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Education Feature New Year, New Career Paramedics devastated Making a career change at helicopter rescue death ACT nurses reach pay deal Nursing in the aftermath of a typhoon Australian physiotherapists New nurses’ glasses have anwant eye prescribing on veins rights Tasmanian graduate positions disappointing: ANMF Dietitians want actionnursing on diabetes
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NURSES & ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS Fantastic Early Childhood Opportunities Do you have a passion for the early years? Do you enjoy working with groups of parents in their local community? Do you enjoy working as part of an interdisciplinary team? Do you like variety in your working week? Ngala is Western Australia’s leading provider of early parenting services and we are about to expand our Community based group programs across a number of sites across the Perth metro area. This expanded program will offer: • a rolling series of groups for parents with babies 0-3 months • Weekly Parenting and Play Time sessions for families with babies 0-18 months • Parent education workshops
We are seeking full time, part time and casuals across a range of positions and are keen to hear from people who have relevant experience and qualifications including: • Child Health Nurses/ Registered Nurses with Midwifery certification • Early Childhood Educators • Social Workers or other Allied Health Professionals to form local interdisciplinary teams to work with groups of new parents.
For further information including dates for information sessions please refer to the Ngala website or to apply, please go to http://applynow.net.au/jobs/Ngala52 and follow the instructions. You will be encouraged to upload a Resume and a document detailing what you are interested in and your area of work addressing selection criteria from the appropriate Position Description. You will also locate the Position Descriptions and the Project Overview through this link.
Closing date for these positions Friday 4th January 2014 Additional Opportunities and supplementary hours are available across different programs within Ngala. For further information please refer to the Ngala website and to place your expressions of interest go to http://applynow.net.au/jobs/Ngala53
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Nursing in the aftermath of a typhoon by Karen Keast The little girl’s outlook was incredibly grim. She had survived Typhoon Haiyan, the November 8 typhoon which decimated much of Philippines, and now she had pneumonia. The girl was receiving antibiotics at the Australian Medical Assistance Team’s (AusMAT) field hospital, known as Camp Kookaburra, established next to Tacloban airport.
“In the time it took to get to medical help these wounds had become infected and required at least one surgical debridement if not more. “Antibiotics were the mainstay of treatment and all patients were on between one to three different types. “As time moved on from the typhoon the ailments became more medically focused as in pneumonia’s and more chronic conditions in which people had run out of medications and were unable to get more.
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Research shows selenium can reduce pre-eclampsia by Karen Keast Midwives and pharmacists should encourage pregnant women to use multivitamins with selenium to reduce the incidence of preeclampsia, according to new research. Griffith Health Institute researchers Dr Jessica Vanderlelie and Professor Tony Perkins have discovered selenium, a mineral naturally found in food, is the key to reducing the risk of the most common pregnancy complication, particularly in overweight women. “Our research has implications for both pregnant women and those responsible for their care,” Dr Vanderlelie said. “For years women have been provided information regarding the importance of folate to healthy fetal development. “This work extends this message to encourage women to obtain their folate and a range of other essential micronutrients through multivitamin supplements, particularly if women are overweight and obese. “By doing so women may be able to reduce their risk of complications such as preeclampsia and also maximise their capacity to nutritionally support their growing baby.” Pre-eclampsia occurs in pregnant women when a lack of antioxidants coupled with damaged trophoblast cells, which are shed naturally during pregnancy, create a reaction in the woman’s immune system, damaging the placenta. The condition affects up to eight per cent of pregnancies in Australia and can impact on both the woman and the fetus, and can result in the premature delivery of the baby. Dr Vanderlelie and Professor Perkins’ research focused on placental trophoblast cells, vital to the creation of the placenta, and which rely on antioxidants. Dr Vanderlelie said she believed less selenium is now making its way into our vegetables because farmers are not using it in their Page 10 | www.ncah.com.au
fertilisers, and she urged women and their health professionals to check their multivitamins contain selenium. “We know selenium plays an important role because we can actually induce PE in pregnant rats by removing selenium from their diet,” she said. “Women who are planning to get pregnant, or find themselves pregnant, need to start using a multivitamin with selenium in it as soon as possible. “The crucial time to prevent PE is at the very start, the first trimester. “Obese and overweight women are also five times more likely to get PE and multivitamin use appears to bring this back to normal risk levels.”
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Making a career change The beginning of a new year is often a good time to reassess your aspirations and career goals. But where do you start? These experts’ tips will set you on the journey to landing your dream job in the health sector, writes Karen Keast. Ivana Williamson was just two years into her nursing career when she realised she needed a career change.
