ON THE
RECORD MAY 2017
What we love about being nurses and midwives page 9 Private aged care EBA campaign ramps up
In focus: Voluntary assisted dying consultation
Meet refugee health nurse Amelia Tauoqooqo
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Know your entitlements
Inside this edition
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Know your entitlements Secretary’s report � ANMF steps up private aged care EBA campaign � Penalty rates decision an alarming precedent � How you can fight climate change – one oxygen mask at a time � ANMF wins experience increments case at RCH
In focus
6-7 Voluntary assisted dying 8 � Meet Amelia Tauoqooqo, refugee health nurse and advocate
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� Sally McManus elected new ACTU Secretary � On ‘illegal’ industrial action
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� Celebrating our professions � Online module for new Job Reps � Keeping it Organised
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� OHS courses � Utilise your member benefits � Special Interest Groups
12-14 Education Calendar ANMF (Vic Branch)
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On call/recall in public sector EBA 2016-20 Celene McMullan, Information Officer With changes in the new public sector EBA regarding excessive hours worked, it is important to know your rights and claim your entitlements in relation to on call, recall and excessive hours. What is on call? On call is when you are rostered to be ‘on call’ and available to be recalled to duty in a period outside your rostered normal duty. What is the ‘on call allowance’? The allowance is compensation for being on-call, and is paid per 12 hour period or part thereof. What are the minimum hours payable for each period of recall? If you are rostered ‘on call’ and recalled to duty, you must be paid overtime for a minimum of three hours. You cannot be required to work the full three hours if the work you were recalled for is completed in a shorter time. What is the pay rate for overtime, including recall? Overtime is paid time and half (150 per cent) of your normal hourly rate for the first two hours and double time (200 per cent) thereafter. All overtime on weekends is 200 per cent. What is the pay rate for overtime on a public holiday? Overtime on a public holiday is to be paid at double time (200 per cent) for Monday to Friday and double and half (250 per cent) for weekend public holidays and does not impact on the public holiday rostered off benefit. What is the rest period after recall? You are entitled to 10 consecutive hours off duty between the completion of overtime and the commencement of the next ordinary shift, without loss of pay for any rostered hours. For example, if the recall finished at 1am and you were due to commence your next rostered shift at 7am, you would be entitled to commence at 11am (after the 10 hour break) and still be paid your ordinary pay between 7am and 11 am. If you are required to resume or continue work without having 10 consecutive hours off duty, you must be paid at the rate of double time (200 per cent) until you have been released from duty for 10 hours. Rest period after excessive hours This is a new entitlement under clause 54 of the EBA. You must be granted a substitute day off on a working day (without loss of pay) as soon as practicable, but not later than 14 days from the excessive hours worked.
‘Excessive hours’ within this clause means: a) b) c)
you normally work four or more shifts per week; and you work 14 or more continuous hours that go into your rostered day off; and the work includes night time (hours worked that finish on the day after commencing duty or commence after midnight and before 5am.
What allowances can I claim when working overtime or recalled to work? 1) Meal allowance: if you are required to work beyond the end of your rostered shift • after one hour overtime - meal allowance A • after five hours overtime work - meal allowance A & B if recalled to work • after five hours recall work - meal allowance A • after nine hours recall work - meal allowance A & B This allowance does not apply when an adequate meal is provided, or you could reasonably return home for a meal within the period allowed. 2) Telephone allowance If you are required to have a home phone to be ‘on call’ you are entitled to the telephone allowance. 3) Transport from home to your organisation for recall work If you drive your car to work for recall, a vehicle allowance can be claimed. If you do not use your own vehicle, then you must be provided with suitable transport to your workplace, at your employer’s expense. If overtime finishes when reasonable means of transport is not available, you must be provided adequate transport free of cost to you, including to pick up your vehicle What if I am working lots of recall on my days off? If you are rostered on call for at least two days, during four or more four week roster cycles during the year, you are entitled to accrue additional leave from one to five days per year, depending on how many roster cycles you perform on call. If you require more information please call the members-only ANMF (Vic Branch) Information Line on 03 9275 9333 or 1800 133 353. Non public sector employees need to check their individual enterprise agreements.
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Secretary’s report
Your ANMF Lisa Fitzpatrick State Secretary
Paul Gilbert
Assistant Secretary
Pip Carew
Assistant Secretary
We must stop penalty rate cuts Lisa Fitzpatrick, Secretary The ANMF now has two separate pieces of legal advice that suggest the Fair Work Commission decision to cut penalty rates could flow on to nurses and midwives. The commission decision currently affects retail, fast food, hospitality and pharmacy employees. ANMF is concerned that members who do not work in ‘essential services’, such as general practice, aged care, pathology services and community nurses, and do not have an enterprise bargaining agreement are especially vulnerable. The ANMF’s lawyers, Ryan Carlisle Thomas (RCT), say the decision sets a ‘concerning precedent for the erosion of the minimum safety net for workers and especially those required to work unsociable hours.’ RCT also argues employers are likely to challenge the commission’s attempts to confine its decision to the retail and hospitality sectors and will make new applications to cut penalty rates in other areas. Read more at rctlaw.com.au/ legal-blog One employer, Sonic HealthPlus, which has services across Australia, has already attempted to cut nurses’ penalty rates during enterprise bargaining negotiations. Sonic HealthPlus withdrew the claim following a social media campaign. We all need to support the union movement’s campaign to stop the penalty rate cuts of those employees who will be affected first. Read more on page 4. Serious discussions ANMF hosted a voluntary assisted dying bill consultation session last month to identify the key issues and questions that will help guide decision making to create a compassionate legislative framework that is workable and includes strong safeguards. More than 60 members, with a variety of views, were guided in discussion by members of the ministerial advisory panel including Professor Margaret O’Connor, Emeritus Professor of Nursing, Monash University, who has a background in palliative care nursing. Read more on pages 6 and 7.
Cover image: ANMF (Vic Branch) members celebrate International Nurses Day (12 May) and International Midwives Day (5 May) by sharing what they love about their professions. On the Record is the official publication of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (Victorian Branch). OTR is published monthly.
