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NOW INTERNATIONALLY ACCREDITED
Take the next step, earn your MBBS atOceania University of Medicine.
OUM is proud to announce an even more attractive fee structure from 2013.Applications are now open for courses beginning in February and August. �New facilities, greater capacity and over 150 students currently enrolled.
�Study from a Home Base under faculty from top international medical schools.
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This government-accredited qualification will provide nurses with the knowledge and hands-on skills required to work in a cosmetic medical practice and/or accredited day hospital performing cosmetic nursing, dermal therapies and injectable procedures.
The course is completed online over one semester full-time or two semesters part-time. Practical competencies in dermal therapies and injectables procedures are completed on-campus in Perth, Sydney and the Gold Coast.
For further information, please contact the Australasian Academy of Cosmetic Dermal Science on 08 9226 3366 or visit www.aacds.edu.au
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COSMETIC NURSING… THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF NURSINGThe Vocational Graduate Certificate in Cosmetic Nursing is a postgraduate course developed specifically for Enrolled or Registered Nurses wishing to enter the field of cosmetic medicine.
This government-accredited qualification will provide nurses with the knowledge and hands-on skills required to work in a cosmetic medical practice and/or accredited day hospital performing cosmetic nursing, dermal therapies and injectable procedures.
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Happy new year from the team at Medacs Healthcare!
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Psychologists workshop emotional impact of strokes
The emotional toll of stroke and its impact
on physical recovery was on the agenda at the
recent Clinical Psychologist National Conference
in Melbourne.
Statistics show about 50,000 people en-
counter a new or recurrent stroke each year and
more than 400,000 people live with the effects of
stroke in Australia.
Professor of Clinical Psychology Ian Knee-
bone, of the University of Western Sydney, said
stroke survivors are in a high risk group for de-
pression and anxiety, with around 50 per cent of
post stroke patients suffering clinical depression
while 20 per cent experience anxiety.
“If you are depressed after a stroke, you are
likely to be in hospital longer, you’re likely to have
more functional problems, you’re less likely to go
home and more likely to go to some sort of sup-
ported accommodation,” he said.
“You’re more likely to have another stroke
and you’re more likely to die sooner.”
Professor Kneebone, who presented a work-
shop on the topic at the Australian Psychological
Society’s (APS) June 20-22 conference, said de-
pression and anxiety was often overlooked due
to the focus on the patient’s physical recovery
post stroke.
“The other thing is a lot of the symptoms of
stroke overlap with something like depression so,
for instance, fatigue is a sign of depression but
it’s also common after stroke, memory and con-
centration problems are common after stroke and
they are also signs of depression - so it makes it
harder to detect,” he said.
“I’m involved in a project up at Hunter New
England Health Local Health District in Newcastle
where we are attempting to screen for depres-
sion and anxiety after stroke as routine, and their
screening rate is about five per cent at the mo-
ment.
“Where I worked previously in the UK we
went from 55 per cent to 80 per cent so it’s ear-
ly days in terms of this being developed in this
country.”
Professor Kneebone, who was a member of
the core steering group that developed the Na-
tional Stroke Strategy for England and retains
a visiting post at the University of Surrey in the
UK, said it’s important for clinical psychologists
to consider the emotional recovery of stroke sur-
vivors, particularly around issues such as fear of
falling.
“Up to 60 per cent of people are affected by
fear of falling,” he said.
“Being a bit vigilant is important but if you are
fearful of falling it’s an independent risk factor of
losing functional ability.
“The important thing about the fear of fall-
ing is it’s a risk factor for actually having falls and
so the more fearful you are, the less you do, you
de-condition and then when you do try and do
something, you are more likely to fall over.”
Professor Kneebone said psychologists can
intervene to assist stroke survivors to manage
their fear, working to improve their functional abil-
ity and their outcomes.
Clinical psychologists should firstly work to
educate survivors about how the fear of falling
can be self-fulfilling, he said.
“Getting them to think - if I can manage my
fear, I can continue to do things, I’m more likely
to get home from hospital, I’m less likely to be a
burden to others - those sorts of things start to
change their mind,” he said.
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Psychologists workshop emotional impact of strokes
The emotional toll of stroke and its impact
on physical recovery was on the agenda at the
recent Clinical Psychologist National Conference
in Melbourne.
Statistics show about 50,000 people en-
counter a new or recurrent stroke each year and
more than 400,000 people live with the effects of
stroke in Australia.
Professor of Clinical Psychology Ian Knee-
bone, of the University of Western Sydney, said
stroke survivors are in a high risk group for de-
pression and anxiety, with around 50 per cent of
post stroke patients suffering clinical depression
while 20 per cent experience anxiety.
“If you are depressed after a stroke, you are
likely to be in hospital longer, you’re likely to have
more functional problems, you’re less likely to go
home and more likely to go to some sort of sup-
ported accommodation,” he said.
“You’re more likely to have another stroke
and you’re more likely to die sooner.”
Professor Kneebone, who presented a work-
shop on the topic at the Australian Psychological
Society’s (APS) June 20-22 conference, said de-
pression and anxiety was often overlooked due
to the focus on the patient’s physical recovery
post stroke.
“The other thing is a lot of the symptoms of
stroke overlap with something like depression so,
for instance, fatigue is a sign of depression but
it’s also common after stroke, memory and con-
centration problems are common after stroke and
they are also signs of depression - so it makes it
harder to detect,” he said.
“I’m involved in a project up at Hunter New
England Health Local Health District in Newcastle
where we are attempting to screen for depres-
sion and anxiety after stroke as routine, and their
screening rate is about five per cent at the mo-
ment.
“Where I worked previously in the UK we
went from 55 per cent to 80 per cent so it’s ear-
ly days in terms of this being developed in this
country.”
Professor Kneebone, who was a member of
the core steering group that developed the Na-
tional Stroke Strategy for England and retains
a visiting post at the University of Surrey in the
UK, said it’s important for clinical psychologists
to consider the emotional recovery of stroke sur-
vivors, particularly around issues such as fear of
falling.
“Up to 60 per cent of people are affected by
fear of falling,” he said.
“Being a bit vigilant is important but if you are
fearful of falling it’s an independent risk factor of
losing functional ability.
“The important thing about the fear of fall-
ing is it’s a risk factor for actually having falls and
so the more fearful you are, the less you do, you
de-condition and then when you do try and do
something, you are more likely to fall over.”
Professor Kneebone said psychologists can
intervene to assist stroke survivors to manage
their fear, working to improve their functional abil-
ity and their outcomes.
Clinical psychologists should firstly work to
educate survivors about how the fear of falling
can be self-fulfilling, he said.
“Getting them to think - if I can manage my
fear, I can continue to do things, I’m more likely
to get home from hospital, I’m less likely to be a
burden to others - those sorts of things start to
change their mind,” he said.
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Program to boost rural allied health
Rural and remote health facilities in Queens-
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Queensland Health Minister Lawrence
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professions had been allocated to rural and re-
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partment of Health.
“Nine of these graduates already have taken
up their places so far, with the remaining two in
the process of recruitment to the positions at
Longreach and Cooktown.’’
The positions were designed to provide new
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helping boost allied health services to rural and
remote areas.
“We would hope that a period of time work-
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eyes to the merits of a professional career in rural
Queensland,’’ he said.
The positions also are being used to develop
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allied health professionals with skills and experi-
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of 12 months, after which they will be replaced
by a new cohort of graduates for a further year.
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Physiotherapists urge move to prehab
Physiotherapists are urging more people to
consider prehabilitation in a bid to safeguard
themselves against sports and fitness injuries
this winter.
Sports physiotherapists offer prehabilitation
or prehab, corrective training to amend problems
before injuries occur, which can target specific
sports and individual needs.
The call comes as physiotherapists prepare
for the annual influx of sprains, strains and other
injuries as a result of winter sports.
Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA)
president Marcus Dripps said prevention, with
a prehabilitation assessment and plan, was the
best medicine.
“We see the same risk factors again and
again for sports and fitness injuries but usually by
the time the patient sees a physio, it’s too late,”
he said.
Mr Dripps said an APA sports physiothera-
pist can assess posture, core stability, muscle
strength and flexibility, joint alignment, mobility
and incorrect movement patterns.
“It’s not so different to going to a dentist or
doctor for regular check-ups. Everyone has their
own set of particular weaknesses, inflexibilities
and movement incongruities.”
Melbourne sports physiotherapist Aidan Rich
has been offering prehabilitation for the past five
years.
Mr Rich, a member of the APA’s national
sports committee who works at LifeCare Sports
Medicine in Ashburton and Croydon, said the
biggest risk factor for injury is having a previous
injury - so it’s important to avoid a first-time injury.
He said a sports injury can have long-lasting
implications.
“Something like an anterior cruciate ligament
injury, the return to play is typically around 10 to
14 months after an injury,” he said.
“Only about 30 or 40 per cent of people get
back to their pre-injury level of competition and
the re-injury rate for that knee or the opposite
knee is about 30 per cent.
“It’s an injury that is career halting or career
limiting and we know that if you injure your ante-
rior cruciate ligament, for example, that the risk of
early-onset osteoarthritis in your knee is dramati-
cally increased.”
Mr Rich, who has worked with a variety of
sports and musculoskeletal conditions as a
sports physiotherapist in the past eight years,
said studies show prehabilitation programs work
to prevent knee injuries in court sport players,
hamstring injuries in AFL players, and serious in-
juries in soccer players.
FIFA’s renowned 11+ prevention program, a
warm-up based on a scientific study out of Nor-
way, has been designed to reduce injuries among
amateur soccer players.
Mr Rich said the program has produced
“good results”, showing teams that completed
the 20 minute warm-up at least twice a week
achieved a 30 to 50 per cent reduction in the
number of players injured.
He said providing prehabilitation was a sim-
ple solution aimed at helping people remain in-
jury-free.
“That’s the thing I enjoy - we get to make
a difference in someone’s long-term health and
long-term enjoyment of their sport,” he said.
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COAG delivers final health diagnosis
Australians are living slightly longer and
smoking less while deaths from circulatory dis-
ease and cancer are falling.
On the downside, almost 63 per cent of
adults are now overweight and obese while a
quarter of Australians have type 2 diabetes,
potentially preventable hospitalisation rates for
acute and vaccine-preventable conditions have
increased, and there are longer waits for elective
surgery.
The COAG Reform Council’s five-year report
card, and final diagnosis on the nation’s health
as a result of federal government funding cuts,
highlighted a range of health improvements and
challenges.
It found Australians have among the long-
est life expectancies in the world - men can now
expect to live to 79.9 years and women to 84.3
years while child and infant death rates have
dropped 20 per cent between 2007 and 2012.
The annual rate of deaths for our two biggest
broad causes of death - circulatory disease (heart
attacks and strokes) and cancer have fallen.
While rates of new cases of female breast
cancer, melanoma of the skin, bowel and cervi-
cal cancers remained stable, the actual number
of people diagnosed with new cases increased
between 2006 and 2010.
Rates of new lung cancer cases in women
significantly increased by 88 per cent between
1982 and 2012 while rates for men fell 34 per
cent during the same period.
“This is consistent with a peak in female
smoking rates in the 1970s and 1980s,” the re-
port states.
“As the rate of lung cancer among women
is likely to have not yet peaked, there is a need
for on-going emphasis on early identification and
treatment of this disease, despite the declining
rates of lung cancer overall.”
The national smoking rate fell from 19.1 per
cent to 16.3 per cent in 2011-12.
The report found 72 per cent of people pre-
senting at emergency departments are now seen
within benchmark times, up from 67 per cent,
while rates of hospital acquired infections have
fallen.
It’s taking longer for older Australians to ac-
cess aged care services, with the report finding
the proportion of people who took nine months or
longer to enter high residential care, after being
approved, increased from 3.3 per cent in 2008-09
to 14.1 per cent in 2012-13.
Australians are waiting longer for elective
surgery with wait times increasing for 14 out of
15 selected surgical procedures.
The report shows the cost of health care re-
mains a concern with more than two in five, or
43.9 per cent of, Indigenous people aged 15 and
over delayed or did not see a dentist in 2012-13
due to costs, while a third delayed or did not fill
a prescription, and one in eight, or 12 per cent,
delayed or did not see a GP.
One in five, or 18.8 per cent of, Australians
delayed or did not see a dentist due to cost, 5.8
per cent delayed or did not see a GP, and 8.8 per
cent delayed or did not fill a prescription.
The report found while the proportion of peo-
ple receiving Medicare Benefits Scheme and De-
partment of Veteran Affairs funded clinical mental
health services grew an average of 12.7 per cent
a year between 2007-08 and 2010-11 it slowed to
just 3.9 per cent between 2010-11 and 2011-12
due to a slowing in the service rate of GPs.
It also found mental health treatment rates
by clinical psychologists and other allied health
professionals increased steadily.
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These e-health courses are appropriate for both health professionals involved in adopting information management tools into their daily work flow and for those interested in moving into the emerging field of health informatics.
H4E Bachelor of E-Health (Health Informatics) (Professional Honours)
This part-time course comprises eight units. It builds on to any three-year degree with a major in a health-related or information management area.
Fees: Commonwealth Supported
H5E Graduate Certificate in E-Health (Health Informatics)
This part-time course comprises four compulsory one-semester units.
H6E Graduate Diploma of E-Health (Health Informatics)
This part-time course builds on the certificate, and consists of one additional compulsory unit and three extra electives. All units are one semester in length.
H7E Master of E-Health (Health Informatics)
The masters by coursework program can be completed part-time over three years. It comprises 10 units and a small research project.
Courses are external, self-paced learning packages using electronic and/or print-based materials. They can be completed with a minimum of disruption to home and work life as there is no compulsory residential component.
Fees: Full fee paying programs
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Pharmacists applaud community pharmacy inquiry
The Victorian Legislative Council will investi-
gate opportunities for community pharmacies to
have an enhanced role in primary and preventa-
tive care.
The inquiry, which is open to submissions un-
til June 30, will consider the role of pharmacies in
post-acute health care, aged care, personalised
medication management and vaccinations.
It will also examine pharmacies making refer-
rals to other health care professionals, commu-
nity pharmacies in rural and remote Victoria, and
the remuneration, workforce and financial issues
related to expanding the role of community phar-
macies.
The inquiry will also consider the enhanced
role of pharmacies in providing flu vaccinations in
Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Queensland pharmacists have administered
more than 8500 immunisations across 80 com-
munity pharmacies as part of the Queensland
Pharmacist Immunisation Project (QPIP) since
April 1.
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA)
Victorian Branch president Michelle Lynch said
the inquiry had a broad scope.
“We certainly have been in discussions with
the Department of Health and the minister about
ensuring that the resources of health profession-
als are maximised,” she said.
“We obviously think there’s an opportunity to
better utilise the pharmacists that we have in the
community to achieve better health outcomes for
the public of Victoria.
“It’s just really reviewing the role that pharma-
cists can have particularly in rural and remote and
regional areas where there is a shortage of ac-
cess either to services or to other health profes-
sionals, and just better utilising the pharmacists
and the access points they provide, particularly
in community pharmacy, in ensuring that we are
delivering the right services to our patients.”
Ms Lynch, a pharmacist with independent
specialist consulting company PharmConsult
who also works in community pharmacy, said
community pharmacists have a role to play in the
provision of immunisations.
“Obviously with the right framework to al-
low the appropriate accreditation and training,
which obviously needs to go in line with provision
of those services but we absolutely think that’s
something pharmacists can do,” she said.
“It’s all about, I suppose, public access. It’s
not trying to replace anyone else’s health profes-
sional role, it’s really about collaboration.”
Ms Lynch said better utilising pharmacists
in community pharmacies could improve health
outcomes for consumers and also work to meet
the government’s agenda to contain rising health
costs.
“These are things that we talk about over a
federal level and a state level as well and it’s obvi-
ously been about trying to ensure that the public,
in this particular case in Victoria, has access to
the services that we need,” she said.
The Pharmacy Guild has also welcomed the
inquiry.
“Whilst both the Guild and the PSA are op-
timistic of the progress of our advocacy work to
date, we will certainly not rest on our laurels and
ensure our submissions and presentations to the
Legislative Council of the Victorian Government
will hopefully result in community pharmacy be-
ing recognised and remunerated for the great
work they do and can do - for the benefit of all
Victorians,” Guild Victorian Branch president An-
thony Tassone said.
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About Galway University HospitalsGalway University Hospitals (GUH), comprising of University Hospital Galway (UHG) and Merlin Park University Hospital (MPUH), provide a comprehensive range of services to emergency and elective patients on an inpatient, outpatient and day care basis across the two sites. UHG and MPUH together employ approximately 3,000 whole time equivalent staff. It is a designated supra regional centre, serves a catchment area in the region of one million people from Donegal to Tipperary North. HSE - West accounts for almost one quarter of the Irish population and Galway accounts for a quarter of this.
Galway University Hospitals also has strong links with the National University of Ireland, Galway, (NUIG) for the training of medical, nursing and other health professionals and is the site for extensive academic training and research.
Why Galway City:Known the world over for its friendly people, fabulous beaches, safe charming streets, shopping and nightlife, Galway will refresh flagging spirits like no other place.
http://www.galway.net/tourism/visit/galway/
Requirements:Must have a minimum of 12 months experience in ICU or Theatres.
Benefits are as follows:• HSE scale commencing at €27,211 – €39,420
per annum increases depending on years of experience.• pay for shift differentials.• Permanent, full-time pensionable contracts.• 24 days Annual Leave plus 9 Public Holidays.• 39 perHours week.• Four weeks FREE accommodation • Assistance with accommodation – average rent per room €280pcm• Professional development and educational opportunities.• Opportunity to complete Higher Diploma in ICU and Theatres, fully funded, with close links to NUIG• Opportunity to join the HSE Pension scheme.• Within walking distance of the picturesque City of Galway.• Within easy reach of Shannon, Knock and Dublin airports.
Kate Cowhig International Healthcare Recruitment49 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
31 Southampton Row, London, WC1B 5HJ, UK
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About Galway University HospitalsGalway University Hospitals (GUH), comprising of University Hospital Galway (UHG) and Merlin Park University Hospital (MPUH), provide a comprehensive range of services to emergency and elective patients on an inpatient, outpatient and day care basis across the two sites. UHG and MPUH together employ approximately 3,000 whole time equivalent staff. It is a designated supra regional centre, serves a catchment area in the region of one million people from Donegal to Tipperary North. HSE - West accounts for almost one quarter of the Irish population and Galway accounts for a quarter of this.
Galway University Hospitals also has strong links with the National University of Ireland, Galway, (NUIG) for the training of medical, nursing and other health professionals and is the site for extensive academic training and research.
Why Galway City:Known the world over for its friendly people, fabulous beaches, safe charming streets, shopping and nightlife, Galway will refresh flagging spirits like no other place.
Requirements:Must have a minimum of 2 years experience in ICU or Theatres.
Benefits are as follows:• Salary: as per HSE scale commencing at €27,211 – €39,420 per annum increases depending on years of experience.• Additional pay for shift differentials.• Permanent, full-time pensionable contracts.• 24 days Annual Leave plus 9 Public Holidays.• 39 Hours per week.• Four weeks FREE accommodation • Assistance with accommodation – average rent per room €280pcm• Professional development and educational opportunities.• Opportunity to complete Higher Diploma in ICU and Theatres, fully funded, with close links to NUIG• Opportunity to join the HSE Pension scheme.• Within walking distance of the picturesque City of Galway.• Within easy reach of Shannon, Knock and Dublin airports.
