and as a midwife in the birth unit both at Sydney’s Westmead Hospital and is also a casual academic at the University of Technology Sydney, said she moved into midwifery to care for pregnant women with a focus on preventative health care. “There’s a lot of trauma that is associated with birth and that’s where physiotherapists are experienced in picking up the pieces,” she said. “Hopefully, as a midwife, I will be able to do myself out of a job as a physiotherapist.”
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The move into midwifery prescribing by Karen Keast Recent changes to the way maternity services are provided in Australia have opened the doors to midwives being able to prescribe PBS medicines. As Karen Keast discovered, midwives are heading back to university to gain the necessary qualification in droves. As an obstetrician and gynaecologist, several years ago Dr Kirsten Small faced the mammoth task of writing the very first prescribing course for midwives in Australia, to be launched at Flinders University. But despite the rivalry that can occur between medical practitioners and midwives, it wasn’t a difficult proposition for Dr Small to compile the course material that would create Australia’s first batch of midwives qualified to prescribe Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme-subsidised medicines. As a self-described “woman centered” obstetrician, Dr Small works with two Medicare eligible privately practising midwives on the Sunshine Coast, at a practice called Know Your Midwife. “I am really used to working with midwives and see them as capable, autonomous health providers and don’t see them as a threat,” she says. “Having gone from a standard private medical practice in a hospital to working with midwives, this is such a nice way to be able to do it.” The 2009-2010 maternity services reforms paved the way for women to have more choice in their birthing experience and were designed to ease the growing pressure on the nation’s maternity services due to an increasing number of births and workforce shortages. Now, Australia’s eligible, privately practising midwives are able to access the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule (PBS), providing Medicarerebateable services to women and prescribing Page 18 | www.ncah.com.au
certain PBS-subsidised medicines, resulting in more affordable maternity care to women. Midwives are also able to work collaboratively with obstetricians and medical practitioners and can access Australian Government-supported professional indemnity insurance. Midwives have been quick to embrace the reforms, with Flinders University revealing it received 160 applications for its first intake for the prescribing course, its Graduate Certificate in Midwifery, last year. Thirty-four midwives completed the course fulltime in one semester, graduating in December, and 79 will soon graduate after completing the course part-time. Another 59 began the course at the start of this year. Applications are now open for the next intake while 50 have already accepted offers to begin studying the course for semester two. The online course covers the topics of investigations and diagnostics for midwives and a topic on pharmacology for midwives. Now, Griffith University is also coming on board to offer a course on midwifery prescribing, with the course now going through the final approvals stage amid plans to accept its first intake for semester two this month. Its Screening, Diagnostics, Pharmacology and Prescribing for Midwives course, which is also being written by Dr Small, is a one semester online course. The course is designed to establish advanced, integrated understanding of the knowledge and skills required for safe and effective prescribing within the legal and regulatory frameworks governing midwifery practice in Australia. Dr Small, a lecturer at Griffith University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, says the university has been “overwhelmed” with inquiries regarding the course, and she expects its first intake will
comprise between 20 and 50 students. “As soon as it got around we were in the process of writing the course we had people asking about it,” she says. “There’s been increasing interest in midwives moving into private practice since that option first opened up and some graduates are interested in going straight from their training into private practising midwifery.” Dr Small says offering an online course, which also features real time web sessions, enables midwives juggling their private practices and families to fit their study in with their busy lifestyles. And she’s excited to be able to provide a course that helps prepare midwives for contemporary prescribing practice. “To be able to do this and make sure that midwives around Australia can start their journey off right and to know that their education has been really sound and they can hold their head up…it’s a nice feeling. “It’s been a long time coming,” she says. To be eligible for endorsement for scheduled medicines under section 94 of the National Law, applicants must be able to demonstrate they meet a range of requirements, including being a currently registered midwife in Australia, having the equivalent of three years’ full-time post initial registration experience as a midwife and being equipped with an approved qualification to prescribe scheduled medicines. Dr Small says midwives have long been involved in prescribing decisions but were just unable to sign the prescription. “For midwives, they can actually now work to the full scope of their practice without having to dash off to get a doctor to sign a bit of paper
for them, when they have already made the right decision,” she says. “It really respects them as a healthcare professional in their own right. “I think it’s also really important for the women that see midwives. It now seems their midwife is more of a one-stop-shop for them, instead of midwives looking after their pregnancy and offering advice, and saying - you need a prescription, go and see a doctor. “That costs women more and it costs the healthcare system more. Midwives are still going to use doctors if women are sick.” Dr Small says qualified midwives will be able to prescribe for a range of medications, from those used to treat uncomplicated urinary tract infections in the early stages of pregnancy to medication for managing morning sickness, simple pain relief for an injury, routine medication for newborns and contraception for the mother post-birth. Dr Small plans to see the course through its bedding-in phase and then wants to hand it over to an Australian midwifery prescriber. “It’s exciting but my plan is to not forever hold the monopoly over it,” she says. “I would love to see in a couple of years we have midwives, who are experienced at prescribing, who can start stepping in and start in an education role. “It belongs in the hands of the midwifery profession ultimately.” For more information view the Registration Standard for Endorsement for Scheduled Medicines for Midwives atwww. nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/RegistrationStandards.aspx Nursing Careers Allied Health - Issue 13 | Page 19
