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Let’s make aged care ratios law page 4
Health and Environmental Sustainability Conference – it’s a wrap
We are union and together we will change the rules
Meet RN and perinatal mental health specialist Cheree Cosgriff
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pages 6 – 7
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Know your entitlements
Inside this edition 2 Know your entitlements 3 Secretary’s report 4 • Aged Care campaign launch
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•C ampaign pop up stalls in Moonee Ponds • Conference inspires ANMF’s green champions
6 In focus: Change The Rules
• What is the ‘Change the Rules’ campaign about?
• E nterprise bargaining and aged care rules are broken
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• Member profile: Cheree Cosgriff • Special Interest Groups •C ompassion fatigue and other hazards addressed in conference
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• OHS training
• J ob Rep training
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• State government funds alcohol and other drugs course •N ew member category for new parents
12 Education calendar
It’s tax time Alison O’Gorman, Information Officer What deductions can I claim in my 2017–18 tax return? It is that time of year again, when we begin to gather up our group certificates and lodge a tax return with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). There are many items that nurses, midwives and personal care workers can claim as deductions for work-related expenses. For a detailed overview of what deductions nurses, midwives and personal care workers may be able to claim, plus exemptions and examples please refer to: anmfvic.asn.au/atoclaim Union/professional body memberships Members can claim the cost of their ANMF fees and also fees associated with being a member of a professional body. Registration fees Nurses and midwives are able to claim their AHPRA registration fee as a tax deduction. Self-education Nurses and midwives are able claim costs associated with education related to their practice/role, including but not limited to: •
c osts of attending professional conferences, seminars, completing online modules or courses.
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c osts of professional literature professional journal subscriptions, access to research articles, and text books.
Professional services Nurses and midwives accessing professional services such as private professional supervision services. Vehicle and travel expenses You can claim vehicle and other travel expenses (such as parking fees and tolls) directly connected with your work but you can’t claim for normal trips between home and work, which are considered private travel. You can claim a deduction for the cost of using your car for work-related travel if you travel:
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• directly between two separate workplaces because you have two different employers (for example, you have a second job) • for work-related purposes from your normal workplace to an alternative workplace and back to your normal workplace or directly home (for example, if you need to go to another hospital for a meeting)
• between two workplaces or between a workplace and a work-related business (for example, between two hospitals) • between home and work, only if
– you have to carry bulky tools or equipment that you use for work and there is no secure area for storing your tools or equipment at work
– your home is considered a base of employment and you either commence work at home and travel directly to another base of employment to continue working, or travel from another base of employment to home to continue working
– you travel from your home to an alternative workplace for work activities and then to your normal workplace or directly home.
Clothing, laundry and dry-cleaning expenses You can claim a deduction for the cost of buying, cleaning and repairing work-related uniforms, occupation-specific clothing, or protective clothing, stockings. Generally you can claim a deduction for work-related clothing if it is part of a ‘distinctive compulsory uniform’ – if it has the employer’s logo attached or the clothing’s characteristics – colour, style, type – are specified in your employer’s uniform policy. Protective clothing is clothing you wear to protect yourself from the risk or illness or injury posed by your work or work environment – for example, non-slip shoes. Tools, equipment and other assets If you buy tools or equipment to help earn your income, you can claim a tax deduction. Examples that may apply to nurses and midwives are stethoscopes, equipment pouches, neurological torches, nurses’ and midwives’ watches, and mobile phones (if required for your role). Reimbursements You cannot claim a deduction for expenses that your employer has reimbursed to you, or car expenses if your employer provides a car for you and you do not pay for the running costs. Members are reminded that they can download their ANMF tax receipts and evidence of professional indemnity insurance via the Member Portal members.anmfvic.asn.au
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Secretary’s report
Your ANMF Lisa Fitzpatrick State Secretary
Paul Gilbert
Assistant Secretary
A tale of two budgets Lisa Fitzpatrick, State Secretary A government budget can be a powerful tool to make lives better. You can’t do everything, so the choices governments make are revealing. The Andrews Government’s state budget announced on 1 May provided an historic $705 million for mental health. This will fund reform of the acute and recovery models of care for patients with drug and alcohol addiction and mental illness. Initiatives such as $100.5 million for six emergency department ‘crisis hubs’ across the state will mean staff and patients are safer. The hubs will be staffed with specialist nurses who will have a purpose-built, safer environment to deal with patients presenting with serious mental health or addiction issues. General emergency departments will also be safer. The hubs will be located at Monash Medical Centre, St Vincent’s Hospital, the Royal Melbourne Hospital, University Hospital in Geelong, Sunshine Hospital and Frankston Hospital. Police will know which hospitals to take affected people for expert care.
Pip Carew
Assistant Secretary
The Andrews Government will also invest $32.5 million in the mental health nursing workforce. This includes 31 supernumerary clinical liaison nurses to support less experienced nurses and doctors caring for vulnerable patients, 110 additional postgraduate mental health nursing positions and funding for 40 registered nurses to undertake mental health nursing education. There is funding to increase intensive clinical nursing services in existing Prevention and Recovery Care (PARC) units. These units reduce the pressure on acute services by providing short-term residential care for people with mental illness. The reforms will also assist communities and families respond to the insidious scourge of addiction with an extra $40.6 million to fund construction of three new 30-bed treatment facilities in the Barwon, Gippsland and Hume regions. The Andrews Government is also funding education to build the knowledge of all nurses and midwives caring for patients with addiction. The ANMF Education Centre has partnered with Turning Point to deliver the fully funded ‘Alcohol and other drugs’ course in Melbourne and regional Victoria. See page 11 for details.
Cover image: Federal ANMF Acting Secretary, Annie Butler addresses the Make Aged Care Ratios Law rally in Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s electorate. Photography: Les O’Rourke.
There is still more to do to prevent serious addiction and mental illness, but addressing the crisis at the acute and recovery stage is where we must start.
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It’s a very different story when we review the Turnbull Government budget announced a week later on 8 May. Victorian hospitals will miss out on $2.1 billion in federal funding because of growth caps on hospitals and a failure to increase the Commonwealth contribution rate to 50 per cent.
