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RN Jenny Selway’s fundraising effort for Timor-Leste
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Public sector nurses and midwives vote Vote YES in the upcoming Elections Australia electronic ballot
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Know your entitlements Inside this edition
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Clinical nurse specialist (CNS) within the public sector
Know your entitlements Secretary’s report
Celene McMullan, Information Officer
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• Public sector mental health EBA
Am I eligible to apply for a clinical nurse specialist position?
• Public sector general EBA
To be eligible to apply you must:
• Hammondcare EBA
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1. be a registered nurse permanently employed on a full-time or part-time basis
• Private EBA update
• RDNS EBA update
2. hold a post basic qualification (relevant to the speciality/clinical area) and have 12 months experience in the clinical area of your specified post basic qualification and/ or be responsible for clinical nursing duties
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3. have a minimum of four years post registration experience, including three years experience in the relevant specialist field, and 4. meet the clinical nurse specialist criteria (which are detailed below).
To apply for a clinical nurse specialist position, you must be able to demonstrate one criterion in each of the following areas.
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• ‘Make health and aged care a priority’: ANMF
• Higher level of skill demonstrated in clinical decision making – in particular, in problem identification and solution, and analysis and interpretation of clinical data
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• Maintenance and improvement of clinical standards.
• Education calendar
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2. Professional behaviour • Be a positive role model • Act as a mentor or preceptor to less experienced nurses, including graduate nurses • Support and contribute to quality improvement and research projects within the area of practice and ward/ unit/department
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- participation in effective learning activities relevant to your learning needs; or
- membership of a sub-grouping of the professional association relevant to your area of practice, for example a special interest group. See page 12 for a list of special interest groups.
Each public sector employer must advertise once every six months. You then apply in writing to the nurse unit manager.
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What are the clinical nurse specialist criteria?
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- learning from a journal article, or attendance at a conference or seminar, or reflection on seminar or conference papers; or
Different provisions apply in mental health.
• OHS workshops and seminars
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• Membership of relevant professional body, and ability to demonstrate and document:
• Act as a resource person to others in relation to clinical practice. 3. Professional development • Contribute to the education of other professionals – for example, being willing to provide at least one in-service education program each year • Undertake own planned professional development and competence through various forms of continuing education – for example, conferences, study days, formal study, reading
Interviews, if required, will be conducted by the unit manager, associate unit manager or educator and one other person. Some health agencies (for example, where service delivery is similar across the facility) may have an ‘umbrella’ committee for the purpose of interviews. If successful you will be notified in writing within seven days. The pay office will be informed of your new classification at the same time, and you should be paid at your new classification from the next pay period. You will also be notified within seven days if you are unsuccessful and given an explanation for the decision. Your employer must have an appeal process. If you wish to appeal the decision, you must lodge an appeal within two weeks of receiving notification you were unsuccessful. Appeals are directed to the director of nursing or their nominee. An independent panel will be convened, consisting of a director of nursing or nominee, nurse unit manager, clinical nurse specialist or other nominee. Those involved in the original decision should not be on the panel. The appeal committee will review the decision within four weeks. You may at this stage seek advice and assistance from the ANMF (Vic Branch). Enterprise agreements in non-public workplaces have additional or similar criteria and processes. If you cannot locate a copy of your enterprise agreement at your workplace call the ANMF Information Line for advice – 9275 9333.
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Secretary’s report
Your ANMF Lisa Fitzpatrick State Secretary
Paul Gilbert
Assistant Secretary
Vote yes in the public sector EBA ballot Lisa Fitzpatrick Public sector agreement ballot The 2016 public sector nurses and midwives enterprise agreement has more positive changes than any EBA since the process started in the early 1990s. Following months of painstaking drafting and federal and state government approvals all public sector nursing and midwifery employees, not just ANMF members, will vote on the 2016 enterprise agreement this month. Members now have access to the final document and will have started receiving information about the implementation of the agreement, outlining the electronic ballot process and why we recommend you vote ‘yes’. Workplaces have also started paying nurses and midwives the new pay rates and their back pay. All public sector Job Reps have received an invitation by email to attend one of the four-hour EBA Education Seminars in September and October. These metropolitan and regional seminars are being conducted jointly by ANMF and the Victorian Hospitals’ Industrial Association.
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ANMF AGM The annual general meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 13 December 2016 at 5.30pm, Level 7, ANMF House, 540 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne VIC 3000. All members are invited to attend. Copies of the ANMF (Vic Branch) annual report 2015-2016, including financial statements, will be available. Call Lindy Williams on 9275 9321 to register your attendance by 6 December (for catering purposes).
These seminars are designed to assist ANMF Job Reps explain the ballot process and the changes in the new agreement to members in their workplaces. They are an opportunity to learn about the EBA's major changes clause by clause. Thank you to all of our Job Reps in all sectors for the important role you have as the voice of the ANMF in the workplace. If you don’t have at least two Job Reps in every ward or small workplace please consider nominating. You’ll find more information at www.bit.ly/becjobrep We are excited about our 2017 Job Rep education program which will move to a blend of online and face-to-face workshops. The introduction of an online introductory component will enable the workshops to focus on more advanced problem solving of specific workplace issues. Enough is enough After more than 100 days of protected industrial action and 38 negotiation meetings ANMF called on the Victorian Mental Health Minister Martin Foley to intervene. ANMF had written to Mr Foley seeking assistance to
commit all parties to substantial negotiations to resolve their outstanding matters and the Minister has assisted. At the time of writing, negotiations were almost complete and a members meeting was scheduled for 21 September to consider a final offer. RDNS members vote to accept agreement On 24 August RDNS members rallied outside RDNS headquarters in St Kilda, forming a sea of red in their 2016 EBA 'Value. Recognise. Reward' shirts. At that rally I urged members to stand firm for a fair agreement. ACTU President Ged Kearney and Secretary Dave Oliver also addressed RDNS members at the rally, reminding them that the whole union movement was behind them. RDNS members did stand firm, despite RDNS docking their pay for work bans, and on 15 September RDNS members voted to accept a new two-year agreement. See page 5 for more details. The commitment and solidarity of RDNS members resulted in an improved EBA offer being endorsed at a members meeting held at ANMF on 15 September. 30 years since 1986 strike If you were involved in the 1986 Victorian nurses 50-day strike you will never forget it. If you have recently graduated we think it is important you understand how its legacy impacts on your career today. Next month we will remember the strike 30 years on in a special commemoration feature in On the Record and an online exhibition of images and interviews. The first walkout took place on 5 November 1986 at Western General. Those emotional walkouts and 50 days of picket lines, in Melbourne and regional Victoria, stopped the Cain Government demoting more than 60 per cent of Victoria’s nurses and slashing wages. It continues to be among the most significant industrial action taken by nurses in this country. It will be remembered because of the courage and sacrifice of nurses who paved the way and showed us what we could achieve when we work together.
