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RECORD SEPTEMBER 2016
RDNS nurses stop work rallies for fair pay page 4
EBA updates
Ice addiction seminar
Explaining clinical supervision
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Know your entitlements Inside this edition
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Know your entitlements Secretary’s report
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• TAKE2 voluntary pledge project
• EBA updates
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• Ice addiction seminar
• Registration standards for nurses and midwives
In focus
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• Bupa nursing home EBA talks start
• Residential Aged Care cuts
8 • Member profile:
Bernadette Towner
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• ANMF revives its advanced life support program • Health Complaints Bill 2016
10 • Job Rep Training • OHS workshops and seminars
11 • EN Student Study Day • SIGs calendar
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• Education calendar
Workplace entitlements and obligations – general overview Celene McMullan, Information Officer In this edition, we outline the broad workplace legislative rights and obligations for members as you undertake your important and valued employment duties as a registered nurse, registered midwife, enrolled nurse or personal care worker. What are my rights and obligations as an employee? You have a contract of employment with your employer. Your contract of employment: • establishes the employer/employee relationship • determines all the obligations of the employer and employee, which may be in writing or implied (verbal) • ordinarily includes matters such as o your employment commencement date o your classification o your hours of work and roster obligations o details as to what industrial instrument (for example, EBA) applies to you o confidentiality provisions o requirements for statutory checks, such as police checks/working with children checks/proof of registration and qualifications. ANMF members are always entitled to seek advice from ANMF in relation to your employment contract. Legislative provisions from numerous laws apply to ANMF (Vic Branch) members concerning your employment. The following brief summary outlines the important legislative instruments and their impact on you. The Fair Work Act 2009 The Fair Work Act is the legislation underpinning national employment laws across Australia. It includes a range of provisions that codifies the rights and obligations of employees and employers. Of particular importance, the Fair Work Act includes: • ten minimum national employment standards • general protections with protected workplace rights, freedom to join trade unions and protection from discrimination
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This legislation codifies the rights and obligations of employers and employees concerning the provision of a safe workplace and the treatment of employees who may suffer a workplace injury or illness arising from their employment. Workplace equality ANMF members are entitled to perform their work in a workplace that provides workplace rights and workplace equality. This includes the right to: • perform your work safely in accordance with your enterprise bargaining agreement and contract of employment • exercise any rights contained under the Fair Work Act 2009 • be protected from discrimination on the basis of your race, colour, sex, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, marital status and family or carer’s responsibility, pregnancy, religion, political views, national extraction or social origin. Health Practitioners Regulation National Law (Victoria) Act 2009 Registered nurses and midwives and enrolled nurses are required to maintain registration pursuant to the above Act and are required to observe the professional practice standards set by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Standards concerning nursing and midwifery practices are carefully monitored by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and ANMF (Vic Branch) members may require assistance from the ANMF from time to time in responding to issues relating to the practice standards in the course of your employment. Other legislative provisions There are many other legislative provisions that may impact on your employment rights and responsibilities. This includes legislation relating to:
• the processes that unions, employees and employers must follow to reach enterprise bargaining agreements
• superannuation
• the establishment and development of enforceable minimum awards.
• nurse/midwife ratio
The ANMF (Vic Branch) industrial staff and lawyers are experts in the operation of the Fair Work Act and can provide advice on all aspects of this law. Occupational health and safety in the workplace As an ANMF member working in Victoria, ANMF members are covered by the provisions of the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 and the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004.
• paid parental leave • long service leave • taxation • professional indemnity. It is fair to say that the world of work can be complex and challenging. As an ANMF (Vic Branch) member you can rest assured that our industrial and professional staff and lawyers are experts in the operation of all legislation relevant to your work. Your union is able to provide you with professional and quality advice concerning all of your rights of work.
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Secretary’s report
Your ANMF Lisa Fitzpatrick State Secretary
Paul Gilbert
Assistant Secretary
Pip Carew
Assistant Secretary
Improving wages and conditions Lisa Fitzpatrick Our core work The Branch is in full swing negotiating enterprise bargaining agreements to improve wages and conditions for members across a number of sectors. We’ve recently reached agreement with a number of private acute hospitals achieving the public sector nurses’ and midwives’ wages outcome. At the time of print members at the Royal District Nursing Service and public sector mental health facilities were taking protected industrial action to support their negotiations for fair pay and conditions. For the first time Ramsay Health Care members were voting in a protected industrial action ballot. Negotiations are progressing at St John of God, Cabrini and Epworth, Bush Nursing Centres and others. We have also started preliminary talks on behalf of members employed at 26 nursing homes managed by Bupa. This will be the first agreement in the 2016/17 round for nurses and personal care workers in profit and not-for-profit aged care. The majority of agreements start expiring early next year. We will be monitoring the impact of the Turnbull Government’s $1.8 billion aged care funding cuts. Early indications suggest some employers are responding to the cuts by reducing nursing services. For example 535 personal care and nursing hours per fortnight are proposed to be cut at Corpus Christi Residential Aged Care Facility (see page 7). While ANMF staff are highly skilled in workplace negotiations, the best agreements are not achieved on our own. As the story below shows the biggest improvements are achieved when workplaces have strong members who stand up together for their patients, clients, residents and themselves. The ratio story If you have been a public sector member during the last 16 years you will have become accustomed to state governments of both persuasions attempting to remove mandated ratios during the EBA process. ANMF members across Victoria fought hard to campaign to achieve ratios in 2000. They fought even harder to keep ratios in 2001, 2004, 2007 and 2011-12. In isolation they were tough campaigns – all those closed beds, elective surgery cancellations, hospital walkouts, community rallies, protests, doorknocking and the pay docking. Looking back it is more apt to decribe these events as a 'battle'.