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The disappointment in the Turnbull Government’s budget continues with the failure to address the parlous state of private and notfor-profit nursing homes. Introducing a funding transparency mechanism such as nurse/carer to resident ratios law is urgently needed. Federal ANMF released a report last month, by the independent Tax Justice Network, that revealed the top six for-profit aged care companies received $2.17 billion in federal government subsidies but paid little or no tax. View the report at anmfvic.asn.au/ AgedCareTaxReport A few days later the Senate Economics Reference Committee announced an inquiry into the financial and tax practices of Australia’s for-profit providers. The inquiry will report by 14 August. The Turnbull Government did announce a 14,000 increase in home care packages. However, this falls well short of assisting those 105,000 people who are on the waiting list. The increase is not funded with new money. It will come from existing residential aged care funding which means less for the care of the country’s 197,181 nursing home residents. Thank you to everyone who joined us last month at the Melbourne CBD Change the Rules Rally (see pages 6 and 7) and the Community Rally for Ratios in Moonee Ponds which was the launch of the national ANMF campaign to make aged care ratios law (see page 4). We’ve only just begun. Please support these campaigns at every opportunity. NUM and MUM survey A new classification structure will be introduced in April 2019 for nurse/midwife unit managers employed in Victoria’s public health services. Clause 81.5 of the 2016 Victorian public sector nurses and midwives agreement requires the implementation of the new structure from the first pay period on or after 1 April 2019. The current classification structure does not reflect the complexity, autonomy, access to health infrastructure and support, responsibility and governance obligations of the contemporary role. Nurse/midwife unit managers, associate unit managers and directors of nursing are encouraged to complete a survey being distributed by their director of nursing. The anonymous responses will be provided to independent consultants Lysander Consulting Group. If you haven’t received the survey, which closes on 8 June, contact your director of nursing. For information and details about registering for metro and regional consultation sessions scheduled during August visit anmfvic.asn.au/classification-restructure
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Aged care campaign launch Hundreds of nurses, midwives, personal care workers and community members braved cold weather and the threat of rain for the Victorian launch of the ANMF’s national campaign for mandated staffing ratios in aged care. Former ACTU Secretary, now federal Labor MP for Batman, Ged Kearney, ANMF Federal Acting Secretary Annie Butler, and Victorian Senator Derryn Hinch, joined ANMF (Vic Branch) Secretary Lisa Fitzpatrick in calling on the Turnbull Government and the Federal Opposition to stand up for the vulnerable and elderly, and make aged care staffing ratios law. The launch was held on International Nurses Day, 12 May, in Queens Park, Moonee Ponds, the heart of Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s Maribyrnong electorate. The ANMF is urging the Federal Labor Party to support mandated aged care staffing ratios in the lead-up to the next federal election. Ms Kearney, who was also a previous Federal ANMF Secretary, praised ANMF members who ‘always stand up for what is right’. ‘You come out on a cold blustery morning like this to fight for aged care,’ Ms Kearney said. ‘To fight for the wonderful people we care for in aged care.’ ‘It’s worth it!’ an aged care nurse responded. ‘It is worth it,’ Ms Kearney said. ‘And this is what so many politicians just don’t get. ‘For so many people, they look at aged care and say “Billions and billions of dollars. Where are we going to get billions of dollars?” ‘But we look at aged care and we see the wonderful people we care for, who deserve dignity in their older age, the people who deserve to have a decent meal every day, who deserve to have decent hygiene, who deserve to have their wounds cared for, who deserve to get their medications on time
Ged Kearney, Lisa Fitzpatrick, Annie Butler and a supporter of aged care ratios
and correctly administered, who deserve a tender loving hand every now and then.
70 residents, or more than 100, or as happens in some states, more than 200 residents.
‘And you know, sure, it costs money to do that. But you know what? As someone just yelled out, it’s worth it.’
‘And because relatives can no longer watch their elderly loved ones suffer. Nurses and carers working in aged care are doing their very best but it’s close to impossible to provide the care they know their elderly residents need.’
Ms Kearney chastised the Turnbull Government for ripping billions of dollars out of aged care and guaranteed that she would be a voice for nursing home residents in Federal Parliament. ANMF (Vic Branch) Secretary Lisa Fitzpatrick thanked the crowd for coming along to push for staffing ratios to address the ‘parlous state of private aged care’. She said the introduction of legislated ratios in the Victorian public healthcare system had not been ‘the end of the world’; they had ensured better and safer care. ‘And no-one deserves that more than the people who have served this country (and) paid their taxes for decades.’ Ms Butler said that the aged care crisis must be fixed ‘because a carer cannot continue to wash, feed, mobilise 16 residents in just 45 minutes and because a registered nurse cannot continue to manage the total care of more than
Senator Derryn Hinch has introduced legislation for staffing ratios in aged care to Parliament but has won little support from fellow MPs. Senator Hinch, who was jailed for contempt of court during his previous career as a radio presenter, told the crowd that in prison he ate better food than residents of aged care facilities. What you can do Contact Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and urge him to make legislated aged care staffing ratios an election promise. Write: Suite 1A, 12 Hall Street, Moonee Ponds, VIC 3039 Email: Bill.Shorten.MP@aph.gov.au Phone: (03) 9326 1300 Social media: @billshortenmp (Twitter/ Instagram); @billshorten (Facebook)
Campaign pop-up stalls in Mayribyrnong electorate ANMF held pop-up stalls at Moonee Ponds Central in the lead up to the Community Rally for Ratios with officials and staff talking to the community about issues in aged care. The shopping centre is in Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s electorate of Maryibyrnong. Shoppers were encouraged to contact Mr Shorten and ask him to support making nurse/carer to resident ratios law in private and not-for-profit aged care.
Pop up campaign stores in Moonee Ponds Central in Federal Opposition Leader’s Bill Shorten’s electorate
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Shoppers were particularly interested in our display depicting a typical meal served at many (but not all) nursing homes and a typical meal served at the Federal Parliament House dining room. It was a good discussion point about how not enough of this year’s $18.6 billion in
federal aged care funding is being spent on direct resident care. Recent research found private-for-profit and not-for-profit nursing homes cut their average daily spend on meals per resident by 30 cents to $6.08 per day. In contrast federal government ministers receive a $181 daily meals and incidentals allowance when in Canberra. It is not all nursing homes, but way too many are penny pinching on food and it is wrong that they are pocketing profit but not providing residents with nutritious, restorative meals to promote wellbeing and avoid malnutrition. Find out about our aged care social media campaign anmfvic.asn.au/foodshame anmfvic.asn.au
Conference inspires ANMF’s green champions Nearly 600 ANMF (Vic Branch) members were inspired and informed at our sixth Health and Environmental Sustainability Conference. Keynote speakers Craig Reucassel, presenter of the ABC’s War on Waste, and Planet Ark’s Head of Research Dr Sean O’Malley, both urged nurses, midwives and personal care workers attending the conference to keep recycling, despite China’s decision last year to curtail recycling imports to the least contaminated waste. Mr Reucassel described nurses and midwives as an ‘exciting bunch of waste warriors’ and said he was impressed by the long-term perspective being taken by ANMF members, who understand that there is no health without a healthy planet. He said although the health sector’s waste disposal challenges were complex, involving contaminated waste and infection control, the healthcare sector was among many industries which are struggling against the tide of single-use plastic items. Huge sustainability wins could be achieved by changing personal habits, like carrying a water bottle or reusable coffee cup, and by looking at how workplace procedures could change to create less waste, or recycle. ‘I’m not a medical waste expert at all. In some ways your challenges are unique… because you’re dealing with patient safety and that’s always going to be paramount but in other ways the challenges you’re facing are the same as the challenges we’re facing everywhere else and that’s the nonstop shift to single-use plastic products.’
