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Issue 23 22/11/10 fortnightly

Local Solution to support Allied Health

By Belinda Smart The role of robotics in healthcare delivery and training

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%XPLORE THE -EDITERRANEAN ON YOUR DAYS OFF IT S EASY FROM THE !RABIAN 'ULF The sunkissed beaches of Malta, the boulevards of the Riviera or the party atmosphere of a popular Greek island - the holiday possibilities are endless and easily accessible when you work in Arabia.

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Nurse Practitioners and Midwives – Accessing the Medicare Benefits Schedule

by Martin Bowen Effective this month, eligible nurse practitioners and midwives will be able to access speci¿c items in the Medicare Bene¿ts Schedule (MBS).

This reform has been a long time coming, and is expected to increase affordable access to health professionals for patients across Australia. The Australian Nursing Federation’s assistant secretary Yvonne Chaperon has said that the community has voted with their feet in support of this reform, and cited a nurse-led clinic in Canberra which is staffed by nurse practitioners and advanced practice nurses, and which saw 2,400 patients in the ¿rst two months of operation.

To provide MBS services and prescribe speci¿ed PBS subsidised medicines, Nurse Practitioners and Midwives need to apply for a medicare provider number and a PBS prescriber number.

You can only receive a Medicare provider number if you are in private practice. For more information and to access the requisite forms, visit the Medicare Australia website.

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Local solution to support allied health

by Belinda Smart Rural health advocates have highlighted the importance of allied health workers in the proposed establishment of a network of primary health care organisations known as ‘Medicare Locals’.

Planned as part of the new Australian health and hospital system, the network is part of the wider national health reform, whose remit includes greater support for allied health professionals including dentists, podiatrists, nutritionists, Aboriginal Health Service workers and physiotherapists.

Minister for Health Nicola Roxon con¿rmed it was expected Medicare Locals would be independent legal entities with formal linkages to Local Hospital Networks.

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and drive integration between GPs, hospitals, allied health, mental health and aged care.”

The National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA) con¿rmed a greater emphasis on allied health workers’ contribution to rural healthcare was one of its central concerns.

The alliance’s submission on Minister Roxon’s Medicare Locals discussion paper, which dead-lined on 12 November, said rural and remote Medicare Locals “must be small enough in area for meaningful relationships to be maintained among individual clinicians, and between them and local hospitals, other service providers and community leaders. They should be based on existing communities of interest – which are de¿ned in part by the current Àows of people to the services they access.”

Medicare Locals would not work well in rural and remote areas if they spanned long geographic distances or dif¿cult terrain or ignored natural communities of interest, such as was purportedly proposed in NT, Tasmania and South Australia.

“In areas of this size there are not the professional contacts nor the sense of local ownership and control needed to make the new entities work,” the submission said.

tasks include assessing local health needs, putting in place plans to meet those needs, and supporting the programs and personnel once they are in place.”

Speaking to NCAH, NRHA chair Dr Jenny May said there was no doubt that Medicare Locals promised greater opportunities for allied health professionals, with particular areas of the sector such as dentistry reporting high demand in rural and remote areas.

However, such opportunities also came with caveats attached, such as the importance of effectively distributing and incentivising the workforce.

“Although there is always some tension between the search for economies of size or scale, and the search for the degree of localisation required for effectiveness, the Alliance believes that populations as small as 50,000 are suf¿cient “The opportunities exist, but the for the effective undertaking of question is, how well will [the the tasks envisaged for these new system] work in delivering them?” primary care organisations. These Issues still to be addressed included mitigating the social isolation and lack of continuing professional development opportunities experienced by allied health professionals working through Medicare Locals in remote areas, May said.

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The ideal candidate will have: t Registered Nurse qualifications . t Current Registration with the Queensland Nursing Council. t Cannulation Qualification. t Previous experience in an Accident & Emergency environment. t In the event of an emergency; an ability to take control, operate autonomously & direct other Resort personnel. t Drivers License. t Sound Clinical knowledge and recent ‘hands on’ clinical experience. t Demonstrated commitment to customer focus and continuous quality improvement. t A sound knowledge of OH and S practices and procedures.

You will be incorporating your clinical skills as well as using your managerial qualities with the expectation that you will be able to provide direct patient care with the ability to create a welcoming and caring environment for any individual. Prior to joining our team you must think carefully about the reality of living on a remote Island for a long period of time. In return we offer a truly unique working environment.

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We are looking for a suitably quali¿ed Registered Nurse to lead our clinical staff into an exciting future.

If you: • Are a Registered Nurse • Able to demonstrate a clear understanding of the aged care funding instrument or ability to acquire skills • Have strong leadership qualities We would like to hear from you.

Aged care experience would be highly regarded but not essential.

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Mental Health Careers – Bloomfield Hospital, Orange The Bloomfield Campus in Orange will continue as “the place to be” for mental health professionals.

With the recent expansion of services, the Bloomfield Campus is the largest regional facility in Australia for the provision of inpatient mental health services.

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Robotics in Nursing

by Martin Bowen

• ‘Stan the Man’ – which is used to train nurses and health professionals. The robot is designed to respond to various treatments applied by the trainee nurse.

Staff shortages and technical challenges (such as patient lifting and moving) means there is a present and growing incentive to design, develop and implement robotic technology in the delivery of health care. The reliance on robotic technology in surgical ¿elds has • Actroid-F – the been a reality for decades, but recent life-like nature trends and developments indicate of this robotic that the emergence of technology nurse can only and even robotic technology in the mean it is intended to mimic delivery of primary healthcare is a real nurses and despite the fact growing phenomenon. that this is clearly a signi¿cant The NCAH website features a technological achievement, it number of videos of robots used in does raise signi¿cant questions healthcare. For example: about the role and limitations • Lifting Robot of technology in the delivery of – is intended primary healthcare. to assist nurses Machines have been used in the particularly in delivery of primary healthcare for the aged care setting to lift or move patients. as long as adjustable beds have The obvious bene¿t being that been around, but the line between there is no need for nurses to machine and robot and indeed the compromise their own back- ethics of their use becomes blurred health in the process of assisting as the machine / robot is designed to their patients. The use of a robot, replace rather than assist nurses and as opposed to a mini-lifting health professionals in the delivery machine is intended to make the of healthcare. process a bit less intimidating for Copyright NCAH the patient. www.ncah.com.au

NSW Nurses Step Up Their Campaign NSW Nurses have said that they are prepared to escalate their campaign for mandated nurse-to-patient ratios if the NSW Government is not prepared to meet their demands.

Nurses in NSW and indeed across the country are determined to force the NSW Government to implement nurse-to-patient ratios in order to meet fundamental patient safety requirements.

Many nurses have rejected the government offer for a pay rise in place of ratio’s pointing to work place morale and patient safety as the fundamental issue that needs to be addressed.

One possible explanation for the NSW government not being prepared to commit to ratios is that they know they won’t be able to meet the commitment. Staff shortages are the critical issue facing health ministries across the country. And with retirement rates set to dramatically increase in the aftermath of the global ¿nancial crisis, which saw many nurses put off their retirement to sure up their ¿nancial security, the problem over the next three to ¿ve years is going to get much worse.

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the workforce next year and receive the necessary training to ultimately ¿ll the void that will be left as the exodus of many experienced nurses begins.

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