Cover image: RDNS members at the stop work meeting in Bundoora on 17 August 2016. On the Record is the official publication of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (Victorian Branch). OTR is published monthly.
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The passing of the Andrews Government’s historic Victorian Safe Patient Care Act gave the ANMF an opportunity to review what it took to become the second place in the world to have mandated ratios enshrined in law.
Our reflections of a nurse shortage crisis in 2000 to ratio laws in 2015 is now a short documentary ‘Battle: The Road to Ratios Legislation’, produced by Blacksheep Films. The documentary was first shown at our recent Annual Delegates Conference and was well received by more than 700 ANMF Job Reps and Health and Safety Reps. Many in the audience had actively participated in the campaigns that led to the Safe Patient Care Act. Many knew what nursing and midwifery was like without ratios. Thankfully many in the room did not. ‘The Road to Ratios’ is told through interviews with current and former ANMF leadership and Job Reps, but also through the experts who have worked with us over the last 15 years and the independent journalists who have covered our story. I would like to thank the following people who participated: Belinda Morieson, ANMF Secretary (1989-2001); Sharan Burrow, ACTU President (2000-2010), currently General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation; Ged Kearney, ANMF (Vic Branch) President (1997-2003), currently ACTU President; Professor John Buchanan, University of Sydney Business School; Wayne Blair, Fair Work Commissioner (1993-2015); Luke Hilakari, Secretary, Victorian Trades Hall Council; Professor Christine Duffield, University of Technology Sydney Faculty of Health; Philip Gardner, Partner, Ryan Carlisle Thomas; Daniel Andrews, Premier of Victoria; Bill Kelty, ACTU Secretary (1983-2000); Madeleine Harradence, ANMF Job Rep; Terry Swanson, ANMF Job Rep and former ANMF (Vic Branch) vice president; Anita Stirling, ANMF Job Rep; Michael Bachelard, investigations editor, The Age; Brendan Donohoe, Victorian state political reporter, Seven News Melbourne. This documentary provides an insight into the passion ANMF members have for their patients. It will enable ANMF members to tell the world about ratios and what nurses and midwives can achieve for themselves and their patients. It offers a blueprint for nurses and midwives in other sectors to show that strong union membership and taking industrial action in large numbers together can achieve enormous change. ‘Battle:The Road to Ratios Legislation’ is a significant record of a period of time in ANMF history for those members involved. It will ensure those who come after us, and who only know nursing and midwifery with ratios, never forget. View the 'Road to Ratios Legislation' at lInk to http://bit.ly/roadratio
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News RDNS nurses and aides stop work for fair pay RDNS nurses and community care aides began protected industrial action last month as part of their campaign to secure improved pay and stop the removal of conditions.
ANMF joins zero emissions initiative ANMF has accepted a Victorian Government invitation to become a founding partner of a new initiative working towards zero net greenhouse emissions by 2050. TAKE2 includes a voluntary pledge project inviting the community, business and government departments to also make a commitment to reduce their emissions. The pledge project’s name refers to the initiative’s aim which is to limit the temperature rise to two degrees.
Enterprise bargaining talks between ANMF and RDNS stalled early last month when management decided to push through a formal employee ballot of its unfair draft agreement. RDNS nursing staff voted to reject the two-year agreement which offered wage rises of 1.71 and 2.3 per cent in 2016 and 2.5 per cent in 2017 and removed the rostered off public holiday benefit.
ANMF is seeking a four-year agreement matching the pay rises of the public sector nurses’ and midwives’ wages outcome, including the significant wages uplift in 2019.
At the time of print RDNS members were wearing red campaign T-shirts at work, distributing campaign information to clients, families and the community and had started implementing administrative bans that would impact the organisation’s ability to invoice clients. At the time of print members were also attending two-hour stop work meetings and rallies.
RDNS members believed management's offer was disrespectful and would have made it difficult for the iconic nursing service to recruit and retain experienced nursing staff.
With many Victorian private acute hospital organisations also matching the public sector wages it is important RDNS nurses are not left behind.
Negotiations are continuing.