Mr Reucassel said the World Health Organisation had found that 80 per cent of healthcare waste was comparable to household waste – general, not infectious waste. Dr O’Malley screened a video about the concept of the ‘circular economy’, based on the regenerative cycles of nature, aimed at making the transition to renewable resources. The idea is to design products to be ‘made to be made again’ and power the system with renewable energy. He said we need to keep recycling because we have a finite amount of oil and gas and need to keep circulating materials that have already been produced. ‘Using less energy reduces greenhouse gas. If you recycle aluminium, (you use) 95 per cent less energy to recycle it and put it into a new product – steel, 60 per cent; glass, 60 per cent,’ Dr O’Malley said. ‘It makes common sense.’ Audience members also heard from green champion nursing colleagues who are reducing, reusing and recycling in their workplaces, including Libby McFarland and Rebecca Pascoe of Epworth Freemasons, Jade Ryan from Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Erica Leman and Michelle Wagner from Monash Health.
Take-aways without plastic The ANMF’s Health and Environment Sustainability Conference was brimming with ideas to re-think healthcare to reduce our impact on the environment, reduce costs and improve the community’s health. ‘We know what it is to look after sick people, but there’s more to it than that, isn’t there?’ ANMF Environmental Health Officer Roslyn Morgan said. ‘We don’t want to pollute the environment in the act of delivering that care.’ 1. Victorian Government resources Victorian public health services spend $18 million each year removing 40,000 tonnes of waste. The recently appointed Victorian Department of Health and Human Services Waste Education Officer Rachel McConville recommends nurses and midwives visit the Sustainability in Healthcare website for resources, guidelines and case studies of changing behavior in health services. Follow this quick link: anmfvic.asn.au/hospitalsustainability 2. Join the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals Network (GGHH) The acronym is hard to say, but at least the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals network is easy (and free) to join. The ANMF (Victorian Branch) is a member of GGHH. As a member benefit, ANMF (Victorian Branch) members can also access GGHH membership and resources available on the website, greenhospitals.net These include an online global collaboration platform, educational webinars, and a data centre to measure your project progress. Please email Ros Morgan ANMF (Vic Branch) Environmental Health Officer via records@anmfvic.asn.au for more information. 3. Save on catering Social entrepreneur Katy Barfield has made it her business to reduce food industry wastage amounting to 3.9 million tonnes of food every year. That’s six MCGs filled to the top.
ANMF (Vic Branch) Health and Environmental Sustainability Conference keynote speaker Craig Reucassel (ABC TV’s War On Waste) stands with an ‘exciting bunch of waste warriors’.
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Ms Barfield has developed an online wholesale marketplace yumefood.com.au that links suppliers’ surplus food with potential buyers, saving fresh food that may have a slight imperfection, such as a packaging tear, from landfill or deep burial. Products available include pastries, fresh salmon, quiches and frittatas, cheese and crackers, and berries. June 2018
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In focus: Change the Rules
ACTU Secretary Sally McManus and Victorian Trades Hall Secretary Luke Hilikari lead the rally through Melbourne
What rules need to change?
Over 120,000 union members joined the ‘Change The Rules’ rally on 9 May to fight for a fairer deal for workers.
What is the ‘Change the Rules’ campaign about? Proud ANMF members joined up to 120,000 union members in marching Melbourne’s streets on 9 May calling to ‘Change the Rules’ that are creating the worst social inequality in 70 years. In this campaign, union members are doing what we have always done – standing up for fairness in working life. We are saying that the gap between rich and poor in Australia has widened due to wage stagnation and wage theft; penalty rates in some industries have been axed; and the casualisation of the workforce and growth in the ‘gig economy’ has left workers without rights. We are facing an increasingly Americanised work landscape in which job security is a thing of the past.
Why should I want to ‘Change the Rules’? The ‘Change the Rules’ campaign is ANMF business for three reasons. 1. Unfair work laws affect us all. We are nurses, midwives and personal care workers but we’re also family members, partners and friends. Perhaps you can’t get a home loan because your partner’s employment is casual and their employer refuses to provide job security. Or your son or daughter works in hospitality and has just lost their Sunday penalty rates. Perhaps you have friends or family members working in the gig economy, delivering food or driving for Uber, without job security, holiday pay or sick pay. Perhaps you know one of the 50 per cent of 160 food delivery riders surveyed by the Transport Workers Union who have been hurt
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on the job but whose work is too insecure to say no to riding in stormy weather. Perhaps you’re related to one of the 200 Exxon-Mobile (Esso) Longford gas plant workers protesting new work contracts with 30-40 per cent less pay and family-unfriendly rosters. 2. Unfair workplace laws affect you, too. When the Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) became Bolton Clarke, nurses hired under the new entity were employed under an agreement with less pay and inferior conditions than nurses employed under the RDNS agreement negotiated by ANMF. We know that nurses and personal care workers are not able to provide the quality of care they want to provide to residents in private for-profit and not-for-profit aged care. ANMF’s campaign for legislated staffing ratios in private aged care is all about changing the rules so nurses and carers are not run off their feet and can provide the level of care that our elderly and vulnerable loved ones deserve. 3. ‘Touch one, touch all, united we stand, divided we fall’ As a union member, you are the strength of the union movement. When ANMF members have taken industrial action for fair pay and classifications, and nurse/midwife: patient ratios, other unions have stood with us. ANMF (Vic Branch)’s hard-fought campaigns to secure and keep nurse/midwife: patient ratios in the public healthcare system taught us that if we want to achieve change, we have to stand together.