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Delegates Conference If you are an ANMF Job Rep or a Health and Safety Rep there is still time to register for next month’s annual delegates conference (22 and 23 June). This conference is about recharging your batteries and provides an opportunity to hear engaging speakers, network with peers and have a little fun.
If you are a new Job Rep or HSR or you have never been to a delegates conference please consider registering. For details and registration visit anmfvic.asn.au/dels17 New Job Rep module More than 40 Job Reps have completed the new online module which provides a basic introduction to their important role, the industrial relations system, the structure of the ANMF and an historic and current overview of unions. The module is a prequisite to attending the face to face introductory one-day program and allows Job Reps more time to learn the practical skills needed to be active in the union in their work area. See page 10 for details. New building The construction of ANMF’s new building across the road at 535 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne is progressing well and according to schedule. This means we are now planning to move into the new headquarters in midAugust. ANMF will advise members as soon as plans are confirmed to ensure disruption to services are kept to an absolute minimum. The new building will enable ANMF to increase staff to represent our growing membership, now at more than 76,000 nurses, midwives and personal care workers. A century of MCH nursing The first infant welfare centre opened in Richmond in June 1917 which means next month we will mark a century of maternal and child health nursing in Victoria. The Victorian Association of Maternal and Child Health Nurses is an ANMF (Vic Branch) special interest group and as part of their celebrations we will acknowledge the remarkable maternal and child health nurses who worked and campaigned to achieve the important nursing role and the enviable service we have today. Watch out for more information next month. Celebrating nurses and midwives Finally I wish you all a happy International Midwives Day (May 5) and International Nurses Day (May 12). It’s a great time to reflect on why we are a nurse or a midwife, or both. Thank you to all of the members who sent us photographs for our posters and social media. The posters have been sent to Job Reps to distribute in workplaces. If the photo you sent is not on the poster make sure you check out our Facebook and Twitter pages and follow #anmfIND and #anmfIMD.
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Penalty rates decision an alarming precedent By Paul Gilbert, Assistant Secretary On 23 February, the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission decided to reduce Sunday penalty rates for workers covered by a number of retail, fast food and hospitality awards that provide the minimum safety net entitlements for some of Australia’s lowest paid workers.
ANMF staff Sandra Oakley (left) and Romy Fitz talk with a BlueCross aged care worker
ANMF steps up private aged care EBA campaign The ANMF (Vic Branch) campaign for safer staffing levels, better resident care and improved wages in private aged care started with March and April visits to workplaces owned by BlueCross and Aged Care Services Australia Group (ACSAG).
legally continue to pay the low-care rates. BlueCross started to address this issue in the last agreement. This time ANMF will be asking them to take a bigger step towards eliminating the gap between lowcare and high-care pay rates.
ANMF visited every BlueCross and ACSAG aged care facility to discuss the private aged care EBA log of claims for better staffing levels, wages and conditions.
ANMF is also seeking improved skill mix and ratios to ensure our members can provide safe, quality resident care.
The enterprise agreements for both employers expire on 31 May. Both nursing home groups, along with several other larger providers, set the wages benchmark for private for-profit aged care in Victoria. ANMF and its members want BlueCross and ACSAG to continue to set the standard. ANMF is negotiating for better wages for registered nurses and enrolled nurses employed in about 17 BlueCross facilities which were historically classified as ‘low care’ compared to the seven BlueCross facilities regarded as ‘high care’. These nurses are paid lower rates because their aged care facility was once a low-care ‘hostel’ and only had ‘low-care’ residents. With ageing in place, hostels and low-careonly facilities no longer exist, but under enterprise agreements employers can
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Specific personal care worker claims include career structure improvements, exam leave and a fifth week of annual leave for Monday to Friday shift workers. With the Federal Government’s $1.6 billion aged care funding cut and other factors we face a challenging environment to negotiate the EBA. However, it is important to remember many aged care providers will still make reasonable profits per bed – for some it is up to $13,000 per bed before tax and depreciation. We encourage ANMF members working in private aged care to become a Job Rep, to strengthen the connection between your union and your workplace. Ask your organiser or visit anmfvic.asn.au/reps.
Despite the commission acknowledging that many of these employees ‘earn just enough to cover weekly expenses’ and these jobs are their principal or only source of income, workers covered by these awards will earn between 25 per cent and 50 per cent less on Sundays. The Full Bench also decided to reduce the public holiday penalty rates in the hospitality and retail awards by 25 per cent and require employees to work past 10pm to receive an evening shift penalty. Cuts for Saturday penalties in pharmacies remain before the commission. According to our lawyers, Ryan Carlisle Thomas, the decision sets a concerning precedent for the erosion of the minimum safety net for workers, especially those required to work unsociable hours. This includes workers who provide essential services such as nurses and midwives. Legal advice provided to the ACTU states that ‘much of the reasoning relied upon in the penalty rates decision could be adopted when reviewing awards in other industries’ including workers in ‘aged and health care (particularly non-essential care) and nursing, where it isn’t deemed to be in an “essential service”.’ While the Fair Work Commission’s decision does not directly affect nurses, carers and midwives, as no application was made to vary the Nurses Award 2010 or the Aged Care Award 2010, an application could be made by employers in the future. For the vast majority of our members, our penalty rates are protected by enterprise agreements negotiated by ANMF, not awards determined by the commission. But for those who are award reliant, or who have family working under minimum conditions, the impact could be very significant. The Victorian Trades Hall Council has launched a campaign opposing the decision, and ANMF encourages members to participate: goo.gl/F2jLfw
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nurses from another hospital followed Ms Dunn’s lead and started a recycling program.
How you can fight climate change – one oxygen mask at a time
‘A lot of people don’t understand climate change, so they can’t act. But once they know what to do and have the tools they need that’s when they can get involved and really make a difference.’ Ms Dunn believes nurses can make a big contribution in the fight against climate change. ‘Nurses are in a position of respect. People trust us and listen to us. We have a great opportunity to be role models and to start talking to patients and colleagues about climate change.’ Be inspired by Ms Dunn’s story and make a difference too. Pledge to take action on climate change through the Take 2 program at sustainability.vic.gov.au
In 22 years of nursing, ANMF member Jacqui Dunn has seen a lot, including the toll climate change is taking on the health of Victorians. An Associate Nursing Unit Manager at Monash Health in Clayton, Ms Dunn says she sees the impact of climate change at the hospital emergency department during heatwaves. ‘On really hot days, you see more patients present at the emergency department with cardiac and respiratory conditions, more strokes and the chronically ill whose conditions exacerbate in hot weather,’ she said. ‘I think a lot of people don’t realise that climate change is affecting them. They see climate change as something in the future, in some faraway place. But it’s already affecting us in Melbourne and we need to act now to improve things.’ Victoria’s health sector uses a lot of energy and water, as well as producing massive waste from single-use products.
