NCAH Issue 18 2011

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The Remote Area Health Corps (RAHC) currently requires a Certified Maternal & Child Health Nurse to fill a newly created position in the Northern Territory community of Maningrida in Arnhem Land. This position will be funded over a 6 month period with the initial placement requirement of 3 months. Be part of the effort to improve Indigenous health and experience life in the tropical Top End. The successful applicant will work in partnership with an experienced multi-disciplinary remote health team, treating illness and promoting well-being, maintaining health systems, providing education and training, supporting Top End Remote core business and encouraging community health in action in order to contribute to better health outcomes.

Services to be performed include emergency management of trauma, chronic disease management including tests and medications and implementation of primary health care programs run by the services. Skills required are venepuncture, cannulation, airway management, basic life support, patient assessment and cross-cultural communication.

RAHC provides cultural training and clinical orientation prior to the start of the placement and will pay and arrange for all travel to and from the Northern Territory. Accommodation is also provided.

Requirements: Unrestricted registration to practice as a registered nurse with two years broad based nursing experience. Post–grad diploma or equivalent in Child Health, 4 years post grad RN with remote experience preferred–predominantly working in M&CH with some exposure to supporting the Remote Area Nurses in the clinic.

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Aboriginal health workers in spotlight An outback ringer has become the face of Year of the Aboriginal Health Worker.

Jack Little was working as a ringer for Limbunya, Waterloo and Kildirk stations in 1959, when asked if he wanted to become a health worker.

“I said: ‘I didn’t go to school, I’m only a ringer’…so I became a health worker anyway,” he said.

Mr Little went on to become one of the true legends of Aboriginal primary health care in the Northern Territory, helping to establish the Katherine West Health Board.

“It’s a hard road we were travelling; it was so hard. It wasn’t easy for us to learn about health and medications but I got there.”

Mr Little is one of the patrons for Year of the Aboriginal Health Worker, which was

launched to recognise the group of allied health professionals who have been at the centre of the Aboriginal primary health care system, as registered health practitioners, for the past three decades.

There are more than 280 Aboriginal health workers in the Territory who care for their own people and help improve their health.

But statistics show the number of Aboriginal health workers has dropped by 30 percent in the last decade while 76 percent of the profession is over the age of 40.

Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory (AMSANT) board member Paula Arnol said more needed to be done to secure the future of Aboriginal health workers.

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New English standard for nurses and midwives Australia will have a new English language skills registration standard for nurses and midwives from September 19.

The Australian Health Workforce Ministerial Council has approved the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia’s revised language skills standard which requires registered nurses, midwives and enrolled nurses to communicate effectively in English.

The new language skills standard accepts applicants who have completed a minimum of five years, full-time equivalent of combined secondary, vocational or tertiary education taught and assessed in English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom or the United States without the need to sit an English language test.

Registered nurses and registered midwives must complete two of those five years in a pre-registration program of study while enrolled nurses must complete one of those five years in a pre-registration program.

The revised standard still requires other applicants to submit evidence of English proficiency through their English test results, achieving a minimum of level seven in one sitting across listening, reading, writing and speaking in the academic International English Language Testing System (IELTS) or a B score or above in one sitting of the four components in the Occupational English Test (OET).

Australian College of Midwives NSW branch president Joanne Gray said the board had outlined clear English language standard requirements.

“I think the important message is that in all of this we have to ensure effective communication is a key component for all health professionals,” she said. www.ncah.com.au

“It’s absolutely essential that anybody who is going to be registered as a health professional is confident in their ability to communicate in English.

“Communication is actually the key to the work we all do.”

Ms Gray said it was a “difficult requirement” for students to achieve level seven in one sitting in the IELTS while the revised standard posed a challenge for universities providing pre-registration education.

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A new approach to education

by Nina Hendy Additional training can place a burden on a health institution for a short period, but ongoing education is a necessary part of the job. Nina Hendy speaks to a company rolling out new technology to find out what it’s been like educating already experienced nursing staff.

Medical companies invest millions of dollars a year training frontline nursing staff across various sectors. And while nurses leaving their post to undertake training can be a big strain on even well-staffed health institutions, the process also gives nurses the chance to hone their skills.

Award-winning Australian medical technology company Simavita has been rolling out wireless sensor technology in aged care facilities across the country since last year. It also plans to commence the roll-out of new technology next year.

SIM helps improve the cost efficiency of an aged care facility and enhances the quality of life for aged care residents. The company has created a tiny wearable sensor that continuously monitors, analyses and reports incontinence patterns back to their caregiver during a 72 hour assessment period. The status of each resident is sent to a smart phone via text message so the caregiver knows when residents need attention, which allows clinicians to create individual incontinence management plans for each resident. This replaces the manual method of checking residents for incontinence and is accurate and scientific. The technology is now being used at 40 sites across Australia, saving several manual assessments a day.