ACTU Secretary Sally McManus told the 9 May rally that change doesn’t happen by sitting on the sidelines – it’s time to stop defending and start advancing. ‘Change happens by us making it happen. Rules change because we insist they change. We know power doesn’t give in without a demand.’ Ms McManus said unions had kept the flame for the fair go alive for over 20 years, defending workers’ rights since the Howard government’s attacks on working people. In an earlier address to the National Press Club she spoke of a range of rules that need to change to redress the power imbalance between employers and working people. These include the enterprise bargaining system, where the rules for bargaining are stacked against workers. Currently, huge numbers of people are being forced onto awards which have been hollowed out and do not offer protection for working people against the power of big business. Employers terminating agreements has become commonplace, meaning bargaining is conducted under the threat of loss of previously negotiated wages and conditions. Among changes to the enterprise bargaining system, the right of all workers to withdraw their labour must be brought into line with International Labour Organisation (ILO) standards. In our field, we need to start with legislating staffing ratios in aged care, where chronic understaffing over the past 13 years has seen a 400 per cent increase in the preventable deaths of elderly Australians. anmfvic.asn.au
At the epic rally, union members walked from Victorian Trades Hall, down La Trobe Street to the Magistrates Court, finally resting their feet at Flinders Street Station
What other rules need to change? ANMF members and families all rallied to ‘Change the Rules’
Enterprise bargaining and aged care rules are broken Changes to federal and state laws in the 1990s contributed to the current crisis in aged care and need to be fixed, ANMF (Vic Branch) Acting Secretary Paul Gilbert told a meeting of Job Reps and HSRs. ‘The enterprise bargaining rules are broken, and the aged care laws are broken’, Mr Gilbert told a gathering of ANMF delegates prior to the launch of the Change the Rules campaign. Mr Gilbert, who joined federal ANMF Secretary Annie Butler in briefing the Job Reps and HSRs on the legislated staffing ratios in aged care campaign, detailed the history leading to inadequate aged care staffing and skill mix, and a wages gap between Victorian public sector nurses and private aged care nurses. He said that in the 1990s then federal aged care minister, Bronwyn Bishop allowed residents living in low care hostels staffed primarily with nursing attendants (carers) the option of remaining in the facility as their care needs increased. ‘Ageing in place’ resulted in high care residents living in low care facilities which lacked appropriate nursing staffing levels. He said that in 2004 Swan Hill’s Alcheringa Hostel had sacked enrolled nurses for refusing to administer medications. Administering medications would have been beyond their scope of practice and breached Victoria’s Drugs and Poisons Act. The ANMF successfully took the case to the Federal Court, which ruled that the hostel, which had a large number of high-care patients, should be treated as a health service and therefore only registered nurses should administer medication.
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In response, the state government amended the Act, removing the requirement for registered nurses to administer medications and enabling personal care workers to administer medications. ‘We have no legal requirement for aged care providers to provide a skill mix to meet needs of residents. The only time you hear about this is when things go wrong’, Mr Gilbert said.
Broken enterprise bargaining laws have created nurses’ pay gap Enterprise bargaining over the past 30 years has resulted in an 18-23 per cent wage gap between nurses working in private and not-for-profit aged care, and public hospital nurses, Mr Gilbert told the meeting of Job Reps and HSRs. Having to bargain with individual employers rather than collectively has diminished ANMF’s capacity to negotiate a pay deal for private aged care nurses that matches the public sector EBA. ‘Every time we get an improvement in wages in private aged care, we get a reduction of nursing hours as a consequence,’ Mr Gilbert said. The union movement wants to change the rules around enterprise bargaining to enable collective bargaining across multiple employers, and lifting restrictions on who and what can be included in a collective agreement.
There are many rules that need to change to redress the inequality between working people and big business that has arisen over the past 30 years. Changes being sought by unions that would impact ANMF members and their families include: Defining ‘casual’ work Many Australians, including the partners and family members of nurses, midwives and personal care workers, are stuck in casual work, sham contracts, the gig economy and labour hire – without paid leave or job security. Unions say that after six months in casual work, people must have the choice to transfer to a permanent position. Paid family and domestic violence leave In the 2016–20 public sector nurses’ and midwives’ EBA, the ANMF (Vic Branch) secured 10 days family violence leave. The union movement is seeking a change to the national employment standards to include 20 days paid leave for workers experiencing family violence. A living wage Our minimum wage is now nearly 5 per cent below the widely accepted poverty line. We need to change the rules to make a living wage that is 60 per cent of the median wage as a legal minimum. End wage and superannuation theft It is now too hard, too expensive and too time-consuming to recover stolen wages. We need to change the rules to make it easier for working people to recover stolen wages and super, and have meaningful penalties for wage theft.
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Member profile: Cheree Cosgriff
Cheree Cosgriff recalls a patient’s story from the ‘asylum’ days that underlines the importance of early intervention for mothers struggling with their mental health. Ms Cosgriff initially trained as a psychiatric nurse nearly 30 years ago, working at Ararat’s Aradale psychiatric hospital, which operated for 126 years until it closed in 1993. Ms Cosgriff worked with long-term inpatients with chronic mental illnesses – ‘These people had been in institutions for a long time and we barely saw families,’ she said. One woman who had lived at Aradale for many years told Ms Cosgriff of the grief of being separated from her children years before, when her children were young. ‘She told me the story of remembering seeing the car driving off with her children. She was grasping the handle of the car trying to open it, screaming “Let me have my children, let me have my children”. ‘In hindsight she probably started with a major mental illness in a mild form, perhaps some depression in the post-natal period and developed schizophrenia down the track and became quite unwell,” Ms Cosgriff said. It was not until Aradale closed down under Victoria’s deinstitutionalization policy that the patient had any contact with her children. She was finally reunited with her daughter, who was by then an adult. After Aradale closed, Ms Cosgriff and her partner (now husband) went travelling and she had her first experience of a mother and baby unit while working in Western Australia. A passion for perinatal mental health was born.
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In 1999, having just had her third child, Ms Cosgriff decided to undertake a nursing degree and become a midwife. ‘When I came back here (to Ballarat) and started working in midwifery, a lot of my old colleagues from mental health said: “When are you going to come back and work with us?” “When you can find a role that combines my two loves of mental health and mid, I’ll come back.” And it’s just kind of evolved from there.’ Ms Cosgriff is now coordinator of the Families where a Parent has a Mental Illness (FaPMI) program at Ballarat Health Services, having worked for many years in perinatal mental health roles at Ballarat Base Hospital. Her patient’s tragic story underlines how mental health screening in pregnancy and support for mothers in the post-natal period can make a huge difference in the lives of women and their families. In pregnancy and the post-natal period, hormones, lack of sleep, worry about being a new parent and other family factors can all potentially impact a woman’s state of mind, making her more vulnerable to depression and anxiety. ‘There are a range of mental illnesses that are ongoing, pre-existing before the pregnancy, that perhaps would be exacerbated by the stresses of being a new mum – particularly mood disorders like bipolar affective disorder,’ Ms Cosgriff added. Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia (PANDA) says that up to one in 10 women experience antenatal depression and the same number experience antenatal anxiety. More than one in seven new mothers experience postnatal depression each year in Australia.