Research suggests new indicator for foetal stress by Karen Keast Recently published research indicates a new and potentially more accurate way of measuring the stress experienced by healthy, full-term babies, could be on the horizon. With foetal stress established as a relevant factor in outcomes for newborn babies, the research, which has just been published by online open source body PLOS ONE, was designed to test the hypothesis that preferential foetalcorticosterone synthesis occurs in response to foetal intra-partum stress Cortisol is currently used to estimate the stress experienced by both mother and child during the process of giving birth. However, the new findings indicate that the stress hormone, corticosterone, may be a more accurate way to measure the stress experienced. For their study, researchers tested foetal levels of cortisol and corticosterone in 265 samples of umbilical cord blood from healthy deliveries. Though the total levels of cortisol detected were higher than corticosterone levels, researchers found that foetuses produced
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Needlestick and sharps injuries bid goes to parliament by Karen Keast The fight for legislation that would force every Australian hospital to introduce safetyengineered medical devices (SEMDs) in a bid to reduce Australia’s needlestick and sharps injuries has gone to Federal Parliament. Western Australian MP Dr Mal Washer has introduced a Private Member’s Bill that proposes enforcing the use of SEMDs, which would bring Australia into line with laws on SEMDs in countries such as Canada, the United States and in parts of Europe. It comes as statistics show at least 18,000 Australian nurses and other health care workers receive sharps and needlestick injuries every year,risking infection with a potentially life-threatening bloodborne disease such as Hepatitis B or C or HIV/AIDS. The Medical Technology Association of Australia recently released a report that found SEMDs can reduce injuries by more than 80 per cent, and when used in conjunction with training and guidelines SEMDs can reduce injuries by more than 90 per cent. It found implementing SEMDs in all Australian hospitals wouldresult in an average cost saving of $18.6 million a year. Australian Nursing Federation federal secretary Lee Thomas said the solution to preventing needlestick injuries for nurses was a combination of legislation, the use of SEMDs, workplace risk assessments and ongoing education. Ms Thomas said despite ANF estimates it would cost $50 million to equip Australia’s public hospitals with safe needle use education and safety equipment, there has only been limited progress in the use of safety devices throughout the nation’s hospitals. The ANF also wants conventional needles to be replaced where possible with lock syringes or retractable syringes. Page 22 | www.ncah.com.au
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ANF supports push for rural and remote funding by Karen Keast Australia’s largest health union has thrown
“That’s why it is crucial that more nursing and
its weight behind a new push to fund nursing
midwifery graduates are employed in order to
and allied health students to work in rural and
build a sustainable workforce into the future.”
remote areas.
Ms
The
communities are in “real need” of nursing and
Australian
supporting
the
Nursing Australian
Federation Rural
is
Health
Chaperon
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rural
and
remote
midwifery professionals.
Education Network (ARHEN) as it lobbies
“Highly-trained nurses and midwives are vital
politicians for a pre-election commitment to
in delivering safe patient care throughout
fund initiatives aimed at boosting the nation’s
regional and remote communities, which more
rural and remote health workforce.
often than not experience limited access to
With rural areas in desperate need for more health care workers, ARHENhas met with MPs in Canberra in a bid to secure funding
health services, yet there just aren’t enough incentives to allow nurses and midwives to move into rural practice,” she said.
for its programs that support nursing, allied
Ms Chaperon said the ANF was working with
health, dentistry and Indigenous students.
the Federal Government, the Opposition, key
ANF assistant secretary Yvonne Chaperon said ARHEN’s calls for more funding come as the union works to find funding solutions for the nation’s nursing and midwifery crisis, particularly in high-need rural and remote communities. “The
ANF
continues
to
be
extremely
concerned by the increasing shortage of
Independent MPs, and health and aged care stakeholders in the lead up to the September election to develop and implement career pathways
for
nurses
and
midwives
in
communities across the country experiencing high workforce shortages. The ANF wants graduate programs to be offered in non-traditional areas such as aged care and primary care, and the union is calling
highly-trained nurses and midwives and
for HECS fees to be removed as an incentive
the limited employment opportunities for
for nursing and midwifery graduates to work
Australia’s graduate nurses and midwives,”
in difficult-to-staff rural and remote areas.
she said in a statement.
“The ANF is urging all the parties to make safe
“As a nation, we need to urgently start building
patient care for all Australians a top priority
a future nursing and midwifery workforce to
at the upcoming election by working together
replace the current staff, retiring over the next
on the very important issue of nurse and
15 to 20 years, with 90,000 highly-trained
midwife shortages and the underemployment
nurses expected to retire.
of graduates,” Ms Chaperon said.
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New occupational therapy course amid job growth forecasts by Karen Keast Matthew Molineux decided to pursue a career in occupational therapy after his teenage sister received treatment from an occupational therapist for perceptual motor problems. Twenty three years later, and now a Professor establishing Griffith University’s first occupational therapy course, Matthew says occupational therapy has provided him with a diverse career – spanning work in prisons to working with returned servicemen and women, working in the community with children, adults and older people and now working in education to forge the next generation of occupational therapists. It’s that potential for career diversity that Matthew is hoping will inspire students to consider a career in occupational therapy – where, he says, they can shape a career for themselves. “Come and do the degree and you can create the career you want,” he says. “The skills of occupational therapists can be used in a whole range of settings. Where we work in the future is almost limitless.” With the Australian Government predicting “very strong employment” for occupational therapists in the next five years, Matthew says the four-year Bachelor of Occupational Therapy, set to begin next year, will enable students to work in health and education but to also explore new and emerging areas of practice. He says the course will prepare students to work in traditional settings but to also discover how their skills can be used in a wide range of areas, with Australian occupational therapists now working in areas such as consulting, shaping government policy, working with refugees and asylum seekers, and working with homeless people. Page 30 | www.ncah.com.au
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