ANMF is already actively working towards reducing the union’s emissions. After two workplace energy and waste audits ANMF has introduced recycling and energy efficiency measures. Design for the new Elizabeth Street building aims to reach a ‘five green star as built rating’ standard on energy efficiency. Recognising climate change’s impact on health, ANMF is also actively lobbying and working with government and employers to improve the sustainability of healthcare services and to support green champion ANMF members where they are doing the same. For the first time the new public sector enterprise agreement includes practical environmental sustainability clauses. ANMF is developing related professional development for members that applies to nursing, midwifery and healthcare. ANMF supports the government’s leadership and members are encouraged to consider taking the pledge as individuals or families and to promote the TAKE2 program to colleagues, friends and businesses. Sustainability Victoria, the organisation leading the program, is developing further initiatives regarding future actions that individuals, companies or businesses signing up can take. This is a further opportunity for health professionals to take the lead on emissions reduction and, so doing, encourage all Victorians to work toward action on climate change. To make a pledge or to find out more about TAKE2 visit take2.vic.gov.au 4
September 2016
Ramsay protected industrial action mobile billboard
In brief Public sector EBA update
A Ramsay ballot first
At the time of print ANMF was expecting official Victorian Government approval of the public sector nurses and midwives agreement.
Ramsay Health Care members have participated in a protected industrial action ballot for the first time in Victoria.
All public sector members who have provided ANMF with an email address will be notified as soon as this occurs. This approval will trigger payment of the new wage rates and then associated back pay.
The ballot was scheduled to close on 25 August. ANMF organised mobile billboard (artwork pictured above) trucks to travel around Ramsay hospital locations to publicise the ballot to members and the community.
Mental health update
Members authorised ANMF to apply for the ballot in response to Ramsay’s refusal to offer a four-year agreement matching public sector nurses’ and midwives’ wages outcome.
Productive negotiations were continuing between ANMF, the Victorian Government, the Victorian Hospitals’ Industrial Association and HACSU. Progress was being made on the number of additional equivalent full-time nurses and wage claim made by members. At the time of print a statewide members meeting was scheduled for late August.
Under Ramsay’s offer nurses and midwives would only keep up with their public and most of their private acute colleagues until 2018. Check www.anmfvic.asn.au and www.facebook.com/respectourwork for updates. www.anmfvic.asn.au
Ice addiction seminar will help nurses improve health outcomes Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre educator Sharon Petterson believes there are few professions able to have a greater impact on the recovery of a person living with methamphetamine addiction than nurses. Ms Petterson herself is a former mental health nurse who chose to focus on drug and alcohol rehabilitation after noticing high rates of mentally ill clients who also had substance abuse problems. She will be teaching the first ANMF ice/methamphetamine addiction seminar in early November. ‘Nursing is a great profession to target with this training because they're represented in such a diverse range of health settings,’ Ms Petterson said. ‘This training is applicable for in-patient, out-patient, primary health care, general practice, mental health nursing and more. It’s inevitable that you’ll run into a patient who might have an ice problem.’ The three-hour seminar will dispel the misinformation and fear that has surrounded this public health issue over the last three years. Crucial to the training is the self-assessment of a nurse’s values and attitudes in a context where a patient detecting prejudice can ‘close up,’ leading to poorer health outcomes. Ms Petterson says the role of the health professional is to stick to the facts and provide a safe, supportive environment for any patient living with addiction.
‘If you refer to the media, you get the impression that Melbourne has an ice epidemic — that’s not the case. At the end of the day, alcohol and tobacco are still doing significantly more damage to the public than ice,’ Ms Petterson said. But any patient dealing with a psychosis can present considerable challenges. The seminar will also provide training on managing challenging patients and how to handle disruptive patients that could pose an occupational health and safety threat to yourself, colleagues and other patients. The ANMF (Vic Branch) has a seat on the state government ice workforce advisory group. An increased level of concern from the Victorian community about the misuse of methamphetamines has led to the $45.5 million Ice Action Plan announced by the Andrews State Government. Stage 2 of the Ice Action Plan includes $5.5 million for further training support for frontline workers. This funding has opened multiple services which now provide important roles in a referral network. Ms Petterson is keen to spread the word about what support is available following the multi-million dollar action plan – particularly on the assistance available for families.
Alcohol and drug nurse, Sharon Petterson
Nurses will come across family members who disclose that a family member is using ice. That’s a really important support role nurses can fulfil when confronted with a family overwhelmed with stress. What services are available to those whose lives or loved ones’ lives are being damaged by methamphetamine misuse? • F amily Drug Help – 1300 660 068 (for concerned family members) • B reakThrough – 1800 423 238 (also provides education for families) • D irectLine – 1800 888 236 (confidential counselling) For details on the seminar, 8 November visit: http://bit.ly/icesem16
New registration standards for nurses and midwives Catherine Hutchings, Professional Officer
In June revised common registration standards, guidelines and supporting documents came into effect for nurses and midwives. The registration standards around continuing professional development (CPD), recency of practice and professional indemnity insurance arrangements were reviewed last year by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA). Continuing Professional Development Nurses and midwives will now need to keep records of their CPD activities for five years (previously three years). New registrants with less than 12 months registration will have to undertake CPD activities on a pro rata basis for that first year. CPD records may include participation in the following activities: • t ertiary, vocational and other accredited courses (including distance education) • conferences, forums, seminars, and symposia • s hort courses, workshops, seminars and discussion groups through a professional group that may issue a certificate of compliance/completion www.anmfvic.asn.au
• mandatory learning activities • self-directed learning • a ny other structured learning activities not covered above. The NMBA expects your documentation will include the learning need, a learning plan, your participation in the activity, and the outcome achieved. References to articles that you have read may be required for self-directed activities. Recency of practice The main change is to nominate the number of practice hours required over five years (450) to meet the recency of practice standard. In addition the Board now differentiates between clinical and non-clinical practice, particularly for the purpose of identifying what you would need to do in order to continue to practise should you wish to return to practice. There are no exemptions for the recency of practice standard. A new registration standard for endorsement as a nurse practitioner, with associated guidelines and factsheet, and new registered nurse standards for practice have also taken effect.