ANMF wins experience increments case at RCH In a win for ANMF (Vic Branch) members, the Federal Court confirmed Royal Children’s Hospital members’ prior interstate or private sector nursing experience must be recognised for classification and advancement. ANMF’s win came after the hospital refused to recognise a member’s previous work experience in the private sector and interstate hospitals in order to determine their years of experience increments. The hospital insisted the member’s prior experience only counted if they were employed by a Victorian public sector employer, resulting in loss of approximately $1350 in wages per year, and the benefit of a higher wage in calculating superannuation and penalties. The member began nursing interstate on 27 January 2009 before starting at RCH on 12 November 2012 at Grade 2 Year 4 classification.
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As a member of Monash Health’s Ecochampions Committee, Ms Dunn started a recycling program in her department five years ago. The emergency department staff commitment to recycling means the hospital now diverts hundreds of thousands of disposable PVC oxygen masks, tubing and IV bags away from landfill. ‘PVC can become pretty nasty once it’s been sitting in the landfill for a while and we use hundreds of these products a day. Now they’re being turned into things like hoses and safety mats instead of piling up at the landfill,’ she said. Ms Dunn has also signed up to the Victorian Government’s Take 2 program which aims to reach net zero emissions by 2050 and keep the global temperature rise to under two degrees. The program is open to all health professionals. She also spreads the word about climate change. After speaking at an Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation seminar recently, However, in order to progress in classification, RCH insisted they had to wait for the November anniversary of starting work at the RCH rather than advance from the 27 January date. The ANMF argued that all experience as a nurse counts for the purposes of advancement. In a decision handed down on 3 February, Justice Anthony North of the Federal Court agreed, stating ‘if the relevant experience is limited to experience from employment under the Agreement then a nurse with say thirty years’ experience in the private sector in Victoria, or in any employment interstate, would not count for the purpose of classification and hence pay levels.’ He also said there was ‘no rational basis’ to ‘distinguish experience gained at that level elsewhere in Victoria, interstate, or overseas, as a basis of positioning the Grade 2 nurse within the classification.
You can also enrol in the ANMF (Vic Branch)’s new seminar ‘Nursing for the environment: a practical introduction to environmentally sustainable practices’. Facilitated by Ros Morgan, ANMF green champion, and Monika Page, Royal Melbourne Hospital Sustainability Officer, the handson seminar on 13 June will explore why environmental sustainability is important to nursing and midwifery practice and to health in general. Participants will also be empowered to develop their own action plan. The program includes two seminars. The second seminar follows up on your progress and will provide participants with the opportunity to assess their actions and learn how to motivate others. Prior to the seminars you will receive pre-reading and information. See the Education Calendar at the back of On the Record for enrolment details, or visit the ‘Education and training’ section of our website at anmfvic.asn.au RCH management elected not to appeal and advised ANMF they would back pay the member, investigate other ANMF members who have reported similar classification issues, and commit to assessing and back paying any other nurses whose circumstances fit within Justice North’s decision. However there is still uncertainty with members who have overseas experience. ANMF is still in discussions with RCH and if required, may run a Federal Court case. While the outcome relates only to one RCH member, ANMF expects all public sector employers to apply the decision. ANMF is asking public sector members who have experienced delays in progressing in Grade 2 after working interstate, overseas or the private sector to contact their human resources department and ANMF.
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In focus - Voluntary assisted dying
Voluntary assisted dying – the framework At the ANMF (Vic Branch) members’ consultation on 5 April, Monash University Professor of Nursing and member of the Ministerial Advisory Panel on the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill, Margaret O’Connor, outlined the framework for legislation. Under the framework, a person must fulfill all the following eligibility criteria: � They must be an adult (over 18) � They must be ordinarily residing in Victoria and an Australian citizen or permanent resident � They must have capacity to make such a decision. Professor Margaret O’Connor
Nurses and midwives consulted on assisted dying framework More than 60 ANMF (Vic Branch) members took the opportunity last month to provide feedback on a framework for voluntary assisted dying legislation. Nurses and midwives were invited to comment on a discussion paper on the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill produced by an expert ministerial advisory panel. Four of the seven expert panel members guided discussion on the three parts of the framework: eligibility criteria, assessment and oversight. The panel members present were Professor Margaret O’Connor AM, Emeritus Professor of Nursing at Monash University, Mary Draper, former CEO, Health Issues Centre, Julian Gardner AM, lawyer and former Victorian Public Advocate and Tricia Malowney, health advocate for women with a disability. Introducing the consultation, Professor O’Connor said the panel had held eight stakeholder forums in Melbourne and regional Victoria and one to one consultations with key stakeholder organisations such as Palliative Care Victoria and Council on the Ageing. This followed the Parliamentary Committee Inquiry into End of Life Choices,
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which received over 100 submissions, heard from 154 witnesses, held 17 days of public hearings and visited countries where legislation for assisted dying exists, to produce a legislative framework for Victoria.
The framework presents a voluntary assisted dying model where the patient ingests a lethal medication themselves, as opposed to euthanasia where a doctor or others administer a medication.
‘It has been a universal feature of these consultations and meetings that people have engaged in the process respectfully and constructively even though they or the organisation they represent might hold views that are inconsistent with the proposed legislation,’ Prof. O’Connor said.
During the consultation, ANMF members considered questions around eligibility criteria, assessment processes and oversight (see the framework above).
