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Coroner: shortage of care assistants led to Black Saturday death A reduction in care assistant numbers at a Melbourne nursing home on Black Saturday in 2009 contributed to the death of an elderly woman from heat stroke, a coroner has found. On the afternoon of February 7 2009, Joan Ambrose, 79, a patient at the Noble Manor Nursing Home, who suffered dementia and had heart problems, is understood to have walked unobserved to an outside courtyard of the home, and become trapped outside. With the door only designed to open outwards, she was unable to return without getting someone’s attention inside. The inquest heard Mrs Ambrose went outside shortly after 1.05pm, as the temperature soared past 46 degrees, but wasn’t discovered to be missing until three hours later.
The patient’s body was found just after 4pm in the courtyard, where the hot bricks and paving would have boosted the temperature even higher than the maximum 46.4 degrees recorded in Melbourne that afternoon, the inquest heard. Only two personal care assistants were on duty from 1pm to 3pm, with the home having begun trialling a reduction in staff levels that day. Coroner Peter White found Mrs Ambrose died from a combination of ischaemic heart disease and heat exposure. He stated that staff reductions had led to a situation in which a frail woman had been left to wander outside despite warnings that the elderly would be particularly vulnerable to the day’s heat. For the full article visit NCAH.com.au Nursing Careers Allied Health - Issue 16 | Page 9
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Senior nursing officer serves in uniform Although born in Sydney, Major Paul Krohn had a transient childhood, growing up between Dubbo, Papua New Guinea and Townsville. After high school, Paul then went on to complete an apprenticeship as an electrician but soon realised his true calling. Before too long, Paul gained his undergraduate nursing degree at James Cook University, North Queensland and after graduating in 1995, began life as an Operating Theatre nurse at The Canberra Hospital before moving to work on a Cardiothoracic/Vascular ward. In 1999, Paul began ICU nursing and after joining the Army in 2001 has been a critical care nurse ever since. Currently, Paul is posted to the 2nd General Health Battalion in Brisbane, as the Senior Nursing Officer and the Nurse Unit Manager of the field-deployable Emergency Department. The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has given Paul the opportunity to further his training and has seen him participate in many domestic military exercises, having completed the Field Nursing Course, Fixed Wing Aeromedical Evacuation Course, Rotary Wing Aeromedical Evacuation Course and a three week stint at the US Army School of Aviation Medicine, Fort Rucker, Alabama, where he completed the Joint En Route Care Course (Critical Care Aeromedical Transport). But perhaps what has given Paul the opportunity to grow and develop the most, are his many deployment and humanitarian missions. Since his first deployment to East Timor in 2002 as an ICU Nursing Officer in a UN Military Hospital, Paul has provided his clinical expertise in the Solomon Islands as part of the regional assistance mission,
Major Paul Krohn in Banda Aceh as part of the initial medical response to the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, on board HMAS Kanimbla in Indonesia as a response to the Nias Island earthquake, and in Iraq as one of the 20 Australian military clinicians working in a US Air Force Theatre Hospital. Join our upcoming live and interactive broadcast with Major Paul Krohn on Thursday 30 August 2012 at 6:30pm AEST. To register visit broadcasts.defencejobs.gov.au I can think of nothing more satisfying than caring for others. Having had the chance to do so in uniform, wearing the Red Cross, and serving with other Australian and Coalition military clinicians, has grown and developed me as a clinician and military officer: it is an indescribable experience. – Major Paul Krohn Senior Nursing Officer and Nurse Unit Manager of the field-deployable Emergency Department Nursing Careers Allied Health - Issue 16 | Page 11
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the Aged Care Workforce Fund, would provide valuable assistance to people considering careers in aged care. “Aged care is a very rewarding part of the health system to work in,” he said. “Scholarships like these provide real and practical support while extending skills, improving clinical care and furthering careers in aged care.” Undergraduate scholarships are for student nurses demonstrating a commitment to aged care and who want to pursue undergraduate studies in Australia, which will lead to a qualification to practice as a registered nurse. For the full article visit NCAH.com.au
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Study shows caseload midwifery care reduces caesarean sections by Karen Keast Women who receive caseload midwifery care are less likely to have caesarean sections and epidural pain relief and are more likely to have spontaneous vaginal births, according to a ground-breaking new Australian study.
“In settings with a relatively high baseline caesarean section rate, caseload midwifery for women at low obstetric risk in early pregnancy shows promise for reducing caesarean births,” the study concluded.