Kate Cowhig InternationalHealthcare Recruitment
49 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland31 Southampton Row, London, WC1B 5HJ, UK
www.KCRJOBS.comFollow us on e: http://www.kcr.ie/assets/img/emails/ireland.htm
t: +353 1671 5557
Permanent Full time Staff Nurse PositionsICU & Theatre, Galway, Ireland
Salary: as per
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COAG delivers final health diagnosis
Australians are living slightly longer and
smoking less while deaths from circulatory dis-
ease and cancer are falling.
On the downside, almost 63 per cent of
adults are now overweight and obese while a
quarter of Australians have type 2 diabetes,
potentially preventable hospitalisation rates for
acute and vaccine-preventable conditions have
increased, and there are longer waits for elective
surgery.
The COAG Reform Council’s five-year report
card, and final diagnosis on the nation’s health
as a result of federal government funding cuts,
highlighted a range of health improvements and
challenges.
It found Australians have among the long-
est life expectancies in the world - men can now
expect to live to 79.9 years and women to 84.3
years while child and infant death rates have
dropped 20 per cent between 2007 and 2012.
The annual rate of deaths for our two biggest
broad causes of death - circulatory disease (heart
attacks and strokes) and cancer have fallen.
While rates of new cases of female breast
cancer, melanoma of the skin, bowel and cervi-
cal cancers remained stable, the actual number
of people diagnosed with new cases increased
between 2006 and 2010.
Rates of new lung cancer cases in women
significantly increased by 88 per cent between
1982 and 2012 while rates for men fell 34 per
cent during the same period.
“This is consistent with a peak in female
smoking rates in the 1970s and 1980s,” the re-
port states.
“As the rate of lung cancer among women
is likely to have not yet peaked, there is a need
for on-going emphasis on early identification and
treatment of this disease, despite the declining
rates of lung cancer overall.”
The national smoking rate fell from 19.1 per
cent to 16.3 per cent in 2011-12.
The report found 72 per cent of people pre-
senting at emergency departments are now seen
within benchmark times, up from 67 per cent,
while rates of hospital acquired infections have
fallen.
It’s taking longer for older Australians to ac-
cess aged care services, with the report finding
the proportion of people who took nine months or
longer to enter high residential care, after being
approved, increased from 3.3 per cent in 2008-09
to 14.1 per cent in 2012-13.
Australians are waiting longer for elective
surgery with wait times increasing for 14 out of
15 selected surgical procedures.
The report shows the cost of health care re-
mains a concern with more than two in five, or
43.9 per cent of, Indigenous people aged 15 and
over delayed or did not see a dentist in 2012-13
due to costs, while a third delayed or did not fill
a prescription, and one in eight, or 12 per cent,
delayed or did not see a GP.
One in five, or 18.8 per cent of, Australians
delayed or did not see a dentist due to cost, 5.8
per cent delayed or did not see a GP, and 8.8 per
cent delayed or did not fill a prescription.
The report found while the proportion of peo-
ple receiving Medicare Benefits Scheme and De-
partment of Veteran Affairs funded clinical mental
health services grew an average of 12.7 per cent
a year between 2007-08 and 2010-11 it slowed to
just 3.9 per cent between 2010-11 and 2011-12
due to a slowing in the service rate of GPs.
It also found mental health treatment rates
by clinical psychologists and other allied health
professionals increased steadily.
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E-Health (Health Informatics) CoursesCentre for Rural Health
These e-health courses are appropriate for both health professionals involved in adopting information management tools into their daily work flow and for those interested in moving into the emerging field of health informatics.
H4E Bachelor of E-Health (Health Informatics) (Professional Honours)
This part-time course comprises eight units. It builds on to any three-year degree with a major in a health-related or information management area.
Fees: Commonwealth Supported
H5E Graduate Certificate in E-Health (Health Informatics)
This part-time course comprises four compulsory one-semester units.
H6E Graduate Diploma of E-Health (Health Informatics)
This part-time course builds on the certificate, and consists of one additional compulsory unit and three extra electives. All units are one semester in length.
H7E Master of E-Health (Health Informatics)
The masters by coursework program can be completed part-time over three years. It comprises 10 units and a small research project.
Courses are external, self-paced learning packages using electronic and/or print-based materials. They can be completed with a minimum of disruption to home and work life as there is no compulsory residential component.
Fees: Full fee paying programs
DETAILS
Applications: Semester 2, 2014 are open
Contact: University of Tasmania Centre for Rural Health
Email: [email protected]
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Pharmacists applaud community pharmacy inquiry
The Victorian Legislative Council will investi-
gate opportunities for community pharmacies to
have an enhanced role in primary and preventa-
tive care.
The inquiry, which is open to submissions un-
til June 30, will consider the role of pharmacies in
post-acute health care, aged care, personalised
medication management and vaccinations.
It will also examine pharmacies making refer-
rals to other health care professionals, commu-
nity pharmacies in rural and remote Victoria, and
the remuneration, workforce and financial issues
related to expanding the role of community phar-
macies.
The inquiry will also consider the enhanced
role of pharmacies in providing flu vaccinations in
Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Queensland pharmacists have administered
more than 8500 immunisations across 80 com-
munity pharmacies as part of the Queensland
Pharmacist Immunisation Project (QPIP) since
April 1.
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA)
Victorian Branch president Michelle Lynch said
the inquiry had a broad scope.
“We certainly have been in discussions with
the Department of Health and the minister about
ensuring that the resources of health profession-
als are maximised,” she said.
“We obviously think there’s an opportunity to
better utilise the pharmacists that we have in the
community to achieve better health outcomes for
the public of Victoria.
“It’s just really reviewing the role that pharma-
cists can have particularly in rural and remote and
regional areas where there is a shortage of ac-
cess either to services or to other health profes-
sionals, and just better utilising the pharmacists
and the access points they provide, particularly
in community pharmacy, in ensuring that we are
delivering the right services to our patients.”
Ms Lynch, a pharmacist with independent
specialist consulting company PharmConsult
who also works in community pharmacy, said
community pharmacists have a role to play in the
provision of immunisations.
“Obviously with the right framework to al-
low the appropriate accreditation and training,
which obviously needs to go in line with provision
of those services but we absolutely think that’s
something pharmacists can do,” she said.
“It’s all about, I suppose, public access. It’s
not trying to replace anyone else’s health profes-
sional role, it’s really about collaboration.”
Ms Lynch said better utilising pharmacists
in community pharmacies could improve health
outcomes for consumers and also work to meet
the government’s agenda to contain rising health
costs.
“These are things that we talk about over a
federal level and a state level as well and it’s obvi-
ously been about trying to ensure that the public,
in this particular case in Victoria, has access to
the services that we need,” she said.
The Pharmacy Guild has also welcomed the
inquiry.
“Whilst both the Guild and the PSA are op-
timistic of the progress of our advocacy work to
date, we will certainly not rest on our laurels and
ensure our submissions and presentations to the
Legislative Council of the Victorian Government
will hopefully result in community pharmacy be-
ing recognised and remunerated for the great
work they do and can do - for the benefit of all
Victorians,” Guild Victorian Branch president An-
thony Tassone said.
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http://www.galway.net/tourism/visit/galway/
About Galway University HospitalsGalway University Hospitals (GUH), comprising of University Hospital Galway (UHG) and Merlin Park University Hospital (MPUH), provide a comprehensive range of services to emergency and elective patients on an inpatient, outpatient and day care basis across the two sites. UHG and MPUH together employ approximately 3,000 whole time equivalent staff. It is a designated supra regional centre, serves a catchment area in the region of one million people from Donegal to Tipperary North. HSE - West accounts for almost one quarter of the Irish population and Galway accounts for a quarter of this.
Galway University Hospitals also has strong links with the National University of Ireland, Galway, (NUIG) for the training of medical, nursing and other health professionals and is the site for extensive academic training and research.
Why Galway City:Known the world over for its friendly people, fabulous beaches, safe charming streets, shopping and nightlife, Galway will refresh flagging spirits like no other place.
http://www.galway.net/tourism/visit/galway/
Requirements:Must have a minimum of 12 months experience in ICU or Theatres.
Benefits are as follows:• HSE scale commencing at €27,211 – €39,420
per annum increases depending on years of experience.• pay for shift differentials.• Permanent, full-time pensionable contracts.• 24 days Annual Leave plus 9 Public Holidays.• 39per Hoursweek.• Four weeks FREE accommodation • Assistance with accommodation – average rent per room €280pcm• Professional development and educational opportunities.• Opportunity to complete Higher Diploma in ICU and Theatres, fully funded, with close links to NUIG• Opportunity to join the HSE Pension scheme.• Within walking distance of the picturesque City of Galway.• Within easy reach of Shannon, Knock and Dublin airports.
Kate Cowhig International Healthcare Recruitment49 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
31 Southampton Row, London, WC1B 5HJ, UK
www.KCRJOBS.comFollow us on
e: [email protected]: +353 1671 5557
Permanent Full time Staff Nurse PositionsICU & Theatre, Galway, Ireland
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About Galway University HospitalsGalway University Hospitals (GUH), comprising of University Hospital Galway (UHG) and Merlin Park University Hospital (MPUH), provide a comprehensive range of services to emergency and elective patients on an inpatient, outpatient and day care basis across the two sites. UHG and MPUH together employ approximately 3,000 whole time equivalent staff. It is a designated supra regional centre, serves a catchment area in the region of one million people from Donegal to Tipperary North. HSE - West accounts for almost one quarter of the Irish population and Galway accounts for a quarter of this.
Galway University Hospitals also has strong links with the National University of Ireland, Galway, (NUIG) for the training of medical, nursing and other health professionals and is the site for extensive academic training and research.
Why Galway City:Known the world over for its friendly people, fabulous beaches, safe charming streets, shopping and nightlife, Galway will refresh flagging spirits like no other place.
Requirements:Must have a minimum of 2 years experience in ICU or Theatres.
Benefits are as follows:• Salary: as per HSE scale commencing at €27,211 – €39,420 per annum increases depending on years of experience.• Additional pay for shift differentials.• Permanent, full-time pensionable contracts.• 24 days Annual Leave plus 9 Public Holidays.• 39 Hours per week.• Four weeks FREE accommodation • Assistance with accommodation – average rent per room €280pcm• Professional development and educational opportunities.• Opportunity to complete Higher Diploma in ICU and Theatres, fully funded, with close links to NUIG• Opportunity to join the HSE Pension scheme.• Within walking distance of the picturesque City of Galway.• Within easy reach of Shannon, Knock and Dublin airports.
Kate Cowhig InternationalHealthcare Recruitment
49 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland31 Southampton Row, London, WC1B 5HJ, UK
www.KCRJOBS.comFollow us on e: http://www.kcr.ie/assets/img/emails/ireland.htm
t: +353 1671 5557
Permanent Full time Staff Nurse PositionsICU & Theatre, Galway, Ireland
Salary: as per
Additional
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Program to boost rural allied health
Rural and remote health facilities in Queens-
land are benefitting from a program designed to
increase the number of allied health graduates
working in regional areas.
Queensland Health Minister Lawrence
Springborg said 11 new graduates in allied health
professions had been allocated to rural and re-
mote facilities under the Allied Health Rural Gen-
eralist Training program, established by the De-
partment of Health.
“Nine of these graduates already have taken
up their places so far, with the remaining two in
the process of recruitment to the positions at
Longreach and Cooktown.’’
The positions were designed to provide new
graduates with on-the-job training and mentor-
ing during the first year of their career, while also
helping boost allied health services to rural and
remote areas.
“We would hope that a period of time work-
ing in regional areas will open the new graduates’
eyes to the merits of a professional career in rural
Queensland,’’ he said.
The positions also are being used to develop
and trial a new training program that would fit
allied health professionals with skills and experi-
ence more suited to working in regional and re-
mote areas.
The successful graduates have been placed
into each of the 11 new positions for a period
of 12 months, after which they will be replaced
by a new cohort of graduates for a further year.
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Physiotherapists urge move to prehab
Physiotherapists are urging more people to
consider prehabilitation in a bid to safeguard
themselves against sports and fitness injuries
this winter.
Sports physiotherapists offer prehabilitation
or prehab, corrective training to amend problems
before injuries occur, which can target specific
sports and individual needs.
The call comes as physiotherapists prepare
for the annual influx of sprains, strains and other
injuries as a result of winter sports.
Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA)
president Marcus Dripps said prevention, with
a prehabilitation assessment and plan, was the
best medicine.
“We see the same risk factors again and
again for sports and fitness injuries but usually by
the time the patient sees a physio, it’s too late,”
he said.
Mr Dripps said an APA sports physiothera-
pist can assess posture, core stability, muscle
strength and flexibility, joint alignment, mobility
and incorrect movement patterns.
“It’s not so different to going to a dentist or
doctor for regular check-ups. Everyone has their
own set of particular weaknesses, inflexibilities
and movement incongruities.”
Melbourne sports physiotherapist Aidan Rich
has been offering prehabilitation for the past five
years.
Mr Rich, a member of the APA’s national
sports committee who works at LifeCare Sports
Medicine in Ashburton and Croydon, said the
biggest risk factor for injury is having a previous
injury - so it’s important to avoid a first-time injury.
He said a sports injury can have long-lasting
implications.
“Something like an anterior cruciate ligament
injury, the return to play is typically around 10 to
14 months after an injury,” he said.
“Only about 30 or 40 per cent of people get
back to their pre-injury level of competition and
the re-injury rate for that knee or the opposite
knee is about 30 per cent.
“It’s an injury that is career halting or career
limiting and we know that if you injure your ante-
rior cruciate ligament, for example, that the risk of
early-onset osteoarthritis in your knee is dramati-
cally increased.”
Mr Rich, who has worked with a variety of
sports and musculoskeletal conditions as a
sports physiotherapist in the past eight years,
said studies show prehabilitation programs work
to prevent knee injuries in court sport players,
hamstring injuries in AFL players, and serious in-
juries in soccer players.
FIFA’s renowned 11+ prevention program, a
warm-up based on a scientific study out of Nor-
way, has been designed to reduce injuries among
amateur soccer players.
Mr Rich said the program has produced
“good results”, showing teams that completed
the 20 minute warm-up at least twice a week
achieved a 30 to 50 per cent reduction in the
number of players injured.
He said providing prehabilitation was a sim-
ple solution aimed at helping people remain in-
jury-free.
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Mental health stretched at Dubbo Hospital
Nurses at Dubbo Hospital in New South
Wales are under strain due to lack of resources
to treat patients with mental health problems, ac-
cording to unions.
As reported by the online Daily Liberal, the
Health Services Union and NSW Nurses and Mid-
wives Union say understaffing in the hospital’s
mental health unit, attributed to underfunding by
the state government, could put nurses and pa-
tients at risk.
“The Local Health District want staffing levels
for a general mental health unit but they are run-
ning as a high dependency unit,” NSW Nurses
and Midwives Union co-ordinator Darius Altman
reportedly said.
Acutely unwell patients required a level of
care that current staffing levels were unable to
deliver, he said.
“Some high dependency patients might re-
quire the care of one nurse for every two patients
or even one to one in some cases.”
In a statement Western NSW Local Health
District director of operations Lindsey Gough
said there had been significant investment in up-
grades to Dubbo Hospital.
“There are absolutely no cuts, downgrades
or reductions occurring or planned for Dubbo
Health Service.
“The suggestion of otherwise is incorrect and
misleading.”
“In fact, the $91 million investment into the
redevelopment of Dubbo Health Service will re-
sult in more and improved health services to
meet the changing health demands for the Dub-
bo region’s growing population.”
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Overtime taking toll on Tasmania’s nurses and midwives
Tasmania’s public sector nurses and mid-
wives are increasingly working overtime and dou-
ble shifts to fill roster shortages.
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federa-
tion’s (ANMF) Tasmanian Branch secretary Ne-
roli Ellis said the impact of the state’s health cut-
backs, as detailed in a recent independent health
policy analyst’s report, was taking a toll on the
state’s nurses and midwives.
Ms Ellis said there were 26 double shifts in
one general ward alone, last month.
“They are sick of it - there’s no doubt nurses
do not want to work this amount of over-
time,” she said.
“They get called on their
days off on a regular ba-
sis to come in and do
extra work; they are
almost ethically
obliged to do
the overtime to
ensure there is
safe staffing.
“Mistakes
and quality of
care do deterio-
rate when you are
working unsustain-
able hours.
“Nurses and mid-
wives are getting tired
in the public sector because
there’s no real commitment to em-
ploy the correct numbers of nurses on a perma-
nent basis.”
Hobart analyst Martyn Goddard’s report into
Tasmania’s public hospitals, based on Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare data, found the
system has lost 167 FTE nurses, or six per cent,
from 2011 to 2013 while nurses’ average FTE sal-
aries increased 12 per cent compared with seven
per cent for all states and territories.
“This has almost nothing to do with general
wage increases and almost everything to do with
the sharply declining efficiency with which Tas-
manian public hospitals are being staffed and ad-
ministered,” Goddard states in the report.
“Rather than employing an adequate number
of nurses, those who remain are required to work
long and expensive periods of overtime.”
Goddard’s report also found the number of
FTE doctors fell 21 per cent while their salaries
increased 32 per cent, and the overall costs of
running Tasmanian hospitals rose “substantially
faster” than the national average.
Ms Ellis said system inefficiencies were re-
sulting in nurse unit managers waiting three
months to employ into vacant base grade nurs-
ing positions.
“The nurse unit managers are incredibly frus-
trated that they can’t employ more nurses and
yet are relying on overtime,” she said.
“To recruit to a vacant position requires nine
levels of endorsement to even commence the re-
cruitment process, so that all takes time.
“While they are trying to recruit, they have got
roster shortages or holes in the roster that have
to be filled by someone and they are more often
than not filled by someone having to do a double
shift.
“It’s very poor management, both from a pa-
tient safety aspect and a nurses’ safety aspect
and of course the bottom line, to now rely on so
much overtime.”
Ms Ellis said the branch plans to release a
document outlining 40 cost-saving solutions,
most around system efficiencies, to improve the
state’s embattled health system and ultimately
patient care.
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Physiotherapists to design their own conference program
Physiotherapists will be able to tailor this
year’s Physiotherapy New Zealand (PNZ) confer-
ence to their individual area of practice.
The September 19-21 ‘Linking the Chain’
conference will feature a PNZ conference smart-
phone app, more than 20 local and international
physiotherapy experts, four exterior workshops
and the addition of eight embedded workshops.
Physiotherapy New Zealand president Ian
d’Young said this year’s conference, in line with
the theme, aimed to link together a range of clini-
cal streams into one comprehensive three-day
event.
Mr d’Young said more than 300 delegates
from across New Zealand, Australia and further
afield will be able to forge their own program with
a conference smartphone app.
“We want attendees to be able to design their
own program, picking from a range of sessions
on the latest clinical research, mixed with more
specialty areas and with the option of adding in a
practical workshop or two,” he said.
“We have worked hard to give our special in-
terest groups a big role in developing a program
that is useful both in terms of presenting the lat-
est research and practical sessions.
“We want them to come away from the con-
ference with new ideas for innovation and evolv-
ing our practice to address future health chal-
lenges.”
Mr d’Young said the conference will cover
key areas of interest for physiotherapists working
in New Zealand, ranging from the prevention and
treatment of ACL injuries to the need for robust
rehabilitation programs for older adults - regard-
less of the cause of their disability.