‘We’ve been very grateful for that engagement.’ Prof. O’Connor said the proposed model was voluntary, in which a person would ingest a legal medication themselves rather than euthanasia, in which a doctor or others administers medication. There would be allowance for medication to be administered if the person was physically incapable. ‘The word “voluntary” is very important. Based on the value of respecting the person’s autonomy the request must come from the person themselves – not a relative or a friend or any other person. It must be from them,’ Prof. O’Connor said. Equally, under the framework for legislation, participation by health professionals would also be voluntary, with capacity for conscientious objection.
Nurses and midwives considered questions such as: ‘Does the criteria need to be clearer that the condition is progressive and expected to cause death?’ and ‘Does the phrase ‘final weeks or months’ need to be bound by an outer limit?’, ‘In what circumstances should referrals be required to assist with a person’s assessment?’ and ‘Does this process appropriately safeguard vulnerable people?’ ANMF members sat at four tables with members of the Ministerial Advisory Panel at each table, guiding discussion and providing explanation of the framework. Representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services took notes from the discussion at each table. Submissions to the ministerial advisory panel on the legislative framework closed on 10 April and the panel will issue a final report in July. The Victorian Government is expected to introduce the Victorian Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill to Parliament later this year.
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It is proposed that a person must also fulfill all the following eligibility criteria: � They have a serious and incurable condition � The illness is expected to cause death within weeks or months � Their suffering is unbearable and enduring and cannot be relieved in a manner the person deems tolerable. The assessment process would involve at least two doctors – a primary doctor to whom the patient makes a first verbal request for voluntary assisted death and an independent secondary doctor. Each doctor must be properly qualified to make a professional diagnosis and prognosis regarding the person’s specific condition. Each doctor must independently judge whether the person’s request satisfies all the eligibility criteria. The exception is the suffering component of eligibility, which would be judged by the patient themselves.
Opportunity for deeper consideration ANMF has responded to the Victorian Government’s discussion paper which considers how the voluntary assisted dying framework, proposed in last year’s Parliamentary Committee Inquiry into End of Life Choices Final Report, could be implemented in practice. The paper was part of the government’s consultation process that will help guide decision making to create a compassionate legislative framework that is workable and includes strong safeguards. The paper invited feedback based on questions and key issues including a person’s eligibility, access to the laws, safeguards and practical considerations. Responses will inform the expert ministerial advisory panel responsible for developing legislation for introduction into Victorian Parliament later this year. Ministerial advisory panel Chair, Professor Brian Owler, in his introduction to the discussion paper, said the panel was seeking feedback based on people’s expertise and experience and would not consider feedback expressing an opinion for or against assisted dying.
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If there was any doubt about a person’s decision-making capacity, the person would be referred to a psychiatrist in the case of mental illness or another practitioner with a relevant qualification if more appropriate. Both doctors must be satisfied that the patient understands their diagnosis and prognosis and all the treatment options available to them including palliative care. The person must make a second, written request which has to be signed by two independent witnesses. The person must then confirm their wishes again verbally to a doctor before being prescribed the lethal medication. While a range of measures will be put in place around the safekeeping of the medication, the medication can be consumed at a time of the person’s choosing, Prof. O’Connor said. ‘What I want to emphasise here is that what the framework describes is an assessment process. The process is in itself one of the most important safeguards but it shouldn’t be seen as divorced from clinical practice,’ Prof. O’Connor said.
ANMF’s response to the discussion paper was prefaced by acknowledging the work of members employed in palliative care across Victoria and a commitment to work with the government to improve these services. While ANMF’s response generally supported the recommendations and principles in the parliamentary committee’s final report in relation to issues around access and eligibility, it also raised specific nursing issues including: • the need for legislation to consider and provide protections for nurses, particularly those involved in providing end of life care
‘We would hope that the legislation also operates to support existing clinician/ patient relationships including those of existing palliative care services. To that end it’s desired that voluntary assisted death would be part of mainstream healthcare and not an additional service on the side.’ Oversight needs to be ‘transparent and accountable’ and monitor both functioning of the legislation and compliance of medical practitioners who choose to provide voluntary assisted death. The Parliamentary committee has proposed two oversight bodies: End of Life Care Victoria to provide support, education and information and the Assisted Dying Review Board which would monitor compliance with the legislation and report to Parliament. The board would include a representative of End of Life Care Victoria, a doctor, a nurse, a legal professional and a community member.
ANMF’s support of voluntary assisted dying is based on its ANMF (Vic Branch) policy, first adopted in 1995, which supports a person’s right to choose assisted dying in certain circumstances. ANMF Job Reps have also supported a number of resolutions at the annual delegates conference, which guides the direction of the union, calling on ANMF to support and campaign for voluntary assisted dying. To read ANMF’s response visit anmfvic.asn.au/vadresponse
• a health service or individual health practitioner must have the right to conscientiously object, but must also refer the person to another registered health practitioner, as occurs under Victoria’s abortion laws • clear policies on the role of the nurse if they are present when a person voluntarily takes the lethal medication. ANMF’s response was developed following feedback from members and a nursing-specific consultation session held at ANMF last month led by four members of the expert ministerial advisory panel, including Professor Margaret O’Connor, Emeritus Professor of Nursing, Monash University.
