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26 July 2010 - Issue 14
NURSES GET A SECOND OPINION! If you’re a nurse looking to relocate to the Middle East, now’s a great time to talk with Geneva Health to get the latest information and advice. Having just returned from a trip to the Middle East, we can offer first hand and up-todate information about the wonderful opportunities on offer here. We can also put you in touch with other nurses who are currently living and working there. While living and working in the Middle East you will enjoy a unique lifestyle while experiencing a fascinating culture, career progression, personal development, extensive travel opportunities and more, all within a well-supported international environment. Plus, we’ll help you get over there every step of the way. And what makes Nursing in the Middle East so appealing? • Tax free salary • Free flights • Free furnished accommodation and utilities • Generous annual leave • Free medical insurance and emergency dental • 12-24 month contracts • Bonuses and relocation costs (conditions apply) • International travel opportunities • Work with a leading Healthcare Recruitment company So, if you’re looking for a working holiday with all the benefits, then the Middle East is for you. And if you’re looking for a recruitment company with all the right support and advice, then Geneva Health International is for you.
Contact Pauline: Email: paulinem@genevahealth.com NZ freephone: 0800 438 285 AU freephone: 1800 151 275 DDI: +64 9 916 0150 or register online at www.genevahealth.com Geneva Health are proud to be winners of Favourite Large Specialist Recruiter at the 2008 and 2009 SEEK Annual Recruitment Awards
Ahlan Wa Sahlan (Welcome, may you arrive as part of the family)
Geneva Health has an amazing variety of exciting health sector opportunities in the Middle East ranging from the uniqueness of Saudi Arabia to the cosmopolitan United Arab Emirates. Our experienced Consultants have just returned from one of their regular visits and so have up to date information on life and living in this great location. When considering relocating to this amazing part of the world, as well as generous tax free salaries, sign on bonus’s* and free accommodation you will also be able to use this as a base to travel - imagine being only 5 hours from London, a few hours from the Mediterranean and more importantly to be earning the money to make this happen. As one our recent candidates highlighted – “ I managed to save $48,000 AUD dollars in 12 months and still managed to get away to the UK, Malta, the USA and get back to New Zealand!” Saudi Arabia is an awe inspiring exotic location. There are ancient markets (Souks) and other historical relics. The capital Riyadh rivals any modern city in the world in the splendour of its architecture and one of the fastest growing cities in the world! Jeddah, the
wealthiest city in the Middle East, on the coast of the Red Sea, has many exciting and wondrous sights–go scuba diving through red coral reefs, or try camel racing across the desert. The United Arab Emirates are modern and westernised. Dubai is known as the party capital of the Middle East, with Casinos, Nightclubs and a never-ending nightlife. Abu Dhabi offers a slightly slower pace of life but still provides excellent recreation and social facilities, and is rapidly expanding. The desert oasis of Al Ain also offers a unique opportunity to see and experience more of this part of the world. Take advantage of this one in a lifetime experience, go to www.genevahealth.com.au and look through the Middle East vacancies to see the fantastic opportunities awaiting you.
Maasalama Shokran
(Farewell with peace and Thank you)
From the Editor... Welcome to Issue 14! Our Congratulations firstly goes to Jane Johansen and the wonderful staff from the rehab ward at the Hills Private Hospital for being our front cover photo winners for this issue! This is what Jane had to say about the photo: “This is pizza day at the Hills Private Hospital, Baulkham Hills. The staff are treated with 20 Pizzas compliments of the General Manager Indra, and all the staff share lunch and laughs what a generous treat and how appreciated are we made to feel in the workforce. The Hills Private is a refurbished 102 bed Private Rehabilitation and state if the art Mental Health facility with happy and contented staff”. Jane has previously submitted photos that has become winners in the front cover competition. This entry will make it her fourth win thus far. Want to see yourself and your colleagues on the front cover? Just send us your happy snaps for your chance to be seen. Show you care by pledging your support for the ANF’s “Because We Care” campaign. Turn to page 30 to learn how you can make a difference and help support nurses and aged care staff who care for older Australians. And last of all, don’t forget to enter our competition where the prize is a $500 Coles Group & Myer gift voucher. Go to page 9 for details on how you can win it! Good luck!