Cover image: Members applaud Peter Baines, founder of Hands Across the Water, at the Australian Nurses and Midwives Conference. Photography: Les O'Rourke. On the Record is the official publication of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (Victorian Branch). OTR is published monthly.
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News ANMF in talks with HammondCare for fair EBA ANMF (Vic Branch) was continuing enterprise agreement negotiations with HammondCare last month after members voted down an initial agreement offer which ANMF deemed ‘substandard’. About 83 per cent of HammondCare staff voted to reject the proposed agreement which would have left them with pay that was six to 20 per cent below other Victorian high care facilities such as Blue Cross.
‘Enough is enough’: ANMF letter to Mental Health Minister ANMF (Vic Branch) called on Mental Health Minister Martin Foley to intervene in negotiations over a new enterprise agreement, and he has. In a letter to the Minister, ANMF (Vic Branch) expressed frustration about the length of time being taken to finalise an EBA for public sector mental health members. The letter, sent on 2 September, called for all parties involved in the negotiations to confirm, in writing, what they were definitely seeking within the agreement, and commit to remain at negotiations until all matters were finalised. ANMF provided a list of unresolved issues to government and employers on 6 September. With the MInister's assistance, a further five negotiation meetings took place between 8 and 12 September. A paid statewide public sector mental health members meeting was called for 21 September to discuss a proposed outcome. On Friday 26 August, ANMF public sector mental health members had been taking protected industrial action for 100 days in pursuit of a fair agreement. In the letter to the Minister, ANMF (Vic Branch) said there had been 38 negotiation meetings since EBA talks began in January, all attended by ANMF. In contrast, it took only 18 meetings to finalise the general public sector enterprise agreement. ANMF also requested that the final government offer for the enterprise agreement be tabled and resolved, regarding wages, additional mental health staffing numbers and implementation, community workload management and the retention of nurses as part of community teams. The ANMF and HACSU submitted a claim to the Victorian Government for 128.8 additional equivalent full-time (EFT) staff, for bed-based services. Visit anmfvic.asn.au for an update on the public sector mental health EBA campaign.
ANMF informed members that HammondCare was attempting to replicate its NSW terms and conditions in Victoria, while ANMF was pursuing Victorian aged care wages and entitlements. ANMF (Vic Branch) also filed an application with the Fair Work Commission for the right of HammondCare members to take protected industrial action in pursuit of an enterprise agreement.
At the time of going to print, a secret ballot for the right to take industrial action was set to commence following the Fair Work Commission hearing on 16 September. Only ANMF and Health Workers Union members can take part in the ballot. ANMF HammondCare members were scheduled to meet on Tuesday 20 September to discuss progress with the enterprise agreement negotiations and the protected industrial action ballot. For further details, visit anmfvic.asn.au
Public sector nurses and midwives receive pay increases and back pay Public sector nurses and midwives began receiving their wage increases under the new EBA from 24 August, with back pay in the following pay period. Back pay is from the first pay period on or after 1 April. A ballot for public sector nurses and midwives to vote on the new enterprise agreement will open and public sector members will have received information from ANMF and their employer about the ballot. Visit our website anmfvic.asn.au if you need information. ANMF (Vic Branch) strongly recommends that public sector members vote ‘yes’ to this historic agreement, which will bring Victorian nurses and midwives to net pay parity with their NSW counterparts in 2019, the agreement’s third year. Until a successful ballot is completed and the Fair Work Commission approves the new agreement, new provisions are not legally enforceable. However, as a goodwill gesture to public sector nurses and midwives, the Victorian Government approved the payment of new pay rates and back pay prior to the ballot. The wage increases for the first year of the 2016–20 EBA are the 2015 rate, plus the continuing professional development (CPD) allowance of $900, plus three per cent. As a result of the increase in the base hourly rate, penalty rates have also increased. To view the public sector wage and allowance increases for individual classifications and a summary of changes under the new agreement visit www.anmfvic.asn.au/eba2016 In 2017 wages will rise by three per cent from 1 April and in 2018 there will be a
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3.25 per cent wage rise. On 1 April 2019, public sector nurses and midwives receive the wage rises that will bring them net parity with their NSW counterparts, taking into account Victorian nurses receive 100 per cent of the salary packaging benefit and NSW nurses receive only 50 per cent of their benefit with the other 50 per cent paid to their employer. Victorian pay increases will be between four and 20 per cent depending on classification and what increase is required to reach net pay parity with NSW.
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Over September and October, ANMF (Vic Branch) and the Victorian Hospitals’ Industrial Association have organised a For more information go t series of enterprise agreement briefings in metropolitan and regional Victoria for www.anmfvic.asn.a Job Reps, nurse managers, health services’ human resources personnel and hospital Elections Australia Pty Ltd executives. Conducting elections throughout Australia since 1974
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Private acute enterprise agreement update Enterprise agreement negotiations with private sector employers have been successful, with Ramsay, St John of God, Cabrini and Epworth all offering wage increases that will match wages for nurses and midwives working for these employers with their public sector counterparts in 2020.
Ramsay Ramsay members have agreed to a new enterprise agreement which will see Ramsay nurses and midwives reach wage parity with the public sector by 29 September 2020. A final sticking point was resolved when the Fair Work Commission recommended that the rule for part-time staff regarding public holiday rostered off benefit be the same as Healthscope’s EBA agreement – if part-time staff have worked on the day of the week on which the public holiday falls more than 50 per cent of the time in the previous six months, they are entitled to the rostered-off benefit.
RDNS members vote to accept new agreement
A final meeting to draft the Ramsay agreement was held on 31 August and Ramsay members voted to endorse the agreement on 12 September.
On 15 September RDNS members voted to accept an offer from management for a two-year agreement, ending a campaign of industrial action lasting more than a month.
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The new agreement will expire on 1 June 2018 and will entail two wage increases:
St John of God members are considering a draft agreement which includes wage parity with the public sector until 2020, with wage increases of between 15.9 per cent and 27.5 per cent, depending on classification. The agreement includes a range of improvements including, for the first time, a disciplinary procedures clause. The draft agreement also includes a modified long service leave clause designed to address excessive accruals of long service leave but maintaining the right to preserve entitlements.