The event will feature speakers including Ca-
nadian physiotherapist Diane Lee, an expert in
the area of pelvic disability and pain, and Profes-
sor Peter McNair, director of Auckland’s Health
and Rehabilitation Research Institute, who will
speak on enhancing muscle strength and endur-
ance during rehabilitation.
Canadian sports physician Professor Karim
Khan will also cover the lack of awareness about
the effectiveness of physiotherapy among the
general public and doctors.
Mr d’Young said it’s an important topic for the
profession and is also a focus of the PNZ’s three-
year strategy.
“We are committed to promoting the value
of physiotherapy more effectively to the public,
other health professions and national funders,”
he said.
By Karen Keast
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The successful applicant will be responsible for:
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Bene�ts of being employed by Umoona Tjutagku Health Service
• Gain experience working in an Aboriginal Community controlled Primary Health care Service• Opportunity to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team• Salary sacrifice benefits are available• Opportunities for further training/personal development
For enquires and J & PS:Mr Dilshan Perera - Business Services Manager / Executive AssistantPh: 08 8672 5255. Fax: 08 8672 3349. Email: [email protected]
Applications with 3 referees to:Mrs Priscilla Larkins - Chief Executive OfficerMail: PO Box 166, Coober Pedy, SA, 5723. Email: [email protected]
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged to apply.
Applications close Friday the 4th of July 2014 at 5.00pm.
Former nurse fights to decriminalise medical cannabisBy Karen Keast
Throughout her 20-plus year nursing career,
Lucy Haslam was familiar with issues around
pain management and cancer treatment.
A community nurse, Lucy founded and ran
her own home nursing service in Tamworth, New
South Wales, often assisting palliative care pa-
tients.
But it wasn’t until her son Daniel
began battling bowel cancer four
years ago that she realised
the medical benefits of
cannabis.
Cannabis has
helped Daniel, now
24, largely overcome
nausea, vomiting and
poor appetite around
his chemotherapy
treatments while Dan-
iel is also using canna-
bis oil in a final bid to halt
the terminal disease.
Now, Lucy and her hus-
band, a former drug squad police
officer, are fighting to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis for Daniel and others
like him.
“Cannabis has really become our last hope,”
she said.
“I think people need to see it as another med-
icine instead of this big taboo.
“It should just be treated like any other pre-
scribed, restricted substance. It can remain il-
legal for general use but be legal for prescribed
restricted situations.”
Since going public with her story, Lucy, who
now works in hospitality, said she has been inun-
dated with messages from people who also use
cannabis for medicinal purposes.
“We are absolutely amazed by how many
people have come forward - saying that they are
doing the same thing or they want to be able to
do the same thing,” she said.
“We didn’t set out to start this massive cam-
paign but it’s kind of clear really that the need is
there.”
The Haslam family has
launched an online petition,
which has received more
than 125,000 signatures,
calling for the NSW
government to adopt
the five recommenda-
tions of a state parlia-
mentary committee,
outlined in 2013.
If adopted, the rec-
ommendations would
enable people with termi-
nal illnesses or those who
are suffering from chronic pain
to choose cannabis as a treatment,
while protecting them against arrest and
prosecution.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association
(NSWNMA) Council has thrown its weight behind
the fight, supporting the recommendations and
the Haslam family’s petition.
“Our members recognise the importance
of exploring improved options for effective pain
management, particularly for those patients who
suffer from constant chronic pain,” NSWNMA
general secretary Brett Holmes said in a state-
ment.
“We are aware of a proposed Private Mem-
ber’s Bill being drafted by the Member for Tam-
worth and will await the NSW government’s con-
sideration of this bill.”
The union stated medical cannabis is legal
and regulated in the United States, Canada and
several European countries to alleviate symp-
toms for Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis,
Crohn’s Disease, and other chronic pain and post
traumatic stress disorders.
Lucy labelled the union’s support “fantastic”.
She said the family has received a lot of
support in their campaign to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis, particularly from local
nurses.
“I meet nurses every day who come and say
‘well done Lucy - you’re going really well’,” she
revealed.
“There’s a groundswell of support and if
nurses get behind that groundswell and can help
it along, I think hopefully we’ll get over the line.
“The politicians just have it in their heads that
there’s adequate medication out there that’s ap-
proved and listed on the TGA but they are just not
listening,” Lucy said.
“People’s individual stories are telling me that
that’s not the case; people have all sorts of needs
and cannabis seems to be the one thing that
people are always saying - ‘I’m getting a great
response, the side effects are really minimal or I
can manage them’.
“If local members start hearing from people
like nurses who are well regarded and trusted and
it’s their area of expertise, maybe they will start
to listen.”
Lucy said cannabis has also given Daniel
hope.
“He’s four years into this fight now and he
shouldn’t be here with us and he’s still here and
the most important thing for him, even if it doesn’t
work from a tumour-fighting point of view, is it’s
giving him some hope.
“I think hope can’t be underrated really - if
you’re terminally ill and the doctors take away
your hope you’re basically ready for the coffin,”
she said.
“If he can have some hope through taking
the oil and if he can feel like he’s actually being
a bit empowered to fight his disease, then that’s
enough for me - that makes it worth it.”
What are your thoughts on this controversial treatment?
Leave a comment on this and other articles by visiting the ‘news’
section of our website http://www.ncah.com.au
To go to the article “Former nurse �ghts to decriminalise medical
cannabis” directly, visit http://goo.gl/IjxV3E
HAVE YOUR SAY
Former nurse fights to decriminalise medical cannabisBy Karen Keast
Throughout her 20-plus year nursing career,
Lucy Haslam was familiar with issues around
pain management and cancer treatment.
A community nurse, Lucy founded and ran
her own home nursing service in Tamworth, New
South Wales, often assisting palliative care pa-
tients.
But it wasn’t until her son Daniel
began battling bowel cancer four
years ago that she realised
the medical benefits of
cannabis.
Cannabis has
helped Daniel, now
24, largely overcome
nausea, vomiting and
poor appetite around
his chemotherapy
treatments while Dan-
iel is also using canna-
bis oil in a final bid to halt
the terminal disease.
Now, Lucy and her hus-
band, a former drug squad police
officer, are fighting to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis for Daniel and others
like him.
“Cannabis has really become our last hope,”
she said.
“I think people need to see it as another med-
icine instead of this big taboo.
“It should just be treated like any other pre-
scribed, restricted substance. It can remain il-
legal for general use but be legal for prescribed
restricted situations.”
Since going public with her story, Lucy, who
now works in hospitality, said she has been inun-
dated with messages from people who also use
cannabis for medicinal purposes.
“We are absolutely amazed by how many
people have come forward - saying that they are
doing the same thing or they want to be able to
do the same thing,” she said.
“We didn’t set out to start this massive cam-
paign but it’s kind of clear really that the need is
there.”
The Haslam family has
launched an online petition,
which has received more
than 125,000 signatures,
calling for the NSW
government to adopt
the five recommenda-
tions of a state parlia-
mentary committee,
outlined in 2013.
If adopted, the rec-
ommendations would
enable people with termi-
nal illnesses or those who
are suffering from chronic pain
to choose cannabis as a treatment,
while protecting them against arrest and
prosecution.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association
(NSWNMA) Council has thrown its weight behind
the fight, supporting the recommendations and
the Haslam family’s petition.
“Our members recognise the importance
of exploring improved options for effective pain
management, particularly for those patients who
suffer from constant chronic pain,” NSWNMA
general secretary Brett Holmes said in a state-
ment.
“We are aware of a proposed Private Mem-
ber’s Bill being drafted by the Member for Tam-
worth and will await the NSW government’s con-
sideration of this bill.”
The union stated medical cannabis is legal
and regulated in the United States, Canada and
several European countries to alleviate symp-
toms for Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis,
Crohn’s Disease, and other chronic pain and post
traumatic stress disorders.
Lucy labelled the union’s support “fantastic”.
She said the family has received a lot of
support in their campaign to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis, particularly from local
nurses.
“I meet nurses every day who come and say
‘well done Lucy - you’re going really well’,” she
revealed.
“There’s a groundswell of support and if
nurses get behind that groundswell and can help
it along, I think hopefully we’ll get over the line.
“The politicians just have it in their heads that
there’s adequate medication out there that’s ap-
proved and listed on the TGA but they are just not
listening,” Lucy said.
“People’s individual stories are telling me that
that’s not the case; people have all sorts of needs
and cannabis seems to be the one thing that
people are always saying - ‘I’m getting a great
response, the side effects are really minimal or I
can manage them’.
“If local members start hearing from people
like nurses who are well regarded and trusted and
it’s their area of expertise, maybe they will start
to listen.”
Lucy said cannabis has also given Daniel
hope.
“He’s four years into this fight now and he
shouldn’t be here with us and he’s still here and
the most important thing for him, even if it doesn’t
work from a tumour-fighting point of view, is it’s
giving him some hope.
“I think hope can’t be underrated really - if
you’re terminally ill and the doctors take away
your hope you’re basically ready for the coffin,”
she said.
“If he can have some hope through taking
the oil and if he can feel like he’s actually being
a bit empowered to fight his disease, then that’s
enough for me - that makes it worth it.”
What are your thoughts on this controversial treatment?
Leave a comment on this and other articles by visiting the ‘news’
section of our website http://www.ncah.com.au
To go to the article “Former nurse �ghts to decriminalise medical
cannabis” directly, visit http://goo.gl/IjxV3E
HAVE YOUR SAY
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Physiotherapists to design their own conference program
Physiotherapists will be able to tailor this
year’s Physiotherapy New Zealand (PNZ) confer-
ence to their individual area of practice.
The September 19-21 ‘Linking the Chain’
conference will feature a PNZ conference smart-
phone app, more than 20 local and international
physiotherapy experts, four exterior workshops
and the addition of eight embedded workshops.
Physiotherapy New Zealand president Ian
d’Young said this year’s conference, in line with
the theme, aimed to link together a range of clini-
cal streams into one comprehensive three-day
event.
Mr d’Young said more than 300 delegates
from across New Zealand, Australia and further
afield will be able to forge their own program with
a conference smartphone app.
“We want attendees to be able to design their
own program, picking from a range of sessions
on the latest clinical research, mixed with more
specialty areas and with the option of adding in a
practical workshop or two,” he said.
“We have worked hard to give our special in-
terest groups a big role in developing a program
that is useful both in terms of presenting the lat-
est research and practical sessions.
“We want them to come away from the con-
ference with new ideas for innovation and evolv-
ing our practice to address future health chal-
lenges.”
Mr d’Young said the conference will cover
key areas of interest for physiotherapists working
in New Zealand, ranging from the prevention and
treatment of ACL injuries to the need for robust
rehabilitation programs for older adults - regard-
less of the cause of their disability.
The event will feature speakers including Ca-
nadian physiotherapist Diane Lee, an expert in
the area of pelvic disability and pain, and Profes-
sor Peter McNair, director of Auckland’s Health
and Rehabilitation Research Institute, who will
speak on enhancing muscle strength and endur-
ance during rehabilitation.
Canadian sports physician Professor Karim
Khan will also cover the lack of awareness about
the effectiveness of physiotherapy among the
general public and doctors.
Mr d’Young said it’s an important topic for the
profession and is also a focus of the PNZ’s three-
year strategy.
“We are committed to promoting the value
of physiotherapy more effectively to the public,
other health professions and national funders,”
he said.
By Karen Keast
For the full article visit NCAH.com.au
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your educationwww.cpdnursing.com.au
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Umoona Tjutagku Health Service Aboriginal Corporation ICN 7460
Position vacantDrug and Alcohol Manager
(06-12 month contract with opportunity of an extension)
The position is a fulltime, your salary will be based on qualifications & work experience.
The successful applicant will be responsible for:
• The strategic, operational planning and governance requirements to enable delivery of culturally sensitive specialist Alcohol and other Drug Services to the clients• The clinical competency in the management of people with addictions, current best practice and awareness around drug and alcohol use and misuse in the local Aboriginal community• The development of clinical service models for the Drug and Alcohol service• Dealing effectively with staff as well as liaise effectively with treating clinicians and other services involved in the client’s care
Bene�ts of being employed by Umoona Tjutagku Health Service
• Gain experience working in an Aboriginal Community controlled Primary Health care Service• Opportunity to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team• Salary sacrifice benefits are available• Opportunities for further training/personal development
For enquires and J & PS:Mr Dilshan Perera - Business Services Manager / Executive AssistantPh: 08 8672 5255. Fax: 08 8672 3349. Email: [email protected]
Applications with 3 referees to:Mrs Priscilla Larkins - Chief Executive OfficerMail: PO Box 166, Coober Pedy, SA, 5723. Email: [email protected]
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged to apply.
Applications close Friday the 4th of July 2014 at 5.00pm.
Former nurse fights to decriminalise medical cannabisBy Karen Keast
Throughout her 20-plus year nursing career,
Lucy Haslam was familiar with issues around
pain management and cancer treatment.
A community nurse, Lucy founded and ran
her own home nursing service in Tamworth, New
South Wales, often assisting palliative care pa-
tients.
But it wasn’t until her son Daniel
began battling bowel cancer four
years ago that she realised
the medical benefits of
cannabis.
Cannabis has
helped Daniel, now
24, largely overcome
nausea, vomiting and
poor appetite around
his chemotherapy
treatments while Dan-
iel is also using canna-
bis oil in a final bid to halt
the terminal disease.
Now, Lucy and her hus-
band, a former drug squad police
officer, are fighting to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis for Daniel and others
like him.
“Cannabis has really become our last hope,”
she said.
“I think people need to see it as another med-
icine instead of this big taboo.
“It should just be treated like any other pre-
scribed, restricted substance. It can remain il-
legal for general use but be legal for prescribed
restricted situations.”
Since going public with her story, Lucy, who
now works in hospitality, said she has been inun-
dated with messages from people who also use
cannabis for medicinal purposes.
“We are absolutely amazed by how many
people have come forward - saying that they are
doing the same thing or they want to be able to
do the same thing,” she said.
“We didn’t set out to start this massive cam-
paign but it’s kind of clear really that the need is
there.”
The Haslam family has
launched an online petition,
which has received more
than 125,000 signatures,
calling for the NSW
government to adopt
the five recommenda-
tions of a state parlia-
mentary committee,
outlined in 2013.
If adopted, the rec-
ommendations would
enable people with termi-
nal illnesses or those who
are suffering from chronic pain
to choose cannabis as a treatment,
while protecting them against arrest and
prosecution.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association
(NSWNMA) Council has thrown its weight behind
the fight, supporting the recommendations and
the Haslam family’s petition.
“Our members recognise the importance
of exploring improved options for effective pain
management, particularly for those patients who
suffer from constant chronic pain,” NSWNMA
general secretary Brett Holmes said in a state-
ment.
“We are aware of a proposed Private Mem-
ber’s Bill being drafted by the Member for Tam-
worth and will await the NSW government’s con-
sideration of this bill.”
The union stated medical cannabis is legal
and regulated in the United States, Canada and
several European countries to alleviate symp-
toms for Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis,
Crohn’s Disease, and other chronic pain and post
traumatic stress disorders.
Lucy labelled the union’s support “fantastic”.
She said the family has received a lot of
support in their campaign to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis, particularly from local
nurses.
“I meet nurses every day who come and say
‘well done Lucy - you’re going really well’,” she
revealed.
“There’s a groundswell of support and if
nurses get behind that groundswell and can help
it along, I think hopefully we’ll get over the line.
“The politicians just have it in their heads that
there’s adequate medication out there that’s ap-
proved and listed on the TGA but they are just not
listening,” Lucy said.
“People’s individual stories are telling me that
that’s not the case; people have all sorts of needs
and cannabis seems to be the one thing that
people are always saying - ‘I’m getting a great
response, the side effects are really minimal or I
can manage them’.
“If local members start hearing from people
like nurses who are well regarded and trusted and
it’s their area of expertise, maybe they will start
to listen.”
Lucy said cannabis has also given Daniel
hope.
“He’s four years into this fight now and he
shouldn’t be here with us and he’s still here and
the most important thing for him, even if it doesn’t
work from a tumour-fighting point of view, is it’s
giving him some hope.
“I think hope can’t be underrated really - if
you’re terminally ill and the doctors take away
your hope you’re basically ready for the coffin,”
she said.
“If he can have some hope through taking
the oil and if he can feel like he’s actually being
a bit empowered to fight his disease, then that’s
enough for me - that makes it worth it.”
What are your thoughts on this controversial treatment?
Leave a comment on this and other articles by visiting the ‘news’
section of our website http://www.ncah.com.au
To go to the article “Former nurse �ghts to decriminalise medical
cannabis” directly, visit http://goo.gl/IjxV3E
HAVE YOUR SAY
Former nurse fights to decriminalise medical cannabisBy Karen Keast
Throughout her 20-plus year nursing career,
Lucy Haslam was familiar with issues around
pain management and cancer treatment.
A community nurse, Lucy founded and ran
her own home nursing service in Tamworth, New
South Wales, often assisting palliative care pa-
tients.
But it wasn’t until her son Daniel
began battling bowel cancer four
years ago that she realised
the medical benefits of
cannabis.
Cannabis has
helped Daniel, now
24, largely overcome
nausea, vomiting and
poor appetite around
his chemotherapy
treatments while Dan-
iel is also using canna-
bis oil in a final bid to halt
the terminal disease.
Now, Lucy and her hus-
band, a former drug squad police
officer, are fighting to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis for Daniel and others
like him.
“Cannabis has really become our last hope,”
she said.
“I think people need to see it as another med-
icine instead of this big taboo.
“It should just be treated like any other pre-
scribed, restricted substance. It can remain il-
legal for general use but be legal for prescribed
restricted situations.”
Since going public with her story, Lucy, who
now works in hospitality, said she has been inun-
dated with messages from people who also use
cannabis for medicinal purposes.
“We are absolutely amazed by how many
people have come forward - saying that they are
doing the same thing or they want to be able to
do the same thing,” she said.
“We didn’t set out to start this massive cam-
paign but it’s kind of clear really that the need is
there.”
The Haslam family has
launched an online petition,
which has received more
than 125,000 signatures,
calling for the NSW
government to adopt
the five recommenda-
tions of a state parlia-
mentary committee,
outlined in 2013.
If adopted, the rec-
ommendations would
enable people with termi-
nal illnesses or those who
are suffering from chronic pain
to choose cannabis as a treatment,
while protecting them against arrest and
prosecution.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association
(NSWNMA) Council has thrown its weight behind
the fight, supporting the recommendations and
the Haslam family’s petition.
“Our members recognise the importance
of exploring improved options for effective pain
management, particularly for those patients who
suffer from constant chronic pain,” NSWNMA
general secretary Brett Holmes said in a state-
ment.
“We are aware of a proposed Private Mem-
ber’s Bill being drafted by the Member for Tam-
worth and will await the NSW government’s con-
sideration of this bill.”
The union stated medical cannabis is legal
and regulated in the United States, Canada and
several European countries to alleviate symp-
toms for Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis,
Crohn’s Disease, and other chronic pain and post
traumatic stress disorders.
Lucy labelled the union’s support “fantastic”.
She said the family has received a lot of
support in their campaign to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis, particularly from local
nurses.
“I meet nurses every day who come and say
‘well done Lucy - you’re going really well’,” she
revealed.
“There’s a groundswell of support and if
nurses get behind that groundswell and can help
it along, I think hopefully we’ll get over the line.
“The politicians just have it in their heads that
there’s adequate medication out there that’s ap-
proved and listed on the TGA but they are just not
listening,” Lucy said.