In the world’s largest clinical trial of caseload midwifery care and the first trial of its kind in Australia, La Trobe University researchers also found babies of women receiving caseload midwifery care are less likely to be admitted to special care or neonatal intensive care.
La Trobe University researcher Associate Professor Helen McLachlan said midwives and women had the opportunity to establish a relationship during pregnancy with the caseload model of care.
The randomised controlled trial of one-to-one midwifery care studied 2314 low-risk pregnant women, with 1156 receiving caseload care and 1158 receiving standard care, at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne. The study compared outcomes of women receiving caseload care from a primary midwife throughout pregnancy, birth and in the early postnatal period to women receiving standard care with different care providers.
“This relationship appears to build a woman’s trust and confidence before, during and after the birth, helping women have a more positive birth experience,” she said. Royal Women’s Hospital Midwifery Professor Della Forster said it was important to reduce caesarean rates in low-risk pregnancies. “We want to avoid caesarean births wherever possible because of the risk of complications for both mothers and babies,” she said.
The COSMOS trial (COmparing Standard Maternity care with One-to-One Midwifery Support) found women receiving caseload midwifery had 22 per cent fewer caesarean births, a 12 per cent reduction in using epidural anaesthetic and a 21 per cent reduction in episiotomy.
Australian College of Midwives president Professor Sue Kruske said while trusting relationships between midwives and pregnant women were the key to a positive birth outcome only five per cent of Australian women gave birth through caseload midwifery care.
Babies of mothers receiving caseload midwifery care were also 37 per cent less likely to be admitted to special care or neonatal intensive care.
“Every childbearing woman in Australia must now be given the option of continuity of care from a known midwife,” she said.
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“This really demonstrates that midwives are suitably able to provide care to women across the childbirth continuum.” The National Health and Medical Research Council funded the study with a $600,000 grant.
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DHB allied health staff exhausted and stressed by Karen Keast Staff shortages at New Zealand District Health Boards are leaving allied health workers exhausted and stressed, according to the country’s largest union. The Public Service Association surveyed 627 allied health, nursing and clerical staff at Auckland, Counties-Manukau and Waitemata DHBs in June and July, finding many staff, especially allied health professionals, ranked their workload manageability at unsafe levels, leaving them exhausted and stressed with their work-life balance. The union, which represents 58,000 public sector workers, has blamed the shortages on government funding cutbacks, amid estimates DHBs are operating with a funding shortfall in the order of $116 million.
PSA national secretary Richard Wagstaff said the cutbacks are taking a toll on staff and patient services. “One physiotherapist said so many staff were leaving and not being replaced that they were 30 full-time equivalent positions down, while a lab worker has warned that staff shortages are at crisis level and if something isn’t done soon a major event will happen,” he said. “We’re hearing reports of clinicians doing clerical work, people being relocated to other services to fill vacancies, staff unable to take tea and lunch breaks and being refused or not being covered for annual leave.” Mr Wagstaff said the staff shortages were also impacting on patients. For the full article visit NCAH.com.au Nursing Careers Allied Health - Issue 16 | Page 17
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New legislation aims to better protect Victorian ED nurses by Karen Keast People who attack Victorian nurses working in emergency departments will receive hefty jail sentences under proposed new legislation.
would introduce legislation to increase penalties for those found guilty of threatening, injuring or assaulting nurses and emergency workers.
The State Government is drafting legislation to better protect emergency service workers, with patients who inflict serious injuries on nurses and other emergency workers set to be jailed for an extra 12 months on top of the court’s usual penalty.
“It’s clear that over the last decade the rising tide of violence has in fact spilled over into our hospitals, particularly into emergency departments which are often the frontline for activity in our hospitals,” he said.