Cabrini Like most other private sector employers, Cabrini management has offered wages parity with the public sector in five increases over four years, with Cabrini nurses and midwives to reach wage equality with the public sector in 2020.
Epworth Epworth management offered a wage increase consistent with other private sector employers – five wage increases over four years, with wage increases up to 24 per cent depending on classification. The first increase will be payable on 1 November 2016 and the final increase of the agreement will be paid on 1 July 2020. Epworth members were meeting to consider the agreement on 19 September.
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RDNS nurses who attended the September 15 meeting at ANMF House
• roll-in of CPD allowance and then a 2.25 per cent from the first full pay period on or after 24 September and • 2.75 per cent on the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2017. ANMF members sought a four-year agreement but RDNS refused, citing funding uncertainties surrounding the transfer of home and community care (HACC) funding to the Federal Government and consumer-directed care. ANMF recommended the agreement to members on the basis that nurses’ pay would remain above the public sector in 2016 and 2017, taking into account RDNS salary packaging arrangements. The agreement rolls into RDNS nurses’ wages the $700 continuing professional development allowance and to community care aides’ wages a $300 CPD allowance which means the hourly rate is boosted and it is indexed by wage increases. There were no losses of conditions. The agreement retains a higher Sunday shift loading (175 per cent) than the public sector agreement and access to six weeks of annual leave for all shift workers, including those working part-time. RDNS members began taking protected industrial action for a fair enterprise agreement on 11 August, holding
stop-work meetings, wearing red union shirts and instituting work bans, such as refusing to issue invoices. RDNS responded to the work bans by docking members’ pay. RDNS members rallied at RDNS headquarters on Wednesday 24 August to demonstrate their solidarity and resolve to not back away from a fair EBA. ANMF (Vic Branch) Secretary Lisa Fitzpatrick, ACTU President Ged Kearney and ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver addressed the rally, telling the nurses to stand firm. Ms Fitzpatrick also addressed RDNS members at the 15 September meeting at which RDNS members voted on the agreement, telling members they were ‘amazing’. ‘I think you’ve shown extraordinary solidarity, extraordinary commitment and to be taking industrial action since the 11th of August is a credit to you,’ she said. Ms Fitzpatrick said the industrial action had contributed both to the agreement accepted by the RDNS members as well as the unequivocal rejection of the previous offer which contained a lower wage increase, plus loss of entitlements. Ms Fitzpatrick and Industrial Officer Leigh Hubbard thanked the Job Reps who had represented their colleagues at meetings about the enterprise agreement since March and all RDNS members who had taken part in protected industrial action.
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In focus – Australian Nurses and Midwives Conference Looking into the crystal ball at healthcare The impact of the fast pace of life, how we will ‘reinvent’ dying and the health impacts of climate change are some of the ‘known unknowns’ of the healthcare sphere, Dr Keith Suter, managing director of the Global Directions Thinktank told the Australian Nurses and Midwives Conference. Dr Suter took nurses and midwives through emerging trends in healthcare, including what we know and don’t know about these trends. One thing we do know, he said, is that resources for healthcare are finite while demand for healthcare is not: there will always be waiting lists. Another known is that great progress has been made reducing the level of ill-health in Australia in the past century. Dr Suter said we may be on the cusp of a ‘fourth industrial revolution’ in which digital, physical and biological factors are combined to create superhumans. People could look forward to a greater life expectancy as well as greater health expectancy, with use of technology to enhance function and people taking better care of their health. ‘Sixty is the new 40. Today’s older people are much ‘younger’ than their parents were at their age,’ he said. As baby boomers were ageing they had turned their attention away from sex, drugs and rock and roll to revolutionising ageing and death, he said.
Human enhancement technologies (HET), once limited to hearing aids and spectacles, would include cognitive enhancing drugs to improve memory and concentration and bionic limbs to restore mobility. These technologies would enable older workers to have as much physical capacity as younger workers, Dr Suter claimed, evoking the image of wards being staffed by 80-90-year-old nurses. ‘Mindset’ would be more important than skillset, with qualities such as openness to new ideas, resilience and amenability – qualities that are not age-dependent – being valued. But Dr Suter tempered this positive view of people living healthily and capably into old age with the question of who was going to care for the old. In the US, 30,000 women per year are victims of ‘granny dumping’, where women with dementia are taken to hospital and left outside without any identification, he said.
Dr Keith Suter
Research reveals shocking incidence of post-partum family violence Nurses and midwives at the Australian Nurses and Midwives Conference heard disturbing statistics about the incidence of partner violence towards first-time mothers. Professor Stephanie Brown from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute is leading a longitudinal study into health outcomes for first-time mothers and their children in Victoria. The study, now in its tenth year, involves more than 1500 mothers recruited at six Victorian public hospitals. Eighteen months after giving birth, participants were asked to report on 18 items relating to physical or psychological violence from intimate partners. One in five, or 20 per cent, of first-time mothers had experienced violence from an intimate partner in the first 12 months after giving birth, either physical violence or psychological violence or both. That means approximately 14,000 Victorian families are affected by family violence in the first year of a child’s life. More than one in four of the first-time mothers and their children had been exposed to family violence in the first four years post birth. Dr Brown told nurses and midwives that the study was initially looking at physical health after childbirth but the impact of family violence had become a focus as the research revealed links between family violence and women’s 6
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and children’s health. Women had to report three forms of emotional abuse before being categorised as experiencing psychological abuse. ‘It was very important to us how women felt about being asked about these issues and we’ve kept track of their comments as we’ve gone along,’ Dr Brown said. ‘Women often commented that being asked these questions gave them the perspective that they were not alone, that if we were asking these questions in a big study after childbirth other women must be having these experiences. That reflects back to us how isolating the experience of physical and psychological abuse can be for women and how difficult they find to talk about it.’ Mothers who had experienced partner violence were: • t wice as likely to experience vaginal bleeding in pregnancy • twice as likely to experience incontinence • f our times as likely to experience depressive symptoms
Professor Stephanie Brown Two out of five women who reported depressive symptoms at any point of the research timeframe had experienced family violence. This was an important finding of the study, Dr Brown said, as clinicians were likely to take a different approach to a mother’s postpartum depression if they knew she was experiencing family violence. Women experiencing partner violence were more likely to have low birth weight children or stillbirths and their children were more likely to have emotional or behavioural difficulties at age four, the research found.