“People’s individual stories are telling me that
that’s not the case; people have all sorts of needs
and cannabis seems to be the one thing that
people are always saying - ‘I’m getting a great
response, the side effects are really minimal or I
can manage them’.
“If local members start hearing from people
like nurses who are well regarded and trusted and
it’s their area of expertise, maybe they will start
to listen.”
Lucy said cannabis has also given Daniel
hope.
“He’s four years into this fight now and he
shouldn’t be here with us and he’s still here and
the most important thing for him, even if it doesn’t
work from a tumour-fighting point of view, is it’s
giving him some hope.
“I think hope can’t be underrated really - if
you’re terminally ill and the doctors take away
your hope you’re basically ready for the coffin,”
she said.
“If he can have some hope through taking
the oil and if he can feel like he’s actually being
a bit empowered to fight his disease, then that’s
enough for me - that makes it worth it.”
What are your thoughts on this controversial treatment?
Leave a comment on this and other articles by visiting the ‘news’
section of our website http://www.ncah.com.au
To go to the article “Former nurse �ghts to decriminalise medical
cannabis” directly, visit http://goo.gl/IjxV3E
HAVE YOUR SAY
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Mental health stretched at Dubbo Hospital
Nurses at Dubbo Hospital in New South
Wales are under strain due to lack of resources
to treat patients with mental health problems, ac-
cording to unions.
As reported by the online Daily Liberal, the
Health Services Union and NSW Nurses and Mid-
wives Union say understaffing in the hospital’s
mental health unit, attributed to underfunding by
the state government, could put nurses and pa-
tients at risk.
“The Local Health District want staffing levels
for a general mental health unit but they are run-
ning as a high dependency unit,” NSW Nurses
and Midwives Union co-ordinator Darius Altman
reportedly said.
Acutely unwell patients required a level of
care that current staffing levels were unable to
deliver, he said.
“Some high dependency patients might re-
quire the care of one nurse for every two patients
or even one to one in some cases.”
In a statement Western NSW Local Health
District director of operations Lindsey Gough
said there had been significant investment in up-
grades to Dubbo Hospital.
“There are absolutely no cuts, downgrades
or reductions occurring or planned for Dubbo
Health Service.
“The suggestion of otherwise is incorrect and
misleading.”
“In fact, the $91 million investment into the
redevelopment of Dubbo Health Service will re-
sult in more and improved health services to
meet the changing health demands for the Dub-
bo region’s growing population.”
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Overtime taking toll on Tasmania’s nurses and midwives
Tasmania’s public sector nurses and mid-
wives are increasingly working overtime and dou-
ble shifts to fill roster shortages.
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federa-
tion’s (ANMF) Tasmanian Branch secretary Ne-
roli Ellis said the impact of the state’s health cut-
backs, as detailed in a recent independent health
policy analyst’s report, was taking a toll on the
state’s nurses and midwives.
Ms Ellis said there were 26 double shifts in
one general ward alone, last month.
“They are sick of it - there’s no doubt nurses
do not want to work this amount of over-
time,” she said.
“They get called on their
days off on a regular ba-
sis to come in and do
extra work; they are
almost ethically
obliged to do
the overtime to
ensure there is
safe staffing.
“Mistakes
and quality of
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rate when you are
working unsustain-
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“Nurses and mid-
wives are getting tired
in the public sector because
there’s no real commitment to em-
ploy the correct numbers of nurses on a perma-
nent basis.”
Hobart analyst Martyn Goddard’s report into
Tasmania’s public hospitals, based on Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare data, found the
system has lost 167 FTE nurses, or six per cent,
from 2011 to 2013 while nurses’ average FTE sal-
aries increased 12 per cent compared with seven
per cent for all states and territories.
“This has almost nothing to do with general
wage increases and almost everything to do with
the sharply declining efficiency with which Tas-
manian public hospitals are being staffed and ad-
ministered,” Goddard states in the report.
“Rather than employing an adequate number
of nurses, those who remain are required to work
long and expensive periods of overtime.”
Goddard’s report also found the number of
FTE doctors fell 21 per cent while their salaries
increased 32 per cent, and the overall costs of
running Tasmanian hospitals rose “substantially
faster” than the national average.
Ms Ellis said system inefficiencies were re-
sulting in nurse unit managers waiting three
months to employ into vacant base grade nurs-
ing positions.
“The nurse unit managers are incredibly frus-
trated that they can’t employ more nurses and
yet are relying on overtime,” she said.
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levels of endorsement to even commence the re-
cruitment process, so that all takes time.
“While they are trying to recruit, they have got
roster shortages or holes in the roster that have
to be filled by someone and they are more often
than not filled by someone having to do a double
shift.
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tient safety aspect and a nurses’ safety aspect
and of course the bottom line, to now rely on so
much overtime.”
Ms Ellis said the branch plans to release a
document outlining 40 cost-saving solutions,
most around system efficiencies, to improve the
state’s embattled health system and ultimately
patient care.
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Mental health care for older AustraliansDepression and mental illness are not a normal part of ageing. A national charity is recommending mandatory mental health training for nurses and allied health professionals in the aged care and community support sectors to improve care for older people with mental illness, By Karen Keast.
Almost half of the Australian population will
experience mental illness at some stage in
their lives.
SANE Australia says while the na-
tion’s increasingly ageing popu-
lation will result in more older
adults living with mental ill-
ness, it’s research shows
there is still a lack of
attention to mental ill-
ness in the elderly.
The national
mental health char-
ity says people with
mental illness are more
likely to experience the
effects of ageing sooner
than the general popula-
tion while they are also likely
to have multiple physical health
conditions, cognitive impairments and
few supports - and experience financial difficulty.
These factors also lead to older people with
mental illness living on average 25 years less than
the general population.
Late last year, SANE Australia released a
study, Growing Older, Staying Well, which found
aged care workers often have little understand-
ing of mental health issues while there are few
support and rehabilitation services aimed at older
adults living with mental illness.
It also revealed people with mental illness
face the ‘double stigma’ of age and mental ill-
ness.
SANE Australia has now called for a stigma
reduction campaign targeting the aged care sec-
tor and community support services around the
issue of mental illness in older adults.
The charity has recommend-
ed mandatory mental health
training for nurses and al-
lied health professionals
working in aged care
and community sup-
port sectors.
It’s also encour-
aging GPs and other
primary health care
professionals to seek
additional training and
education in the treat-
ment of coexisting physical
and mental health problems.
SANE Australia communica-
tions director Paul Morgan says with the
wave of ageing Baby Boomers approaching, it’s
vital to address the needs of older people living
with mental illness, which is distinct from demen-
tia.
“There is quite a significant proportion of
people who are living with a mental illness long
term,” he says.
“There’s this proportion of the population,
maybe three per cent, who are psychiatrically
disabled.
“When you have got a large part of the popu-
lation entering those 60s and 70s years, there are
going to be a lot more people in the aged care
demographic who have illnesses like schizophre-
nia and bipolar disorder and so forth.
“They are already disadvantaged and often stigmatised and isolated by having those conditions and have poor physical health, and that will only be made more complex and worse when they have older age problems as well.”
SANE Australia investigated the experience
of ageing with a mental illness, surveying 111
people in early 2013.
Most respondents were female, at 73 per
cent, and aged predominantly between 50 and
64, at 74 per cent.
The majority of participants had been diag-
nosed with depression, at 45 per cent, followed
by schizophrenia, at 28 per cent, bipolar disor-
der, at 23 per cent, anxiety disorders, at three per
cent, and personality disorders, at one per cent.
The charity also conducted 26 interviews with
consumers and service providers with results
used to identify barriers to effective care and to
inform recommendations for improvements.
Mr Morgan says separate SANE Australia re-
search of people with conditions such as schizo-
phrenia and other psychotic conditions shows 70
per cent regularly smoke, 47 per cent are obese,
and 49 per cent have a lifetime history of an alco-
hol or drug dependence.
“People with serious mental health problems
have much worse physical health than the rest of
the population,” he says.
“So when you combine that with people get-
ting older you are looking at rates of diabetes
and heart disease and other problems that are
going to be way above the national average - in
the population of people who are already getting
poorer services.
“They are likely to be getting even poorer in
their older age - so looking after these people and
looking out for them is terribly, terribly important.”
Older people with mental illness are also of-
ten not embedded within services and may have
become separated from family and friends result-
ing in isolation from the community, Mr Morgan
adds.
“A very strong message is that amongst a
population of people that aged care workers will
be looking after, a significant number of those are
going to be people with existing ongoing mental
health problems and they are going to be easy to
ignore,” he says.
“They might be late for appointments, they
may have a reluctance to come out, they won’t
be knotted into services as well.
“Because they are going to be easy to miss,
they are going to be neglected and we want to
see proactive systems to identify and look after
those people whether it’s in aged care settings,
whether it’s in people who are nurses and al-
lied health professionals who are seeing people
through community health centres or visiting
them in their homes.
“We really need to be looking at these people
and encouraging them to become involved with
health systems.
“We also need to be educating and training
staff in what sorts of behaviour and things will
help those people with a mental illness because
they might just be seen as awkward people or
people who don’t turn up for appointments - well,
it’s because they’ve got an illness.
“Allied health professionals who work with
GPs as well - that’s one touch point that can help
spark off a lot more integrated care for this older
population.”
SANE Australia is now working on guidelines
to assist health professionals to better care for
older people with mental illness, which will be re-
leased in late 2014.
“We don’t need to give up on people just
because they are old and affected by mental ill-
ness,” Mr Morgan says.
“They have every right to care as much as
everybody else.”
Mental health care for older AustraliansDepression and mental illness are not a normal part of ageing. A national charity is recommending mandatory mental health training for nurses and allied health professionals in the aged care and community support sectors to improve care for older people with mental illness, By Karen Keast.
Almost half of the Australian population will
experience mental illness at some stage in
their lives.
SANE Australia says while the na-
tion’s increasingly ageing popu-
lation will result in more older
adults living with mental ill-
ness, it’s research shows
there is still a lack of
attention to mental ill-
ness in the elderly.
The national
mental health char-
ity says people with
mental illness are more
likely to experience the
effects of ageing sooner
than the general popula-
tion while they are also likely
to have multiple physical health
conditions, cognitive impairments and
few supports - and experience financial difficulty.
These factors also lead to older people with
mental illness living on average 25 years less than
the general population.
Late last year, SANE Australia released a
study, Growing Older, Staying Well, which found
aged care workers often have little understand-
ing of mental health issues while there are few
support and rehabilitation services aimed at older
adults living with mental illness.
It also revealed people with mental illness
face the ‘double stigma’ of age and mental ill-
ness.
SANE Australia has now called for a stigma
reduction campaign targeting the aged care sec-
tor and community support services around the
issue of mental illness in older adults.
The charity has recommend-
ed mandatory mental health
training for nurses and al-
lied health professionals
working in aged care
and community sup-
port sectors.
It’s also encour-
aging GPs and other
primary health care
professionals to seek
additional training and
education in the treat-
ment of coexisting physical
and mental health problems.
SANE Australia communica-
tions director Paul Morgan says with the
wave of ageing Baby Boomers approaching, it’s
vital to address the needs of older people living
with mental illness, which is distinct from demen-
tia.
“There is quite a significant proportion of
people who are living with a mental illness long
term,” he says.
“There’s this proportion of the population,
maybe three per cent, who are psychiatrically
disabled.
“When you have got a large part of the popu-
lation entering those 60s and 70s years, there are
going to be a lot more people in the aged care
demographic who have illnesses like schizophre-
nia and bipolar disorder and so forth.
“They are already disadvantaged and often stigmatised and isolated by having those conditions and have poor physical health, and that will only be made more complex and worse when they have older age problems as well.”
SANE Australia investigated the experience
of ageing with a mental illness, surveying 111
people in early 2013.
Most respondents were female, at 73 per
cent, and aged predominantly between 50 and
64, at 74 per cent.
The majority of participants had been diag-
nosed with depression, at 45 per cent, followed
by schizophrenia, at 28 per cent, bipolar disor-
der, at 23 per cent, anxiety disorders, at three per
cent, and personality disorders, at one per cent.
The charity also conducted 26 interviews with
consumers and service providers with results
used to identify barriers to effective care and to
inform recommendations for improvements.
Mr Morgan says separate SANE Australia re-
search of people with conditions such as schizo-
phrenia and other psychotic conditions shows 70
per cent regularly smoke, 47 per cent are obese,
and 49 per cent have a lifetime history of an alco-
hol or drug dependence.
“People with serious mental health problems
have much worse physical health than the rest of
the population,” he says.
“So when you combine that with people get-
ting older you are looking at rates of diabetes
and heart disease and other problems that are
going to be way above the national average - in
the population of people who are already getting
poorer services.
“They are likely to be getting even poorer in
their older age - so looking after these people and
looking out for them is terribly, terribly important.”
Older people with mental illness are also of-
ten not embedded within services and may have
become separated from family and friends result-
ing in isolation from the community, Mr Morgan
adds.
“A very strong message is that amongst a
population of people that aged care workers will
be looking after, a significant number of those are
going to be people with existing ongoing mental
health problems and they are going to be easy to
ignore,” he says.
“They might be late for appointments, they
may have a reluctance to come out, they won’t
be knotted into services as well.
“Because they are going to be easy to miss,
they are going to be neglected and we want to
see proactive systems to identify and look after
those people whether it’s in aged care settings,
whether it’s in people who are nurses and al-
lied health professionals who are seeing people
through community health centres or visiting
them in their homes.
“We really need to be looking at these people
and encouraging them to become involved with
health systems.
“We also need to be educating and training
staff in what sorts of behaviour and things will
help those people with a mental illness because
they might just be seen as awkward people or
people who don’t turn up for appointments - well,
it’s because they’ve got an illness.
“Allied health professionals who work with
GPs as well - that’s one touch point that can help
spark off a lot more integrated care for this older
population.”
SANE Australia is now working on guidelines
to assist health professionals to better care for
older people with mental illness, which will be re-
leased in late 2014.
“We don’t need to give up on people just
because they are old and affected by mental ill-
ness,” Mr Morgan says.
“They have every right to care as much as
everybody else.”
Standards for mental health postgraduate studies
The Australian College of Mental Health Nurs-
es (ACMHN) is working to forge accredita-
tion standards for postgraduate studies in mental
health nursing.
In a project with Queensland Health, ACMHN
is developing a national framework that will out-
line agreed criteria, supporting values and princi-
ples for postgraduate studies along with a course
accreditation process.
ACMHN CEO Kim Ryan said the move will
provide national consistency for graduate diplo-
mas and masters qualifications in mental health
nursing.
“What we are going to do with
Queensland Health is de-
velop a framework that
looks at what con-
stitutes, in mental
health nursing, a
graduate certifi-
cate, a graduate
diploma and a
masters in line
with the Aus-
tralian Qual-
ity Framework
(AQF)”.
“So then uni-
versities can go -
okay, this is what the
college says should fit into
a graduate certificate, a grad-
uate diploma, a masters - we don’t
have a framework like that for any other nursing
specialty.
“This is going to help us guide what post-
graduate mental health nursing should look like,
so we’ve got consistency across the sector.”
Ms Ryan said it’s been largely left up to uni-
versities to decide the learning objectives for
their postgraduate mental health nursing studies.
“Universities have pretty much directed what
that looks like,” she said.
“If someone who has got a graduate diploma
in mental health nursing, we as a profession can
say - we think it’s important that they’ve been
able to undertake this level of education, they
have this level of knowledge, skills and educa-
tion, and be able to apply that in a clinical envi-
ronment.”
ACMHN is establishing an expert reference
group to drive the project and plans to open the
process up to consultation later this year, with the
standards expected to be completed by February
27, 2015.
Ms Ryan said once completed, universities
meeting the standards will have the option to
seek college accreditation for their mental health
nursing postgraduate studies.
“Universities have already got their courses
and there will be no requirement on them to ac-
tually meet the criteria or to have their courses
accredited by the college,” she said.
“But one would guess that in a market-driven
environment, if you wanted to go and do a post-
graduate mental health nursing course it would
probably be good to try and look for one that the
college has accredited.”
Ms Ryan said the project is part of the col-
lege’s objective to set and achieve national
standards in high quality mental health nursing
care.
“We are trying to better articulate and define
what mental health nursing is and provide more
opportunities to support nurses who are working
in mental health,” she said.
“For us it’s trying to build a workforce and try-
ing to get more people interested and supported
to undertake mental health nursing.”
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Social Work is all about people, social dimensions and communities. Social Work at UNE is innovative and flexible and prepares students for working with individuals, families and groups who experience marginalisation, isolation or discrimination.
UNE offers two Social Work degrees:
• Bachelor of Social Work - a four-year degree for those without a university degree
• Master of Social Work (Professional Qualifying) - for those who have previously completed a three year university degree and wish to re-train as a social worker.
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Mental health care for older AustraliansDepression and mental illness are not a normal part of ageing. A national charity is recommending mandatory mental health training for nurses and allied health professionals in the aged care and community support sectors to improve care for older people with mental illness, By Karen Keast.
A lmost half of the Australian population will
experience mental illness at some stage in
their lives.
SANE Australia says while the na-
tion’s increasingly ageing popu-
lation will result in more older
adults living with mental ill-
ness, it’s research shows
there is still a lack of
attention to mental ill-
ness in the elderly.
The national
mental health char-
ity says people with
mental illness are more
likely to experience the
effects of ageing sooner
than the general popula-
tion while they are also likely
to have multiple physical health
conditions, cognitive impairments and
few supports - and experience financial difficulty.
These factors also lead to older people with
mental illness living on average 25 years less than
the general population.
Late last year, SANE Australia released a
study, Growing Older, Staying Well, which found
aged care workers often have little understand-
ing of mental health issues while there are few
support and rehabilitation services aimed at older
adults living with mental illness.
It also revealed people with mental illness
face the ‘double stigma’ of age and mental ill-
ness.
SANE Australia has now called for a stigma
reduction campaign targeting the aged care sec-
tor and community support services around the
issue of mental illness in older adults.
The charity has recommend-
ed mandatory mental health
training for nurses and al-
lied health professionals
working in aged care
and community sup-
port sectors.
It’s also encour-
aging GPs and other
primary health care
professionals to seek
additional training and
education in the treat-
ment of coexisting physical
and mental health problems.
SANE Australia communica-
tions director Paul Morgan says with the
wave of ageing Baby Boomers approaching, it’s
vital to address the needs of older people living
with mental illness, which is distinct from demen-
tia.
“There is quite a significant proportion of
people who are living with a mental illness long
term,” he says.
“There’s this proportion of the population,
maybe three per cent, who are psychiatrically
disabled.
“When you have got a large part of the popu-
lation entering those 60s and 70s years, there are
going to be a lot more people in the aged care
demographic who have illnesses like schizophre-
nia and bipolar disorder and so forth.
“They are already disadvantaged and often stigmatised and isolated by having those conditions and have poor physical health, and that will only be made more complex and worse when they have older age problems as well.”
SANE Australia investigated the experience
of ageing with a mental illness, surveying 111
people in early 2013.
Most respondents were female, at 73 per
cent, and aged predominantly between 50 and
64, at 74 per cent.
The majority of participants had been diag-
nosed with depression, at 45 per cent, followed
by schizophrenia, at 28 per cent, bipolar disor-
der, at 23 per cent, anxiety disorders, at three per
cent, and personality disorders, at one per cent.
The charity also conducted 26 interviews with
consumers and service providers with results
used to identify barriers to effective care and to
inform recommendations for improvements.