Professional indemnity insurance The NMBA made very minor changes to the professional indemnity (PI) insurance registration standard. ANMF advises members their membership PI insurance remains compliant. All nurses and midwives will need to meet the obligations of the revised registration standards by the next registration renewal period in May 2017. An exception is the Registration standard: Endorsement for scheduled medicines for midwives and the Safety and quality guidelines for privately practising midwives and supporting factsheets which will come come into effect from 1 January 2017. The NMBA has also published a suite of supporting documents to explain the updated standards and guidelines. Please refer to NMBA’s Registration Standards page on its website www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au and Professional Codes and Guidelines page for additional information and resources. We strongly encourage all members to visit the NMBA website and familiarise themselves with these documents. September 2016
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In focus – aged care Aged Care Report Card — a review system for aged care With the Turnbull Government’s massive cuts to aged care funding, Aged Care Report Card founder, registered nurse Lauren Todorovic, is concerned that staffing and resident care will suffer.
Bupa talks start ANMF has commenced negotiations to improve wages and conditions for members employed at Bupa’s 26 nursing homes across Melbourne and regional Victoria. The Bupa enterprise agreement, which expires on 31 October, will be the first private aged care network agreement to expire in this round of negotiations. The majority of nursing home agreements expire early next year. Bupa members will have many opportunities to actively participate in this process to ensure you get the improvements that value, recognise and reward aged care nurses and personal care workers. Support the Bupa campaign • invite your colleagues to join ANMF • attend ANMF members meetings to discuss the progress of talks and be involved in decisions that affect your wages and conditions • e nsure you have at least two Job Reps on every shift. Call your ANMF Organiser to nominate or download a brochure at www.anmfvic.asn.au/reps/ become-a-job-rep • read ANMF emails and newsflashes • l ike the ANMF Facebook page facebook.com.respectourwork and change your settings to see our posts first • u pdate your contact details on the ANMF member portal at members.anmfvic.asn.au • d istribute the Value Recognise Reward bumper stickers • b uy a $10 Value Recognise Reward T-shirt from the ANMF webshop anmfvic.asn.au/membership/ members-menu
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More than ever, there is a need for a mechanism through which staff and residents of aged care facilities, and their families, can report on the quality of aged care facilities. Ms Todorovic’s involvement with aged care began with her grandfather living with the family when she was growing up and in a professional capacity, as a personal care worker while studying to become a registered nurse. She has since worked as a nurse and as a clinical manager in an aged care facility and as a dementia clinical nurse consultant in a private hospital. She founded the Aged Care Report Card in October 2014 as a means by which aged care residents and their families, as well as nurses and personal care workers, could assess the quality of aged care facilities and make informed decisions about where to live or work. Part of the vision for the system is that aged care providers will use the feedback they receive through the ACRC system to make improvements where required. The Aged Care Report Card rating system enables reviews of aged care facilities around Australia based on a ‘five heart’ rating system. Residents or their families, or aged care facility staff, can rate facilities from one to five ‘hearts’ based on seven standards: staff presence, nursing care, friendliness, quality of food, activities, cleanliness and environment and management. ‘Staff presence’ is one of the lowest scoring criteria, and Ms Todorovic believes that recently introduced changes to the aged care funding instrument (ACFI), which removed the complex health care supplement, will reduce staff time further. She speaks from experience – in a previous role, Ms Todorovic was responsible for managing the ACFI funding applications and compliance for seven aged care facilities. ANMF (Vic Branch) has already received reports of aged care providers reducing staff numbers and hours since 1 July, when the changes began to be introduced.
Registered nurse and Aged Care Report Card founder, Lauren Todorovic So far, response from aged care providers to the Aged Care Report Card has been mixed, Ms Todorovic said, with some wanting to be removed from the site and others welcoming an opportunity to receive feedback. ‘Historically it’s not an industry that’s been overly transparent – and the healthcare system in general – but that is changing and there are a lot of hospitals and community centres that are changing the way they do things,’ she said. Just as accreditation is the government’s regulatory process for ensuring aged care facilities meet certain standards, Ms Todorovic believes her aged care rating system is the consumer equivalent. ‘This is out there in the public (eye), so there’s an incentive to listen to what the community is saying. Like any business, the best way to evaluate your service is from your customers – what are your customers saying and how do they perceive you?’ ‘Having something up on the site that shows a need for improvement doesn’t mean you shouldn’t send your parents there.’ ‘It’s actually the way the provider responds and how they engage with the community that’s a key factor, how the organisation takes on board feedback.’ ‘Residents in aged care facilities sometimes fear retribution if they speak out about conditions, so personal care workers and nurses working in these facilities can play an important advocacy role by writing constructive reviews at Aged Care Report Card,’ she said.