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Associate Professor Tracey Moroney
Support our early career nurses, senior nurses urged Associate Professor Clare Rees
Fostering resilience in the nursing profession If we better understand resilience and how to nurture it, we can help nurses avoid burnout and compassion fatigue, Associate Professor, Clare Rees, School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University, told the Australian Nurses and Midwives Conference. Despite being easy to describe, trying to unpack the elements of resilience was a huge research challenge, Dr Rees said. She said one of her favourite images to represent resilience was a lighthouse withstanding stormy seas, its light still shining into the darkness. ‘I think that relates really nicely to you as nurses working in high-stress environments with all kinds of incidents, occupational violence, and difficult work hours, and you stand tall and remain resilient within your work,’ she said. Dr Rees said she and other researchers had produced a model of resilience, available in the article Understanding individual resilience in the workplace, published in the open access journal Frontiers in psychology. Factors feeding into resilience were a person’s innate ‘neuroticism’ – their vulnerability to anxiety or depression, or ‘Woody Allen’ nature - together with coping strategies, mindfulness and the degree to which a person perceives themselves as capable. In turn, resilience influences outcomes such as burnout, stress, anxiety or depression, and compassion fatigue. A study of 217 nurses working in a WA tertiary acute care hospital had shown a very high correlation between neuroticism and burnout, Dr Rees said.
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‘This highlights the importance of understanding what someone starts with, when you’re coming into your profession of nursing and midwifery, what’s their starting point in terms of tendency to experience negative affect?’ Mindfulness was incredibly important in resilience because the ability to detach from situations and not become too immersed or reactive helps a person to deal with situations and move on. Coping strategies could be either adaptive or maladaptive, with adaptive strategies including seeking social support and using humour, and maladaptive strategies including using alcohol or drugs to manage stress, or withdrawing and avoiding situations. Those who were vulnerable to negative affect who engaged in maladaptive coping strategies have significantly less resilience, Dr Rees said. ‘This suggests that preparation for students about how to enter the nursing workforce should include targeting students high in negative affect and train them to replace maladaptive coping – for example avoidance and substance misuse – with more adaptive coping strategies in order to strengthen their resilience, prevent burnout and hopefully retain them in the nursing workforce.’
Associate Professor Tracey Moroney teaches nursing, researches nursing and has been a registered nurse for longer than she cares to remember but still recalls being a graduate nurse as ‘the scariest time of my life’. Assoc. Prof. Moroney’s memories of her transition from study to practice continue to inform her work as the Dean of the School of Nursing at Sydney’s University of Notre Dame. Assoc. Prof. Moroney began a presentation at the ANMF (Vic Branch) Australian Nurses and Midwives Conference by reading an email to her from a former student, describing his experience as a graduate in the workplace. He told his teacher about experiencing the difference between what he had learned at university and life on the job. ‘Nurses can get so bitchy and gossipy as well,’ Assoc. Prof. Moroney read, to laughter of recognition from the audience. The transition to practice for early career nurses was a stressful period, especially in the dynamic and fast-paced acute care environment, Assoc. Prof. Moroney said. ‘We know that graduate nurse turnover is very high in the first year of employment,’ she said. ‘And we know that negative transition experiences are certainly a factor in the number of early career nurses leaving the profession.’ Assoc. Prof. Moroney said the drop-out rate was a concern for all in the profession, especially if the Health Workforce Australia nurse shortage predictions were correct. ‘We need to think about how we retain nurses in our system,’ she said. Graduate nurses were vulnerable to burn-out in their first year of practice and many start to question whether nursing is for them. It was common for graduates to think they were not ready for the work environment on leaving study. In one US study, a graduate nurse reported: ‘You build up for years and there’s the excitement of graduating – and then you have your first shift…and then all those firsts, all at once.’ The work environment was ‘make or break’ for early career nurses’ positive transition to practice and Assoc. Prof. Moroney urged senior nurses to be respectful to newcomers. She said early career nurses were desperate to be liked by their colleagues, had fragile confidence and cared a great deal about whether their practice was safe. Assoc. Prof. Moroney urged experienced nurses to give early career nurses support, tolerance, patience and encouragement.
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Member profile – Jenny Selway Jenny Selway and the children of Timor-Leste Through her local Rotary Club, ANMF member, registered nurse Jenny Selway is helping to make a difference to malnourished children in Timor-Leste in ways both big and small. The Lilydale Rotary Club coordinates a knitting project in which volunteers knit teddy bears to send to children, and has sent supplies such as soap, antibacterial hand gel, and a washing machine to the Bairo Pite Clinic in the Timorese capital of Dili.
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The club has also raised approximately $16,000 to employ a staff member Lidia Dos Santos to to oversee the malnourished children’s area of the clinic, with the support of two assistants. Having staff on hand to weigh and measure the malnourished babies and flag any issues to medical personnel, means nurses and doctors can attend to healthcare. In a country where 44 per cent of children are malnourished, that’s a valuable contribution to the developing nation. Ms Selway, who has worked for 14 years in Maroondah Hospital’s day procedure and endoscopy procedure room, visited the Bairo Pite Clinic in 2012 with her nurse unit manager Judi Seath. They met with the clinic’s newly appointed manager to discuss the clinic’s needs and how they could best help. As the two Australian nurses would only be in Dili for a few weeks, offering their nursing skills would be of little benefit. ‘There was a room where malnourished children were looked after, managed by the nursing staff. ‘But the nursing staff had 40 or 50 other patients to manage…so we thought what we could do was help the clinic employ a staff member to look after the babies in that room.’ Ms Selway has since approached the ANMF (Vic Branch) and met with Branch Secretary Lisa Fitzpatrick. As a result, ANMF is (Vic Branch) is offering Bairo Pite Clinic health workers free access to our online CPD Portal and hopes to assist Ms Selway in setting up an exchange between Timor-Leste maternal and child health nurses and MCH nurses here. The Bairo Pite Clinic was founded in 1999 by an American doctor, Dan Murphy, as a makeshift clinic in the ruins of an abandoned Indonesian health clinic.
