Members of Eastern Health: Angliss Hospital, Box Hill Hospital, Healesville & District Hospital, Maroondah Hospital, Peter James Centre, Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre, Wantirna Health, Yarra Ranges Health and Yarra Valley Community Health Members of Eastern Health: Angliss Hospital, Box Hill Hospital, Healesville & District Hospital, Maroondah Hospital, Peter James Centre, Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre, Wantirna Health, Yarra Ranges Health and Yarra Valley Community Health RN Refresher Program 2015 Information Sessions
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Members of Eastern Health: Angliss Hospital, Box Hill Hospital, Healesville & District Hospital, Maroondah Hospital,
Peter James Centre, Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre, Wantirna Health, Yarra Ranges Health and Yarra Valley Community Health
Members of Eastern Health: Angliss Hospital, Box Hill Hospital, Healesville & District Hospital, Maroondah Hospital,
Peter James Centre, Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Centre, Wantirna Health, Yarra Ranges Health and Yarra Valley Community Health
RN Refresher
Program 2015
Information Sessions
Outline
• Welcome and Introductions
• Housekeeping
• RN Refresher program at Eastern Health
• Formal Learning program
• Clinical placement
• Question Time
About Us • We deliver clinical services to more than
700,000 people
• Our services are located across 2,800 km
• We employ over 8,000 staff; 4,000 Nurses
and midwives
• 67% of staff live within our local communities
• We deliver more than 800,000 episodes
of patient care each year
RN Refresher Program
• New program for Eastern Health
• Replaces re-entry program
• Workforce Strategy
• Pilot for 2015
• Acute placements/exposure
• Local community focus
• 12-18 positions for pilot
Why the Refresher Program?
• Opportunity to experience the acute setting
• Increasing complexity of patients
• Increasing workload and demands on nurses
• Additional staff for the nursing team
• Opportunity to pilot, then if successful translate into
other hospitals/settings
• Learning in a supported environment
• Opportunity to consider a career at Eastern Health
• Permanent, Fixed Term, Nurse Bank, Pool
The Program
• Work as part of the nursing team
• Under the direction and supervision of the
educator and preceptor
• RN role as per position description
• No fee for program, unpaid positions
• Induction and 3 study days
• Clinical assessments in placement
• Case Study Presentation
Study days • Professional Issues
– Accountability, Scope of Practice, Delegation & Supervision,