“The help that I got stayed with me and now I help people with their career change because I went through it myself.” A career coach can help you when you’re undecided which career path you want to take or when you need reassurance that you’re heading in the right direction. They can also help you with your resume, job search and interview skills, Williamson says.
Weekend and night shift work, hospital politics, catching viruses from patients, job stress and dealing with death was all taking its toll.
“It could be that you completely want to change your career or it could be you want to move into a different or pays a different > department Education that ward in the hospital,” she says. “I wanted to be athat nurse all of myevery life,” Williamson > True representation We believe each and nurse in Australia says. “Nurses look at other areas in > Membership benefits should have the opportunity to grow their career and should also the health sector and talkyou to grow allied health to help further profession. “I went to our uni and I did the course and I had professionals about what they do. put all this time and effort and energy into becoming a nurse. www.acn.edu.au | freecall 1800 061 660“When you have already got a nursing degree, sometimes to change to allied health it doesn’t “Then I thought – how am I going to get a job in require having to do three or four years, it might a completely different area?” be only a couple of years of study.” Williamson was working as a Registered Nurse at a Melbourne hospital, in the respiratory Once you’ve made your decision on which department, when she tendered her resignation direction you want to move towards, Williamson by Karen Keast and went overseas on a holiday. advises you update your skills if necessary with anknew online course, a recruitment Sarah wondered she could go back to “I I was going register to go intowith hospital within the When Haigh she returned, sheif took up intensive care agency that will help you secure permanent, university for another three years. next six months, and that I am going to be there nursing at a new hospital but was back to casual temporary positions, establish or at a birthorand then I am going to know if it’s what working shifts. At 26, the dance and drama secondary teacher yourto LinkedIn profile and lastly, but Iupdate really want do.” Then she moved the career endoscopy unit wasn’t content in herinto chosen and once most importantly, to get networking. Fast-forward two years, and Sarah has been again contemplated original day career choice of at another hospital,her working shifts from involved births, and attended is “A lot of in the35time it’s who you knowmore, ratherand than midwifery. Monday to Friday, but without the penalty looking forward to finishing the final year of her just going for a job,” she says. rates, her pay was considerably less. “It always interested me but back then, when midwifery program next year. with afirst career “My other piece of advice is if you are a nurse to IDissatisfied, looked into it,Williamson you had tomet do nursing and “It’s really flown by,”up she says. coachwas who her make a fast consider keeping your registration as once there nohelped direct entry program,” shetransition says. into a new career. you lose it it’s very hard it back.” “I can’t wait to finish beingtoaget student midwife and With the emergence of direct-entry midwifery to start being a midwife.” She was so inspired with the experience, Nurses and allied health professionals wanting courses in Australia, Sarah, who was born in Williamson eventually intoCoast career to change careers should also take South Africa and has lived moved on the Gold for Sarah says attending her first birth cementedinto her coaching. account to their personal brand. the past 11 years, investigated Griffith University’s decision change careers. Bachelor Midwifery program.her own venture, Two yearsofago, she launched Personal not just “I walked branding away andis knew that for this business is what Real Life Coaching. level “The main thing is that it’s so practical and that Iowners wantedand to high do for theexecutives, rest of mysays life. Jaclyn It was Bold, a personal branding specialist for medical was something really me,” awesome,” she says. “Hiring a career that coach wasappealed pivotal forto me in and health professionals BoldNCAH.com.au Connections. she says. getting a job so quickly,” she says. For the full articleatvisit
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“The most successful employees, nurses and health professionals have strong personal brands.”
Start networking with the people in the wards, hospitals and departments you wish to work in, Bold suggests.
Bold says strong and consistent personal branding will help nurses and allied health professionals find employment at a different hospital or clinic, enter private practice, secure promotions and new roles, and will generally fast track their career path.
“Let them be exposed to your personal brand and understand it. That way, when they see your resume and job application in the recruitment pile – you stand out.”
“Often there will be two candidates up for a position – both with the same qualifications and experience,” she says. “The candidate with a strong personal brand will always stand out above the other candidate. “For allied health professionals, a strong personal brand is the number one way to attract clients to your clinic. “People do business with people, not clinics, so getting your personal brand known in your
Job seekers can immediately begin building and improving their personal brand to bolster their career opportunities. Bold advises nurses and allied health professionals to clean up their social media profiles, tidy up their personal appearance, improve their posture and body language, and to be confident and happy. “Personal branding is a long term strategy, not a short term fix,” she says. “By doing the little things consistently well every day, you build a strong personal brand.”