Lewis says that incontinence among aged care residents create a range of medical problems and accounts for around 30 per cent of the cost of managing an aged care facility in manual labour and also the constant cleaning of linen. Most residents of aged care homes suffer from incontinence and it is often the reason they enter aged care facilities, which is expensive and deprives residents of privacy and dignity, Lewis says.

Simavita CEO Philippa Lewis says education is a crucial, albeit expensive, part of the process. “The education process definitely represents a high cost for the company,” she says.

“Training is about change management. It’s all part of rolling out new technology and we are up-skilling aged care workers considerably along the way.”

Simavita, which is a public unlisted company, has invested a ‘significant six figure sum’ in training for the SIM technology so far. The money has been spent on training materials, classroom training, user guides, web-based training and for the training of seven nurses to work with each aged care centre during the roll-out phase of the SIM technology.

But educating nurses isn’t always a straightforward process, Lewis says. “I think there will always be a natural rejection or fear of new things and there will always be a cohort that would like things to go back to the old ways. However the uptake of technology as a society and the fact that it is available to everyone now certainly has made the introduction of our technology far easier. continued overleaf

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SIM technology Trying to introduce this technology five or six years ago would have been far more difficult.

“Having said that, this technology has been developed in conjunction with aged care workers – not boffins in a laboratory. As a result, it’s extremely straight-forward and user-friendly and has been well accepted by staff.”

It doesn’t take much training for a nurse to realise the benefits, Lewis adds.

Nursing staff appreciate that the SIM technology increases job satisfaction and frees them up to tend to other patients, making them quick to embrace the technology.

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the cost of education and training regimes in new countries.

However, tut the company’s world first technology has tapped into a lucrative market. It estimates the cost of incontinence at $1.2 billion a year, saying it afflicts 1.5 million Australians of all ages.

Simavita’s focus for the next few years is to establish the domestic Australian market, as well as to be the first to market in Europe and the US by building a global distribution network.

And along the way, the company will continue to invest in education. “We see the investment of training to be an ongoing part of our business,” Lewis says.

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Nurse Affair Raises Ethics Issues Nursing ethics are in the spotlight after a nurse was cleared of professional misconduct despite admitting she had an affair with the husband of a lung cancer patient.

In the appeal case, a New Zealand High Court cleared ‘Nurse O’, who conceded meeting a cancer patient and her separated husband at a café before beginning a sexual relationship with the husband.

The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal had previously found the nurse guilty, ordering her to be suspended for six months, fined $1500 and ordered to do a course on ethics.

The Nursing Council of New Zealand has expressed disappointment at the High Court’s ruling.

“We were really disappointed in the High Court’s decision,” chief executive Carolyn Reed said.

“I think a lot of people in the profession are also disappointed with this ruling because we consider this is about the vulnerability of the patient and the nurse-client relationship.”

The country’s Code of Conduct for Nurses states examples of behaviour that could be considered to be a basis for finding of professional misconduct include “entering into a sexual or inappropriate intimate relationship with a client or ex-client” but does not specifically state patients’ families.

“This is just something we have seen as a given and haven’t been very specific about,” Ms Reed said.

“It’s the nurses’ responsibility to always remain professional. It’s a unique relationship.

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The Nursing Council is now consulting on a new draft Professional Boundaries Guidelines it has been working on for the past two years, that includes the issue of sexual relationships with health consumers or their families.

“It is a reasonable expectation that the professional relationship will not be exploited in any way,” the draft guidelines state.

“This includes not entering into a sexual relationship with a health consumer’s partner or member of his or her family, particularly when the nurse is involved in a therapeutic relationship with the health consumer and has met the family members during that relationship.”

Social Media Guidelines Released for Speech Pathologists

Speech Pathology Australia has unveiled guidelines for speech pathologists on the do’s and don’ts of navigating the social media world.

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The guidelines discuss confidentiality, defamation, client and professional boundaries, accessibility of information and Facebook privacy settings.

“There have been some worrying stories about other health professionals, including doctors and nurses, and SPA wanted to ensure that our members and the entire speech pathology profession are aware of the difficulties, and of course benefits, they may run into when using social media.”

SPA spokesperson Joanna Wood said statistics showed 86 percent of females aged between 18 and 50 are active in social media – which is the profession’s main demographic.

Ms Wood said it was vital speech pathologists kept their private and professional lives separate while using sites such as Facebook.

“It was very important for the association to put together both guidelines for how our members should use social media, as well as how we will use it,” she said.

“And be sure to maintain all legal and ethical standards you would offline,” she said.