This is why it can be so helpful if midwives have a comprehensive understanding of mental health issues, and conversely, mental health professionals have a solid perinatal education, Ms Cosgriff said. For mothers experiencing mild to moderate mental illness in the perinatal period, Ballarat Hospital has a mother and baby unit, where mothers can be admitted for treatment, and have their babies with them. ‘It’s not common, thankfully, that we see mums acutely unwell because when we do in our region, they have to be admitted to the adult acute unit and they have to be separated from their babies… It’s one of those things I can’t stand seeing happen,’ Ms Cosgriff said. Ms Cosgriff is keen to see more nurses and midwives join the ranks of perinatal mental health specialists. Below are some options for education in perinatal mental health: The University of South Australia offers an online Graduate Certificate in Midwifery (Perinatal Mental Health): study.unisa.edu.au/degrees/ graduate-certificate-in-midwiferyperinatal-mental-health The University of Tasmania offers an online postgraduate Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Unit: www.utas.edu.au/courses/chm/units/ cna545-perinatal-and-infant-mental-health The Centre for Perinatal Psychology: www.centreforperinatalpsychology.com.au/ training COPE offers a free accredited online training program: Basic Skills in Perinatal Mental Health training.cope.org.au
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Compassion fatigue and other hazards addressed in conference ‘Compassion fatigue’ is one of several psychological hazards that can impact the mental and emotional health of nurses, midwives and personal care workers. The ANMF (Vic Branch), Psychological Hazards in Healthcare Conference on Friday 10 August will examine compassion fatigue and other psychological hazards which can cause stress, fatigue, and other mental and physical symptoms. The nature of healthcare work and its environment can place unique pressure on the psychological health of nurses, midwives and personal care workers, with risks including: •
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Special Interest Groups Advance Care Planning
Executive Meeting Thursday 19 July, 2pm – 4pm Classroom M2, ANMF (Vic Branch) 535 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Members Meeting Thursday 19 July, 4pm – 6pm Classroom M2, ANMF (Vic Branch) 535 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Inq: Anne Marie Fabri (ACP SIG Secretary) annemarie.fabri@nh.org.au 9495 3235
ANZANAC HIV Nursing
Education Session Wednesday 18 July, 5pm – 9pm Classroom M2, ANMF (Vic Branch) 535 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Inq: Milena Pinamonti 0466 280 445 anzanac.vic@gmail.com
CoNSA Vic/Tas
General Committee Meeting Wednesday 6 July, 6pm – 8.30pm Classroom M2, ANMF (Vic Branch) 535 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Inq: consavt@gmail.com
Day Surgery Inq: Chris Guidotti chris_guidotti@y7mail.com
Diabetes Nurse Educators Inq: Catherine Wallace-Wilkinson 0411 557 631 positivehealth@bigpond.com Visit anmfvic.asn.au/interest-groups for Special Interest Group information.
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an organisational culture where caring for others is prioritised above caring for the carers
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poor communication or lack of appropriate work support systems.
Founder and Director of Compassion Fatigue Australia, Anastasia Goussios, will speak at the conference about compassion fatigue. A registered psychologist based in Adelaide, Ms Goussios’s career spans over three decades. While preparing a presentation on burnout for a group of health professionals in a remote South Australian town, Ms Goussios came across the term ‘compasson fatigue’. Realising that she too was suffering from compassion fatigue, Ms Goussios became mindful of the way she practised and established Compassion Fatigue Australia because she felt so strongly about ‘the cost of caring’.
Immunisation Nurses
Members Meeting Monday 18 June, 6.30pm – 9.30pm Classroom M1, ANMF (Vic Branch) 535 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Inq: INSIG administration membership@immunisationnursesvic.org.au
Injured Nurses Support Group Inq: Annie Rutter 1300 760 602
Medical Imaging Nurses Association Inq: Deborah Shears deborah.shears@i-med.com.au
The organisation raises awareness of compassion fatigue and works collaboratively with organisations to reduce the risk and develop a culture of support and self-compassion. Ms Goussios’s presentation ‘Running on Empty: Compassion Fatigue, the Cost of Caring’ is one not to be missed. The ‘Psychological Hazards in Healthcare Conference’ is aimed at all levels of nursing, midwifery and healthcare and attracts six hours CPD required for nurses’ and midwives’ registration renewal. Early bird ticket sales end at 5pm Friday 6 July. While we will discuss prevention and strategies for dealing with psychological hazards please note that individual grievances related to workplaces cannot be resolved at the conference. Questions? Contact the occupational health and safety (OHS) team of ANMF (Vic Branch) via ohs@anmfvic.asn.au or call them on 03 9275 9333.
Standards Committee Meeting Wednesday 4 July, 6pm – 9.30pm Classroom M2, ANMF (Vic Branch) 535 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Executive Meeting Wednesday 11 July, 6pm – 9pm Classroom M2, ANMF (Vic Branch) 535 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Inq: VAMCHN executive vamchn.group@gmail.com
Victorian Association Of Research Nurses Inq: Sean Hosking records@anmfvic.asn.au
Orthopaedic Nurses Association
Victorian Midwifery Homecare
Palliative Care Nurses
Victorian Rehabilitation and Subacute Service Nurses Victorian School Nurses
Professional Development Day Thursday 28 June, 7.30am – 5.30pm Classroom M1, ANMF (Vic Branch) 535 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Inq: Cheryl Dingey 9345 7027 onavic@anmfvic.asn.au Inq: Catherine Hutchings records@anmfvic.asn.au
Pre-Admission Nurses Association Inq: Kate Hussey k.hussey@healthscope.com.au
Safe Patient Handling Inq: Stephen Morley smorley@bendigohealth.org.au
Victorian Association of Maternal and Child Health Nurses
Annual General Meeting Thursday 21 June, 6pm – 9pm Classroom M1, ANMF (Vic Branch) 535 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
Members Meeting Wednesday 27 June, 10am – 12.30pm Classroom M2, ANMF (Vic Branch) 535 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Inq: Ingrid Ridler IRidler@mercy.com.au
Professional Day – Live Long & Prosper: The Essential Leadership Tool Box Saturday 16 June, 8am – 5pm Classroom M1, ANMF (Vic Branch) 535 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Network Meeting Tuesday 31 July, 5.45pm – 9.45pm Classroom M1, ANMF (Vic Branch) 535 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne Inq: Gina Harrex 0401 717 352
Victorian Urological Nurses Society Inq: thea@neu.net.au June 2018
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Training OHS courses 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. Health and Safety Reps (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. 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 HSRs from attending an approved course. The ANMF conducts WorkSafe Victoria approved courses. These courses are conducted subject to number of registrants. For further details about OHS training and conferences visit anmfvic.asn.au/reps
HSR Initial OHS Training Course (WorkSafe Victoria approved)
HSR Refresher OHS Training Course (WorkSafe Victoria approved)
Part 1 – 29, 30, 31 August 2018 Part 2 – 10, 11 September 2018 Location: ANMF (Vic Branch), Melbourne Time: 9am – 5pm each day Cost: $750 (payable by employer) CPD: 35 Hours Register: goo.gl/NZkSp1
25 July 2018 Location: Melbourne Time: 9am – 5pm Cost: $250 (payable by employer) CPD: 7 Hours Register: goo.gl/41gw35
This five-day 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, and is designed to refresh HSRs’ knowledge and understanding of the OHS regulatory framework.