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Personal care workers and nurses working in aged care facilities can play an important advocacy role by writing constructive reviews at Aged Care Report Card www.agedcarereportcard.com.au
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The reason it’s important for nurses and carers to write a review is because there are a lot of people living in aged care who don’t have families, who don’t have visitors, and nurses and carers are the ones who are spending the most time with older people.
Nursing home proposes personal care and nursing cuts
ANMF (Vic Branch) worked with Ms Todorovic on the information supporting some of the seven standards of care.
ANMF has been assisting members employed at Corpus Christi Residential Aged Care Facility which announced plans last month to cut 493 personal care and 42 nursing hours per fortnight.
ANMF (Vic Branch) Assistant Secretary Paul Gilbert said: ‘Many of our members are involved in providing care to patients in hospitals and aged care facilities, and involved in joint decision making with the patient and their family regarding long term care in a residential setting. ‘We know how difficult this decision is. It is for this reason that, in principle, we support the efforts of ACRC in developing a tool to assist in making an informed decision about placement in aged care facilities’. All Australian aged care facilities, including Victoria’s 745 facilities, are listed on the site, ready to review: www.agedcarereportcard.com.au
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The proposed cuts at the 120-bed nursing home are equivalent to the loss of 13 fulltime personal care workers and one nurse. The facility, owned and managed by Villa Maria Catholic Homes, says the cuts are part of its new clinical model developed to support the consolidation of aged care services from the recent merger of Catholic Homes and Villa Maria. The Turnbull Government cut $1.2 billion from the sector over four years in the last federal budget and $600 million in the last Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO). It is unclear whether the funding cuts are connected to the loss of care hours at Corpus Christi. ANMF (Vic Branch) Secretary Lisa Fitzpatrick said: ‘The loss of 535 personal care and nursing hours can never be dressed up to be an improvement in the model of care.’
It will be impossible to maintain the current standard of nursing and intimate personal care of residents with the loss of these nursing hours. ANMF (Vic Branch) is calling on nursing homes to not meekly accept the funding cuts and instead speak out about the unacceptable impact they will have on people’s parents, grandparents and loved ones. ‘If these cuts are about some in the industry making false funding claims, then there should be systems in place to identify and stop this practice. Just simply reducing the funding will only hurt those we are trying to care for,’ Ms Fitzpatrick said.
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Member profile – Bernadette Towner
It astounds me that there’s still such ignorance about clinical supervision
If you hear the words ‘clinical supervision’ and think of a senior practitioner supervising the work of a more junior nurse or midwife, you’re not alone. It is a continuing source of frustration for Bernadette Towner, who offers clinical supervision as part of her private practice and is a co-facilitator of the ANMF (Vic Branch) clinical supervision course. While up to a maximum of two hours per month clinical supervision is provided for in the public sector mental health agreement for mental health nurses and is integral to working as a psychotherapist or counsellor, it is not yet commonplace in general nursing. However there is a growing recognition that clinical supervision is important for all health professionals who provide care in environments that are often challenging and stressful. Clinical supervision is an opportunity to reflect on one’s own practice with clients and to explore issues with an experienced colleague. In this sense, clinical supervision for nurses and midwives is about nurturing and good self-care, rather than being overseen. As a practitioner offering clinical supervision, Ms Towner meets regularly with clients and explores their experience of their work, including the frustrations and dilemmas that they may have with patients/clients or their organisation. Issues explored can include interactions with patients and staff members, traumatic experiences in the delivery of care, and professional boundaries.
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Ms Towner is one of a group of Victorian members of the Australian Clinical Supervision Association which represents the association at the nursing expo, to encourage nurses and midwives to consider supervision as part of their self-care. ‘So many of the nurses – well experienced nurses in education, in various public systems, advanced practitioners – think they don’t need it because they’re not undergraduates or new graduates. Their concept of ‘supervisor’ is someone watching over what you do,’ Ms Towner said. Ms Towner’s career began with general nursing training followed by mental health nursing. She spent 14 years with the ambulance service (College of Pre-hospital Care) in Perth, training and lecturing the general public, and pre-employment and voluntary ambulance officers, in interpersonal communication and psychosocial subjects. Her own first experiences with clinical supervision came about while working in high schools with the mental health of students and staff, and as a nurse in a drug and alcohol detox unit. As an example of how clinical supervision can support a practitioner, Ms Towner offers a story of trying to help a young mother who was experiencing ‘dilemmas around her own behaviours’ and parenting difficulties. Talking through the case with a clinical supervisor helped Ms Towner clarify the client’s issues and relieve the pressure of only having six sessions to work with the client. ‘Exploring it through clinical supervision made me step back and reinforce that it was OK to sit back and explore (with the client) and allow her to evolve with what she could do.’