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You can really develop your nursing career ‘at the gallop’ in the Arabian Peninsula. The pace of
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Journeys through time in Arabia. Hi everyone, Many of our nurses who are thinking about a contract in the Middle East often remark that they know very little about the Arabian peninsula except for the modern cities like Dubai and Abu Dhabi. So I thought I’d try to give you a flavour of some of the journeys of discovery into the heart of Arabia (now Saudi Arabia) so that you’ll be inspired to go and explore on your own. Actually in a broader sense, that’s what living and working in the Middle East is really all about. Bounded by the Red Sea in the west and the waters of the Gulf in the east, the Arabian peninsula consists mainly of Saudi Arabia with the smaller Gulf states of the UAE and Qatar on the Gulf coast and Oman and Yemen in the south facing the Indian Ocean. A huge waterless expanse of shifting sands called Rub-al-Khali or the Empty Quarter in the southern interior formed an effective barrier between most of these states. But the latest research suggests it wasn’t always so. Geological evidence suggests that as early as 5000 years go there were lakes in the Empty Quarter. Also, Saudi archaeologists are reclaiming from the sands a large city complex dating from that period - clearly impossible without abundant water. From an historical-political perspective, Arabia lies at the fault line between a succession of Western European empires and various Eastern empires based in Persia or beyond. For millennia, these two forces have contested for dominance over territory and for access to lucrative trade routes, such as for incense from Oman, the India trade and for spices from East Asia. For example, Octavius Caesar after defeating Mark Antony and Cleopatra in Egypt, sent a Roman legion into Arabia to try to wrest control of the lucrative incense trade from the local Arabs. Aided by the Nabateans (of Petra fame), Aelius Gallus took his legion across the Red Sea to what is present day Saudi Arabia, crossed the mountains and headed south towards
Yemen. Unfortunately for Aelius, his force was decimated by thirst and disease before finding any frankincense and he was forced to return in failure to Alexandria. Jumping forward almost 2000 years, it is incredible how little Europeans knew about the interior of the Arabia peninsula until relatively recently - it had remained uncharted and inaccessible. Then, a succession of fascinating characters, mainly English explorers and adventurers, included some memorable women, opened the region to European eyes from 1862 onwards. For example, Lady Anne Blunt, who travelled widely in the region, purchased many Arab horses from the Bedu, and was instrumental in establishing Arabian bloodstock lines in the West. More recently, the accounts of Wilfred Thesiger’s crossings of the Empty Quarter in the 1950s in his book Arabian Sands make for inspired travel reading. The great thing is that a contract to work in Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states) offers you unique access to explore this fascinating land. There are lots of great places to see and experience but I won’t go on about them – that’s for you to discover for yourself, as I did. Perhaps you can rekindle some of the romance and adventure of travellers past like some of our other intrepid candidates – maybe even write a book about your travels. Regards and happy travelling
Chris Christine Kohleis RN Recruitment Director Promesse
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CALLING ALL ADVENTUROUS NURSES THE UK IS WAITING FOR YOU Looking for a way to simultaneously boost your career potential and give yourself the holiday experience of a lifetime? Look no further than the UK. The UK has been the most popular working holiday location for Australians for years and there’s little on its doorstep and an abundance of history and culture to boot! Could you see yourself; spending a long weekend on a beach in Spain? Popping on a train for a quick shopping trip to France? Catching a comedy gig and some castle gazing in Edinburgh or cheering along with the most passionate football fans in the world at Stamford Bridge Stadium? Hays Healthcare can make your dreams a reality. As the largest specialist recruitment agency in the UK we have found a great demand for enthusiastic and experienced Australian Nurses. If you have experience in Theatres: Anaesthetics, Scrub/Scout or Recovery, ICU, CCU, A&E, Paediatrics, Oncology, Orthopaedics, Cardiothoracic, General Medical or General Surgery then we have roles for you. Our roles are located around the country from central London, to Manchester and Leeds in the North to Oxford and Southampton in the South, even Birmingham and Leicester in the Midlands and beautiful Finding permanent or agency work with us means that you can benefit from our great range of extras. We mandatory training and assistance organising your ONP, UK Bank Account and National Insurance number, as well as personalised customer service throughout the relocation process. refer a friend (please enquire for eligibility). For more information and free information pack please contact:
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Nurses from all specialities urgently required for country work. Numerous positions available Australia wide and especially in NSW & QLD hospitals. For more information please contact our friendly consultants on: 1300 305 594 | nurses@mediserve.com.au
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We are seeking nurses from all specialities for vacancies in various Public and Private metropolitan hospitals. Currently there are many positions available in both Brisbane & Sydney. Please contact: Liina in Brisbane: (07) 3229 2528 | brisbane@mediserve.com.au Stephanie in Sydney: (02) 9290 2700 | sydney@mediserve.com.au
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Ausmed Publications..................................... 21 Article - Bullying in the Workplace............ 22 ACMHN: 36th International Conference . ..... 23 FPNSW: Pushing the Boundaries .................. 24 33rd Oncology Group Conference ............... 25 Article - Mandatory Overtime in Nursing... 26 The Shifting Sands of Transplantation . .......... 27 The 11th International Mental Health ........... 28 Birth, Bump and Beyond .............................. 29 ANF: Because We Care Campaign ............... 30-31 Smart Strokes: New Futures........................... 32 ACRA 2010 .................................................. 33
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hat is bullying? The International Labour Organization defines bullying as “offensive behaviour through vindictive, cruel, malicious or humiliating attempts to undermine an individual or groups of employees” (ILO, 1998). It is a form of psychological violence. One would like to believe that bullying does not take place in the healthcare setting. In fact, bullying is “one of the fastest growing complaints of workplace violence (ILO, 1998)”. Bullying can come from many different sources, such as managers, patients, families, supervisors and colleagues. What are some of the ways in which bullying takes place? The following are several examples: Scenario 1: Your manager holds a meeting to which you were not notified or invited, although all of your colleagues knew. Scenario 2: Your supervisor loudly chastises you in front of a patient and their family members. Scenario 3: Your colleagues continually and subtly harass and
humiliate you in the form of offcolour remarks. Scenario 4: Your supervisor continuously schedules you for overtime on the weekends, although he/she does not expect the same from your colleagues. Scenario 5: A patient’s family member marches into the nurse’s station and calls you names, yelling and threatening you. Bullying in the workplace can have a major impact. Victims of bullying are likely to feel isolated, stressed, depressed and even fearful. They may use more sick time in an effort to avoid the stressful situation. On the whole, staff morale suffers, leading to resignations of victimized staff members and difficulty recruiting into open positions. Patient care may suffer as a result. These are but a few of the negative consequences that bullying can have. As nurses, we have a duty to respect each other and our workplace. This includes not only refraining from bullying behaviour, but reporting such behaviour when it is witnessed.
Continued Professional Development provided by AusmedOnline Comment on this clinical article at: www.ausmedonline.com/nursing-blog.html Workplace Bullying in the Health Sector (ICHRN, 2007). Retrieved from the web July 12, 2010. http:// www.icn.ch/images/stories/documents/publications/fact_sheets/19l_FS-Bullying_Health_Sector.pdf
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Violence on the Job- A Global Problem. International Labour Organization, 1998. Retrieved from the web July 12, 2010. http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Press_releases/lang--en/WCMS_007970/index.htm
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PUSHING the BOUNDARIES Educational Courses, Conferences & Events
Family Planning NSW Annual Conference and Open Day
• Chlamydia – the hype and the reality • Sex Selection in Pregnancy • Contraception – new frontiers • Facilitated panel discussion on young people, oral sex, and risk taking
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Concurrent workshops • Transgender Issues • Unplanned Pregnancy • Premature Ejaculation and Erectile Dysfuncion • Implanon Insertion Training
Presented by experts in the field
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About the conference
This conference is for all health workers who care for people with cancer or who are involved in the prevention, early detection of cancer and cancer screening. The conference attracts both specialist cancer nurses and nurses who care for people with cancer in hospitals and communities across Queensland. Although the conference is an initiative of the Oncology Nurses Group, the program is very relevant to all health professionals, highlighting the importance of an interdisciplinary approach in cancer care.