Job Rep training 2018 ANMF provides free metropolitan and regional education and training programs for Job Representatives. The two key programs are Foundations and Keeping it Organised. 1. Job Rep Foundations program This is an introductory program course for new Job Reps and those who need a refresher after three years. This comprises a prerequisite online module, plus a one-day face to face program. This program is designed to help you understand the role of the Job Rep, the Branch structure, the industrial relations system and the history of unions, and the role of unions today. You will learn tools, strategies and resources for building a stronger ANMF presence in your workplace. This program is held monthly in Melbourne, and in eight regional locations in 2018. Metro and regional Job Rep Foundations dates are: 13 June – Metro 17 July – Wangaratta 18 July – Metro 8 August – Metro 28 August – Traralgon
2. Keeping it Organised program This two day program provides active Job Reps (and those who want to become more active at the local level) the opportunity to learn and plan together with their ANMF Organiser and workplace Job Reps. The program includes learning a problem solving approach to address workplace issues, using EBA clauses; and exploring ways to build ANMF’s member density, activity and profile in your workplace. Most importantly, this program provides participants dedicated planning time with other workplace Reps and their Organiser, to follow up in the workplace. Job Reps need to register for the program dates and locations associated with their Organiser as follows: Keeping it Organised dates are: 18 – 19 July
Alison Kairns (Wangaratta)
29 – 30 August Quinn McGuiness and Kylie Martin (Traralgon) If you are unsure which program applies to you, please contact Job Rep admin support for assistance: jrt@anmfvic.asn.au
2018 ANMF Job Representative training schedule anmfvic.asn.au/reps Whether you’re a new Job Representative wanting to
more involved with your union at the workplace, Forbeall 2018 scheduled training dates you can or an experienced Job Rep looking for a refresher, check thea program website here: we have to meet your needs. anmfvic.asn.au/jobreptrainingdates Our Job Rep training is fee free and is designed to provide you with important and useful
Or information, you can download thetobrochure with all skills and knowledge help you dates carry outhere: your role confidently. 2018 jrt@anmfvic.asn.au anmfvic.asn.au/JobRepTrainingBrochure 03 9275 9333
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Andrews Government funds AOD course No matter where they work, nurses and midwives are going to come into contact with patients experiencing the health effects of abuse of alcohol or other drugs, Turning Point educator Sharon Patterson says.
methamphetamine, potential harms, and the associated management of intoxication and withdrawal.
Ms Patterson is the presenter of a new free two-day ‘Alcohol and Other Drugs’ (AOD) course for nurses and midwives, funded by the Andrews Labor Government and being delivered by ANMF (Vic Branch) in partnership with Turning Point, a national addiction treatment, education and research centre.
As part of the training for brief interventions, participants will explore the principles and strategies for motivational interviewing and practice reflective listening.
‘Nurses are ubiquitous, they’re everywhere – they’re working in schools, they’re working in general practice, other primary healthcare settings…so they, more than other workforce, are going to come into contact with people who use drugs,’ Ms Patterson said. ‘(Patients using alcohol and other drugs) might be presenting with acute harm because of their drug use – accidents, fights, or the effects of accumulative harm from years of alcohol use, or years of illicit drug use – cancers, cardiac problems or mental health problems,’ she said.
Turning Point educator Sharon Patterson
The course will give an overview of the pharmacological effects of psychoactive drugs including alcohol, cannabis, opiates, and
Ms Patterson said the course was not intended to make participants specialists in alcohol and other drugs but would provide training in brief interventions and referral, and information on the drug treatment system.
‘It’s aiming to make nurses and midwives more confident and competent in what they do. A lot of nurses are not confident in how to respond (to people abusing alcohol and other drugs) and are concerned they will make matters worse,’ Ms Patterson said. Nurses and midwives are also cognisant of their role in keeping other patients safe. The course will run in Melbourne on 11 and 12 July, and 3 and 4 October; Ballarat on 14 and 15 August; Bendigo on 28 and 29 August; Geelong on 19 and 20 September, and Wodonga on 13 and 14 November. Further courses will run in 2019. See the education calendar overleaf. Rgister online: anmfvic.asn.au/aodworkshops or see the back of On the Record for registration details.
New member category for new parents ANMF (Vic Branch) has launched a new membership category for members on primary carer’s leave.
With 12 months of service, expectant mothers are entitled to:
The membership for new parents provides additional benefits, including $120 in CPD credit. Our new Parental leave – and returning to work guide, available at anmfvic.asn.au/parentalleave, assists in simplifying parental leave information for members.
• 1 8 weeks of government-funded paid leave, which can be shared with your partner
The booklet explains leave entitlements available to you and your family and provides information on timelines for requesting, commencing and varying parental leave, so you can meet your parental leave obligations with your employer. If you have 12 months of continuous service with your employer, or with different workplaces in the public sector, ★ you are entitled to 52 weeks of parental leave in connection with the birth or adoption of a child if you are the primary caregiver. A star ★ highlights information that is specific to the Nurses and Midwives (Victorian Public Health Sector) (Single Interest Employers) Enterprise Agreement 2016-2020). anmfvic.asn.au
• ★ 10 weeks of employer-funded paid leave, and
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• ★ pre-natal leave to attend appointments or birth and parenting classes • a safe and supportive workplace with a safe job provided throughout pregnancy • 52 weeks of parental leave with a right to request an extension for a further 12 months • ★ One week of paid ‘short parental leave’ for your non-primary carer partner who can also access unpaid leave • a clear return-to-work pathway and • your parental responsibilities being accommodated upon return to work.
This guide aims to simplify the complex enterprise bargaining agreements and legislated leave entitlements. The Parental leave – and returning to work guide is available to read online at: anmfvic.asn.au/parentalleave
It’s important to know your rights and responsibilities as set out under the relevant enterprise bargaining agreement, antidiscrimination laws, the Fair Work Act and occupational work health and safety laws.
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JUNE 2018 Two-day paediatric advanced life support program RN
follow in the afternoon. Registration includes a program manual and e-learning material. Morning overview of the following topics will include: 1.