More recently, while running a private practice, Ms Towner worked in the mental health nurse incentive program, a formerly federally-funded program for people with severe and complex mental health conditions. For the past year, Ms Towner has been working solely in private practice as a clinical supervisor, educator, psychotherapist and counsellor. Ms Towner strongly believes that clinical supervision could be more widely utilised in nursing and midwifery. ‘It’s a burn-out preventative as well as expanding your knowledge,’ she explains. While debriefing with colleagues or friends over a post-work glass of wine has its place, Ms Towner says, clinical supervision offers a constructive and confidential way to reflect on work as a nurse or midwife. Also, friends and colleagues are not necessarily able to provide the objective point of view and counselling skillset of a professional offering clinical supervision. ANMF (Vic Branch) began offering training in providing clinical supervision in February this year, with Ms Towner one of the co-facilitators delivering the course. In Australia, clinical supervision is increasingly being included in health policy, guidelines and position descriptions, and there is a need for trained supervisors. Clinical Supervision for Role Development Training involves eight days of training. To register or for further information about the next course, visit ANMF online at http://bit.ly/ClinSuperRoleDev or email education@anmfvic.asn.au
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ANMF revives its advanced life support program The ANMF (Vic Branch) has collaborated with the Victorian branch of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN) to provide advanced life support courses for our members. All courses so far in 2016 have filled quickly, with more being advertised for December. Feedback on the courses has been extremely positive. The success of the Victorian ANMF/ACCCN model can be attributed to a number of factors, including being low cost relative to other advanced life support courses, and the centrally located venue, which has excellent training facilities. However, the most positive feedback reflects the philosophical shift that the ACCCN has made in its approach to accredited Advanced Life Support Training (ALS) and assessment. Historically, ALS training was quite intense and complex, and many nurses were intimidated by annual ALS assessments, where small mistakes often meant failure by instructors.
Non-technical aspects of role allocations and communication are practised in a simulated environment reflecting real life situations. Mistakes are an accepted part of training and are used to highlight what can really happen, so that they can be anticipated in their clinical setting. In the second half of 2016 ANMF (Vic Branch)/ACCCN model will offer a one-day re-accreditation ALS program for people who would like to maintain their ALS accreditation without needing to repeat the two-day accreditation, saving members time and money.
There will be two one-day re-accreditation courses this month and another in December. ANMF (Vic Branch) also offers CPR courses where Advanced Life Support is not applicable. There is a course being conducted in December. For more information on the one-day course visit: tinyurl.com/onedayALS For more information on the two-day courses visit: tinyurl.com/2dayALS
The new model of ALS training and assessment has shifted its paradigm from that of a competency-based assessment model, to a ‘confidence-based’ training model, and is consistent with the 2016 Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation Guidelines. Course content is delivered by an experienced team of educators who have been specifically trained to simplify the content and deliver it in a non-threatening, relaxed learning environment. Importantly, team based scenario training is adapted and contextualised to meet the learning needs of individuals working in a diverse range of settings.
Health Complaints Act 2016 - what does it mean for midwives in Victoria? 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 have meant the Health Services Commissioner has been replaced by the Health Complaints Commissioner.
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 Commissioner will also be able to instigate an investigation even if no complaint is lodged. Importantly, if a health practitioner is prohibited from practising in another Australian state or territory, they are also to be banned from practice in Victoria.
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The new laws allow anyone to make a complaint, rather than only the person who received the health service.
Included in the legislation are new powers for the Commissioner to investigate and prohibit individuals from providing health services. The Commissioner is able to work and collaborate with AHPRA in order to resolve patient concerns.
They are also able to issue public warning statements when required. The scope for regulation has widened, and midwives in particular should be aware of the new regulatory environment. 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 Services Commissioner and your rights. This event will focus on the implications for midwives and will feature top speakers from the regulatory, political and legal sectors. The one-day seminar will be held on 4 November at ANMF House, from 8am to 4pm. Member tickets are $50 – for more details, head to http://bit.ly/HealthCB2016
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Job Representative training – July to November 2016 – metro and regional programs Program one: Introduction to your union and your role 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 provides information and guidance to get you started or continue in the ANMF Job Representative role including: • ANMF structure and functions
Program two: Keeping it organised This program flows on from the 2015 workplace organising programs, is open to all Job Representatives, and is specific to your organiser and workplace/area. Get support, information and skills to organise your workplace, communication networks, and increase member engagement.
• k ey rights, role and responsibilities of the ANMF Job Rep and the ANMF organiser role; communication networks
Learn how to monitor your enterprise agreements to maintain your rights at work. Review and renew your 2015 plans (if applicable).
• w hat you need to know about industrial relations legislation regarding the status and making of enterprise agreements
Learn how to organise around workplace issues and maintain a strong ANMF presence in the workplace.
• y our rights at work, recruitment, and strategies to raise ANMF's profile at your 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.