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Making a career change The beginning of a new year is often a good time to reassess your aspirations and career goals. But where do you start? These experts’ tips will set you on the journey to landing your dream job in the health sector, writes Karen Keast. Ivana Williamson was just two years into her nursing career when she realised she needed a career change. Weekend and night shift work, hospital politics, catching viruses from patients, job stress and dealing with death was all taking its toll. “I wanted to be a nurse all of my life,” Williamson says. “I went to uni and I did the course and I had put all this time and effort and energy into becoming a nurse. “Then I thought – how am I going to get a job in a completely different area?” Williamson was working as a Registered Nurse at a Melbourne hospital, in the respiratory department, when she tendered her resignation and went overseas on a holiday. When she returned, she took up intensive care nursing at a new hospital but was back to working shifts. Then she moved into the endoscopy unit at another hospital, working day shifts from Monday to Friday, but without the penalty rates, her pay was considerably less.
“The help that I got stayed with me and now I help people with their career change because I went through it myself.” A career coach can help you when you’re undecided which career path you want to take or when you need reassurance that you’re heading in the right direction. They can also help you with your resume, job search and interview skills, Williamson says. “It could be that you completely want to change your career or it could be you want to move into a different department or a different ward in the hospital,” she says. “Nurses should also look at other areas in the health sector and talk to allied health professionals about what they do. “When you have already got a nursing degree, sometimes to change to allied health it doesn’t require having to do three or four years, it might be only a couple of years of study.” Once you’ve made your decision on which direction you want to move towards, Williamson advises you update your skills if necessary with an online course, register with a recruitment agency that will help you secure permanent, casual or temporary positions, establish or update your LinkedIn profile and lastly, but most importantly, to get networking. “A lot of the time it’s who you know rather than just going for a job,” she says.
Dissatisfied, Williamson met with a career coach who helped her make a fast transition into a new career.
“My other piece of advice is if you are a nurse to consider keeping up your registration as once you lose it it’s very hard to get it back.”
She was so inspired with the experience, Williamson eventually moved into career coaching.
Nurses and allied health professionals wanting to change careers should also take into account their personal brand.
Two years ago, she launched her own venture, Real Life Coaching.
Personal branding is not just for business owners and high level executives, says Jaclyn Bold, a personal branding specialist for medical and health professionals at Bold Connections.
“Hiring a career coach was pivotal for me in getting a job so quickly,” she says. Page 18 | www.ncah.com.au
community, no matter how small or large, is imperative for allied health professionals.”
“The most successful employees, nurses and health professionals have strong personal brands.”
Start networking with the people in the wards, hospitals and departments you wish to work in, Bold suggests.
Bold says strong and consistent personal branding will help nurses and allied health professionals find employment at a different hospital or clinic, enter private practice, secure promotions and new roles, and will generally fast track their career path.
“Let them be exposed to your personal brand and understand it. That way, when they see your resume and job application in the recruitment pile – you stand out.”
“Often there will be two candidates up for a position – both with the same qualifications and experience,” she says. “The candidate with a strong personal brand will always stand out above the other candidate. “For allied health professionals, a strong personal brand is the number one way to attract clients to your clinic. “People do business with people, not clinics, so getting your personal brand known in your
Job seekers can immediately begin building and improving their personal brand to bolster their career opportunities. Bold advises nurses and allied health professionals to clean up their social media profiles, tidy up their personal appearance, improve their posture and body language, and to be confident and happy. “Personal branding is a long term strategy, not a short term fix,” she says. “By doing the little things consistently well every day, you build a strong personal brand.”