ANMF members at the voluntary assisted dying framework consultation
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Member profile
Meet Amelia Tauoqooqo, refugee health nurse and advocate Having worked as a nurse with asylum seekers in immigration detention, Amelia Tauoqooqo has seen how healthcare can become highly politicised. Nurses are not educated in the delicate dance of politics but as a nurse working with refugees and asylum seekers Ms Tauoqooqo must help her clients navigate a health system that is subject to politically-motivated changes of government policy. ‘It’s very tumultuous,’ she says. ‘You might go to work on Tuesday and your job is different to what it was on Monday because something changed in Canberra on Monday night.’ Ms Tauoqooqo’s current role as a refugee health nurse with cohealth in the Maribyrnong catchment involves working with refugees who have arrived in Australia through the humanitarian program and asylum seekers who have been released into the community from detention on bridging visas, awaiting a decision on their refugee status. ‘They have a lot of health needs,’ Ms Tauoqooqo says of this latter group. ‘Apart from the normal non-communicable diseases like heart disease and diabetes, depending on where the person has come from there’s tropical and infectious diseases like tuberculosis, different types of gastrointestinal bugs (like) schistosomiasis, strongyloides.’ The types of common presenting illnesses vary depending on which countries refugees are fleeing. Over the three years that Ms Tauoqooqo has been working for cohealth, she has seen clients from Myanmar, Tibet and increasingly, Iraq and Syria. About 60 per cent of Ms Tauoqooqo’s current clients need help for complex mental health issues. For asylum seekers, the protracted process for determining refugee status coupled with the stressful environment of immigration detention is a breeding ground for mental illness. Refugees may also need mental health treatment if they have experienced trauma or torture in their country of origin. Physical and mental health needs are often inter-related, Ms Tauoqooqo said, particularly if chronic pain is a factor. ‘You can imagine, if you’ve been tortured and you have a bad back because of that and you
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have chronic pain every day… Having a bad back from being a nurse is different from your chronic pain where every day you’re reminded of being tortured.’ Prior to her current role, Ms Tauoqooqo worked as a nurse at the two immigration detention sites in Melbourne, and the detention centres on Manus and Nauru islands. The politicisation of the asylum seeker issue in Australia has meant that even saying she works with refugees appears to be a political statement, Ms Tauoqooqo said, unlike her previous role as an emergency department nurse. ‘I have colleagues who say “I’m a public health nurse”. They don’t say they’re a refugee health nurse because they get sick of trying to have the on-the-spot justifications for policy. Or people say “What’s your stance on it? I don’t reckon they should be coming here…” Ms Tauoqooqo is very clear about the legitimacy of ANMF’s role in supporting the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, and the advocacy role of nurses and midwives who provide healthcare to refugees and asylum seekers. Under the ANMF’s policy, we do not support offshore detention or the detention of children and oppose the policy that asylum seekers arriving by boat should never be allowed to settle in Australia. The ANMF believes that asylum seekers and refugees should receive treatment which is consistent and humane,
regardless of how they came to seek asylum in Australia. Nurses and midwives must be enabled to meet their codes of ethics and professional practice standards in the provision of healthcare. ‘The ANMF is our union and the union movement has always been communitycentred and about standing up for the underdog. The ANMF is one of, if not the most powerful union in the country and with that power comes great responsibility,’ Ms Tauoqooqo said. ‘We can lend that voice to causes like this, which, just like championing your working hours and pay rates and patient ratios, are issues about fairness and equality. ‘It’s incredibly supportive when we go to rallies as private individuals and see the teachers’ union and the ANMF and the AMA there and know they have the courage to make really firm position statements about what they believe is the right course of action around this issue.’ Working as nurses and midwives in detention centres presents an inherent ethical dilemma, Ms Tauoqooqo said, as government policy – centred on deterrence – has created environments which are damaging to asylum seekers’ physical and mental health. Ms Tauoqooqo gave the presentation First do no harm: the intersection of health and human rights in immigration detention at the World Congress on Public Health held in Melbourne in April. www.anmfvic.asn.au
Sally McManus elected new ACTU Secretary ANMF (Vic Branch) congratulates Sally McManus on her election as the new ACTU Secretary. Sally McManus is the 10th elected ACTU Secretary in the organisation’s 90-year history and the first woman to hold the position. Ms McManus was previously ACTU Vice President and is a former Secretary of the NSW Branch of the Australian Services Union. In announcing her election as Secretary, Ms McManus said her first challenge was to stop the attack on Australian workers by fighting the Fair Work Commission’s decision to reduce Sunday penalty rates for retail and hospitality workers. Addressing the National Press Club on 29 March, Ms McManus said the ACTU would also make a claim to significantly increase the minimum wage, as wage theft had become a new business model for too many employers and inequality in Australia was the worst it has been for 70 years. Strike laws and bargaining laws were inadequate to deal with the new and ever-changing business models being adopted by big companies, she said. ACTU President Ged Kearney, who was Victorian Branch President and Federal Secretary of the ANMF before becoming ACTU President, backed Ms McManus’s earlier comments to a journalist that taking illegal industrial action was justified when laws were unfair and needed to change. ‘I mean nurses – I myself – took unprotected, illegal industrial action so that we could get nurse-patient ratios because our patients weren’t getting the care they deserved,’ Ms Kearney told The Australian Financial Review.
On ‘illegal’ industrial action
By Paul Gilbert, Assistant Secretary
Much has been made of the new ACTU Secretary, Sally McManus, commenting that ‘when the law is unjust, I don’t think there’s a problem with breaking it’, in response to a journalist’s questions about illegal industrial action.
and 2012. It isn’t that union members necessarily choose to take unprotected industrial action, it is that the current laws do not provide any opportunity for the action to be protected unless, among other things, it is part of bargaining for a new enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) and limited to matters that can be contained in an EBA.
While this was in the context of the construction unions, nurses and midwives have taken ‘illegal’ industrial action too. Until about 1993, all industrial action was unlawful, including the entire 1986 50 day strike. So was the action taken by Victorian public sector nurses and midwives in 2000, 2001, 2007
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For example, it is unlawful to walk off the job in construction because a fellow worker dies at work. It is unlawful in nursing to take industrial action outside enterprise bargaining to protect patient care, as we have done many times.
The law that makes industrial action unlawful ¬– the law Sally McManus was referring to – is unjust. In many developed countries the right to strike is considered a human right. Many employers also break the law, and just like unions, can be punished for breaking the law. When an employer underpays an employee they are breaking the law. Many high profile employers have recently been found to have broken the law. This does not generate the level of derision that Sally’s comment generated.
ANMF (Vic Branch) has marked International Midwives Day (5 May) and International Nurses Day (12 May) by asking members to send us a photo telling us what they love about being a nurse or midwife. ‘Communicating with people’, ‘Advocating for patients’, ‘Being present in people’s most vulnerable times’ and ‘Helping women become mothers’ are just some of the statements ANMF members have made about what they love about their work. We have made a poster using some of your photos – look out for it at your workplace or check out more of your photos at twitter.com/anmfvic and facebook.com/ anmfvic or follow #anmfIND #anmfIMD.
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Job Rep training – latest news
Online module for new Job Reps
OHS courses
Since launching the new online module for Job Reps, more than 40 new Job Reps have completed the module. Feedback about the module from those Job Reps has been generally positive and we will provide some of that feedback in next month’s edition of On the Record.