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: 6 September, 12 October Regional: reserved for organiser areas (the dates below run back to back with the organising program in your area please register for both days) 28 September – Ballarat 26 October – Bendigo
Keeping it organised program dates Metro: ANMF House, Melbourne, 14–15 September – Gail Were – metro 5–6 October – Sandra Oakley – metro 9–10 November – Lisa Stingel – metro 30 Nov–1 December – Cynthia Salmons and Christian Sanderson – metro Regional: 29 September – Allan Townsend – Ballarat 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 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
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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Regional course 2016: Ballarat - 27 October www.anmfvic.asn.au
EN Student Study Day Over 120 enrolled nurses attended the inaugural ANNMF (Vic Branch) EN Student Study Day – an event which outlined the inspiring opportunities a career as an enrolled nurse provides. Attendees received a detailed insight into the interviewing and candidate selection process from Annette Mann, Graduate Coordinator at Epworth Hospital Richmond. Ms Mann’s presentation detailed what criteria employers were looking for and how a new EN could stand out at interview. Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Acting Manager Tony McGillion drew upon his considerable experience in nursing to map out career pathways in enrolled nursing, and how to get to your chosen area. Echuca Regional Health Executive Director and Chief Nursing Officer June Dyson detailed the opportunities for enrolled nursing in rural and regional Victoria. She also detailed Echuca’s dedicated EN graduate program and how some employers are now giving Victorian ENs the best start to their careers with guided transition arrangements into their careers.
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 29 September, 2pm – 4pm Venue: Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House Inq: Anne Marie Fabri, Secretary annemarie.fabri@nh.org.au 9495 3235
ANZANAC HIV Nursing Topic:
Members' education seminar – Senior Voices When: Tuesday 16 August, 5pm – 9.30pm Venue: Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House Inq: Milena Pinamonti anzanac.vic@gmail.com 0466 280 445
CoNSA Vic/Tas
Topic: General committee meeting When: Thursday 6 October, 6pm – 9pm Venue: Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House Inq: consavt@gmail.com
Day Surgery Inq:
Chris Guidotti chris_guidotti@y7mail.com
Diabetes Nurse Educators Topic: When: Venue: Inq:
Members meeting Wednesday 26 October, 5.30pm – 8pm Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House Catherine Wallace-Wilkinson positivehealth@bigpond.com 0411 557 631
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Enrolled nurse, Ben Graham Following lunch, recent graduate EN Ben Graham (pictured), Sarah Foster and Georgia Haywood spoke about their EN graduate experiences — giving honest and frank accounts of the firsthand challenges and successes experienced in the first year of practice. The event closed with Glenn Taylor, CEO of the Nursing and Midwifery Health Program Victoria, reminding ENs of the free,
Immunisation Nurses Topic: When:
Members meeting Thursday 1 September, 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 Topic: When: Venue: Inq:
Members meeting Tuesday 20 September, 11am – 12.30pm Level 3 Boardroom , ANMF House Annie Rutter 1300 760 602
Medical Imaging Nurses Association Inq: Deborah Shears deborah.shears@i-med.com.au
Victorian Association Of Maternal and Child Health Nurses Inq: VAMCHN executive vamchn.group@gmail.com
Victorian Association Of Research Nurses
Topic: Professional development day When: Friday 21 October, 8am – 4.30pm Venue: Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House Inq: Lesley Poulton lesley.poulton@monash.edu Ingrid Ridler IRidler@mercy.com.au
Topic: Management seminar When: Friday 16 September, 8am – 5pm Inq: enquiries@vpng.org.au 1300 721 169
Cheryl Dingey 9345 7027 Meinir Griffiths 9342 8417 onavic@anmfvic.asn.au
Palliative Care Nurses
Victorian School Nurses
Carole de Greenlaw records@anmfvic.asn.au
Pre-Admission Nurses Association
Topic: Members forum When: Friday 2 September, 9.30am – 2pm Venue: Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House Inq: Stephen Morley smorley@bendigohealth.org.au
Victorian Perioperative Nurses Group
Orthopaedic Nurses Association
Safe Patient Handling
Inq:
Inq: Carole de Greenlaw records@anmfvic.asn.au
Inq:
The event would not have been possible without the generous sponsorship of First State Super, BankVic and HESTA. Given the success of the study day, it is expected the EN Study Day will become an annual event at ANMF.
Victorian Midwifery Homecare Group
Mental Health Nurses SIG
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confidential health program for nurses, midwives and students experiencing health issues including substance use and/or mental health issues.
Topic: PaNA professional day When: Saturday 26 November, 8am – 1pm Venue: Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House Inq: Kate Hussey k.hussey@healthscope.com.au
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
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management
wound
CPD: 12 hours, course code: 2204 7 and 14 September 2016 9.30am-4.30pm Presenters Julie Baulch and Anne Bryant In this two-day interactive course you will examine the basic anatomy and physiology of wound healing, the importance of health assessment and wound diagnosis and explore a range of wound management practices, including frameworks for assessment, factors affecting healing, diagnostics and planning care.
ALL
Nursing the balance
CPD: 6 hours, course code: 2169 14 September 2016 9.30pm-4.30pm Presenter Jane Robotham A nourishing self-care workshop for nurses, midwives and carers focusing on reflection, relaxation and continued rejuvenation through the use of practical experiential techniques. This nourishing seminar equips participants with simple tools enabling them to care for themselves on a daily basis, so they can continue to care for others through clarity of mind, enjoyment in the moment and optimal energy.
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
Member $360, Non-member $420, Job Rep or SIG member $320
Please note: Workshop includes take home materials offering a variety of guided techniques which boost essential energy, vitality, relaxation and ongoing self-care.