Conference sessions
The 33rd Annual Oncology Nurses Group Conference will feature an exciting educational program relevant to everyday clinical practice in regional and metropolitan settings including current trends in prevention and screening, diagnosis, treatment, psychosocial care, research and health education. It is specially designed for:
• Nurses with an interest in cancer care • Allied health professionals working in cancer care • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health workers working in cancer care
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Radisson Resort Gold Coast, Queensland
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Mandatory Overtime
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ne of the most contentious issues surrounding the current nursing shortage in many countries is the issue of mandatory overtime, or the practice of forcing nurses to work beyond their scheduled hours as a response to a shortage of staff. As the nursing shortage has intensified globally, many nurses find themselves on the receiving end of mandatory overtime, and find themselves feeling resentful and frustrated. Do nurses have an ethical obligation to work overtime when there are chronic staffing shortages? Some say yes, citing the fact that patients are at risk when staffing levels fall below what is considered safe and acceptable, and that nurses are ethically (and morally) bound to care for their patients, even if it means they must work above and beyond their scheduled hours. Many nurses, not unsurprisingly,
disagree. They not only disagree with this practice because they resent being forced to work more than they want to- they also disagree because there are other important issues involved, the most important of which is patient safety. Fatigued nurses are tired nurses, and tired nurses are more likely to make errors. We are, after all, only human. The precise and exact nature of nursing demands alertness and attention to detail. These factors may be degraded by exhausted nurses working beyond their physical and mental capabilities. Despite issues of patient safety, many nurses worldwide find themselves working more than they should. As more nurses retire and the nursing shortage reaches critical numbers, this issue will continue to be a bone of contention for practicing nurses who wish to work the number of hours they were hired to work- and no more.
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Wednesday 20th (evening) - Friday 22nd October 2010
Sea World Resort & Water Park
The 2010 Transplant Nurses Association (TNA) Conference will welcome all people working within the Australasian or International transplant field particularly nurses, allied health workers and other health care professionals, who share interest in the nursing, the psycho-social, the scientific , the ethical, and the global aspects, trends of and influences upon; transplantation. Expect a dizzying array of poster and oral presentations, from Invited Speakers, TNA Members and Others. The broad appeal of “The Shifting Sands” will capture the interest of a diverse audience who embrace the adage: “Look back to the early transplant shore, look towards the transplant horizon, be in awe of the transplant sea, be both its servant and its master.” 27
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Australasian Midwifery Expo
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BUMP BIRTH & BEYOND ...a road to discovery 20th – 22nd October 2010 Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Welcome to the 4th Midwifery Expo and 12th National Association of Childbirth Educators (NACE) Biennial Conference. ‘Bump, birth & beyond – a road to discovery’ will be a two and a half day journey with exciting and prestigious speakers from Australia, New Zealand and the USA. Keynote presenters will engage you on topics and research ranging from preconception to childbirth, including breastfeeding, parenting and program development for diverse populations.
Whether you are looking for inspiration to boost your childbirth education skills or you are searching for a fresh view of the ‘bump & birth’ environment, we are sure our conference will cater to your needs. Come and join us on this amazing road to discovery! Sarah Moulton, National President, National Association of Childbirth Educators (NACE)
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• Attend ANF events at Productivity Commission hearings • Be an ANF witness in the Productivity Commission • Download and send a submission or letter from becausewecare.org.au • Go to becausewecare.org.au and tell us your story • Sign the petition online to support the ANF submission to the Productivity Commission • Attend a branch meeting of aged care workers • Talk to your local candidate for the upcoming federal election. Ask
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The program will provide opportunities to reflect on our past achievements and consider the challenges, ahead, how we can change the face of cardiovascular health and rehabilitation in Australia, and showcase our achievements. We expect to attract upwards of 200 delegates, cardiologists, general practitioners, nurses and allied health professionals.
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