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Jenny Selway at the Bairo Pite Clinic With the withdrawal of the Indonesian militia, 60,000 Timorese refugees had returned to Dili desperately in need of healthcare. Today ‘Dr Dan’ leads a team of over 80 Timorese staff assisted by the clinic manager and a second senior doctor, along with volunteers. The clinic provides primary care to about 300 patients per day, with many walking for days to access the treatment they need. While the Bairo Pite Clinic has thrived with the support of volunteer medical personnel, fundraising by the Bairo Foundation and financial contributions from organisations like the Lilydale Rotary Club, the health challenges of Timor-Leste as a developing country continue. Timor-Leste has one of the highest rates of women dying in pregnancy and childbirth in Asia. Limited access to clean water and basic sanitation contributes to the spread of preventable infectious diseases that can be fatal. Malaria is highly endemic and tuberculosis is a major public health problem. While Ms Selway would like to revisit the clinic and see its progress, the prospect of a return journey presents her with a dilemma, as the cost of the trip could pay for a year’s salary for one of the staff in the malnourished children’s area of the clinic.
While she hopes to return to see firsthand the clinic’s development, Ms Selway is aware that her involvement with fundraising and coordinating supplies for malnourished children at the Bairo Pite Clinic has benefited both patients and herself. ‘I’ve had to learn public speaking and I would never have met (Branch Secretary) Lisa (Fitzpatrick) otherwise,’ Ms Selway said. ‘I’ve grown as a person.’
What you can do 1. ANMF members who would like to support the Bairo Pite Clinic can donate to the Bairo Foundation at bairofoundation.org 2. Support the Lilydale Rotary Club’s effort on behalf of the clinic’s malnourished children by donating to the Rotary Club www.rotarylilydale.org.au/donate/ 3. If you would like to knit teddy bears for the children, contact Jenny Selway at r_selway@yahoo.com.au
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Join the movement for global justice for workers If every member of ANMF (Vic Branch) became a member of Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA, giving $20 per month, the sum would be a game-changer for the organisation, CEO Kate Lee says. As well as providing Union Aid Abroad financial independence, taking it beyond the influence of the Australian government of the day, Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA would be able to build a formidable movement for global justice, Ms Lee said.
Union Aid Abroad CEO, Kate Lee
As unionists we understand the importance of giving to people in need but more so, we also understand what makes big social change
A global justice organisation of the Australian union movement, Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA was formed in 1983 by Australian nurse Helen McCue. Ms McCue was inspired to establish an organisation that would support workers’ rights and professional development internationally after working alongside nurses and volunteers in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. She saw that the best way of supporting these nurses and healthcare volunteers was to help them build their skills. ‘When people join Union Aid Abroad, they contribute to our independence but they are also committing to a group of people who care about global justice and are prepared to take action for global justice,’ Ms Lee said. Those who support Union Aid Abroad assist the organisation to undertake over 40 training projects in 15 countries and campaigns including a current push to have asbestos banned around the globe. The ANMF (Vic Branch) contributes $15,000 annually to Union Aid Abroad’s support for the Mae Tao Clinic on the border of Thailand and Myanmar (formerly known as Burma). In addition many ANMF staff members also contribute on a fortnightly basis. The clinic provides healthcare to refugees and internally displaced people, including members of the Shan and Karen ethnic groups. Despite the transition from military rule to elected civilian rule under Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, Myanmar is still a troubled state and the situation for refugees and internally displaced people has seen little improvement.
‘Many people are very hopeful about what the future of Burma (Myanmar) could look like and now for the first time they have a democratically elected government… but that country is deeply impoverished,’ Ms Lee said. ‘The healthcare of that country is so shockingly bad that the efforts of all the international aid organisations together can’t meet the needs of (Myanmar’s) 56 million (people).’ More than 6000 civilians have been displaced since the Myanmar election in November 2015 and there are no signs of the conflict easing. Yet there are high hopes that eventually the displaced Shan and Karen people will be able to return to Myanmar. Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA would like to extend its support to the people of Myanmar to assist organisations like the Mae Tao Clinic to build a good, solid public healthcare system. At present, Ms Lee said, those needing hospital treatment in the capital, Rangoon, not only have to take along their own food and linen, the quality of healthcare provided is very poor. Meanwhile, the Mae Tao Clinic provides access to free medical services to displaced persons, outpatient services, a maternal child health clinic and immunisations, and feeding programs to combat malnutrition in children. Funds from Union Aid Abroad- APHEDA enable staff training. The clinic also gives internally displaced people access to family planning and services for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections. It makes sense for ANMF members to join. ANMF (Vic Branch) and its staff support Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA, not only because of its health-related projects, but because ANMF members are unionists, who understand the power of the collective. ‘Nurses in Victoria understand because they’ve won things that are the envy of others around the country – they’ve got much further in relation to nurse:patient ratios and they’ve only been able to do that by being an organised workforce’, Ms Lee said.
What you can do 1. Become a member of Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA – sign up for a monthly donation at apheda.org.au 2. Support the effort to ban and eradicate asbestos. Join Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA, download a solidarity sign and posters, and talk to others about the campaign: apheda.org.au/our-work/asbestos
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Job Representative training – July to November 2016 – metro and regional programs Program one: Introduction to your union and your role
Program two: Keeping it organised
This single-day program is for new Job Reps and a refresher for Job Reps who did their initial training at least three years ago.
This program flows on from the 2015 workplace organising programs, is open to all Job Representatives, specific to your organiser and workplace/area.
This program provides information and guidance to get you started or continue in the ANMF Job Representative role including:
Get support, information and skills to organise your workplace, communication networks, and increase member engagement.
• ANMF structure and functions
Learn how to monitor the implementation of your enterprise agreement and to maintain your rights at work. Review and renew your 2015 organising plans (if applicable).
• k ey rights, role and responsibilities of the ANMF Job Rep and the ANMF organiser role; communication networks • w hat you need to know about industrial relations legislation regarding the status and making of enterprise agreements • y our rights at work, recruitment, and strategies to raise ANMF's profile at your workplace. Melbourne-based programs are scheduled for metro-based Job Reps, and the regional programs are reserved for Job Reps according to your organiser area. It’s easy to register online, or contact us to assist you.
Introductory program dates Metro: ANMF House, Melbourne, reserved for metro based Job Reps: 12 October Regional: 26 October – Bendigo
Learn how to organise around workplace issues and maintain a strong ANMF presence in the workplace. As these programs are organiser and workplace/area specific programs, it’s an opportunity to work directly with your organiser and other Job Representatives from your workplace.