Assaults causing less serious injury will result in at least six months’ imprisonment while those convicted of murder will face an additional five years in jail. The penalties will not apply in exceptional circumstances, such as in cases of serious mental illness. Health Minister David Davis said the government
“It’s very clear that this needs to be reversed and we need to ensure that hospitals are safe places, places of safety and security for doctors, for nurses, and importantly, for patients. “People should not be threatened as they go about their work in an emergency department.” For the full article visit NCAH.com.au Nursing Careers Allied Health - Issue 16 | Page 19
Forging the next generation of nurse leaders by Karen Keast Five nurses in the inaugural Emerging Nurse Leader program are already working to take the nursing profession into the future, as applications open for the 2013 intake. The first participants in the fully-funded fiveyear leadership development program, which is designed to turn today’s nursing students into tomorrow’s nurse leaders, are Patricia Fox and Sherrie Lee, both from Central Queensland University, Lauralea Bickhoff of The University of Newcastle, Catherine Ryan of Australian Catholic University and Elyse Taylor from the University of Canberra. The students are already working to change the face of nursing with Ms Fox involved in a new orientation and engagement program for CQU nursing students, Ms Lee planning a mobile health clinic to visit Vanuatu and Ms Bickhoff helping to establish a Nurses for Nurses program at her university. Ms Ryan is an active committee member of the Council of Future Health Leaders and National Rural Health Students Network and Ms Taylor is co-chair of the Canberra Rural Health and Nursing Collective. The ENL program mentors students for five years on areas such as vision casting, financial management, public speaking and presentation, networking, research and writing, team leadership, communication and conflict resolution, project management and government lobbying. ENL program coordinator Nicole Baines said the program was already an overwhelming success. “The program is receiving wonderful feedback from the nursing profession, and it’s certain there is a need to deliver more opportunities of this kind,” she said. Page 20 | www.ncah.com.au
Ms Baines said with just five positions available each year, all fully-funded thanks to the program’s corporate partners including HIP Super, CM Health and The Co-op Bookshop, next year’s positions are expected to be “hotly contested”. “Last year we had around 100 expressions of interest, with 35 completed applications submitted,” she said. “We expect to have at least twice as many applications this year as the program has become more well known.” Ms Baines said the program was looking for students who are natural leaders. “We then work with that natural ability, develop it, encourage it and support the participants to achieve their goals,” she said. “They should be actively changing their universities and their communities. “They are the students that others come to when they want something to get done. They are people of action. “We look for evidence of this in the work they are doing at their universities, their workplaces and their communities. “They usually volunteer. They are usually involved in activities or causes that have sufficiently moved them into action. “And as we are looking to build leaders of the future, we need people who are capable of speaking to large groups of people, who can write well and articulate a message creatively.” The ENL program is open to students beginning their third year of Bachelor of Nursing studies at an Australian university in 2013. For the full article visit NCAH.com.au
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Nganampa Health Council (NHC) is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation delivering comprehensive primary health care on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the remote north west of South Australia. In addition to primary health care, NHC delivers 24-hour emergency care and delivers a range of public and population health programs, including community health screening of targeted population groups, health education, preventative health care, referral to secondary and tertiary level services, public health interventions and surveillance and a residential aged care facility. NHC provides these services through six major clinics located in the major communities on the APY Lands.
The health service has a sustained national reputation for best practice clinical services, leading edge collaborative program research and development and for the collection of outcome data as a basis for ongoing evaluation. Our clinics are AGPAL accredited, modern facilities staffed by a multidisciplinary team comprising Anangu Health Workers and Nurses, supported by Program Coordinators and experienced Medical Officers to provide clinical care to each local community. NHC has a national and international reputation for delivering programs that have resulted in sustained health improvements to the residents of the APY Lands. These achievements include: • Sustained childhood immunisation rates of 100% of our permanent population. • Reductions in the rates of sexually transmitted infections by up to 99% since 1994. • Improved birth weights. • Increasing numbers of completed child health and adult health checks. The achievements have been recognised in a number of publications, a summary of which can be obtained from www.nganampahealth.com.au/. NHC continually has employment opportunities available for both fulltime and locum nurses. A generous salary package of between $166,000 - $183,000 (including superannuation and non-cash benefits estimated at $28,350) is offered. Nursing staff are entitled to up to 12 weeks leave per annum including two weeks study leave. Modern furnished accommodated is provided. Further information on us, including current employment opportunities, can be accessed from www.nganampahealth.com.au or our Facebook page.
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Paramedic charged with stealing morphine by Karen Keast A Tasmanian paramedic has been charged with stealing morphine. The Ambulance Tasmania paramedic was arrested and charged on July 25 after the ambulance service discovered abnormalities in its medication system and alerted police. The 48-year-old man from northern Tasmania was performing duties as a paramedic working for Ambulance Tasmania at the time of the alleged theft. Ambulance Tasmania chief executive officer Dominic Morgan said the employee was “not currently on active duty”. Mr Morgan said the ambulance service alerted police after discovering irregularities as part of its normal medication accounting processes. “Following a request from Ambulance Tasmania for Tasmania Police assistance, an ongoing police investigation was commenced and charges have been laid against an Ambulance Tasmania employee,” he said. “Ambulance Tasmania is unable to comment further on this matter while it is before the courts.” Detectives from Tasmania Police’s Northern Drug Investigation Services are continuing their investigation into the alleged theft. In a statement, Tasmania Police said the paramedic was charged with stealing “a quantity of morphine”.