Mr Morgan says separate SANE Australia re-
search of people with conditions such as schizo-
phrenia and other psychotic conditions shows 70
per cent regularly smoke, 47 per cent are obese,
and 49 per cent have a lifetime history of an alco-
hol or drug dependence.
“People with serious mental health problems
have much worse physical health than the rest of
the population,” he says.
“So when you combine that with people get-
ting older you are looking at rates of diabetes
and heart disease and other problems that are
going to be way above the national average - in
the population of people who are already getting
poorer services.
“They are likely to be getting even poorer in
their older age - so looking after these people and
looking out for them is terribly, terribly important.”
Older people with mental illness are also of-
ten not embedded within services and may have
become separated from family and friends result-
ing in isolation from the community, Mr Morgan
adds.
“A very strong message is that amongst a
population of people that aged care workers will
be looking after, a significant number of those are
going to be people with existing ongoing mental
health problems and they are going to be easy to
ignore,” he says.
“They might be late for appointments, they
may have a reluctance to come out, they won’t
be knotted into services as well.
“Because they are going to be easy to miss,
they are going to be neglected and we want to
see proactive systems to identify and look after
those people whether it’s in aged care settings,
whether it’s in people who are nurses and al-
lied health professionals who are seeing people
through community health centres or visiting
them in their homes.
“We really need to be looking at these people
and encouraging them to become involved with
health systems.
“We also need to be educating and training
staff in what sorts of behaviour and things will
help those people with a mental illness because
they might just be seen as awkward people or
people who don’t turn up for appointments - well,
it’s because they’ve got an illness.
“Allied health professionals who work with
GPs as well - that’s one touch point that can help
spark off a lot more integrated care for this older
population.”
SANE Australia is now working on guidelines
to assist health professionals to better care for
older people with mental illness, which will be re-
leased in late 2014.
“We don’t need to give up on people just
because they are old and affected by mental ill-
ness,” Mr Morgan says.
“They have every right to care as much as
everybody else.”
Mental health care for older AustraliansDepression and mental illness are not a normal part of ageing. A national charity is recommending mandatory mental health training for nurses and allied health professionals in the aged care and community support sectors to improve care for older people with mental illness, By Karen Keast.
A lmost half of the Australian population will
experience mental illness at some stage in
their lives.
SANE Australia says while the na-
tion’s increasingly ageing popu-
lation will result in more older
adults living with mental ill-
ness, it’s research shows
there is still a lack of
attention to mental ill-
ness in the elderly.
The national
mental health char-
ity says people with
mental illness are more
likely to experience the
effects of ageing sooner
than the general popula-
tion while they are also likely
to have multiple physical health
conditions, cognitive impairments and
few supports - and experience financial difficulty.
These factors also lead to older people with
mental illness living on average 25 years less than
the general population.
Late last year, SANE Australia released a
study, Growing Older, Staying Well, which found
aged care workers often have little understand-
ing of mental health issues while there are few
support and rehabilitation services aimed at older
adults living with mental illness.
It also revealed people with mental illness
face the ‘double stigma’ of age and mental ill-
ness.
SANE Australia has now called for a stigma
reduction campaign targeting the aged care sec-
tor and community support services around the
issue of mental illness in older adults.
The charity has recommend-
ed mandatory mental health
training for nurses and al-
lied health professionals
working in aged care
and community sup-
port sectors.
It’s also encour-
aging GPs and other
primary health care
professionals to seek
additional training and
education in the treat-
ment of coexisting physical
and mental health problems.
SANE Australia communica-
tions director Paul Morgan says with the
wave of ageing Baby Boomers approaching, it’s
vital to address the needs of older people living
with mental illness, which is distinct from demen-
tia.
“There is quite a significant proportion of
people who are living with a mental illness long
term,” he says.
“There’s this proportion of the population,
maybe three per cent, who are psychiatrically
disabled.
“When you have got a large part of the popu-
lation entering those 60s and 70s years, there are
going to be a lot more people in the aged care
demographic who have illnesses like schizophre-
nia and bipolar disorder and so forth.
“They are already disadvantaged and often stigmatised and isolated by having those conditions and have poor physical health, and that will only be made more complex and worse when they have older age problems as well.”
SANE Australia investigated the experience
of ageing with a mental illness, surveying 111
people in early 2013.
Most respondents were female, at 73 per
cent, and aged predominantly between 50 and
64, at 74 per cent.
The majority of participants had been diag-
nosed with depression, at 45 per cent, followed
by schizophrenia, at 28 per cent, bipolar disor-
der, at 23 per cent, anxiety disorders, at three per
cent, and personality disorders, at one per cent.
The charity also conducted 26 interviews with
consumers and service providers with results
used to identify barriers to effective care and to
inform recommendations for improvements.
Mr Morgan says separate SANE Australia re-
search of people with conditions such as schizo-
phrenia and other psychotic conditions shows 70
per cent regularly smoke, 47 per cent are obese,
and 49 per cent have a lifetime history of an alco-
hol or drug dependence.
“People with serious mental health problems
have much worse physical health than the rest of
the population,” he says.
“So when you combine that with people get-
ting older you are looking at rates of diabetes
and heart disease and other problems that are
going to be way above the national average - in
the population of people who are already getting
poorer services.
“They are likely to be getting even poorer in
their older age - so looking after these people and
looking out for them is terribly, terribly important.”
Older people with mental illness are also of-
ten not embedded within services and may have
become separated from family and friends result-
ing in isolation from the community, Mr Morgan
adds.
“A very strong message is that amongst a
population of people that aged care workers will
be looking after, a significant number of those are
going to be people with existing ongoing mental
health problems and they are going to be easy to
ignore,” he says.
“They might be late for appointments, they
may have a reluctance to come out, they won’t
be knotted into services as well.
“Because they are going to be easy to miss,
they are going to be neglected and we want to
see proactive systems to identify and look after
those people whether it’s in aged care settings,
whether it’s in people who are nurses and al-
lied health professionals who are seeing people
through community health centres or visiting
them in their homes.
“We really need to be looking at these people
and encouraging them to become involved with
health systems.
“We also need to be educating and training
staff in what sorts of behaviour and things will
help those people with a mental illness because
they might just be seen as awkward people or
people who don’t turn up for appointments - well,
it’s because they’ve got an illness.
“Allied health professionals who work with
GPs as well - that’s one touch point that can help
spark off a lot more integrated care for this older
population.”
SANE Australia is now working on guidelines
to assist health professionals to better care for
older people with mental illness, which will be re-
leased in late 2014.
“We don’t need to give up on people just
because they are old and affected by mental ill-
ness,” Mr Morgan says.
“They have every right to care as much as
everybody else.”
Standards for mental health postgraduate studies
The Australian College of Mental Health Nurs-
es (ACMHN) is working to forge accredita-
tion standards for postgraduate studies in mental
health nursing.
In a project with Queensland Health, ACMHN
is developing a national framework that will out-
line agreed criteria, supporting values and princi-
ples for postgraduate studies along with a course
accreditation process.
ACMHN CEO Kim Ryan said the move will
provide national consistency for graduate diplo-
mas and masters qualifications in mental health
nursing.
“What we are going to do with
Queensland Health is de-
velop a framework that
looks at what con-
stitutes, in mental
health nursing, a
graduate certifi-
cate, a graduate
diploma and a
masters in line
with the Aus-
tralian Qual-
ity Framework
(AQF)”.
“So then uni-
versities can go -
okay, this is what the
college says should fit into
a graduate certificate, a grad-
uate diploma, a masters - we don’t
have a framework like that for any other nursing
specialty.
“This is going to help us guide what post-
graduate mental health nursing should look like,
so we’ve got consistency across the sector.”
Ms Ryan said it’s been largely left up to uni-
versities to decide the learning objectives for
their postgraduate mental health nursing studies.
“Universities have pretty much directed what
that looks like,” she said.
“If someone who has got a graduate diploma
in mental health nursing, we as a profession can
say - we think it’s important that they’ve been
able to undertake this level of education, they
have this level of knowledge, skills and educa-
tion, and be able to apply that in a clinical envi-
ronment.”
ACMHN is establishing an expert reference
group to drive the project and plans to open the
process up to consultation later this year, with the
standards expected to be completed by February
27, 2015.
Ms Ryan said once completed, universities
meeting the standards will have the option to
seek college accreditation for their mental health
nursing postgraduate studies.
“Universities have already got their courses
and there will be no requirement on them to ac-
tually meet the criteria or to have their courses
accredited by the college,” she said.
“But one would guess that in a market-driven
environment, if you wanted to go and do a post-
graduate mental health nursing course it would
probably be good to try and look for one that the
college has accredited.”
Ms Ryan said the project is part of the col-
lege’s objective to set and achieve national
standards in high quality mental health nursing
care.
“We are trying to better articulate and define
what mental health nursing is and provide more
opportunities to support nurses who are working
in mental health,” she said.
“For us it’s trying to build a workforce and try-
ing to get more people interested and supported
to undertake mental health nursing.”
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Together, we can do this. Whether you are just starting out or looking for a career change, the University of New England’s Social Work degrees can help you achieve your goals.
Social Work is all about people, social dimensions and communities. Social Work at UNE is innovative and flexible and prepares students for working with individuals, families and groups who experience marginalisation, isolation or discrimination.
UNE offers two Social Work degrees:
• Bachelor of Social Work - a four-year degree for those without a university degree
• Master of Social Work (Professional Qualifying) - for those who have previously completed a three year university degree and wish to re-train as a social worker.
For over 60 years UNE has been a leader in helping busy adults study from home so they can balance study with their commitments. With our online course delivery, tertiary education is more achievable than ever, no matter where you are in Australia.
Mental health care for older AustraliansDepression and mental illness are not a normal part of ageing. A national charity is recommending mandatory mental health training for nurses and allied health professionals in the aged care and community support sectors to improve care for older people with mental illness, By Karen Keast.
A lmost half of the Australian population will
experience mental illness at some stage in
their lives.
SANE Australia says while the na-
tion’s increasingly ageing popu-
lation will result in more older
adults living with mental ill-
ness, it’s research shows
there is still a lack of
attention to mental ill-
ness in the elderly.
The national
mental health char-
ity says people with
mental illness are more
likely to experience the
effects of ageing sooner
than the general popula-
tion while they are also likely
to have multiple physical health
conditions, cognitive impairments and
few supports - and experience financial difficulty.
These factors also lead to older people with
mental illness living on average 25 years less than
the general population.
Late last year, SANE Australia released a
study, Growing Older, Staying Well, which found
aged care workers often have little understand-
ing of mental health issues while there are few
support and rehabilitation services aimed at older
adults living with mental illness.
It also revealed people with mental illness
face the ‘double stigma’ of age and mental ill-
ness.
SANE Australia has now called for a stigma
reduction campaign targeting the aged care sec-
tor and community support services around the
issue of mental illness in older adults.
The charity has recommend-
ed mandatory mental health
training for nurses and al-
lied health professionals
working in aged care
and community sup-
port sectors.
It’s also encour-
aging GPs and other
primary health care
professionals to seek
additional training and
education in the treat-
ment of coexisting physical
and mental health problems.
SANE Australia communica-
tions director Paul Morgan says with the
wave of ageing Baby Boomers approaching, it’s
vital to address the needs of older people living
with mental illness, which is distinct from demen-
tia.
“There is quite a significant proportion of
people who are living with a mental illness long
term,” he says.
“There’s this proportion of the population,
maybe three per cent, who are psychiatrically
disabled.
“When you have got a large part of the popu-
lation entering those 60s and 70s years, there are
going to be a lot more people in the aged care
demographic who have illnesses like schizophre-
nia and bipolar disorder and so forth.
“They are already disadvantaged and often stigmatised and isolated by having those conditions and have poor physical health, and that will only be made more complex and worse when they have older age problems as well.”
SANE Australia investigated the experience
of ageing with a mental illness, surveying 111
people in early 2013.
Most respondents were female, at 73 per
cent, and aged predominantly between 50 and
64, at 74 per cent.
The majority of participants had been diag-
nosed with depression, at 45 per cent, followed
by schizophrenia, at 28 per cent, bipolar disor-
der, at 23 per cent, anxiety disorders, at three per
cent, and personality disorders, at one per cent.
The charity also conducted 26 interviews with
consumers and service providers with results
used to identify barriers to effective care and to
inform recommendations for improvements.
Mr Morgan says separate SANE Australia re-
search of people with conditions such as schizo-
phrenia and other psychotic conditions shows 70
per cent regularly smoke, 47 per cent are obese,
and 49 per cent have a lifetime history of an alco-
hol or drug dependence.
“People with serious mental health problems
have much worse physical health than the rest of
the population,” he says.
“So when you combine that with people get-
ting older you are looking at rates of diabetes
and heart disease and other problems that are
going to be way above the national average - in
the population of people who are already getting
poorer services.
“They are likely to be getting even poorer in
their older age - so looking after these people and
looking out for them is terribly, terribly important.”
Older people with mental illness are also of-
ten not embedded within services and may have
become separated from family and friends result-
ing in isolation from the community, Mr Morgan
adds.
“A very strong message is that amongst a
population of people that aged care workers will
be looking after, a significant number of those are
going to be people with existing ongoing mental
health problems and they are going to be easy to
ignore,” he says.
“They might be late for appointments, they
may have a reluctance to come out, they won’t
be knotted into services as well.
“Because they are going to be easy to miss,
they are going to be neglected and we want to
see proactive systems to identify and look after
those people whether it’s in aged care settings,
whether it’s in people who are nurses and al-
lied health professionals who are seeing people
through community health centres or visiting
them in their homes.
“We really need to be looking at these people
and encouraging them to become involved with
health systems.
“We also need to be educating and training
staff in what sorts of behaviour and things will
help those people with a mental illness because
they might just be seen as awkward people or
people who don’t turn up for appointments - well,
it’s because they’ve got an illness.
“Allied health professionals who work with
GPs as well - that’s one touch point that can help
spark off a lot more integrated care for this older
population.”
SANE Australia is now working on guidelines
to assist health professionals to better care for
older people with mental illness, which will be re-
leased in late 2014.
“We don’t need to give up on people just
because they are old and affected by mental ill-
ness,” Mr Morgan says.
“They have every right to care as much as
everybody else.”
Mental health care for older AustraliansDepression and mental illness are not a normal part of ageing. A national charity is recommending mandatory mental health training for nurses and allied health professionals in the aged care and community support sectors to improve care for older people with mental illness, By Karen Keast.
A lmost half of the Australian population will
experience mental illness at some stage in
their lives.
SANE Australia says while the na-
tion’s increasingly ageing popu-
lation will result in more older
adults living with mental ill-
ness, it’s research shows
there is still a lack of
attention to mental ill-
ness in the elderly.
The national
mental health char-
ity says people with
mental illness are more
likely to experience the
effects of ageing sooner
than the general popula-
tion while they are also likely
to have multiple physical health
conditions, cognitive impairments and
few supports - and experience financial difficulty.
These factors also lead to older people with
mental illness living on average 25 years less than
the general population.
Late last year, SANE Australia released a
study, Growing Older, Staying Well, which found
aged care workers often have little understand-
ing of mental health issues while there are few
support and rehabilitation services aimed at older
adults living with mental illness.
It also revealed people with mental illness
face the ‘double stigma’ of age and mental ill-
ness.
SANE Australia has now called for a stigma
reduction campaign targeting the aged care sec-
tor and community support services around the
issue of mental illness in older adults.
The charity has recommend-
ed mandatory mental health
training for nurses and al-
lied health professionals
working in aged care
and community sup-
port sectors.
It’s also encour-
aging GPs and other
primary health care
professionals to seek
additional training and
education in the treat-
ment of coexisting physical
and mental health problems.
SANE Australia communica-
tions director Paul Morgan says with the
wave of ageing Baby Boomers approaching, it’s
vital to address the needs of older people living
with mental illness, which is distinct from demen-
tia.
“There is quite a significant proportion of
people who are living with a mental illness long
term,” he says.
“There’s this proportion of the population,
maybe three per cent, who are psychiatrically
disabled.
“When you have got a large part of the popu-
lation entering those 60s and 70s years, there are
going to be a lot more people in the aged care
demographic who have illnesses like schizophre-
nia and bipolar disorder and so forth.
“They are already disadvantaged and often stigmatised and isolated by having those conditions and have poor physical health, and that will only be made more complex and worse when they have older age problems as well.”
SANE Australia investigated the experience
of ageing with a mental illness, surveying 111
people in early 2013.
Most respondents were female, at 73 per
cent, and aged predominantly between 50 and
64, at 74 per cent.
The majority of participants had been diag-
nosed with depression, at 45 per cent, followed
by schizophrenia, at 28 per cent, bipolar disor-
der, at 23 per cent, anxiety disorders, at three per
cent, and personality disorders, at one per cent.
The charity also conducted 26 interviews with
consumers and service providers with results
used to identify barriers to effective care and to
inform recommendations for improvements.
Mr Morgan says separate SANE Australia re-
search of people with conditions such as schizo-
phrenia and other psychotic conditions shows 70
per cent regularly smoke, 47 per cent are obese,
and 49 per cent have a lifetime history of an alco-
hol or drug dependence.
“People with serious mental health problems
have much worse physical health than the rest of
the population,” he says.
“So when you combine that with people get-
ting older you are looking at rates of diabetes
and heart disease and other problems that are
going to be way above the national average - in
the population of people who are already getting
poorer services.
“They are likely to be getting even poorer in
their older age - so looking after these people and
looking out for them is terribly, terribly important.”
Older people with mental illness are also of-
ten not embedded within services and may have
become separated from family and friends result-
ing in isolation from the community, Mr Morgan
adds.
“A very strong message is that amongst a
population of people that aged care workers will
be looking after, a significant number of those are
going to be people with existing ongoing mental
health problems and they are going to be easy to
ignore,” he says.
“They might be late for appointments, they
may have a reluctance to come out, they won’t
be knotted into services as well.
“Because they are going to be easy to miss,
they are going to be neglected and we want to
see proactive systems to identify and look after
those people whether it’s in aged care settings,
whether it’s in people who are nurses and al-
lied health professionals who are seeing people
through community health centres or visiting
them in their homes.
“We really need to be looking at these people
and encouraging them to become involved with
health systems.
“We also need to be educating and training
staff in what sorts of behaviour and things will
help those people with a mental illness because
they might just be seen as awkward people or
people who don’t turn up for appointments - well,
it’s because they’ve got an illness.
“Allied health professionals who work with
GPs as well - that’s one touch point that can help
spark off a lot more integrated care for this older
population.”
SANE Australia is now working on guidelines
to assist health professionals to better care for
older people with mental illness, which will be re-
leased in late 2014.
“We don’t need to give up on people just
because they are old and affected by mental ill-
ness,” Mr Morgan says.
“They have every right to care as much as
everybody else.”
Standards for mental health postgraduate studies
The Australian College of Mental Health Nurs-
es (ACMHN) is working to forge accredita-
tion standards for postgraduate studies in mental
health nursing.
In a project with Queensland Health, ACMHN
is developing a national framework that will out-
line agreed criteria, supporting values and princi-
ples for postgraduate studies along with a course
accreditation process.
ACMHN CEO Kim Ryan said the move will
provide national consistency for graduate diplo-
mas and masters qualifications in mental health
nursing.
“What we are going to do with
Queensland Health is de-
velop a framework that
looks at what con-
stitutes, in mental
health nursing, a
graduate certifi-
cate, a graduate
diploma and a
masters in line
with the Aus-
tralian Qual-
ity Framework
(AQF)”.