Unsure which program you should attend? Please contact the Job Rep training team. For registrations or information about any of this training you can: • Go to the website at anmfvic.asn.au • Phone 03 9275 9333 or 1800 133 353 (for regional reps) and ask for Job Rep training • Email jrt@anmfvic.asn.au
Keeping it organised program dates Metro: ANMF House, Melbourne, 8–9 November – Lisa Stingel 30 Nov–1 December – Cynthia Salmons and Christian Sanderson Regional: 27 October – Loretta Marchesi – Bendigo Please also register for the Introductory program for your location (see the Introductory program dates listed under ‘Program one: Introduction to your union and your role’. Register now to access your paid union training leave/other leave, and remember to register for your workplace/organiserspecific program.
Register online These programs are provided at no cost, and include catering (and accommodation where eligible). You need to be an elected ANMF Job Rep to attend these programs. If you would like to become an ANMF Job Rep, the nomination form is in the Job Rep section online. For guidance about the Job Rep role at your workplace, and/or the process for becoming a Job Representative, contact your workplace Job Reps or your ANMF organiser.
OHS courses
HSR Initial OHS Training Course (WorkSafe approved)
HSR Refresher OHS Training Course (WorkSafe approved)
Nurses, midwives and personal care workers are exposed to many hazards including manual handling, violence and aggression, bullying and harassment, stress, shiftwork, hazardous substances and infectious diseases.
This course relates specifically to health and aged care workplaces, with a strong focus on issues and hazards relevant to nursing and midwifery, and is designed to equip elected HSRs and Deputy HSRs with an understanding of the OHS regulatory framework. It is also designed to provide participants with the skills required to implement effective hazard control strategies in the workplace.
This one-day refresher course relates specifically to health and aged care workplaces, with a strong focus on issues and hazards relevant to nursing and midwifery. It is designed to refresh HSRs’ knowledge and understanding of the OHS regulatory framework. It is also designed to provide the skills required to implement effective hazard control strategies in the workplace.
2016 course dates:
Metro course 2016:
9-11, 24-25 November Time: 9am – 5pm each day Venue: Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House, 540 Elizabeth St, Melb Cost: $750 (payable by employer). Register online: anmfvic.asn.au/hsr-training
13 October Time: 9am – 5pm Venue: Carson Conference Centre ANMF House, 540 Elizabeth Street Cost $250 (payable by employer) Register online: anmfvic.asn.au/hsr-training
HSRs are the highly dedicated representatives who work to maintain a safe and professional workplace. Become an HSR or upgrade your HSR skills at one of our courses listed below. Under Section 67 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004, HSRs and Deputy HSRs, after being elected, are entitled to attend a five-day course. The course must be WorkSafe approved and chosen by the HSR in consultation with their employer. The HSR is entitled to time off work with pay and the costs associated with attendance at the course paid by the employer. Under OHS legislation and guidelines, employers must not obstruct or prevent Health and Safety Representatives from attending an approved course.
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In brief
A lifesaving newsletter
Ballarat District Nursing Service
Different menu and meal procedures between night and day shift led to the death of an 84-year-old aged mental health service resident who was mistakenly given ‘a sandwich and a milo’ despite his ‘no bread, toast or cake’ dietary requirements.
ANMF has finalised negotiations with Ballarat District Nursing Service regarding a new three-year enterprise agreement. The Ballarat District Nursing Service has merged with a private company, Integrated Living. ANMF instigated a hearing at the Fair Work Commission to stop Integrated Living from requiring that employment contracts for existing nursing staff be signed within 48 hours, prior to the finalisation of the new EBA.
Bush nursing centres ANMF is negotiating an enterprise agreement covering approximately 42 equivalent full-time registered nurses working in Victoria’s 14 bush nursing centres. ANMF (Vic Branch) is liaising with the Victorian Government representatives to attempt to secure funding that will deliver wages and allowances consistent with the general public sector four-year enterprise agreement outcome.
The case study of the man’s death by aspiration of food bolus, Coroner’s recommendations and expert analysis was featured in the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine’s Health Law and Ageing Research Unit quarterly newsletter to help nursing homes improve care.
Ms Young presented survey results explaining experienced aged care nurses and managers were using the ‘narratives’ and Coroner’s recommendations to identify clinical risks and develop prevention strategies in their own facilities.
Potentially preventable aged care residents’ deaths such as this example are outlined in coronial investigation ‘narratives’ in the Residential Aged Care (RAC) Communique which nursing homes are using to change professional practice.
The survey, conducted in 2014, found that 56 per cent of respondents said they had changed their practice after they had read the preventable resident death case studies.
Speaking at the ANMF Australian Nurses and Midwives Conference last month, Carmel Young, a project officer with Monash University’s Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine’s Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, encouraged more aged care nurses and managers to subscribe and use the RAC Communique.
Twenty one per cent reported they changed their practice because they had read the RAC Communique. Change involved policies, procedures, protocols, education and training. Each edition of the stories in the Residential Aged Care Communique has a common theme, such as choking, restraints and falls. Subscription to the RAC Communique is free. Visit vifmcommuniques.org/subscribe
‘Make health and aged care a priority’: ANMF ANMF has called upon MPs, Ministers and Senators in the new federal Parliament to put health and aged care at the top of their policy agenda. ANMF Federal Secretary Lee Thomas said the voter backlash against the Turnbull Government at the federal election demonstrated that Australians regard health as their number one priority, with Medicare the key ingredient to protecting their own health and the health of their families. ‘Polling done in preparation for the new Parliament shows that Australians’ concern for health continues, with more than 60 per cent saying that healthcare must be the number one focus for the new government,’ Ms Thomas said. Ms Thomas said the ANMF and its members will continue to campaign hard on: • restoring billions axed from national health and aged care funding;
Ms Thomas said it was critical for the govenment to address the ANMF’s concerns regarding aged care. ‘The new Parliament must ensure that our elderly citizens receive the care they deserve by funding the system properly with mechanisms that ensure funding is directed to care for elderly residents and safe staffing levels in nursing homes,’ she said. ‘The election certainly proved that Australians have put the Government on notice – that’s why it should heed this call and work with the ANMF and our other key stakeholders to address growing inequality in Australia and find achievable solutions to increasing inequities in health and aged care.’
• protecting, maintaining and improving Medicare; • ensuring safe staffing ratios (including 24/7 nurses) in aged care facilities; • protecting the penalty rates of nurses, midwives and assistants in nursing.
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Register to attend the Health Complaints Act 2016 seminar on 4 November The Health Complaints Act 2016 has updated and improved the 25-year old conciliation and review processes in Victoria’s healthcare system. The new laws keep patient safety in mind in all instances and have been developed in response to a number of high media interest cases on dangerous unregistered health service providers. Previously, this area of the law was set by the Health Services (Conciliation and Review) Act 1987.