“As a health professional, it can be tricky to navigate the fine line between private and professional, especially now social media is used so widely and for so many different purposes.”

While Australian nurses have been reprimanded for posting comments regarding sensitive issues online, Ms Wood said the association was not aware of speech pathologists being disciplined for crossing

“Social media is a great way of building community - of connecting people with a common aim, goal or interest.

“As long as health professionals are mindful of client/therapist confidentiality, defamation and other legal and ethical issues, social media is another way to provide this useful information.”

View Speech Pathology Australia’s guidelines at www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/ my-spa/social-media. careers@ncah.com.au

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More nurses earmarked for New South Wales An extra 940 nurses will be working on the frontline in New South Wales hospitals before June 2012 at a cost of $80 million, according to the State Government.

The nursing injection is part of the government’s plan to employ 2475 new nurses over the next four years, which was outlined in its $17.3 billion health care budget.

The boost to nursing numbers includes $4 million spent on employing an extra 275 clinical nurse and midwife educators and $4 million to extend 10-hour night shifts for nurses.

Health Minister Jillian Skinner said the additional nurses will coincide with an extra 550 hospital beds and a $4.7 billion capital works program, designed to renovate the state’s ageing hospitals to meet growing demand. www.ncah.com.au

“This record health budget also confirms our commitment to significantly improving health care in NSW by making available more hospital beds, employing more nurses and delivering better patient outcomes,” she said.

But the NSW Nurses Association has called for the introduction of more than 3000 new nurses in four years.

Association general secretary Brett Holmes told media at least an extra 500 nurses above the government’s budget commitment were needed, to cater to the state’s increasingly ageing population and its expanding hospitals.

“In reality, to make our health system fully staffed, that would seem to be the case… we need to find 3000 plus nurses in that four year period,” he said.

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Canberra Nurses “Burns Out” Nurses and midwives at the Canberra Hospital are working extra shifts and overtime amid reports the hospital is struggling to fill 100 vacancies.

“It is not sustainable to rely on the goodwill of nurses to continue to work extra shifts and overtime to meet the ordinary demands of the system,” she said.

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Lou James and breast cancer survivors A unique physiotherapy rehabilitation program for women with cancer is spreading its wings across Australia and New Zealand.

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Ms James first piloted the program in Auckland in 2005. Three years later she launched it nationally before it arrived on Australian shores in 2009.

Pink Pilates has since grown to include 60 certified physiotherapists working in 30 regions throughout New Zealand and Australia, with more soon to follow.

Ms James said more than 55 percent of referrals to the program came from oncology nurses, breast nurses, physicians and surgeons.

“With people undergoing cancer treatment everybody responds differently,” she said.

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“A cancer diagnosis is a very long hard journey for women and it is great to be really able to help them through it,” she said.

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Ms James took two breast cancer survivors to run their first half marathon on the Great Wall of China last year, highlighting the benefits of exercise for cancer survivors and also helping to raise $20,000 in funds for the registered Pink Pilates Trust, in a bid to help more women through the program.

“The whole exercise was such a wonderful experience on so many levels,” she said.

“I look at Judith who was one year out from chemotherapy and hope other women with breast cancer draw inspiration from her and remain positive despite how hard their journey may be.

“And Jodie, who had never been a runner in the past, said she felt stronger physically and mentally than she ever had after completing the half marathon.”

For more information visit www.pinkpilates.co.nz careers@ncah.com.au

Up-skilling AINs the Key to Nursing Shortage

Up-skilling Assistants in Nursing will help alleviate Australia’s nursing shortage, according to an industry expert.

Dr Mary Casey, CEO of health and nursing education organisation Casey Centre, said there was now a course enabling AINs to work within the public health system, creating a tiered effect. “(Having) registered nurses work at a higher level and having the AINs to do the more menial tasks would alleviate the problem altogether,” Dr Casey said.

“Due to the increase in community nursing and the need for more AINs in the community, it has become a passion (of mine) to up-skill them and train them in all areas of nursing.

“The sky is the limit for AINs these days. They are also now working in the public sector which relieves some of the pressure in the nursing shortage.” www.ncah.com.au

Dr Casey, who holds a Doctorate in Psychology, has worked in the nursing industry for more than 40 years in areas ranging from accident and emergency to intensive care, paediatrics, medical and surgical, spending the last eight years as Assistant Director of Nursing at a medium public hospital.

Dr Casey said the biggest challenges for nurses pursuing further education were a lack of funding and time.

“Time is also an issue in that nurses work different hours and shifts and getting them to commit to ongoing education can be difficult,” she said.

“I have always believed that education is important and these days it is essential in getting you to where you want to go.

“I also think that education is about gaining confidence and pursuing your goals and dreams.”

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