“So then uni-
versities can go -
okay, this is what the
college says should fit into
a graduate certificate, a grad-
uate diploma, a masters - we don’t
have a framework like that for any other nursing
specialty.
“This is going to help us guide what post-
graduate mental health nursing should look like,
so we’ve got consistency across the sector.”
Ms Ryan said it’s been largely left up to uni-
versities to decide the learning objectives for
their postgraduate mental health nursing studies.
“Universities have pretty much directed what
that looks like,” she said.
“If someone who has got a graduate diploma
in mental health nursing, we as a profession can
say - we think it’s important that they’ve been
able to undertake this level of education, they
have this level of knowledge, skills and educa-
tion, and be able to apply that in a clinical envi-
ronment.”
ACMHN is establishing an expert reference
group to drive the project and plans to open the
process up to consultation later this year, with the
standards expected to be completed by February
27, 2015.
Ms Ryan said once completed, universities
meeting the standards will have the option to
seek college accreditation for their mental health
nursing postgraduate studies.
“Universities have already got their courses
and there will be no requirement on them to ac-
tually meet the criteria or to have their courses
accredited by the college,” she said.
“But one would guess that in a market-driven
environment, if you wanted to go and do a post-
graduate mental health nursing course it would
probably be good to try and look for one that the
college has accredited.”
Ms Ryan said the project is part of the col-
lege’s objective to set and achieve national
standards in high quality mental health nursing
care.
“We are trying to better articulate and define
what mental health nursing is and provide more
opportunities to support nurses who are working
in mental health,” she said.
“For us it’s trying to build a workforce and try-
ing to get more people interested and supported
to undertake mental health nursing.”
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Mental health care for older AustraliansDepression and mental illness are not a normal part of ageing. A national charity is recommending mandatory mental health training for nurses and allied health professionals in the aged care and community support sectors to improve care for older people with mental illness, By Karen Keast.
Almost half of the Australian population will
experience mental illness at some stage in
their lives.
SANE Australia says while the na-
tion’s increasingly ageing popu-
lation will result in more older
adults living with mental ill-
ness, it’s research shows
there is still a lack of
attention to mental ill-
ness in the elderly.
The national
mental health char-
ity says people with
mental illness are more
likely to experience the
effects of ageing sooner
than the general popula-
tion while they are also likely
to have multiple physical health
conditions, cognitive impairments and
few supports - and experience financial difficulty.
These factors also lead to older people with
mental illness living on average 25 years less than
the general population.
Late last year, SANE Australia released a
study, Growing Older, Staying Well, which found
aged care workers often have little understand-
ing of mental health issues while there are few
support and rehabilitation services aimed at older
adults living with mental illness.
It also revealed people with mental illness
face the ‘double stigma’ of age and mental ill-
ness.
SANE Australia has now called for a stigma
reduction campaign targeting the aged care sec-
tor and community support services around the
issue of mental illness in older adults.
The charity has recommend-
ed mandatory mental health
training for nurses and al-
lied health professionals
working in aged care
and community sup-
port sectors.
It’s also encour-
aging GPs and other
primary health care
professionals to seek
additional training and
education in the treat-
ment of coexisting physical
and mental health problems.
SANE Australia communica-
tions director Paul Morgan says with the
wave of ageing Baby Boomers approaching, it’s
vital to address the needs of older people living
with mental illness, which is distinct from demen-
tia.
“There is quite a significant proportion of
people who are living with a mental illness long
term,” he says.
“There’s this proportion of the population,
maybe three per cent, who are psychiatrically
disabled.
“When you have got a large part of the popu-
lation entering those 60s and 70s years, there are
going to be a lot more people in the aged care
demographic who have illnesses like schizophre-
nia and bipolar disorder and so forth.
“They are already disadvantaged and often stigmatised and isolated by having those conditions and have poor physical health, and that will only be made more complex and worse when they have older age problems as well.”
SANE Australia investigated the experience
of ageing with a mental illness, surveying 111
people in early 2013.
Most respondents were female, at 73 per
cent, and aged predominantly between 50 and
64, at 74 per cent.
The majority of participants had been diag-
nosed with depression, at 45 per cent, followed
by schizophrenia, at 28 per cent, bipolar disor-
der, at 23 per cent, anxiety disorders, at three per
cent, and personality disorders, at one per cent.
The charity also conducted 26 interviews with
consumers and service providers with results
used to identify barriers to effective care and to
inform recommendations for improvements.
Mr Morgan says separate SANE Australia re-
search of people with conditions such as schizo-
phrenia and other psychotic conditions shows 70
per cent regularly smoke, 47 per cent are obese,
and 49 per cent have a lifetime history of an alco-
hol or drug dependence.
“People with serious mental health problems
have much worse physical health than the rest of
the population,” he says.
“So when you combine that with people get-
ting older you are looking at rates of diabetes
and heart disease and other problems that are
going to be way above the national average - in
the population of people who are already getting
poorer services.
“They are likely to be getting even poorer in
their older age - so looking after these people and
looking out for them is terribly, terribly important.”
Older people with mental illness are also of-
ten not embedded within services and may have
become separated from family and friends result-
ing in isolation from the community, Mr Morgan
adds.
“A very strong message is that amongst a
population of people that aged care workers will
be looking after, a significant number of those are
going to be people with existing ongoing mental
health problems and they are going to be easy to
ignore,” he says.
“They might be late for appointments, they
may have a reluctance to come out, they won’t
be knotted into services as well.
“Because they are going to be easy to miss,
they are going to be neglected and we want to
see proactive systems to identify and look after
those people whether it’s in aged care settings,
whether it’s in people who are nurses and al-
lied health professionals who are seeing people
through community health centres or visiting
them in their homes.
“We really need to be looking at these people
and encouraging them to become involved with
health systems.
“We also need to be educating and training
staff in what sorts of behaviour and things will
help those people with a mental illness because
they might just be seen as awkward people or
people who don’t turn up for appointments - well,
it’s because they’ve got an illness.
“Allied health professionals who work with
GPs as well - that’s one touch point that can help
spark off a lot more integrated care for this older
population.”
SANE Australia is now working on guidelines
to assist health professionals to better care for
older people with mental illness, which will be re-
leased in late 2014.
“We don’t need to give up on people just
because they are old and affected by mental ill-
ness,” Mr Morgan says.
“They have every right to care as much as
everybody else.”
Mental health care for older AustraliansDepression and mental illness are not a normal part of ageing. A national charity is recommending mandatory mental health training for nurses and allied health professionals in the aged care and community support sectors to improve care for older people with mental illness, By Karen Keast.
Almost half of the Australian population will
experience mental illness at some stage in
their lives.
SANE Australia says while the na-
tion’s increasingly ageing popu-
lation will result in more older
adults living with mental ill-
ness, it’s research shows
there is still a lack of
attention to mental ill-
ness in the elderly.
The national
mental health char-
ity says people with
mental illness are more
likely to experience the
effects of ageing sooner
than the general popula-
tion while they are also likely
to have multiple physical health
conditions, cognitive impairments and
few supports - and experience financial difficulty.
These factors also lead to older people with
mental illness living on average 25 years less than
the general population.
Late last year, SANE Australia released a
study, Growing Older, Staying Well, which found
aged care workers often have little understand-
ing of mental health issues while there are few
support and rehabilitation services aimed at older
adults living with mental illness.
It also revealed people with mental illness
face the ‘double stigma’ of age and mental ill-
ness.
SANE Australia has now called for a stigma
reduction campaign targeting the aged care sec-
tor and community support services around the
issue of mental illness in older adults.
The charity has recommend-
ed mandatory mental health
training for nurses and al-
lied health professionals
working in aged care
and community sup-
port sectors.
It’s also encour-
aging GPs and other
primary health care
professionals to seek
additional training and
education in the treat-
ment of coexisting physical
and mental health problems.
SANE Australia communica-
tions director Paul Morgan says with the
wave of ageing Baby Boomers approaching, it’s
vital to address the needs of older people living
with mental illness, which is distinct from demen-
tia.
“There is quite a significant proportion of
people who are living with a mental illness long
term,” he says.
“There’s this proportion of the population,
maybe three per cent, who are psychiatrically
disabled.
“When you have got a large part of the popu-
lation entering those 60s and 70s years, there are
going to be a lot more people in the aged care
demographic who have illnesses like schizophre-
nia and bipolar disorder and so forth.
“They are already disadvantaged and often stigmatised and isolated by having those conditions and have poor physical health, and that will only be made more complex and worse when they have older age problems as well.”
SANE Australia investigated the experience
of ageing with a mental illness, surveying 111
people in early 2013.
Most respondents were female, at 73 per
cent, and aged predominantly between 50 and
64, at 74 per cent.
The majority of participants had been diag-
nosed with depression, at 45 per cent, followed
by schizophrenia, at 28 per cent, bipolar disor-
der, at 23 per cent, anxiety disorders, at three per
cent, and personality disorders, at one per cent.
The charity also conducted 26 interviews with
consumers and service providers with results
used to identify barriers to effective care and to
inform recommendations for improvements.
Mr Morgan says separate SANE Australia re-
search of people with conditions such as schizo-
phrenia and other psychotic conditions shows 70
per cent regularly smoke, 47 per cent are obese,
and 49 per cent have a lifetime history of an alco-
hol or drug dependence.
“People with serious mental health problems
have much worse physical health than the rest of
the population,” he says.
“So when you combine that with people get-
ting older you are looking at rates of diabetes
and heart disease and other problems that are
going to be way above the national average - in
the population of people who are already getting
poorer services.
“They are likely to be getting even poorer in
their older age - so looking after these people and
looking out for them is terribly, terribly important.”
Older people with mental illness are also of-
ten not embedded within services and may have
become separated from family and friends result-
ing in isolation from the community, Mr Morgan
adds.
“A very strong message is that amongst a
population of people that aged care workers will
be looking after, a significant number of those are
going to be people with existing ongoing mental
health problems and they are going to be easy to
ignore,” he says.
“They might be late for appointments, they
may have a reluctance to come out, they won’t
be knotted into services as well.
“Because they are going to be easy to miss,
they are going to be neglected and we want to
see proactive systems to identify and look after
those people whether it’s in aged care settings,
whether it’s in people who are nurses and al-
lied health professionals who are seeing people
through community health centres or visiting
them in their homes.
“We really need to be looking at these people
and encouraging them to become involved with
health systems.
“We also need to be educating and training
staff in what sorts of behaviour and things will
help those people with a mental illness because
they might just be seen as awkward people or
people who don’t turn up for appointments - well,
it’s because they’ve got an illness.
“Allied health professionals who work with
GPs as well - that’s one touch point that can help
spark off a lot more integrated care for this older
population.”
SANE Australia is now working on guidelines
to assist health professionals to better care for
older people with mental illness, which will be re-
leased in late 2014.
“We don’t need to give up on people just
because they are old and affected by mental ill-
ness,” Mr Morgan says.
“They have every right to care as much as
everybody else.”
Standards for mental health postgraduate studies
The Australian College of Mental Health Nurs-
es (ACMHN) is working to forge accredita-
tion standards for postgraduate studies in mental
health nursing.
In a project with Queensland Health, ACMHN
is developing a national framework that will out-
line agreed criteria, supporting values and princi-
ples for postgraduate studies along with a course
accreditation process.
ACMHN CEO Kim Ryan said the move will
provide national consistency for graduate diplo-
mas and masters qualifications in mental health
nursing.
“What we are going to do with
Queensland Health is de-
velop a framework that
looks at what con-
stitutes, in mental
health nursing, a
graduate certifi-
cate, a graduate
diploma and a
masters in line
with the Aus-
tralian Qual-
ity Framework
(AQF)”.
“So then uni-
versities can go -
okay, this is what the
college says should fit into
a graduate certificate, a grad-
uate diploma, a masters - we don’t
have a framework like that for any other nursing
specialty.
“This is going to help us guide what post-
graduate mental health nursing should look like,
so we’ve got consistency across the sector.”
Ms Ryan said it’s been largely left up to uni-
versities to decide the learning objectives for
their postgraduate mental health nursing studies.
“Universities have pretty much directed what
that looks like,” she said.
“If someone who has got a graduate diploma
in mental health nursing, we as a profession can
say - we think it’s important that they’ve been
able to undertake this level of education, they
have this level of knowledge, skills and educa-
tion, and be able to apply that in a clinical envi-
ronment.”
ACMHN is establishing an expert reference
group to drive the project and plans to open the
process up to consultation later this year, with the
standards expected to be completed by February
27, 2015.
Ms Ryan said once completed, universities
meeting the standards will have the option to
seek college accreditation for their mental health
nursing postgraduate studies.
“Universities have already got their courses
and there will be no requirement on them to ac-
tually meet the criteria or to have their courses
accredited by the college,” she said.
“But one would guess that in a market-driven
environment, if you wanted to go and do a post-
graduate mental health nursing course it would
probably be good to try and look for one that the
college has accredited.”
Ms Ryan said the project is part of the col-
lege’s objective to set and achieve national
standards in high quality mental health nursing
care.
“We are trying to better articulate and define
what mental health nursing is and provide more
opportunities to support nurses who are working
in mental health,” she said.
“For us it’s trying to build a workforce and try-
ing to get more people interested and supported
to undertake mental health nursing.”
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Mental health stretched at Dubbo Hospital
Nurses at Dubbo Hospital in New South
Wales are under strain due to lack of resources
to treat patients with mental health problems, ac-
cording to unions.
As reported by the online Daily Liberal, the
Health Services Union and NSW Nurses and Mid-
wives Union say understaffing in the hospital’s
mental health unit, attributed to underfunding by
the state government, could put nurses and pa-
tients at risk.
“The Local Health District want staffing levels
for a general mental health unit but they are run-
ning as a high dependency unit,” NSW Nurses
and Midwives Union co-ordinator Darius Altman
reportedly said.
Acutely unwell patients required a level of
care that current staffing levels were unable to
deliver, he said.
“Some high dependency patients might re-
quire the care of one nurse for every two patients
or even one to one in some cases.”
In a statement Western NSW Local Health
District director of operations Lindsey Gough
said there had been significant investment in up-
grades to Dubbo Hospital.
“There are absolutely no cuts, downgrades
or reductions occurring or planned for Dubbo
Health Service.
“The suggestion of otherwise is incorrect and
misleading.”
“In fact, the $91 million investment into the
redevelopment of Dubbo Health Service will re-
sult in more and improved health services to
meet the changing health demands for the Dub-
bo region’s growing population.”
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Overtime taking toll on Tasmania’s nurses and midwives
Tasmania’s public sector nurses and mid-
wives are increasingly working overtime and dou-
ble shifts to fill roster shortages.
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federa-
tion’s (ANMF) Tasmanian Branch secretary Ne-
roli Ellis said the impact of the state’s health cut-
backs, as detailed in a recent independent health
policy analyst’s report, was taking a toll on the
state’s nurses and midwives.
Ms Ellis said there were 26 double shifts in
one general ward alone, last month.
“They are sick of it - there’s no doubt nurses
do not want to work this amount of over-
time,” she said.
“They get called on their
days off on a regular ba-
sis to come in and do
extra work; they are
almost ethically
obliged to do
the overtime to
ensure there is
safe staffing.
“Mistakes
and quality of
care do deterio-
rate when you are
working unsustain-
able hours.
“Nurses and mid-
wives are getting tired
in the public sector because
there’s no real commitment to em-
ploy the correct numbers of nurses on a perma-
nent basis.”
Hobart analyst Martyn Goddard’s report into
Tasmania’s public hospitals, based on Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare data, found the
system has lost 167 FTE nurses, or six per cent,
from 2011 to 2013 while nurses’ average FTE sal-
aries increased 12 per cent compared with seven
per cent for all states and territories.
“This has almost nothing to do with general
wage increases and almost everything to do with
the sharply declining efficiency with which Tas-
manian public hospitals are being staffed and ad-
ministered,” Goddard states in the report.
“Rather than employing an adequate number
of nurses, those who remain are required to work
long and expensive periods of overtime.”
Goddard’s report also found the number of
FTE doctors fell 21 per cent while their salaries
increased 32 per cent, and the overall costs of
running Tasmanian hospitals rose “substantially
faster” than the national average.
Ms Ellis said system inefficiencies were re-
sulting in nurse unit managers waiting three
months to employ into vacant base grade nurs-
ing positions.
“The nurse unit managers are incredibly frus-
trated that they can’t employ more nurses and
yet are relying on overtime,” she said.
“To recruit to a vacant position requires nine
levels of endorsement to even commence the re-
cruitment process, so that all takes time.
“While they are trying to recruit, they have got
roster shortages or holes in the roster that have
to be filled by someone and they are more often
than not filled by someone having to do a double
shift.
“It’s very poor management, both from a pa-
tient safety aspect and a nurses’ safety aspect
and of course the bottom line, to now rely on so
much overtime.”
Ms Ellis said the branch plans to release a
document outlining 40 cost-saving solutions,
most around system efficiencies, to improve the
state’s embattled health system and ultimately
patient care.
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Physiotherapists to design their own conference program
Physiotherapists will be able to tailor this
year’s Physiotherapy New Zealand (PNZ) confer-
ence to their individual area of practice.
The September 19-21 ‘Linking the Chain’
conference will feature a PNZ conference smart-
phone app, more than 20 local and international
physiotherapy experts, four exterior workshops
and the addition of eight embedded workshops.
Physiotherapy New Zealand president Ian
d’Young said this year’s conference, in line with
the theme, aimed to link together a range of clini-
cal streams into one comprehensive three-day
event.
Mr d’Young said more than 300 delegates
from across New Zealand, Australia and further
afield will be able to forge their own program with
a conference smartphone app.
“We want attendees to be able to design their
own program, picking from a range of sessions
on the latest clinical research, mixed with more
specialty areas and with the option of adding in a
practical workshop or two,” he said.
“We have worked hard to give our special in-
terest groups a big role in developing a program
that is useful both in terms of presenting the lat-
est research and practical sessions.
“We want them to come away from the con-
ference with new ideas for innovation and evolv-
ing our practice to address future health chal-
lenges.”
Mr d’Young said the conference will cover
key areas of interest for physiotherapists working
in New Zealand, ranging from the prevention and
treatment of ACL injuries to the need for robust
rehabilitation programs for older adults - regard-
less of the cause of their disability.
The event will feature speakers including Ca-
nadian physiotherapist Diane Lee, an expert in
the area of pelvic disability and pain, and Profes-
sor Peter McNair, director of Auckland’s Health
and Rehabilitation Research Institute, who will
speak on enhancing muscle strength and endur-
ance during rehabilitation.
Canadian sports physician Professor Karim
Khan will also cover the lack of awareness about
the effectiveness of physiotherapy among the
general public and doctors.
Mr d’Young said it’s an important topic for the
profession and is also a focus of the PNZ’s three-
year strategy.
“We are committed to promoting the value
of physiotherapy more effectively to the public,
other health professions and national funders,”
he said.
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Former nurse fights to decriminalise medical cannabisBy Karen Keast
Throughout her 20-plus year nursing career,
Lucy Haslam was familiar with issues around
pain management and cancer treatment.
A community nurse, Lucy founded and ran
her own home nursing service in Tamworth, New
South Wales, often assisting palliative care pa-
tients.
But it wasn’t until her son Daniel
began battling bowel cancer four
years ago that she realised
the medical benefits of
cannabis.