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The man has been bailed to appear on September 26 in the Launceston Court of Petty Sessions.
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Paramedics want violent offenders charged by Karen Keast Mr McGhie said a female paramedic was seriously assaulted when a man, police had handcuffed, head-butted the paramedic. “That person wasn’t charged because the police didn’t think it would get up in court because of the psychological state of the person,” he said.
Most patients who assault paramedics are not being charged and are escaping the court system, according to the paramedics’ union.
“She had several bouts of surgery to rectify the damage done to her face and this guy wasn’t even charged. She suffered and the patient didn’t in the end because he didn’t get charged.”
Ambulance Employees Association Victoria general secretary Steve McGhie said violent patients are often not charged due to their psychological state, leaving assaulted and injured paramedics without justice.
The comments come as the Victorian State Government drafts legislation to introduce longer sentences for people who attack frontline medical personnel and emergency workers.
Mr McGhie said the union wants violent patients who assault paramedics to face court, regardless of their psychological state.
The penalties will not apply in exceptional circumstances, such as in cases of serious mental illness.
“If someone assaults them and uses aggression against them we believe they should be charged,” he said.
Mr McGhie said while he supported any legislation that works to protect paramedics, violent offenders first need to be charged.
“Often they are affected by drugs or alcohol or psychologically affected.
“There’s a lot of work for the police to get them into court,” he said.
“Unfortunately those people are not the ones who are charged. They are sort of exempt from that legislation.
“I appreciate the police are extremely busy and this might tie them up even more so but we have got to educate people they shouldn’t be assaulting anyone, let alone a paramedic who is trying to treat them.
“It should be irrelevant whether they are affected by drugs or alcohol or psychologically affected,” he said. “The courts should assess that and the penalty – they are decisions for the court.” Mr McGhie said only a small number of people had been convicted for assaulting paramedics despite legislation being introduced about five years ago designed to better protect ambulance officers. Page 26 | www.ncah.com.au
“Clearly, this would bring some justification if someone assaults a paramedic and that a penalty applies to that person. “Paramedics would prefer they didn’t have to worry about it…that we lived in a country where it didn’t occur. Unfortunately that’s not the real world.”
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Lise swaps technology for back to basics nursing in Tanzania by Karen Keast
Tanzania opened its heart to Brisbane nurse Lise Wills. “It gives me goose bumps and brings tears to my eyes just thinking about their smiling faces and their warm embraces,” she said. The 51-year-old registered nurse spent twomonths volunteering in Arusha with Projects Abroad earlier this year. For Lise, who has spent nine years volunteering as a telephone crisis counsellor for Life Line, it was her first time volunteering overseas, fulfilling her life-long dream to volunteer in Africa and to give to those in need. “There are so many aspects of my time volunteering in Arusha that I loved,” she said. “Actually, I really found it hard leaving and had it not been for my family and dog being so desperate for my return I would have extended my stay. “It was not only the nursing that was rewarding, it was submerging myself in their way of life… living with a Tanzanian family, their culture, and their language.” Lise, who works part-time as a Community Health Interface Program (CHIP) nurse at a large public hospital, is also studying a nurse immuniser course at university and works as a school nurse in a 1500-student boys’ school, decided to volunteer not only for herself but also for her mum. “My mother too had always wanted to be a nursing volunteer but married very young, had Page 28 | www.ncah.com.au
a family and retired from nursing,” she said. “I know it is something she really wishes she had done, so my volunteering stint was for her too.” Lise swapped the modern technology of a Queensland hospital for the bare basics at the small Ngarenaro Health Clinic, in the heart of Arusha. The clinic, which mainly provides care to women and children, has no operating facilities but is home to a 22-bed maternity ward, maternal and child welfare clinic, family planning clinic, immunisation clinic, antenatal clinic, HIV/AIDS clinic and a doctor’s clinic, along with an old, donated ambulance. Lise said the experience was professionally fulfilling, making her more aware of how nursing in Australia was reliant on technology and resources. “Whereas somewhere like Tanzania nursing is all about doing what you can and the best you can under the circumstances with the limited resources, no resources and less than satisfactory conditions,” she said. “It was wonderful to unleash and rely on basic nursing skills and communication. It was also very rewarding to learn their ways; often our ways just don’t suit the environment.” When Lise first arrived in Arusha and discovered the “black with grime” pillows without pillow cases and badly stained sheets, she emailed friends back home, launching a Purchase a Pillow and Pillowcase (Triple P) fundraiser and was amazed when her friends raised $3,700. The funds bought more than 22 new pillows, 44 pillow cases and 30 sheets, also stretching