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Physiotherapists label program closure a bad move by Karen Keast Physiotherapists are calling on the University of South Australia to reconsider a decision to close its post graduate programs in musculoskeletal and sports physiotherapy. The Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA) fears the move to discontinue the Masters of Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy course will result in fewer highly trained physiotherapists. “There is already a shortage of sports and musculoskeletal post graduate physiotherapy programs in Australia, particularly so in South Australia, despite there being a significant proportion of physiotherapists practising in those two interest areas,” APA president Marcus Dripps said in a statement. “This will impact the SA community, as highly trained physiotherapists are able to treat patients more effectively in order to improve outcomes such as increased function and reduced health costs.” The program’s qualifications also form a vital second step and a mandatory prerequisite for entry to the Australian College of Physiotherapists’ training program and final examination leading to Fellowship by Specialisation. The University of South Australia says it plans to discontinue the program, which is no longer compliant with the new Australian Qualifications Framework, and will embark on a process to replace it with another physiotherapy post graduate program. Vice Chancellor Professor David Lloyd said the university is not only committed to continuing its long tradition of education for physiotherapy professionals, it is also dedicated to ensuring its degree programs are of the highest standards. “Our decision to change our educational offering in post graduate physiotherapy from the current program has been taken with this in mind,” he said. Page 20 | www.ncah.com.au
“In keeping with our rich history of global leadership in the field of physiotherapy, we are about to begin a broad consultation process involving an advisory group, which includes national and international external stakeholders, to ensure that we can offer an AQF-compliant program that attracts and supports more students and is relevant to the profession.” The university’s Masters of Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapy course was the first post-graduate program developed in Australia by pioneering Adelaide physiotherapists Geoff Maitland and Marie Hammond. “Geoff Maitland’s contribution to the physiotherapy profession in the field of manipulative and musculoskeletal physiotherapy has left an enduring legacy,” Mr Dripps said. “Geoff has been recognised and honoured internationally for his work in this area and Maitland approach courses in manual therapy are currently taught in many parts of Europe.” In other developments, the APA has also announced it has re-joined Allied Health Professions Australia (AHPA), the peak advocacy body for allied health professions in Australia. AHPA represents 21 allied health professions ranging from audiologists and dietitians to occupational therapists and exercise physiologists.
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Nurse graduate crisis continues in New Zealand by Karen Keast Around a third of New Zealand’s graduate nurses are still struggling to find employment.
around the country attending interviews for very few positions.”
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) has attacked the government for failing to address the graduate nursing crisis while accusing it of incentivising district health boards (DHBs) to employ 24 more doctors than they required.
Job turnover and vacancy rates in New Zealand are at low levels with nurses remaining in their roles due to the economic climate.
“Incentivising DHBs to take new graduate doctors is not a sustainable way forward for the health system in New Zealand,” NZNO associate professional services manager Hilary Graham-Smith said.
The job woes come as a recent Nursing Council of New Zealand report revealed New Zealand is expected to experience a nursing shortage of around 15,000 nurses within 22 years.
“We are especially concerned that the problem of graduate support and positions for new nurses has not been resolved either. “Fewer than half of new graduate nurses have got a job, which means that hundreds of graduating nurses have been forced to travel Page 22 | www.ncah.com.au
More than 1230 nurses graduated last year - 57 per cent had a job in December 2012, which increased to 74 per cent in February.
The report revealed more than half of the current nursing workforce is forecast to retire in 20 years – at the same time as a predicted increase in demand for health care due to the nation’s ageing population and lifestyle disease. For the full article visit NCAH.com.au
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Nursing in the aftermath of a typhoon by Karen Keast The little girl’s outlook was incredibly grim. She had survived Typhoon Haiyan, the November 8 typhoon which decimated much of Philippines, and now she had pneumonia. The girl was receiving antibiotics at the Australian Medical Assistance Team’s (AusMAT) field hospital, known as Camp Kookaburra, established next to Tacloban airport. Cath Gaylard, a senior nurse who participated in the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre’s (NCCTRC) first deployment, labelled Team Alpha, was on night duty caring for the girl. “I went to bed in the morning thinking I wouldn’t see her again but when I went to check on her later in the day she was sitting up in bed a whole lot better,” Cath says. “That child would definitely not have made it if we weren’t there so that was a great feeling. I think a lot of us had stories like that one.” Cath, who has returned from the Philippines and is now temporarily filling in as the Vascular Access Nurse at the Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH), has spent 30 years nursing, mainly in critical care and also in emerging and remote nursing. While Cath was involved in the Bali bombing admissions to RDH, the Philippines was her first deployment. She had participated in NCCTRC courses and wanted to put what she had learnt into practice to help the typhoon victims. As a senior nurse in the ward area, mainly in the high dependency unit, Cath initially found herself treating wound injuries inflicted during the typhoon.
“Lots of foot injuries from standing on debris, other body and limb injuries from flying debris and falling trees,” she says.