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Airway management and electrical therapy skill stations
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CPD: 12 HOURS, COURSE CODE: 6859
Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 June 2018, 9am – 5pm Presenters: ACCCN accredited trainers This practical and theoretical program provides healthcare professionals training in paediatric basic and advanced life support in a clinical setting. The program content runs over two days with certification for both BLS and ALS on the second day. Based on the latest 2010 Australian Resuscitation Council guidelines, the program incorporates theoretical lectures, clinical skill stations and scenarios. Registration includes a program manual and e-learning material. Program includes: •
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The program is most suitable for those with little or no experience or knowledge of paediatric ALS or those wanting a comprehensive update. It is also suitable for experienced Adult ALS trained healthcare professionals requiring paediatric ALS Certification. A total of 16 CPD hours are assigned to this program (based on 12 hours program contact and four hours self-directed learning). ANMF/ACCCN member $400 Non-member $500
JULY 2018 ALS Paediatric recertification: 1 day program RN
CPD: 6 HOURS, COURSE CODE: 6862
ACCCN recommends annual recertification in advanced life support, and offers a one-day theoretical and practical Paediatric advanced life support recertification program for healthcare professionals who have previously completed a formal paediatric ALS course. Based on the latest Australian Resuscitation Council Statements on Basic and Advanced Life Support; ANZCOR 2016 guidelines, the morning is a review of paediatric ALS content with the opportunity to apply those concepts in practice scenarios. The theoretical and practical assessment for recertification will
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Adult ALS certification: 2-day program RN
CPD: 12 HOURS, COURSE CODE: 6847
Wednesday 18 and 25 July 2018, 9am – 5pm Presenter ACCCN accredited trainers ANMF (Vic Branch) Education Centre in partnership with the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses delivers the ACCCN accredited advanced life support course. This course is most suitable for those with little or no experience/knowledge of ALS or those wanting a comprehensive update. Prior reading is expected. This two-day program is for healthcare professionals who are required to provide adult basic and advanced life support in a clinical setting. The program incorporates theoretical lectures, clinical skill stations and scenarios. A total of 16 CPD hours are assigned to this program (based on 12 hours program contact and four hours self-directed learning). Attendees can test their knowledge by completing the electronic pre-test prior to the day. The pre-test and the Adult PDF ALS interactive program manual are emailed approximately 1 month prior to course commencement. ANMF/ACCCN member $400 Non-member $500
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Monday 16 July 2018, 9am – 5pm Presenter ACCCN accredited trainers
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CPD: 12 HOURS, COURSE CODE: 6891
Wednesday 18 and 25 July 2018, 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 $400 Non-member $550 Job Rep or SIG member $380 RM
AUGUST 2018 Law & ethics for registered and enrolled nurses EN
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Tuesday 14 and 21 August 2018, 9.30am – 4.30pm Presenter Lorraine Walker, Senior Lecturer, Monash University Law and ethics directly impact nursing and midwifery practice in a myriad of ways. This seminar is designed to refresh nurses’ understanding of the fundamentals of the law and the legislation that impacts on nursing practice. Included is an outline of legal precepts, documents, scope of practice of registered and enrolled nurses and the legal and ethical principles of nursing practice. This course is also applicable to midwives. Member $400 Non-member $550 Job Rep or SIG member $380 RN Adult advanced life support: 1 day recertification CPD: 10 HOURS, COURSE CODE: 6855
Wednesday 15 August 2018, 9am – 5pm 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 but at a faster pace, so prior knowledge of ALS is required. The morning is 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. Attendees can test their knowledge by completing the electronic pre-test prior to the day. The pretest and the Adult PDF ALS interactive program manual are emailed approximately 1 month prior to course commencement. Member $250 Non-member $350 RN RM IV cannulation for registered nurses and midwives CPD: 6 HOURS, COURSE CODE: 6791
Friday 17 August 2018 2018, 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
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participant practice will be conducted utilising manikin simulation. Please note: this is not an accredited course. Member $200 Non-member $280 Job Rep or SIG member $190
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Wednesday 22 and 29 August 2018, 9am – 5pm Presenters: ACCCN accredited trainers ANMF (Vic Branch) Education Centre in partnership with the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses delivers the ACCCN accredited advanced life support course. This course is most suitable for those with little or no experience/knowledge of ALS or those wanting a comprehensive update. Prior reading is expected. This two-day program is for healthcare professionals who are required to provide adult basic and advanced life support in a clinical setting. The program incorporates theoretical lectures, clinical skill stations and scenarios. A total of 16 CPD hours are assigned to this program (based on 12 hours program contact and four hours self-directed learning). Attendees can test their knowledge by completing the electronic pre-test prior to the day. The pre-test and the Adult PDF ALS interactive program manual are emailed approximately 1 month prior to course commencement. ANMF/ACCCN member $400 Non-member $500
Venipuncture, conducting a 12 lead ECG and contemporary pathology collection EN
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CPD: 6 HOURS, COURSE CODE: 6796
Friday 24 August 2018, 9.30am – 4.30pm Presenter: Kate Potter This workshop delivers a comprehensive one-day program relating to venipuncture 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. Member $200 Non-member $280 Job Rep or SIG member $190
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Are you a RN Div. 2/EN delivering medications, would you like to further develop your skills and knowledge? This seminar will cover learning related to a variety of health care settings with reference to the professional practice framework and builds on skills and knowledge attained through completion of the nationally accredited units associated with NMBA approved enrolled nurse medication administration requirements and work practice.
the management of asthma emergencies, acute asthma, and chronic asthma. Effective and comprehensive patient/carer education is essential in asthma management, as well as an understanding of common medicines used to treat asthma, and devices. Different resources will be explored and discussed to support your practice. This course will be interactive, and problem based, including both theoretical and practical sessions.