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.
The online module, which should generally be completed in less than an hour, provides new Job Reps with basic information about their role, the structure of the Branch, a basic introduction to our industrial relations
system and an overview of the role of unions both historically and today. The online module is a prerequisite to attending the one day face to face training which is designed to extend the learning in the module by providing practical skills, further information and a range of resources for Job Reps. We urge any new Job Reps to complete the online module and register for one of our monthly face to face introductory training days.
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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.
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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.
HSR Initial OHS Training Course (WorkSafe Victoria approved) Date: 31 May, 1, 2, 15 and 16 June 2017 Time: 9am – 5pm each day Venue: Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House, 540 Elizabeth St, Melbourne Cost: $750 (payable by employer) Register: goo.gl/lL3aNF 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.
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It is also designed to provide participants with the skills required to implement effective hazard control strategies in the workplace.
HSR Refresher OHS Training Course (WorkSafe Victoria approved) Download the instructions for the online module at anmfvic.asn.au/reps/intro-programs or if you have any questions, contact the Job Rep training team on jrt@anmfvic.asn.au
Date: 6 July Time: 9am-5pm Venue: Carson Conference Centre, ANMF House, 540 Elizabeth St, Melbourne Cost: $250 (payable by employer) Register: goo.gl/BFVnsm
Keeping it Organised
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.
This program provides an update on the new public sector EBA, problem solving to address specific workplace issues, building the ANMF profile and presence as well as giving Job Reps valuable dedicated time with their organiser to develop an organising plan for implementing in the workplace. 10
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Check our website anmfvic.asn.au/reps for the program related to your organiser. If you have any questions relating to the training program please don’t hesitate to contact us on jrt@anmfvic.asn.au
For further details about the 2017 OHS training and conferences visit the ANMF website: anmfvic.asn.au
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Utilise your member benefits One of the many benefits of your ANMF membership is the ability to refresh your skills and knowledge and maintain your CPD for AHPRA re-registration.
Continuing professional development Our CPD courses, seminars and workshops are tailored to nurses and midwives and delivered by qualified nurse/midwife educators and professionals. Face to face courses are delivered through our Education Centre while online CPD modules are delivered through the CPD Portal. Full members receive $400 annual credit for CPD offered through our CPD Portal while associate and student members receive $80 credit per year.
ANMF (Vic Branch) has been funded by the Victorian Government to deliver seminars on methamphetamine (ice) addiction, in partnership with Turning Point. These face to face seminars are designed to complement the standard Frontline Worker Ice Training Package. Check the ‘Education and training’ section of our website anmfvic.asn.au to enrol in a seminar near you. ANMF (Vic Branch) can confirm that the ice seminars will be offered to nurses and
Special Interest Groups Topic: Members’ Meeting When: Thu 15 June 4pm-6pm Venue: ANMF House Inq: Anne Marie Fabri, Secretary annemarie.fabri@nh.org.au 9495 3235
ANZANAC HIV Nursing
Inq: Milena Pinamonti anzanac.vic@gmail.com 0466 280 445
CoNSA Vic/Tas
Topic: Meeting of the Waters When: Sat 22 July 8am-4pm Venue: TBA Inq: consavt@gmail.com
Day Surgery
Inq: Chris Guidotti chris_guidotti@y7mail.com
Diabetes Nurse Educators
Topic: Members’ Meeting When: Wed 25 October, 6pm-9pm Venue: ANMF House Inq: Catherine Wallace-Wilkinson positivehealth@bigpond.com 0411 557 631
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In addition, over the 2016–17 to 2019–20 financial years we have been approved by the Andrews Government to deliver an advanced seminar available for 480 mental health and alcohol and drug nurses. The dates for this seminar will be announced after June 2017. Contact the ANMF (Vic Branch) Education Centre on 9275 9363 or education@anmfvic. asn.au with queries or if you are interested in organising a workplace session.
Library Free resources for members include:
Ice seminars
Advance Care Planning Nurses
midwives for the financial years of 2017–18, 2018–19 and 2019–20. Each year there will be 660 places available for nurses and midwives to attend these seminars which will be run in metropolitan Melbourne and in rural and regional centres.
Our library staff can also assist you with any requests, such as research skills, database use and accessing special collections.
Publications Members who chose to receive e-news and the digital version of On the Record would only be receiving these communications if they provided us with their home email address and have not unsubscribed to any of our emails. If at some point you have received an email from ANMF (Vic Branch) and chose to ‘unsubscribe’, you would no longer be receiving any emails from us, including e-news and digital On the Record. If you wish to resubscribe to receive these communications, please email media@ anmfvic.asn.au with the subject line ‘Resubscribe’ and tell us your name, member number and home email address.
• access to the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) database which provides access to nursing and allied health journals and other resources such as evidence-based care sheets. Log in to the ANMF website and you’ll find CINAHL under “Helpful Links” in the Members menu. • e-books through EBL. For assistance on setting up an account and searching the collection check out the ‘how to’ video at goo.gl/Nx5ef7
Visit anmfvic.asn.au/interest-groups for all upcoming ANMF ( Vic Branch) special interest group news, events and meetings.