The new laws have meant the Health Services Commissioner has been replaced by the Health Complaints Commissioner. The new laws allow anyone to make a complaint, rather than only the person who received the health service. ANMF (Vic Branch) has developed a day of education in response to the legislative changes – aimed around getting you up to speed on the new laws, the work of the Health Complaints Commissioner and your rights. This event will specifically focus on the implications for midwives and will feature top speakers from the regulatory, political and legal sectors. An agenda and information about this seminar is available online: http://goo.gl/4NxAGm Venue ANMF (Vic Branch) Carson Conference Centre Address Level 7, 540 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000
Special interest groups Visit anmfvic.asn.au/interest-groups for all upcoming ANMF (Vic Branch) special interest group news, events and meetings. Advance Care Planning Nurses (ACPN)
Topic: Executive committee meeting When: Thursday 1 December, 2pm – 4pm Venue: Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House Inq: Anne Marie Fabri, Secretary annemarie.fabri@nh.org.au 9495 3235
ANZANAC HIV Nursing
Inq: Milena Pinamonti anzanac.vic@gmail.com 0466 280 445
CoNSA Vic/Tas
Topic: AGM and members meeting When: Thursday 6 October, 6pm – 9pm Venue: Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House Inq: consavt@gmail.com
Day Surgery
Topic: Members meeting / education session When: Saturday 12 November, 8.30am – 1pm Venue: Goulburn Valley Health, Shepparton (TBC) Inq: Chris Guidotti chris_guidotti@y7mail.com
Diabetes Nurse Educators Topic: When: Venue: Inq:
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Members meeting Wednesday 26 October, 6pm – 8pm Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House Catherine Wallace-Wilkinson positivehealth@bigpond.com 0411 557 631
October 2016
Immunisation Nurses Topic: When:
Members meeting Monday 5 December Registration from 6.30pm Meeting from 7.30pm – 9.30pm Venue: Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House Inq: INSIG administration, membership@immunisationnursesvic.org.au
Injured Nurses Support Group
Date
4 November 2016
Time
8am to 4pm
Cost
$45.00 ANMF Job Rep/HSR $50.00 ANMF Member $15.00 ANMF Student Member $100.00 Non Member
Register http://bit.ly/HealthCB2016 CPD
6 hours
Safe Patient Handling
Inq: Stephen Morley smorley@bendigohealth.org.au
Victorian Association Of Maternal and Child Health Nurses Inq: VAMCHN executive vamchn.group@gmail.com
Victorian Association Of Research Nurses
Members information seminar and workshop When: Tuesday 18 October, 10.15am – noon Venue: Level 3 Boardroom , ANMF House Inq: Annie Rutter 1300 760 602
Topic: Professional development day When: Friday 21 October, 8am – 4.30pm Venue: Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House Inq: Lesley Poulton lesley.poulton@monash.edu
Medical Imaging Nurses Association
Topic: When:
Topic:
Topic: Members workshop Bookings: www.trybooking.com/KMFH When: Saturday 8 October Venue: St Vincent’s Hospital Inq: Deborah Shears deborah.shears@i-med.com.au
Mental Health Nurses SIG
Inq: Carole de Greenlaw records@anmfvic.asn.au
Orthopaedic Nurses Association Inq:
Cheryl Dingey 9345 7027 Meinir Griffiths 9342 8417 onavic@anmfvic.asn.au
Palliative Care Nurses Inq:
Carole de Greenlaw records@anmfvic.asn.au
Victorian Midwifery Homecare Group
Members meeting Wednesday 26 October, 10.30am – 12.30pm Venue: Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House Inq: Ingrid Ridler IRidler@mercy.com.au
Victorian Perioperative Nurses Group Inq: enquiries@vpng.org.au 1300 721 169
Victorian School Nurses Topic: When: Venue: Inq:
Members meeting Tuesday 18 October, 6pm – 9pm Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House Gina Harrex 0401 717 352
Vic Urological Nurses Society
Inq: vunssecretary@gmail.com
Pre-Admission Nurses Association
Topic: PaNA professional day When: Saturday 26 November, 8am – 1pm Venue: Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House Inq: Kate Hussey k.hussey@healthscope.com.au
ANMF House is located at 540 Elizabeth St Melbourne
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Education calendar October 2016
November 2016
RN ECG
– Recording and Interpretation
RN M
CPD: 6 hours, course code: 2032 13 October 2016 9.30am – 4.30pm Presenter Kate Potter
CPD: 6 hours, course code: 2036 10 November 2016 9.30am – 4.30pm Presenter Kate Potter
This workshop will include a thorough examination of recording and interpreting ECGs and is suitable for registered nurses. The day includes an overview of cardiac anatomy and physiology, ECG recording and trace interpretation and defining common arrhythmias – cause, presentation and management.
This seminar will focus on the process and procedure for inserting peripheral IV in the adult patient. It includes an overview of relevant anatomy, selection of insertion sites and cannula, insertion techniques, infection control, common problems and corrective action. Identification of appropriate equipment, specific cannulation techniques and participant practice will be conducted utilising manikin simulation.
Member $180, Non-member $215, Job Rep or SIG member $170 RN EN
Principles and practice of aseptic technique and infection control CPD: 6 hours, course code: 2054 18 October 2016 9.30am – 4.30pm Presenter Jenny Poulter This workshop will review healthcare related infections and the infection control practices required to minimise the spread of infection. Risk management procedures to prevent or reduce infections will be discussed including standard precautions, transmission based precautions and asepsis. There will be an emphasis on the practical application of knowledge and skills including aseptic technique.
Member $180, Non-member $215, Job Rep or SIG member $170 RN Managing
fluid and electrolyte administration and blood transfusion in the acute care setting CPD: 6 hours, course code: 2221 21 October 2016 9.30am – 4.30pm Presenter Kate Potter This in-depth seminar discusses the theories and assessments behind various fluid therapies. The focus is on advanced understanding and skill development for nurses managing fluids in the acute patient. The why, what and when of fluid, blood and blood products orders and their clinical effects.
Member $180, Non-member $215, Job Rep or SIG member $170
IV cannulation for registered nurses and midwives
Member $180, Non-member $215, Job Rep or SIG member $170 RN M
An update on pre-eclampsia
CPD: 3 hours, course code: 2074 15 November 2016 9.00am – noon Presenter Dr Wendy Pollock Pre-eclampsia is a complex, multi-system disorder that affects between five to eight per cent of all pregnant women. This session will provide an update on our understanding of pre-eclampsia and discuss priorities of management related to prevention of the condition, recognition of the condition, acute treatment and long-term implications of the condition for women.