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“In the time it took to get to medical help these wounds had become infected and required at least one surgical debridement if not more. “Antibiotics were the mainstay of treatment and all patients were on between one to three different types. “As time moved on from the typhoon the ailments became more medically focused as in pneumonia’s and more chronic conditions in which people had run out of medications and were unable to get more. “Lots of children were admitted with various conditions such as surgical needs and pneumonia’s, bronchiolitis’ and asthma’s.” Cath says the hospital, made up of connecting and free-standing tents, comprised an air-conditioned ward area of four high dependency beds, 20 stretcher beds and an eight-bed annex paediatric ward, as well as a two-bed operating theatre and pharmacy. There was also a separate emergency area, not air-conditioned, comprising a triage point, an area for assessment, rehydration, dressings and vaccinations and an area for pre-admission. A room for emergency births was available, as well as a two bed resuscitation tent, and a portable X-ray machine. Aside from the patient-focused areas, there were also sleeping tents for staff, as well as a mess, stores and sterilising tents.
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“Working in the hospital was rudimentary but practical,” Cath says. “We were able to provide the basic care the patients required.
“There was a great team mentality of us all being in it together with the aim of helping the victims and each other out,” she says. “We all went the extra mile for each other. This camaraderie is something I have experienced before in disaster medicine and it helps everyone get through.” Cath says despite living rough, a lack of sleep, working long hours and consuming dehydrated food, the experience was incredibly rewarding.
“The training sets you up well but there is nothing like the real thing,” she says. Almost 80 health professionals and logisticians from every Australian state and territory, and from New Zealand, formed two deployments, Team Alpha and Team Bravo, to provide assistance in the Philippines in the aftermath of the typhoon.
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More nurses and midwives working by Karen Keast The number of working nurses and midwives is on the rise in Australia, with new figures showing an extra 20,000 were employed between 2008 and 2012. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) report Nursing and Midwifery Workforce 2012 reveals the number of nurses and midwives employed increased 7.5 per cent, from 270,000 to around 290,000.
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In 2011, 8,154 people completed registered nurse tertiary qualifications and 4,719 completed enrolled nurse vocational education courses in Australia. Last year, an estimated Syringe 43,934 Pens nurses and midwives were not employed with 10,586 not looking for work in the professions and about half revealing they were employed elsewhere. A further 16,667 were on extended leave and 9,932 were overseas while 4,365 stated they were searching for employment in nursing and midwifery. The report uses data from the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme with data collected from an optional survey at the time of annual registration or registration renewal to provide a snapshot of the number, demographic and employment characteristics of nurses and midwives in Australia for workforce and health policy planning.
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Dietitians want action on diabetes by Karen Keast Dietitians are encountering diabetes on a daily basis and symptoms of type 2 diabetes are now appearing in primary school-aged children, according to the Dietitians Association of Australia.
Ms Hewat said the national strategy should include the provision of adequate care, support and assistance in treatment for those with diabetes while more needs to be done to prevent diabetes.
DAA president Claire Hewat said dietitians are increasingly working to tackle the nation’s diabetes epidemic.
“For most of the time, 90 per cent of the money is poured into treatment…we must do everything we can to prevent it,” she said.
“It’s always been something that dietitians have been involved with to a great extent but it’s getting bigger and bigger,” she said.
Obesity rates need to be reduced, and people’s diets and exercise improved to reduce the rates of lifestyle-related type 2 diabetes, Ms Hewat said.
“We are seeing really obese children showing symptoms of type 2 diabetes, which was unheard of when I graduated.” The comments come in the wake of the Federal Government’s announcement it will develop a national diabetes strategy. The government plans to establish an expert advisory group, which will consider evidence and consult with a wide range of stakeholders in a bid to establish where health spending can be better targeted to address diabetes prevention and management. Ms Hewat said it’s vital a workable strategy is developed to stem the tide of diabetes, with input from dietitians. “We certainly intend to be very much involved because nutrition is the cornerstone of treatment and prevention of diabetes,” she said. “If we don’t do something about the rise of diabetes we won’t be able to afford to treat the consequences. “If you get diabetes and it progresses then the risk of complications get higher and higher. “It’s a major contributor to heart disease; the two of them go hand in hand, kidney disease and vascular disease.” Page 28 | www.ncah.com.au
“I think the problem is there’s a lot of awareness and that’s where it stops,” she said. “Lifestyle change is difficult – you actually need support. Just telling people – gee you need to eat better, doesn’t work. People need support.” Ms Hewat said part of the solution includes changing food supply and providing easy, healthy food options. She said Australians also need improved access to dietitians, particularly those living in low socioeconomic areas. “Someone with diabetes needs to be able to get the advice they need when they need it, rather than waiting six months because they have run out of visits to the dietitian,” she said. As part of its announcement, the government pledged $35 million to support the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s Clinical Research Network in its efforts to find a cure for type 1 diabetes. It will also provide $1.4 million for the diabetes insulin pump program, providing more than 200 children and their families with subsidised access to insulin pumps.
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