to purchasing or mending a range of items, including two manual suction machines, an oxygenation machine, oxygen cylinder with carriage, cabinet work and shelving in the delivery room, two new timber table tops for a resuscitation trolley and sterilising work table, solar lamps and charger, and 20 stainless steel surgical instruments. “People are so keen to donate to these causes when they know their money is being used for its intended purpose,” Lise said. “Unfortunately you can’t just send money to these hospitals as you would never know if it would be used for its intended purpose. “If you post anything to Tanzania in the way of medical supplies, they are so heavily taxed on arrival - the hospital would be unable to afford these taxes. “It was so rewarding and fulfilling to be able to present the clinic with the equipment and supplies, they were truly so appreciative and excited.” In her Tanzanian adventure, Lise made countless friends among the staff and the
community and she also found a life-long friend in a volunteering German midwife named Constanze. “There were many tears and exchanging of gifts on our last day; the memory will stay with me forever,” she said. “Kwaheri nitakuja tena – goodbye I will come back.” Want to volunteer with Projects Abroad? Here are Lise’s tips: “For anyone thinking of going to a third world country such as Tanzania - remember don’t go with an attitude that you can change everything and that your way is better and the only way. Their ways are sometimes really the only way under their circumstances and conditions. Earn their respect, make an effort to learn their names and some basic language - they just love it and they will go all out in welcoming you. Be aware, because of the language barrier you need to show initiative when you are at work – don’t wait to be told or shown, ask and offer to help. You will be rewarded with their warm and friendly ways and they will open their hearts to you.”
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Neuro nurses are ready to run by Karen Keast “With the nature of the area, we look after acute and people with chronic pain as well. We see them again and again and build up a really good rapport.
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and it’s very rewarding.” Are you tired of your working environment? Would you like your weekends back? If you would like toBrigita, work who for ahas company that rewards been nursing for three years hard work and dedication then Talk and to us... has competed in the race twice before, said while work schedules made it difficult
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run had already proven to be a team-building event. “It’s nice to have something outside of work that we can do together,” she said. “Often we don’t have time to go out and socialise so it’s giving us something that brings us closer together.”
Ten nurses who work on the neurology ward at St Vincent’s Private Hospital in Sydney will walk, jog and run their way to raising funds for a cause close to their hearts. The nurses have banded together to form the ‘Neuro Nurses’ team which will participate in The Sun-Herald City to Surf 14km race from Hyde Park to Bondi Beach in August.
NeuRA CEO Professor Peter Schofield said one in five people struggle with a major brain or nervous system disorder every year. “The ‘Neuro Nurses’ from St Vincent’s Hospital know first-hand the devastation that Parkinson’s disease, stroke and motorneurone disease, for example, have on patients, families and the greater community,” he said.
“Nurses also see the positive impact that The group hopes to raise about $3000 to help • Competitive Salary of $73,078 plus Superannuation medical research has in assisting a patient fund the vital work of not-for-profit research • Part and full time options available regain independence and improve their quality institute Neuroscience Research Australia. of life. • No weekends! Nurse Due Brigita Feltham said the event was a to an enormous amount of growth we have several opportunities available for of nurses “NeuRA really appreciates this team chanceRNs for the nurses who work in neurology to work in our exciting new office in North Ryde and what we need is your clinical for not only supporting patients every day, but to raiseexpertise funds totohelp prevent, treat andcare cure deliver our telephone support and health coaching to our participants. also running the Sydney City to Surf and raising brain and nervous system diseases, disorders funds for broader research at NeuRA.” and injuries. To donate visit http://www.fundraise.city2surf. “We all feel quite strongly about this cause and com.au/neuro_nurses I thought it would be something we could do together,” Brigita said.