Cannabis has
helped Daniel, now
24, largely overcome
nausea, vomiting and
poor appetite around
his chemotherapy
treatments while Dan-
iel is also using canna-
bis oil in a final bid to halt
the terminal disease.
Now, Lucy and her hus-
band, a former drug squad police
officer, are fighting to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis for Daniel and others
like him.
“Cannabis has really become our last hope,”
she said.
“I think people need to see it as another med-
icine instead of this big taboo.
“It should just be treated like any other pre-
scribed, restricted substance. It can remain il-
legal for general use but be legal for prescribed
restricted situations.”
Since going public with her story, Lucy, who
now works in hospitality, said she has been inun-
dated with messages from people who also use
cannabis for medicinal purposes.
“We are absolutely amazed by how many
people have come forward - saying that they are
doing the same thing or they want to be able to
do the same thing,” she said.
“We didn’t set out to start this massive cam-
paign but it’s kind of clear really that the need is
there.”
The Haslam family has
launched an online petition,
which has received more
than 125,000 signatures,
calling for the NSW
government to adopt
the five recommenda-
tions of a state parlia-
mentary committee,
outlined in 2013.
If adopted, the rec-
ommendations would
enable people with termi-
nal illnesses or those who
are suffering from chronic pain
to choose cannabis as a treatment,
while protecting them against arrest and
prosecution.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association
(NSWNMA) Council has thrown its weight behind
the fight, supporting the recommendations and
the Haslam family’s petition.
“Our members recognise the importance
of exploring improved options for effective pain
management, particularly for those patients who
suffer from constant chronic pain,” NSWNMA
general secretary Brett Holmes said in a state-
ment.
“We are aware of a proposed Private Mem-
ber’s Bill being drafted by the Member for Tam-
worth and will await the NSW government’s con-
sideration of this bill.”
The union stated medical cannabis is legal
and regulated in the United States, Canada and
several European countries to alleviate symp-
toms for Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis,
Crohn’s Disease, and other chronic pain and post
traumatic stress disorders.
Lucy labelled the union’s support “fantastic”.
She said the family has received a lot of
support in their campaign to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis, particularly from local
nurses.
“I meet nurses every day who come and say
‘well done Lucy - you’re going really well’,” she
revealed.
“There’s a groundswell of support and if
nurses get behind that groundswell and can help
it along, I think hopefully we’ll get over the line.
“The politicians just have it in their heads that
there’s adequate medication out there that’s ap-
proved and listed on the TGA but they are just not
listening,” Lucy said.
“People’s individual stories are telling me that
that’s not the case; people have all sorts of needs
and cannabis seems to be the one thing that
people are always saying - ‘I’m getting a great
response, the side effects are really minimal or I
can manage them’.
“If local members start hearing from people
like nurses who are well regarded and trusted and
it’s their area of expertise, maybe they will start
to listen.”
Lucy said cannabis has also given Daniel
hope.
“He’s four years into this fight now and he
shouldn’t be here with us and he’s still here and
the most important thing for him, even if it doesn’t
work from a tumour-fighting point of view, is it’s
giving him some hope.
“I think hope can’t be underrated really - if
you’re terminally ill and the doctors take away
your hope you’re basically ready for the coffin,”
she said.
“If he can have some hope through taking
the oil and if he can feel like he’s actually being
a bit empowered to fight his disease, then that’s
enough for me - that makes it worth it.”
What are your thoughts on this controversial treatment?
Leave a comment on this and other articles by visiting the ‘news’
section of our website http://www.ncah.com.au
To go to the article “Former nurse �ghts to decriminalise medical
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HAVE YOUR SAY
Former nurse fights to decriminalise medical cannabisBy Karen Keast
Throughout her 20-plus year nursing career,
Lucy Haslam was familiar with issues around
pain management and cancer treatment.
A community nurse, Lucy founded and ran
her own home nursing service in Tamworth, New
South Wales, often assisting palliative care pa-
tients.
But it wasn’t until her son Daniel
began battling bowel cancer four
years ago that she realised
the medical benefits of
cannabis.
Cannabis has
helped Daniel, now
24, largely overcome
nausea, vomiting and
poor appetite around
his chemotherapy
treatments while Dan-
iel is also using canna-
bis oil in a final bid to halt
the terminal disease.
Now, Lucy and her hus-
band, a former drug squad police
officer, are fighting to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis for Daniel and others
like him.
“Cannabis has really become our last hope,”
she said.
“I think people need to see it as another med-
icine instead of this big taboo.
“It should just be treated like any other pre-
scribed, restricted substance. It can remain il-
legal for general use but be legal for prescribed
restricted situations.”
Since going public with her story, Lucy, who
now works in hospitality, said she has been inun-
dated with messages from people who also use
cannabis for medicinal purposes.
“We are absolutely amazed by how many
people have come forward - saying that they are
doing the same thing or they want to be able to
do the same thing,” she said.
“We didn’t set out to start this massive cam-
paign but it’s kind of clear really that the need is
there.”
The Haslam family has
launched an online petition,
which has received more
than 125,000 signatures,
calling for the NSW
government to adopt
the five recommenda-
tions of a state parlia-
mentary committee,
outlined in 2013.
If adopted, the rec-
ommendations would
enable people with termi-
nal illnesses or those who
are suffering from chronic pain
to choose cannabis as a treatment,
while protecting them against arrest and
prosecution.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association
(NSWNMA) Council has thrown its weight behind
the fight, supporting the recommendations and
the Haslam family’s petition.
“Our members recognise the importance
of exploring improved options for effective pain
management, particularly for those patients who
suffer from constant chronic pain,” NSWNMA
general secretary Brett Holmes said in a state-
ment.
“We are aware of a proposed Private Mem-
ber’s Bill being drafted by the Member for Tam-
worth and will await the NSW government’s con-
sideration of this bill.”
The union stated medical cannabis is legal
and regulated in the United States, Canada and
several European countries to alleviate symp-
toms for Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis,
Crohn’s Disease, and other chronic pain and post
traumatic stress disorders.
Lucy labelled the union’s support “fantastic”.
She said the family has received a lot of
support in their campaign to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis, particularly from local
nurses.
“I meet nurses every day who come and say
‘well done Lucy - you’re going really well’,” she
revealed.
“There’s a groundswell of support and if
nurses get behind that groundswell and can help
it along, I think hopefully we’ll get over the line.
“The politicians just have it in their heads that
there’s adequate medication out there that’s ap-
proved and listed on the TGA but they are just not
listening,” Lucy said.
“People’s individual stories are telling me that
that’s not the case; people have all sorts of needs
and cannabis seems to be the one thing that
people are always saying - ‘I’m getting a great
response, the side effects are really minimal or I
can manage them’.
“If local members start hearing from people
like nurses who are well regarded and trusted and
it’s their area of expertise, maybe they will start
to listen.”
Lucy said cannabis has also given Daniel
hope.
“He’s four years into this fight now and he
shouldn’t be here with us and he’s still here and
the most important thing for him, even if it doesn’t
work from a tumour-fighting point of view, is it’s
giving him some hope.
“I think hope can’t be underrated really - if
you’re terminally ill and the doctors take away
your hope you’re basically ready for the coffin,”
she said.
“If he can have some hope through taking
the oil and if he can feel like he’s actually being
a bit empowered to fight his disease, then that’s
enough for me - that makes it worth it.”
What are your thoughts on this controversial treatment?
Leave a comment on this and other articles by visiting the ‘news’
section of our website http://www.ncah.com.au
To go to the article “Former nurse �ghts to decriminalise medical
cannabis” directly, visit http://goo.gl/IjxV3E
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Physiotherapists to design their own conference program
Physiotherapists will be able to tailor this
year’s Physiotherapy New Zealand (PNZ) confer-
ence to their individual area of practice.
The September 19-21 ‘Linking the Chain’
conference will feature a PNZ conference smart-
phone app, more than 20 local and international
physiotherapy experts, four exterior workshops
and the addition of eight embedded workshops.
Physiotherapy New Zealand president Ian
d’Young said this year’s conference, in line with
the theme, aimed to link together a range of clini-
cal streams into one comprehensive three-day
event.
Mr d’Young said more than 300 delegates
from across New Zealand, Australia and further
afield will be able to forge their own program with
a conference smartphone app.
“We want attendees to be able to design their
own program, picking from a range of sessions
on the latest clinical research, mixed with more
specialty areas and with the option of adding in a
practical workshop or two,” he said.
“We have worked hard to give our special in-
terest groups a big role in developing a program
that is useful both in terms of presenting the lat-
est research and practical sessions.
“We want them to come away from the con-
ference with new ideas for innovation and evolv-
ing our practice to address future health chal-
lenges.”
Mr d’Young said the conference will cover
key areas of interest for physiotherapists working
in New Zealand, ranging from the prevention and
treatment of ACL injuries to the need for robust
rehabilitation programs for older adults - regard-
less of the cause of their disability.
The event will feature speakers including Ca-
nadian physiotherapist Diane Lee, an expert in
the area of pelvic disability and pain, and Profes-
sor Peter McNair, director of Auckland’s Health
and Rehabilitation Research Institute, who will
speak on enhancing muscle strength and endur-
ance during rehabilitation.
Canadian sports physician Professor Karim
Khan will also cover the lack of awareness about
the effectiveness of physiotherapy among the
general public and doctors.
Mr d’Young said it’s an important topic for the
profession and is also a focus of the PNZ’s three-
year strategy.
“We are committed to promoting the value
of physiotherapy more effectively to the public,
other health professions and national funders,”
he said.
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Former nurse fights to decriminalise medical cannabisBy Karen Keast
Throughout her 20-plus year nursing career,
Lucy Haslam was familiar with issues around
pain management and cancer treatment.
A community nurse, Lucy founded and ran
her own home nursing service in Tamworth, New
South Wales, often assisting palliative care pa-
tients.
But it wasn’t until her son Daniel
began battling bowel cancer four
years ago that she realised
the medical benefits of
cannabis.
Cannabis has
helped Daniel, now
24, largely overcome
nausea, vomiting and
poor appetite around
his chemotherapy
treatments while Dan-
iel is also using canna-
bis oil in a final bid to halt
the terminal disease.
Now, Lucy and her hus-
band, a former drug squad police
officer, are fighting to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis for Daniel and others
like him.
“Cannabis has really become our last hope,”
she said.
“I think people need to see it as another med-
icine instead of this big taboo.
“It should just be treated like any other pre-
scribed, restricted substance. It can remain il-
legal for general use but be legal for prescribed
restricted situations.”
Since going public with her story, Lucy, who
now works in hospitality, said she has been inun-
dated with messages from people who also use
cannabis for medicinal purposes.
“We are absolutely amazed by how many
people have come forward - saying that they are
doing the same thing or they want to be able to
do the same thing,” she said.
“We didn’t set out to start this massive cam-
paign but it’s kind of clear really that the need is
there.”
The Haslam family has
launched an online petition,
which has received more
than 125,000 signatures,
calling for the NSW
government to adopt
the five recommenda-
tions of a state parlia-
mentary committee,
outlined in 2013.
If adopted, the rec-
ommendations would
enable people with termi-
nal illnesses or those who
are suffering from chronic pain
to choose cannabis as a treatment,
while protecting them against arrest and
prosecution.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association
(NSWNMA) Council has thrown its weight behind
the fight, supporting the recommendations and
the Haslam family’s petition.
“Our members recognise the importance
of exploring improved options for effective pain
management, particularly for those patients who
suffer from constant chronic pain,” NSWNMA
general secretary Brett Holmes said in a state-
ment.
“We are aware of a proposed Private Mem-
ber’s Bill being drafted by the Member for Tam-
worth and will await the NSW government’s con-
sideration of this bill.”
The union stated medical cannabis is legal
and regulated in the United States, Canada and
several European countries to alleviate symp-
toms for Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis,
Crohn’s Disease, and other chronic pain and post
traumatic stress disorders.
Lucy labelled the union’s support “fantastic”.
She said the family has received a lot of
support in their campaign to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis, particularly from local
nurses.
“I meet nurses every day who come and say
‘well done Lucy - you’re going really well’,” she
revealed.
“There’s a groundswell of support and if
nurses get behind that groundswell and can help
it along, I think hopefully we’ll get over the line.
“The politicians just have it in their heads that
there’s adequate medication out there that’s ap-
proved and listed on the TGA but they are just not
listening,” Lucy said.
“People’s individual stories are telling me that
that’s not the case; people have all sorts of needs
and cannabis seems to be the one thing that
people are always saying - ‘I’m getting a great
response, the side effects are really minimal or I
can manage them’.
“If local members start hearing from people
like nurses who are well regarded and trusted and
it’s their area of expertise, maybe they will start
to listen.”
Lucy said cannabis has also given Daniel
hope.
“He’s four years into this fight now and he
shouldn’t be here with us and he’s still here and
the most important thing for him, even if it doesn’t
work from a tumour-fighting point of view, is it’s
giving him some hope.
“I think hope can’t be underrated really - if
you’re terminally ill and the doctors take away
your hope you’re basically ready for the coffin,”
she said.
“If he can have some hope through taking
the oil and if he can feel like he’s actually being
a bit empowered to fight his disease, then that’s
enough for me - that makes it worth it.”
What are your thoughts on this controversial treatment?
Leave a comment on this and other articles by visiting the ‘news’
section of our website http://www.ncah.com.au
To go to the article “Former nurse �ghts to decriminalise medical
cannabis” directly, visit http://goo.gl/IjxV3E
HAVE YOUR SAY
Former nurse fights to decriminalise medical cannabisBy Karen Keast
Throughout her 20-plus year nursing career,
Lucy Haslam was familiar with issues around
pain management and cancer treatment.
A community nurse, Lucy founded and ran
her own home nursing service in Tamworth, New
South Wales, often assisting palliative care pa-
tients.
But it wasn’t until her son Daniel
began battling bowel cancer four
years ago that she realised
the medical benefits of
cannabis.
Cannabis has
helped Daniel, now
24, largely overcome
nausea, vomiting and
poor appetite around
his chemotherapy
treatments while Dan-
iel is also using canna-
bis oil in a final bid to halt
the terminal disease.
Now, Lucy and her hus-
band, a former drug squad police
officer, are fighting to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis for Daniel and others
like him.
“Cannabis has really become our last hope,”
she said.
“I think people need to see it as another med-
icine instead of this big taboo.
“It should just be treated like any other pre-
scribed, restricted substance. It can remain il-
legal for general use but be legal for prescribed
restricted situations.”
Since going public with her story, Lucy, who
now works in hospitality, said she has been inun-
dated with messages from people who also use
cannabis for medicinal purposes.
“We are absolutely amazed by how many
people have come forward - saying that they are
doing the same thing or they want to be able to
do the same thing,” she said.
“We didn’t set out to start this massive cam-
paign but it’s kind of clear really that the need is
there.”
The Haslam family has
launched an online petition,
which has received more
than 125,000 signatures,
calling for the NSW
government to adopt
the five recommenda-
tions of a state parlia-
mentary committee,
outlined in 2013.
If adopted, the rec-
ommendations would
enable people with termi-
nal illnesses or those who
are suffering from chronic pain
to choose cannabis as a treatment,
while protecting them against arrest and
prosecution.
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association
(NSWNMA) Council has thrown its weight behind
the fight, supporting the recommendations and
the Haslam family’s petition.
“Our members recognise the importance
of exploring improved options for effective pain
management, particularly for those patients who
suffer from constant chronic pain,” NSWNMA
general secretary Brett Holmes said in a state-
ment.
“We are aware of a proposed Private Mem-
ber’s Bill being drafted by the Member for Tam-
worth and will await the NSW government’s con-
sideration of this bill.”
The union stated medical cannabis is legal
and regulated in the United States, Canada and
several European countries to alleviate symp-
toms for Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis,
Crohn’s Disease, and other chronic pain and post
traumatic stress disorders.
Lucy labelled the union’s support “fantastic”.
She said the family has received a lot of
support in their campaign to decriminalise the
medical use of cannabis, particularly from local
nurses.
“I meet nurses every day who come and say
‘well done Lucy - you’re going really well’,” she
revealed.
“There’s a groundswell of support and if
nurses get behind that groundswell and can help
it along, I think hopefully we’ll get over the line.
“The politicians just have it in their heads that
there’s adequate medication out there that’s ap-
proved and listed on the TGA but they are just not
listening,” Lucy said.
“People’s individual stories are telling me that
that’s not the case; people have all sorts of needs
and cannabis seems to be the one thing that
people are always saying - ‘I’m getting a great
response, the side effects are really minimal or I
can manage them’.
“If local members start hearing from people
like nurses who are well regarded and trusted and
it’s their area of expertise, maybe they will start
to listen.”
Lucy said cannabis has also given Daniel
hope.
“He’s four years into this fight now and he
shouldn’t be here with us and he’s still here and
the most important thing for him, even if it doesn’t
work from a tumour-fighting point of view, is it’s
giving him some hope.
“I think hope can’t be underrated really - if
you’re terminally ill and the doctors take away
your hope you’re basically ready for the coffin,”
she said.
“If he can have some hope through taking
the oil and if he can feel like he’s actually being
a bit empowered to fight his disease, then that’s
enough for me - that makes it worth it.”
What are your thoughts on this controversial treatment?
Leave a comment on this and other articles by visiting the ‘news’
section of our website http://www.ncah.com.au
To go to the article “Former nurse �ghts to decriminalise medical
cannabis” directly, visit http://goo.gl/IjxV3E
HAVE YOUR SAY
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Mental health stretched at Dubbo Hospital
Nurses at Dubbo Hospital in New South
Wales are under strain due to lack of resources
to treat patients with mental health problems, ac-
cording to unions.
As reported by the online Daily Liberal, the
Health Services Union and NSW Nurses and Mid-
wives Union say understaffing in the hospital’s
mental health unit, attributed to underfunding by
the state government, could put nurses and pa-
tients at risk.
“The Local Health District want staffing levels
for a general mental health unit but they are run-
ning as a high dependency unit,” NSW Nurses
and Midwives Union co-ordinator Darius Altman
reportedly said.
Acutely unwell patients required a level of
care that current staffing levels were unable to
deliver, he said.
“Some high dependency patients might re-
quire the care of one nurse for every two patients
or even one to one in some cases.”
In a statement Western NSW Local Health
District director of operations Lindsey Gough
said there had been significant investment in up-
grades to Dubbo Hospital.
“There are absolutely no cuts, downgrades
or reductions occurring or planned for Dubbo
Health Service.
“The suggestion of otherwise is incorrect and
misleading.”
“In fact, the $91 million investment into the
redevelopment of Dubbo Health Service will re-
sult in more and improved health services to
meet the changing health demands for the Dub-
bo region’s growing population.”
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Overtime taking toll on Tasmania’s nurses and midwives
Tasmania’s public sector nurses and mid-
wives are increasingly working overtime and dou-
ble shifts to fill roster shortages.
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federa-
tion’s (ANMF) Tasmanian Branch secretary Ne-
roli Ellis said the impact of the state’s health cut-
backs, as detailed in a recent independent health
policy analyst’s report, was taking a toll on the
state’s nurses and midwives.
Ms Ellis said there were 26 double shifts in
one general ward alone, last month.
“They are sick of it - there’s no doubt nurses
do not want to work this amount of over-
time,” she said.
“They get called on their
days off on a regular ba-
sis to come in and do
extra work; they are
almost ethically
obliged to do
the overtime to
ensure there is
safe staffing.
“Mistakes
and quality of
care do deterio-
rate when you are
working unsustain-
able hours.