Member $200 Non-member $280 Job Rep or SIG member $190
Member $200 Non-member $280 Job Rep or SIG member $190
2-Day ALS resuscitation instructor course
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CPD: 12 HOURS, COURSE CODE: 6849
Wednesday 12 and 19 September 2018, 9am – 5pm Presenter ACCCN accredited trainers Do you work in education and critical care? Are you interested in becoming an ALS instructor? This course is most suitable for health care professionals working in a critical care environment/previously attended an ALS course and are now wishing to become an ALS instructor (in their hospital / region). This program incorporates BLS and ALS training and assessment, including ALS Recertification and teaching resuscitation education. Attendance at both days is compulsory to become an instructor. A significant amount of time is spent with participants developing and practicing their instructor skills through practical stations and assessments. This external credentialing gives hospitals the confidence that instructors are equipped with the knowledge and skills to coordinate internal ALS courses based on evidence-based teaching principles and the recommendations of the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC). Each participant is provided with an Instructor reference manual (including self directed exercises and practical tips) and an e-copy of our Adult or Paediatric ALS manual upon paid online registration. A total of 16 CPD hours are assigned to this program (based on 12 hours program contact and 4 hours self-directed learning). Successful participants will be placed on the ACCCN National ALS Database. Pre-course requirements: Attendees must have a recent ALS certification, preferably within 12 months. You are also required to complete the e-learning ALS pre-test prior to the day. ANMF/ACCCN member $440 Non-member $540
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Strengthening EN medication practice
Thursday 13 September 2018, 9.30am – 4.30pm Presenter: Leanne Boase
CPD: 6 HOURS, COURSE CODE: 6977
This one day course provides the essentials of asthma assessment and management for Registered and Enrolled Nurses. This includes
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Tuesday 26 June 2018, 9.30am – 12.30pm Presenter Sharon Patterson Location: ANMF (Vic Branch), Melbourne WODONGA, CPD: 3 HOURS, SESSION 1 COURSE CODE: 6953 SESSION 2 COURSE CODE: 6954
Monday 9 July 2018, Session 1: 9.30am – 12.30pm Session 2: 1.30pm – 4.30pm Presenter Sharon Patterson Location: Albury Wodonga Health Wodonga Campus, Vermont Street Wodonga VIC 3690 MELBOURNE, CPD: 3 HOURS, COURSE CODE: 7837
Friday 20 July 2018, 9.30am – 12.30pm Presenter Sharon Patterson Location: ANMF (Vic Branch), Melbourne MELBOURNE. CPD: 3 HOURS, COURSE CODE: 7838
Thursday 2 August 2018, 9.30am – 12.30pm Presenter Sharon Patterson Location: ANMF (Vic Branch), Melbourne HAMILTON, CPD: 3 HOURS SESSION 1 COURSE CODE: 7849 SESSION 2 COURSE CODE: 7850
Tuesday 21 August 2018, Session 1: 9.30am – 12.30pm Session 2: 1.30pm – 4.30pm Presenter: Sharon Patterson Location: Hamilton Base Hospital 20 Foster Street, Hamilton VIC 3300 ANMF (Vic Branch) has partnered with Turning Point to deliver this program focusing on ice/ methamphetamine use in Australia, the science of addiction and effects of methamphetamine on brain and behaviour, and ice use and mental health. These face to face seminars are designed to complement the standard Frontline Worker Ice Training Package released earlier this year. nceta.androgogic.com.au This seminar is fully funded by the Andrews Government and is an outcome of the Premier’s Ice Action Taskforce.
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Wednesday 5 September 2018, 9.30am – 12.30pm Presenter Sharon Patterson Location: ANMF (Vic Branch), Melbourne ANMF (Vic Branch) is partnering with Turning Point to deliver this new methamphetamine mental health seminar. The seminars are funded by the Andrews Government as an outcome of the Premier’s Ice Action Taskforce and provide an opportunity for attendees to learn more about delivering health services to methamphetamine affected people and the potential mental health interactions. This course is relevant for nurses and midwives working across the health sector including in the community, mental health and drug and alcohol services. Places in these seminars are limited so you are advised to register early as they will fill quickly. This seminar is fully funded by the Andrews Government as an outcome of the Premier’s Ice Action Taskforce.
Alcohol and other drugs – two day nurse/midwife program EN
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MELBOURNE, CPD: 12 HOURS, COURSE CODE: 8714
Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 July 2018 Location: ANMF (Vic Branch), Melbourne BALLARAT, CPD: 12 HOURS, COURSE CODE: 8715
Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 August 2018 Location: ANMF (Vic Branch), Ballarat
evidence-based information on drug use and addiction. The content will include an understanding of how drugs affect the neurobiological and physiological systems of the body. This will allow a greater exploration of the pharmacology of psychoactive drugs and the associated management of intoxication and withdrawal. Participants will be introduced to Prochaska and DiClementes’s Model of Change and its application. We will also consider potential biopsychosocial harms to the patient and a range of strategies used in treatment. The second half of the workshop will have a major focus on brief interventions including strategies for raising the issue of drug use, engaging patients and implementing screening tools. We will explore the principles and strategies for motivational interviewing and practice reflective listening. Finally we will focus on identifying and effectively referring patients to appropriate treatment services. Participants will gain an understanding of the drug treatment system with particular emphasis on local services. This workshop does not aim to train you to become an alcohol and drug specialist nurse, rather it is designed to assist you to be more confident and competent in your work with patients you are already seeing who use alcohol and other drugs. This is an important topic for nurses and midwives and provides an opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge and hear from industry experts and to ask any questions you may have. This seminar is fully funded by the Andrews Government.
NATIONALLY ACCREDITED COURSES (RTOID 22609)
GEELONG, CPD: 12 HOURS, COURSE CODE: 8717
Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 September 2018 Location: Barwon Health, The Auditorium in Kitchener House, 299 Ryrie Street, Geelong
Certificate IV in training and assessment (TAE40116)
Have you ever found yourself unsure or ill equipped to respond to patients who have alcohol or other drug use problems?
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This two day workshop has been developed for nurses and midwives who want to learn more about how to work effectively with patients who have problems with alcohol and other drug use. It is relevant for nurses and midwives working across all areas of the health sector. This practical and theoretical program will provide the latest EN
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Education in health is a growing industry, and experienced nurses, midwives and personal care workers wanting to work in education, whether in their workplace or in an undergraduate setting often require a formal qualification. The Certificate IV in training and assessment (TAE40116) is the core qualification for employment in the vocational education sector and increasingly in health education. RM
The ANMF (Vic Branch) Education Centre is pleased to be able to offer health professionals a bespoke, health focused training and assessment qualification. This purpose built course has been contextualised to reflect your working environment, preparing graduates for current industry demands. It includes quality and experienced teaching and support staff, materials, modern facilities with clinical simulation, wellequipped classrooms, and computer laboratories and an extensive library. Course duration: 30 weeks Delivery mode: blended delivery (includes 22 face to face workshops, online learning and independent study) Location: 535 Elizabeth Street Melbourne VIC 3000 (classroom and simulated lab) Courses fees (include tuition fees, assessments and learning resources) Member: $3,500 Non-member: $3,800 Government funded place*: $1,225 (member) and $1,525 (non-member) Fee schedule 1.
Minimum deposit $1,000 (member, non-member and government subsidised place) Due: before course commencement
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Learning Block C: $1,050 (member), $1,140 (non-member), $225 (government subsidised member) $525 (government subsidised non-member) Due: week 15
* Conditions apply: you will ONLY be eligible for Victorian government subsidy if you do not hold AQF level 4 Certificate (e.g. your highest held qualification is Certificate III or you are hospital trained nurse/ aged care professionals). Further eligibility criteria apply, please see Skills First – government funding section via the ANMF (Vic Branch) website at anmfvic.asn.au/tae More information can be accessed through the ANMF (Vic Branch) website at anmfvic.asn.au/tae This is a nationally recognised qualification delivered by the ANMF (Vic Branch) Education Centre RTOID 22609.
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This module is about the important role nurses play in protecting vulnerable children. We need to consider that every child we see may be vulnerable. Sometimes we may not think that it is our job as health professionals to get involved or we are unsure what our role should be. Talking about and responding to child abuse can be confronting and distressing. This module aims to provide you with information that will assist you in making sure that children’s health, wellbeing and safety are protected. Full members receive $400 annual CPD Portal credit. cpd.anmfvic.asn.au
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