Immunisation Nurses
Topic: Biennial Immunisation Conference When: Fri 30 June 8.30am-4.15pm Venue: Grand Hyatt Melbourne Inq: INSIG administration, membership@ immunisationnursesvic.org.au
Medical Imaging Nurses Association
Topic: Members’ Workshop When: Sat 27 May 8am-12.30pm Venue: ANMF House Inq: Deborah Shears deborah.shears@i-med.com.au
Orthopaedic Nurses Association
Topic: Professional Day and AGM When: Thu 29 June 8am-5.30pm Venue: ANMF House Inq: Cheryl Dingey 9345 7027 Meinir Griffiths 9342 8417 onavic@anmfvic.asn.au
Palliative Care Nurses
Topic: Members’ Meeting When: Mon 15 May 6pm-8.30pm Venue: ANMF House Inq: Carole de Greenlaw records@anmfvic.asn.au
Pre-Admission Nurses
Victorian Midwifery Homecare
Safe Patient Handling
Victorian Perioperative Nurse
Topic: Professional Day When: Sat 24 June 8am-1pm Venue: ANMF House Inq: Kate Hussey k.hussey@healthscope.com.au Topic: Members’ Forum When: Fri 19 May 9.30am-2pm Venue: ANMF House Inq: Stephen Morley smorley@bendigohealth.org.au
Victorian Association Of Maternal & Child Health Nurses
Topic: Executive Meeting When: Wed 10 May 6pm-9.30pm Venue: ANMF House Inq: VAMCHN executive vamchn.group@gmail.com
Victorian Association Of Research Nurses
Topic: Professional Development Day When: Fri 20 October 8.30am-5pm Venue: ANMF House Inq: Sean Hosking
Topic: Members’ Meeting When: Wed 28 June 10.30am-12.30pm Venue: ANMF House Inq: Ingrid Ridler IRidler@mercy.com.au Inq: enquiries@vpng.org.au 1300 721 169
Victorian School Nurses
Topic: Members’ Meeting When: Tue 2 May 6.15pm-9pm Venue: ANMF House Inq: Gina Harrex 0401 717 352
Victorian Urological Nurses Society
Topic: Meeting of the Waters When: Sat 22 July 8am-4pm Venue: TBA Inq: vunssecretary@gmail.com
Injured Nurses Support Group
Topic: Members’ Meeting When: Tue 16 May 11am-12.30pm Venue: ANMF House Inq: Annie Rutter 1300 760 602
ANMF House is located at 540 Elizabeth St Melbourne May 2017
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Education calendar May 2017 ALL Leading and managing others
(Code 3967)
CPD: 12 hours, 8 & 9 May 2017, 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Bonnie Miller and Jim Cummane, Directors, The Value Creation Group Have you ever found yourself in a leadership role and felt ill-equipped? ANMF (Vic Branch) Education Centre offers a two day seminar designed to assist nurses and midwives to develop a nursing leadership framework. Fundamentals to leadership success, including leadership capabilities, leadership behaviours, leadership skills, and creating a leadership climate will be explored. Member $380, non-member $500, Job Rep or SIG member $360
RN EN Recognising & Responding
to Clinical Deterioration (Code 4003) CPD: 6 hours, 9 May 2017, 9.00am-4.30pm This new workshop explores the important aspects of early recognition and management of deterioration in patients in acute care. Relevant to NSQHS Standard 9: Recognising and responding to clinical deterioration in acute health care, this workshop supports nurses and midwives in patient assessment by utilising case studies to focus on: • Who is at risk? • The signs and symptoms that should “worry” you? • How to manage care in a timely and effective manner. Member $190, Non-member $240, Job Rep or SIG member $180
ALL Doing Dying Better (Code 4187) CPD: 6 hours, 11 May 2017, 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Julie Hassard This program is designed to inspire nurses to explore Australia’s approach to dying and death, and what it means to ‘die well.’ You’ll discover current research and contemporary thinking and reflect on work-related concerns and challenges associated with the end of life. Activities will guide your plans to support your patients, their families, your peers, and importantly, yourself. Member $190, Non-member $240, Job Rep or SIG member $180
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IV cannulation for registered nurses and midwives (Code: 4062) CPD: 6 hours 12 May 2017, 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Kate Potter This seminar will focus on the process and
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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 mannequin simulation.
healthcare professionals. The content covered is the same as the two 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.
Member $190, Non-member $240, Job Rep or SIG member $180
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(Please note: this is not an accredited course)
ALL How to Stay Calm and
Confident at Work (Code 3971) CPD: 6 hours, 15 May 2017, 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Jane Robotham This workshop, delivered by experienced nurses and wellness educator, Jane Robotham, will provide simple tools to take control of discomfort in order to develop a sense of confidence, self-trust and clarity in your daily work. Minimise anxiety and worry by learning quick and practical techniques that are easy, enjoyable and highly effective. Please note there are supporting materials associated with this course that will be emailed to attendees after course completion. Member $190, Non-member $240, Job Rep or SIG member $180
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Law & ethics for registered and enrolled nurses (Code 4511) CPD: 12 hours Fri 19 & 26 May 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Kate Potter 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 $380, non-member $500, Job Rep/SIG member $360
RN Adult Advanced Life Support:
1 day Recertification (Code 4162) CPD: 10 hours (6 hours training and 4 hours self-directed learning). 24 May 2017, 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
Member $210, non-member $310
deterioration in pregnant and postpartum women and postpartum haemorrhage (Code 4074) CPD: 6 hours 23 May 2017, 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Dr Wendy Pollock Part 1 – Early recognition of clinical deterioration in pregnant and postpartum women Early recognition of clinical deterioration is increasingly recognised as a vital element of any health care and is included in Standard nine of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards. This session will discuss what clinical deterioration means for maternity patients and outline what makes recognition of clinical deterioration more challenging in the care of pregnant women. Part 2 – What is new on postpartum haemorrhage? Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) is a leading cause of intensive care admission for maternity patients and remains a cause of death in Victoria. This seminar will cover the current rates of PPH in Victoria, provide an overview of factors associated with major haemorrhage and discuss new management options. Member $190, Non-member $240, Job Rep or SIG member $180
RN EN
ACFI for registered and enrolled nurses (Code 3987) CPD: 6 hours 26 May 2017, 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Margaret Lang Any nurse working in aged care will encounter ACFI. This seminar explores all ACFI business rules, a comprehensive breakdown of the 12 ACFI questions and a practical review of compiling and completing an ACFI appraisal pack. Member $190, Non-member $240,
Job Rep or SIG member $180
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RN EN Cardiac rhythm recognition
& 12 lead ECG workshop (Code 4005) CPD: 6 hours, 29 May 2017, 9.00am-4.30pm This workshop will simplify cardia rhythm and 12 lead ECG interpretation, making it easier for you to identify, understand and manage cardiac rhythm changes. It is suitable to be attended in combination with ‘Managing the deteriorating patient’. Member $190, Non-member $240, Job Rep or SIG member $180