Member $110, Non-member $180, Job Rep or SIG member $100 RN Medication
administration – principles and practice revisited CPD: 12 hours, course code: 2159 17 and 24 November 2016 9.30am – 4.30pm Presenter: Sue Pleunik This two-day workshop is designed to update the register nurse skills in medication administration. Topics covered include administration via all five routes, drug calculations and managing IV pumps, syringe drivers and PCA systems.
Member $360, non-member $420, Job Rep/SIG member $320
Course key ALL
RN EN M
Course available to all nurses, midwives, PCAs and AINs Course available to registered nurses Course available to enrolled nurses Course available to midwives
December 2016 ALL ICE/methamphetamine
addiction seminar – nurse/midwife program CPD: 3 hours, course code: 3116 8 December 2016 9.30am – 1.30pm Presenter Sharon Petterson ANMF (Vic Branch) is pleased to announce that we are now able to deliver the ICE/ methamphetamine addiction seminar, in partnership with Turning Point, at no cost to nurses and midwives. As part of the ICE Taskforce initiative, ANMF (Vic Branch) has been provided Victorian government funding to deliver the program to nurses and midwives. The November seminar is full and a new seminar has been scheduled 8 December 2016. November participants will be fully refunded for the program costs. This course is relevant for nurses and midwives working across health including in the community, emergency departments and general practice.
Member $110, Non-member $180, Job Rep or SIG member $80 EN Strengthening
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EN medication
CPD: 6 Hours, course code: 2150 9 December 2016 9.30am – 4.30pm Presenter Jennifer Irwin This seminar will assist enrolled nurses to further develop and apply their skills and knowledge in the nursing practice area of medications. The learning will apply to a variety of healthcare settings and with reference to the professional practice framework. This seminar also aims to build upon skills and knowledge attained through completion of the nationally accredited units associated with NMBA approved enrolled nurse medication administration requirements and work practice.
Member $180, Non-member $215, Job Rep or SIG member $170
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RN EN Venepuncture,
conducting a 12 lead ECG & contemporary pathology collection CPD: 6 hours, course code: 2042 7 December 2016 9.30am – 4.30pm Presenter Kate Potter This workshop delivers a comprehensive one-day program relating to venepuncture techniques and conducting a 12-lead electrocardiogram. A wide range of practical training aids for blood collection is provided, and the program allows participants to undertake practice of the relevant techniques under guided supervision in a simulated clinical environment. It is a must for nurses who are required to perform phlebotomy and undertake 12-lead ECG recording as part of their role.
Member $180, Non-member $215, Job Rep or SIG member $170
ANMF (Vic Branch) Education Centre accredited courses (RTOID 22609) ALL
HLTAID003 Provide first aid
CPD: 12 hours, course code: 2056 20 and 27 October 2016 9.00am – 4.30pm Presenter Jenny Poulter
ALL
Certificate IV in training and assessment (TAE40110) Course 4, course code: 2096 5, 6, 10, 17, 26 October; 2, 7, 8, 16, 23, 30 November; 5, 6, 12, 13 December 2016 9am–5pm The TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment course focuses on the skills required to deliver training and assess competence in the participants’ own industry areas. It is the benchmark qualification (along with subject matter expertise) for trainers and assessors in the VET sector. The course is designed for people who are currently working in a training or assessment role, or where part of their job requires training and assessment. Comprising 10 units delivered over 15 days, this course focuses on the skills required to deliver training and assess competence in the participants’ own industry areas. This course includes the Language, Literacy and Numeracy unit recently added to this qualification.
Cost $2100 which covers tuition fees, assessments and learning resources and is paid in three instalments throughout the course. Please enrol online. Payment plan: Deposit $900 – on enrolment Instalment 1 $600 – week 6 Instalment 2 $600 – week 12 This is a nationally recognised qualification delivered by the ANMF (Vic Branch) Education Centre RTOID 22609
Don’t miss your opportunity to register for the 2017 ALL
Clinical Supervision for Role Development Training 2017 course. 4, 5 April; 6, 7, 8 June; 15, 16 August 8.45am (for 9.00am start) – 4.30pm ANMF (Vic Branch) Education Centre is again offering Clinical Supervision for Role Development Training in 2017. This course provides nurses and midwives with skills and a range of techniques to run clinical supervision sessions. Clinical supervision in this context refers to dedicated time for reflection on clinical practice, rather than supervision of less experienced staff/students. The course is endorsed by: Australian College of Midwives, ‘Midplus’ (64 CPD hours) and Australian College of Nursing (47 CPD hours).
The total cost of this course is $2,800 including a deposit made with this application and three instalments aligned with each workshop. To register online visit: https://anmf.wufoo.eu/forms/clinicalsupervision-for-role-development-training
Renewing first aid qualifications is an essential part of professional development for many nurses and midwives. ANMF (Vic Branch) Education Centre offers members nationally recognised training delivered by experienced nurse trainers. These courses fill fast so enrol as early as possible.
Member $360, Non-member $420, Job Rep or SIG member $320 ALL
HLTAID001 Provide cardio pulmonary resuscitation CPD: 3 hours, course code: 2161 23 November 2016 9am – noon Renewing CPR qualifications is an essential part of professional development for many nurses and midwives. ANMF (Vic Branch) Education Centre offers members nationally recognised training delivered by experienced nurse trainers. These courses fill fast so enrol as early as possible.
Working with WorkCover Whether you are a nurse, midwife, manager, or other health care professional, at some time you may have to deal with a workplace injury and a WorkCover claim. This module, prepared with expert legal advice, enables you to learn through a series of videos about injuries, claims, disputes, returning to work, and the legal framework that underpins them.
4 CPD hours $80 Register online at: http://cpd.anmfvic.asn.au
Member $110, Non-member $180, Job Rep or ANMF SIG member $100
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Public sector nurses and midwives vote Vote YES in the upcoming Elections Australia electronic ballot For more information go to
www.anmfvic.asn.au Elections Australia Pty Ltd Conducting elections throughout Australia since 1974
Do you approve the proposed Victorian Public Sector Nurses and Midwives Agreement 2016-2020? YES – I approve making the 2016 Agreement NO – I do not approve making the 2016 Agreement
Authorised by Lisa Fitzpatrick ANMF (Vic Branch) Secretary, September 2016.