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Aussie and Kiwi nurses wanted to work in the UK by Karen Keast Australian and New Zealand nurses wanting to work abroad are finding agency and permanent positions in the United Kingdom. One of the UK’s largest specialist healthcare recruitment providers, Healthcare Locums Plc (HCL), has revealed the professional skills and personal attributes of Australian and New Zealand nurses are in high demand in the UK. HCL UK nursing team manager Elizabeth Kennedy said nurses from Australia and New Zealand are recognised as “potential, fantastic additions to any team”. “There is always ample opportunity for Australian and New Zealand nurses in the UK to work in both agency and permanent capacities,” she said. “The training, working practices and general knowledge possessed by Australian and New Zealand nurses are seen to be in line with UK workings, and we relish the opportunity to work with such individuals. “Skills aside, it’s the ethos and personality possessed by most Australian and New Zealand nurses that are welcomed in the UK. “They are able, dedicated and willing to learn… we would love more Australian and New Zealand nurses to take the trip, to experience all the UK has to offer.” HCL places nurses, doctors and allied health professionals on a permanent and temporary basis within the public and private health sectors across the UK and is the parent company of Australian healthcare recruitment provider Healthcare Australia (HCA). Australian Institute of Health and Welfare statistics recently revealed a dramatic rise in the number of Australian nurses and midwives venturing overseas for work – up almost 400 per cent in five years.
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Skills aside, it’s the ethos and personality possessed by most Australian and New Zealand nurses that are welcomed in the UK. – Elizabeth Kennedy HCL UK Nursing Team Manager Ms Kennedy said nurses working abroad in the UK either have UK ancestry, hold two-year holiday visas or they require a tier two visa. “Like overseas nurses wanting to work in Australia or New Zealand, Australian and New Zealand nurses are required to complete an Overseas Nursing Program as part of the UK registration process, so they can work legally in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council in the UK,” she said. “This process can take up to six months. This is something which Healthcare Australia and HCL consultants are well versed in. “The beauty of having offices in both Australia and the UK means that both counterparts can meet with those looking to move to the UK as well as greet those on arrival.” Ms Kennedy said there were numerous nursing opportunities available throughout the UK, from “board to ward”. “Whilst we tend to focus on the more acute skill sets, we can place nurses into general surgical posts,” she said. “The majority of Australian and New Zealand nurses tend to be of a certain ilk; most working in the critical care, paediatrics, oncology or theatre fields. “Most are looking for work in London, due to the nature of working in a vibrant, exciting city, combined with its easy transport links to Europe.”
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Physiotherapists – the team behind the team at the Olympics
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The launch of the London 2012 Olympic Games on July 27 was a pivotal moment not only for participating athletes, but also for the team of specialist clinicians charged with keeping competitors in peak physical condition.
The Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA), which represents over 12,000 physiotherapists around the country, has confirmed that around 20 APA sports therapists are currently working with the Australian Olympic team in London. “The Australian Olympic Committee mandates that all Australian Olympic Team physiotherapists are titled members of the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA), and have therefore demonstrated the elite knowledge and skill to be called an ‘APA Sports Physiotherapist’. This title recognises the advanced expertise and experience these physiotherapists require to work with the best athletes on the planet.” “APA Sports Physiotherapists are recognised around the world for their skills and expertise,” APA President Melissa Locke said. “The Australian Olympic Team physiotherapists will ensure the competitors are in top form and have the best chance of achieving success.” The physiotherapists would assist Olympic athletes in a variety of ways, including: diagnosing acute, chronic, and overuse injuries; managing stresses to muscles, joints, bones and other systems before and after competition; rehabilitating athletes to get them quickly back to competition and creating strategies to prevent injuries. Page 34 | www.ncah.com.au
Specialist Sports Physiotherapists Wendy Braybon, interviewed prior to the games by the APA’s member publication, InMotion, has worked at a number of Olympic fixtures. She said she’d encourage physiotherapists with their sights set on working with future Olympics teams to gain as much experience as possible by working in community and amateur sport. “…you also need to be doing your postgraduate physiotherapy training. So you need to either be doing your master’s in sports physiotherapy so that you can go on to become a titled sports therapist, or to do the experiential pathway…” Of almost equal importance was an ability to get immersed in the team spirit: “it’s not enough just to be a very good physiotherapist… You’re often there as another pair of hands to do lots of other things […] and I think it’s really important to be that team player.”
The Australian Olympic Team physiotherapists will ensure the competitors are in top form and have the best chance of achieving success. – Melissa Locke Australian Physiotherapy Association President
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