June 2017 RN EN ‘Contemporary wound
management’ (Code 3983)
CPD: 12 hours 7 & 14 June 2017, 9.30am-4.30pm Presenters Julie Baulch & 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. Member $380, non-member $500, Job Rep/SIG member $360
RN Two-day paediatric advanced life
support program (Code 4130) CPD: 12 Hours Mon 19 and Mon 26 June 2017, 9am-5pm Presenter 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: • Priorities of care • Paediatric Basic Life Support algorithm and principles • Advanced airway management including laryngeal mask airway insertion • ECG interpretation of life treating rhythms and defibrillation • Pharmacology including intraosseous cannulation • Post resuscitation care • Team roles • Legal and ethical issues. 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
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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 $360, Non-member $460
RN Adult ALS Certification:
2-day program (Code 4984) CPD: 12 hours Wed 14 & 21 June 2017, 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). ANMF/ACCCN member $360, Non-member $470
ALL Nursing for the environment:
a practical introduction to environmentally sustainable practices in health service delivery (Code 5002) CPD: 6 hours 13 June 2017, 9.30am-4.30pm Facilitators: Ros Morgan and Monika Page This new hands-on seminar will explore why environmental sustainability is important to nursing and midwifery practice and more broadly to health. The program includes two seminars, the first covering the professional and practical aspects of sustainability in health. Prior to the seminar you will receive pre-reading and information. Participants will develop a personalised resource and action ‘toolkit’ to help you set up or progress your own workplace actions. Although participants don’t have to attend the second seminar it is recommended that you attend both. Bring your questions, your ideas, your stories of successes and failures, your frustrations and your hopes. Member $100, Non-member $300
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Wangaratta ice/ methamphetamine addiction seminar – nurse/midwife program CPD: 3 hrs 19 June 2017 Session 1: 9.30am to 12.30pm (Code: 4119) Session 2: 1.30pm to 4.30pm (Code: 4120) Location: University of Melbourne Learning and Teaching Centre, Northeast Health, Green St, Wangaratta
ANMF (Vic Branch) partners 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. https://nceta.androgogic.com.au/ This seminar is fully funded by the Andrews Government as an outcome of the Premier’s Ice Action Taskforce.
July 2017 RN Medication administration –
principles and practice revisited (Code 3993) CPD: 12 hours 19 & 26 July 2017, 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 $380, non-member $500, Job Rep/SIG member $360
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Law and ethics for registered and enrolled nurses (Code 5226) CPD: 12 hours Thursday 20 & 27 July 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 $380, non-member $500, Job Rep/SIG member $360
RN EN
Principles and practice of aseptic technique and infection control (Code 5227) CPD: 6 hours 21 July 2017, 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Allyson Odgers This workshop will review health care related infections and the infection control practices that help minimise the spread of infection. Risk management procedures including standard precautions, transmission based precautions and
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Adult ALS certification: RN asepsis are also covered with an emphasis on the practical application of knowledge and skills. Member $190, Non-member $240, Job Rep or SIG member $180
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Shepparton ICE/ methamphetamine addiction seminar – nurse/midwife program CPD: 3 hrs 31 July 2017 Session 1: 9.30am to 12.30pm (Code: 4117) Session 2: 1.30pm to 4.30pm (Code: 4118) Location: Elsie Jones Education Centre , Goulburn Valley Health, Graham Street Shepparton ANMF (Vic Branch) partners 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. https://nceta.androgogic.com.au/ This seminar is fully funded by the Andrews Government as an outcome of the Premier’s Ice Action Taskforce.
Wodonga Campus, Vermont Street Wodonga ANMF (Vic Branch) is pleased to partner 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. https://nceta.androgogic.com.au/ This seminar is fully funded by the Andrews Government as an outcome of the Premier’s Ice Action Taskforce.
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Research influences in nursing and midwifery practice (Code 4076 ) CPD: 3 hours 1 August 2017, 9am-midday Presenter Dr Wendy Pollock Midwives and nurses 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 $115, Non-member $200, Job Rep or ANF SIG member $105
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Ice/methamphetamine addiction seminar – nurse/midwife program
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Advanced skills for dementia care (Code 3996) CPD: 6 hours 2 August 2017, 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Dr. Rosalie Hudson This workshop assists nurses to increase their knowledge, skills and confidence to offer people with dementia (in any setting) the best practice, evidence based person- centered care emphasising end-of-life care for people with advanced dementia and appropriate symptom management. Member $190, Non-member $240, Job Rep or SIG member $180
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Wodonga ice/methamphetamine addiction seminar – nurse/midwife program
CPD: 3 hrs 10 August 2017 Session 1: 9.30am-12.30pm (Code: 3916)Session 2: 1.30pm – 4.30pm (Code: 3917)Presenter Sharon Patterson Location: ANMF House, Melbourne ANMF (Vic Branch) partners 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. https://nceta.androgogic.com.au/ This seminar is fully funded by the Andrews Government as an outcome of the Premier’s Ice Action Taskforce.
CPD: 3 hrs 7 August 2017 Session 1: 9.30am to 12.30pm (Code: 4124) Session 2: 1.30pm to 4.30pm (Code: 4125) Location: Albury Wodonga Health
All full members of the ANMF (Vic Branch) receive $400 credit to spend on online learning at the CPD Portal. Associate and student members receive $80 credit. cpd.anmfvic.asn.au
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2 day program (Code 4164)
CPD: 12 Hours 23 and 30 August 2017, 9.00am-5.00pm 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). ANMF/ACCCN member $360, Non-member $470
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IV cannulation for registered nurses and midwives (Code 4063) CPD: 6 hours 24 August 2017, 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 $190, Non-member $240, Job Rep or SIG member $180 (Please note: this is not an accredited course)
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Foundations of pharmacology and medication administration for registered nurses (Code 5209) CPD: 24 hours 31 August, 7, 14 & 21 September 2017 9.30am-4.30pm Presenter Jennifer Irwin Maintaining your knowledge regarding the underpinning information associated with medication administration can be challenging. This four day course revises your knowledge of pharmacology and medication administration. Topics include pharmacology and adverse drug reactions as well as an overview of common medications using a systems approach. This seminar series will give attendees access to the IntelliLearn medication safety package. Member $700, Non-member $900, Job Rep or ANF SIG member $650
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