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.
RN EN Respiratory
Member $180, Non-member $215, Job Rep or SIG member $170
Member $180, Non-member $215, Job Rep or SIG member $170
– advanced care
management
CPD: 6 hours, course code: 2038 8 September 2016 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Kate Potter This one day program is suitable for registered nurses who are working within an acute care setting, managing patients who require more advanced respiratory interventions. All theoretical sessions are comprehensively supported by both audio-visual and practical training aids, which enable the participants to become more familiar with the associated equipment in a supportive, learning environment.
Member $180, Non-member $215, Job Rep or SIG member $170 M When
do you change your practice based on what you read? CPD: 3 hours, course code: 2066 14 September 2016 9am-noon Presenter Dr Wendy Pollock Midwives are expected to implement ‘evidence-based practice’. This session will cover where to get up-to-date evidence-based information, how to evaluate the ‘evidence’ and what to consider in applying this ‘evidence’ to your own practice.
Member $110, Non-member $180, Job Rep or SIG member $100
EN Management of chronic/ Recognising and responding RN persistent pain in older people to clinical deterioration
RN EN
CPD: 6 hours, course code: 1966 20 September 2016 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Simon Plapp, ICU educator and President ACCCN (Vic Branch) This new workshop explores the important aspects of early recognition and management of deterioration in patients in acute care. Important to NSQHS Standard 9: Recognising and responding to clinical deterioration in acute health care, this workshop provides an important perspective on patient assessment. Through case studies the course focuses on: • Who is at risk? • The signs and symptoms that should “worry” you? • How to manage care in a timely and effective manner? This workshop is delivered by ICU educator and ACCCN (Vic Branch) President Simon Plapp and is suitable in combination with the Cardiac Rhythm Recognition & 12 lead ECG workshop.
Member $180, Non-member $215, Job Rep or SIG member $170 RN EN Venepuncture,
conducting a 12-lead ECG and contemporary pathology collection CPD: 6 hours, course code: 2041 22 September 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.
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CPD: 6 hours, course code: 1985 28 September 2016 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Dr. Rosalie Hudson
This seminar focuses on advanced skills development for nurses caring for older people in any setting who suffer from chronic/ persistent pain. Many older people needing nursing care suffer from one or more serious, chronic illnesses that are characterised by pain. How is this pain assessed and how are appropriate interventions identified, particularly for those with cognitive impairment? What are the myths and counter facts of opioid use in older people and what is the place of non-pharmacological therapies?
Member $180, Non-member $215, Job Rep or SIG member $170 RN EN
The art of communicating successfully in the contemporary nursing environment CPD: 6 hours, course code: 2052 29 September 2016 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Jenny Poulter This workshop is designed to support nurses to communicate in a clear, assertive and sensitive way in a multidisciplinary, multicultural and often tense environment where clients, patients and colleagues alike have diverse and varying needs.
Member $180, Non-member $215, Job Rep or SIG member $170
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October 2016 RN ECG
– Recording and Interpretation CPD: 6 hours, course code: 2032 13 October 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.
November 2016 ALL ICE/methamphetamine
addiction seminar – nurse/midwife program CPD: 4 hrs, course code: 3116 8 November 2016 9.30am-1.30pm Presenter Sharon Petterson
Member $180, Non-member $215, Job Rep or SIG member $170
ANMF (Vic Branch) is excited to partner with Turning Point to deliver a new program focusing on working with people who present in the healthcare setting with a drug or alcohol addiction. This first workshop will explore methamphetamine use in Australia, the science of addiction and effects of methamphetamine on brain and behaviour and ICE use and mental health.
RN EN
Member $110, Non-member $180, Job Rep or SIG member $80
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
RN M
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
10 November 2016 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Kate Potter
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
CPD: 10 Hours (6 hours training and 4 hours self-directed learning), course code: 2290 15 November 2016 9.00am-4.00pm Presented by Australian College of Critical Care Nurses certified ALS trainers This one-day recertification is suitable for those working in a critical care environment and/or who have previously attended an ALS course and require an annual update. ACCCN recommends annual recertification in ALS and offers this one-day theoretical and practical adult ALS recertification program for healthcare professionals. The content covered is the same as the 2-day course above but at a faster pace, so prior knowledge of ALS is required. The morning is
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Member $210, non-member $310, 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
IV cannulation for registered RN Medication administration – nurses and midwives principles and practice revisited CPD: 6 hours, course code: 2036
fluid and electrolyte Adult Advanced Life Support: administration and blood transfusion RN 1 day Recertification in the acute care setting CPD: 6 hours, course code: 2221 21 October 2016 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Kate Potter
a review of ALS content with the opportunity to apply those concepts in practice scenarios. The theoretical and scenario training for recertification will follow in the afternoon.
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
December 2016 EN Strengthening
practice
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 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.
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
Central Venous Access Device module Launching this month is a new eLearning CPD module that focuses on the nursing management of central venous access devices (CVADs). You can learn about the different types of CVADs, infection, patency, complications and management. It is written with reference to the latest in evidence-based practice.
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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