“Nurses and mid-
wives are getting tired
in the public sector because
there’s no real commitment to em-
ploy the correct numbers of nurses on a perma-
nent basis.”
Hobart analyst Martyn Goddard’s report into
Tasmania’s public hospitals, based on Australian
Institute of Health and Welfare data, found the
system has lost 167 FTE nurses, or six per cent,
from 2011 to 2013 while nurses’ average FTE sal-
aries increased 12 per cent compared with seven
per cent for all states and territories.
“This has almost nothing to do with general
wage increases and almost everything to do with
the sharply declining efficiency with which Tas-
manian public hospitals are being staffed and ad-
ministered,” Goddard states in the report.
“Rather than employing an adequate number
of nurses, those who remain are required to work
long and expensive periods of overtime.”
Goddard’s report also found the number of
FTE doctors fell 21 per cent while their salaries
increased 32 per cent, and the overall costs of
running Tasmanian hospitals rose “substantially
faster” than the national average.
Ms Ellis said system inefficiencies were re-
sulting in nurse unit managers waiting three
months to employ into vacant base grade nurs-
ing positions.
“The nurse unit managers are incredibly frus-
trated that they can’t employ more nurses and
yet are relying on overtime,” she said.
“To recruit to a vacant position requires nine
levels of endorsement to even commence the re-
cruitment process, so that all takes time.
“While they are trying to recruit, they have got
roster shortages or holes in the roster that have
to be filled by someone and they are more often
than not filled by someone having to do a double
shift.
“It’s very poor management, both from a pa-
tient safety aspect and a nurses’ safety aspect
and of course the bottom line, to now rely on so
much overtime.”
Ms Ellis said the branch plans to release a
document outlining 40 cost-saving solutions,
most around system efficiencies, to improve the
state’s embattled health system and ultimately
patient care.
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Program to boost rural allied health
Rural and remote health facilities in Queens-
land are benefitting from a program designed to
increase the number of allied health graduates
working in regional areas.
Queensland Health Minister Lawrence
Springborg said 11 new graduates in allied health
professions had been allocated to rural and re-
mote facilities under the Allied Health Rural Gen-
eralist Training program, established by the De-
partment of Health.
“Nine of these graduates already have taken
up their places so far, with the remaining two in
the process of recruitment to the positions at
Longreach and Cooktown.’’
The positions were designed to provide new
graduates with on-the-job training and mentor-
ing during the first year of their career, while also
helping boost allied health services to rural and
remote areas.
“We would hope that a period of time work-
ing in regional areas will open the new graduates’
eyes to the merits of a professional career in rural
Queensland,’’ he said.
The positions also are being used to develop
and trial a new training program that would fit
allied health professionals with skills and experi-
ence more suited to working in regional and re-
mote areas.
The successful graduates have been placed
into each of the 11 new positions for a period
of 12 months, after which they will be replaced
by a new cohort of graduates for a further year.
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Physiotherapists urge move to prehab
Physiotherapists are urging more people to
consider prehabilitation in a bid to safeguard
themselves against sports and fitness injuries
this winter.
Sports physiotherapists offer prehabilitation
or prehab, corrective training to amend problems
before injuries occur, which can target specific
sports and individual needs.
The call comes as physiotherapists prepare
for the annual influx of sprains, strains and other
injuries as a result of winter sports.
Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA)
president Marcus Dripps said prevention, with
a prehabilitation assessment and plan, was the
best medicine.
“We see the same risk factors again and
again for sports and fitness injuries but usually by
the time the patient sees a physio, it’s too late,”
he said.
Mr Dripps said an APA sports physiothera-
pist can assess posture, core stability, muscle
strength and flexibility, joint alignment, mobility
and incorrect movement patterns.
“It’s not so different to going to a dentist or
doctor for regular check-ups. Everyone has their
own set of particular weaknesses, inflexibilities
and movement incongruities.”
Melbourne sports physiotherapist Aidan Rich
has been offering prehabilitation for the past five
years.
Mr Rich, a member of the APA’s national
sports committee who works at LifeCare Sports
Medicine in Ashburton and Croydon, said the
biggest risk factor for injury is having a previous
injury - so it’s important to avoid a first-time injury.
He said a sports injury can have long-lasting
implications.
“Something like an anterior cruciate ligament
injury, the return to play is typically around 10 to
14 months after an injury,” he said.
“Only about 30 or 40 per cent of people get
back to their pre-injury level of competition and
the re-injury rate for that knee or the opposite
knee is about 30 per cent.
“It’s an injury that is career halting or career
limiting and we know that if you injure your ante-
rior cruciate ligament, for example, that the risk of
early-onset osteoarthritis in your knee is dramati-
cally increased.”
Mr Rich, who has worked with a variety of
sports and musculoskeletal conditions as a
sports physiotherapist in the past eight years,
said studies show prehabilitation programs work
to prevent knee injuries in court sport players,
hamstring injuries in AFL players, and serious in-
juries in soccer players.
FIFA’s renowned 11+ prevention program, a
warm-up based on a scientific study out of Nor-
way, has been designed to reduce injuries among
amateur soccer players.
Mr Rich said the program has produced
“good results”, showing teams that completed
the 20 minute warm-up at least twice a week
achieved a 30 to 50 per cent reduction in the
number of players injured.
He said providing prehabilitation was a sim-
ple solution aimed at helping people remain in-
jury-free.
“That’s the thing I enjoy - we get to make
a difference in someone’s long-term health and
long-term enjoyment of their sport,” he said.
By Karen Keast
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COAG delivers final health diagnosis
Australians are living slightly longer and
smoking less while deaths from circulatory dis-
ease and cancer are falling.
On the downside, almost 63 per cent of
adults are now overweight and obese while a
quarter of Australians have type 2 diabetes,
potentially preventable hospitalisation rates for
acute and vaccine-preventable conditions have
increased, and there are longer waits for elective
surgery.
The COAG Reform Council’s five-year report
card, and final diagnosis on the nation’s health
as a result of federal government funding cuts,
highlighted a range of health improvements and
challenges.
It found Australians have among the long-
est life expectancies in the world - men can now
expect to live to 79.9 years and women to 84.3
years while child and infant death rates have
dropped 20 per cent between 2007 and 2012.
The annual rate of deaths for our two biggest
broad causes of death - circulatory disease (heart
attacks and strokes) and cancer have fallen.
While rates of new cases of female breast
cancer, melanoma of the skin, bowel and cervi-
cal cancers remained stable, the actual number
of people diagnosed with new cases increased
between 2006 and 2010.
Rates of new lung cancer cases in women
significantly increased by 88 per cent between
1982 and 2012 while rates for men fell 34 per
cent during the same period.
“This is consistent with a peak in female
smoking rates in the 1970s and 1980s,” the re-
port states.
“As the rate of lung cancer among women
is likely to have not yet peaked, there is a need
for on-going emphasis on early identification and
treatment of this disease, despite the declining
rates of lung cancer overall.”
The national smoking rate fell from 19.1 per
cent to 16.3 per cent in 2011-12.
The report found 72 per cent of people pre-
senting at emergency departments are now seen
within benchmark times, up from 67 per cent,
while rates of hospital acquired infections have
fallen.
It’s taking longer for older Australians to ac-
cess aged care services, with the report finding
the proportion of people who took nine months or
longer to enter high residential care, after being
approved, increased from 3.3 per cent in 2008-09
to 14.1 per cent in 2012-13.
Australians are waiting longer for elective
surgery with wait times increasing for 14 out of
15 selected surgical procedures.
The report shows the cost of health care re-
mains a concern with more than two in five, or
43.9 per cent of, Indigenous people aged 15 and
over delayed or did not see a dentist in 2012-13
due to costs, while a third delayed or did not fill
a prescription, and one in eight, or 12 per cent,
delayed or did not see a GP.
One in five, or 18.8 per cent of, Australians
delayed or did not see a dentist due to cost, 5.8
per cent delayed or did not see a GP, and 8.8 per
cent delayed or did not fill a prescription.
The report found while the proportion of peo-
ple receiving Medicare Benefits Scheme and De-
partment of Veteran Affairs funded clinical mental
health services grew an average of 12.7 per cent
a year between 2007-08 and 2010-11 it slowed to
just 3.9 per cent between 2010-11 and 2011-12
due to a slowing in the service rate of GPs.
It also found mental health treatment rates
by clinical psychologists and other allied health
professionals increased steadily.
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This part-time course builds on the certificate, and consists of one additional compulsory unit and three extra electives. All units are one semester in length.
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Pharmacists applaud community pharmacy inquiry
The Victorian Legislative Council will investi-
gate opportunities for community pharmacies to
have an enhanced role in primary and preventa-
tive care.
The inquiry, which is open to submissions un-
til June 30, will consider the role of pharmacies in
post-acute health care, aged care, personalised
medication management and vaccinations.
It will also examine pharmacies making refer-
rals to other health care professionals, commu-
nity pharmacies in rural and remote Victoria, and
the remuneration, workforce and financial issues
related to expanding the role of community phar-
macies.
The inquiry will also consider the enhanced
role of pharmacies in providing flu vaccinations in
Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Queensland pharmacists have administered
more than 8500 immunisations across 80 com-
munity pharmacies as part of the Queensland
Pharmacist Immunisation Project (QPIP) since
April 1.
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA)
Victorian Branch president Michelle Lynch said
the inquiry had a broad scope.
“We certainly have been in discussions with
the Department of Health and the minister about
ensuring that the resources of health profession-
als are maximised,” she said.
“We obviously think there’s an opportunity to
better utilise the pharmacists that we have in the
community to achieve better health outcomes for
the public of Victoria.
“It’s just really reviewing the role that pharma-
cists can have particularly in rural and remote and
regional areas where there is a shortage of ac-
cess either to services or to other health profes-
sionals, and just better utilising the pharmacists
and the access points they provide, particularly
in community pharmacy, in ensuring that we are
delivering the right services to our patients.”
Ms Lynch, a pharmacist with independent
specialist consulting company PharmConsult
who also works in community pharmacy, said
community pharmacists have a role to play in the
provision of immunisations.
“Obviously with the right framework to al-
low the appropriate accreditation and training,
which obviously needs to go in line with provision
of those services but we absolutely think that’s
something pharmacists can do,” she said.
“It’s all about, I suppose, public access. It’s
not trying to replace anyone else’s health profes-
sional role, it’s really about collaboration.”
Ms Lynch said better utilising pharmacists
in community pharmacies could improve health
outcomes for consumers and also work to meet
the government’s agenda to contain rising health
costs.
“These are things that we talk about over a
federal level and a state level as well and it’s obvi-
ously been about trying to ensure that the public,
in this particular case in Victoria, has access to
the services that we need,” she said.
The Pharmacy Guild has also welcomed the
inquiry.
“Whilst both the Guild and the PSA are op-
timistic of the progress of our advocacy work to
date, we will certainly not rest on our laurels and
ensure our submissions and presentations to the
Legislative Council of the Victorian Government
will hopefully result in community pharmacy be-
ing recognised and remunerated for the great
work they do and can do - for the benefit of all
Victorians,” Guild Victorian Branch president An-
thony Tassone said.
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Galway University Hospitals also has strong links with the National University of Ireland, Galway, (NUIG) for the training of medical, nursing and other health professionals and is the site for extensive academic training and research.
Why Galway City:Known the world over for its friendly people, fabulous beaches, safe charming streets, shopping and nightlife, Galway will refresh flagging spirits like no other place.
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Benefits are as follows:• HSE scale commencing at €27,211 – €39,420
per annum increases depending on years of experience.• pay for shift differentials.• Permanent, full-time pensionable contracts.• 24 days Annual Leave plus 9 Public Holidays.• 39per Hoursweek.• Four weeks FREE accommodation • Assistance with accommodation – average rent per room €280pcm• Professional development and educational opportunities.• Opportunity to complete Higher Diploma in ICU and Theatres, fully funded, with close links to NUIG• Opportunity to join the HSE Pension scheme.• Within walking distance of the picturesque City of Galway.• Within easy reach of Shannon, Knock and Dublin airports.
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About Galway University HospitalsGalway University Hospitals (GUH), comprising of University Hospital Galway (UHG) and Merlin Park University Hospital (MPUH), provide a comprehensive range of services to emergency and elective patients on an inpatient, outpatient and day care basis across the two sites. UHG and MPUH together employ approximately 3,000 whole time equivalent staff. It is a designated supra regional centre, serves a catchment area in the region of one million people from Donegal to Tipperary North. HSE - West accounts for almost one quarter of the Irish population and Galway accounts for a quarter of this.
Galway University Hospitals also has strong links with the National University of Ireland, Galway, (NUIG) for the training of medical, nursing and other health professionals and is the site for extensive academic training and research.
Why Galway City:Known the world over for its friendly people, fabulous beaches, safe charming streets, shopping and nightlife, Galway will refresh flagging spirits like no other place.
Requirements:Must have a minimum of 2 years experience in ICU or Theatres.
Benefits are as follows:• Salary: as per HSE scale commencing at €27,211 – €39,420 per annum increases depending on years of experience.• Additional pay for shift differentials.• Permanent, full-time pensionable contracts.• 24 days Annual Leave plus 9 Public Holidays.• 39 Hours per week.• Four weeks FREE accommodation • Assistance with accommodation – average rent per room €280pcm• Professional development and educational opportunities.• Opportunity to complete Higher Diploma in ICU and Theatres, fully funded, with close links to NUIG• Opportunity to join the HSE Pension scheme.• Within walking distance of the picturesque City of Galway.• Within easy reach of Shannon, Knock and Dublin airports.
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COAG delivers final health diagnosis
Australians are living slightly longer and
smoking less while deaths from circulatory dis-
ease and cancer are falling.
On the downside, almost 63 per cent of
adults are now overweight and obese while a
quarter of Australians have type 2 diabetes,
potentially preventable hospitalisation rates for
acute and vaccine-preventable conditions have
increased, and there are longer waits for elective
surgery.
The COAG Reform Council’s five-year report
card, and final diagnosis on the nation’s health
as a result of federal government funding cuts,
highlighted a range of health improvements and
challenges.
It found Australians have among the long-
est life expectancies in the world - men can now
expect to live to 79.9 years and women to 84.3
years while child and infant death rates have
dropped 20 per cent between 2007 and 2012.
The annual rate of deaths for our two biggest
broad causes of death - circulatory disease (heart
attacks and strokes) and cancer have fallen.
While rates of new cases of female breast
cancer, melanoma of the skin, bowel and cervi-
cal cancers remained stable, the actual number
of people diagnosed with new cases increased
between 2006 and 2010.
Rates of new lung cancer cases in women
significantly increased by 88 per cent between
1982 and 2012 while rates for men fell 34 per
cent during the same period.
“This is consistent with a peak in female
smoking rates in the 1970s and 1980s,” the re-
port states.
“As the rate of lung cancer among women
is likely to have not yet peaked, there is a need
for on-going emphasis on early identification and
treatment of this disease, despite the declining
rates of lung cancer overall.”
The national smoking rate fell from 19.1 per
cent to 16.3 per cent in 2011-12.
The report found 72 per cent of people pre-
senting at emergency departments are now seen
within benchmark times, up from 67 per cent,
while rates of hospital acquired infections have
fallen.
It’s taking longer for older Australians to ac-
cess aged care services, with the report finding
the proportion of people who took nine months or
longer to enter high residential care, after being
approved, increased from 3.3 per cent in 2008-09
to 14.1 per cent in 2012-13.
Australians are waiting longer for elective
surgery with wait times increasing for 14 out of
15 selected surgical procedures.
The report shows the cost of health care re-
mains a concern with more than two in five, or
43.9 per cent of, Indigenous people aged 15 and
over delayed or did not see a dentist in 2012-13
due to costs, while a third delayed or did not fill
a prescription, and one in eight, or 12 per cent,
delayed or did not see a GP.
One in five, or 18.8 per cent of, Australians
delayed or did not see a dentist due to cost, 5.8
per cent delayed or did not see a GP, and 8.8 per
cent delayed or did not fill a prescription.
The report found while the proportion of peo-
ple receiving Medicare Benefits Scheme and De-
partment of Veteran Affairs funded clinical mental
health services grew an average of 12.7 per cent
a year between 2007-08 and 2010-11 it slowed to
just 3.9 per cent between 2010-11 and 2011-12
due to a slowing in the service rate of GPs.
It also found mental health treatment rates
by clinical psychologists and other allied health
professionals increased steadily.
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E-Health (Health Informatics) CoursesCentre for Rural Health
These e-health courses are appropriate for both health professionals involved in adopting information management tools into their daily work flow and for those interested in moving into the emerging field of health informatics.
H4E Bachelor of E-Health (Health Informatics) (Professional Honours)
This part-time course comprises eight units. It builds on to any three-year degree with a major in a health-related or information management area.
Fees: Commonwealth Supported
H5E Graduate Certificate in E-Health (Health Informatics)
This part-time course comprises four compulsory one-semester units.
H6E Graduate Diploma of E-Health (Health Informatics)
This part-time course builds on the certificate, and consists of one additional compulsory unit and three extra electives. All units are one semester in length.
H7E Master of E-Health (Health Informatics)
The masters by coursework program can be completed part-time over three years. It comprises 10 units and a small research project.
Courses are external, self-paced learning packages using electronic and/or print-based materials. They can be completed with a minimum of disruption to home and work life as there is no compulsory residential component.
Fees: Full fee paying programs
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Contact: University of Tasmania Centre for Rural Health
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Pharmacists applaud community pharmacy inquiry
The Victorian Legislative Council will investi-
gate opportunities for community pharmacies to
have an enhanced role in primary and preventa-
tive care.
The inquiry, which is open to submissions un-
til June 30, will consider the role of pharmacies in
post-acute health care, aged care, personalised
medication management and vaccinations.
It will also examine pharmacies making refer-
rals to other health care professionals, commu-
nity pharmacies in rural and remote Victoria, and
the remuneration, workforce and financial issues
related to expanding the role of community phar-
macies.
The inquiry will also consider the enhanced
role of pharmacies in providing flu vaccinations in
Queensland and the Northern Territory.
Queensland pharmacists have administered
more than 8500 immunisations across 80 com-
munity pharmacies as part of the Queensland
Pharmacist Immunisation Project (QPIP) since
April 1.
Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA)
Victorian Branch president Michelle Lynch said
the inquiry had a broad scope.
“We certainly have been in discussions with
the Department of Health and the minister about
ensuring that the resources of health profession-
als are maximised,” she said.
“We obviously think there’s an opportunity to
better utilise the pharmacists that we have in the
community to achieve better health outcomes for
the public of Victoria.
“It’s just really reviewing the role that pharma-
cists can have particularly in rural and remote and
regional areas where there is a shortage of ac-
cess either to services or to other health profes-
sionals, and just better utilising the pharmacists
and the access points they provide, particularly
in community pharmacy, in ensuring that we are
delivering the right services to our patients.”
Ms Lynch, a pharmacist with independent
specialist consulting company PharmConsult
who also works in community pharmacy, said
community pharmacists have a role to play in the
provision of immunisations.
“Obviously with the right framework to al-
low the appropriate accreditation and training,
which obviously needs to go in line with provision
of those services but we absolutely think that’s
something pharmacists can do,” she said.
“It’s all about, I suppose, public access. It’s
not trying to replace anyone else’s health profes-
sional role, it’s really about collaboration.”
Ms Lynch said better utilising pharmacists
in community pharmacies could improve health
outcomes for consumers and also work to meet
the government’s agenda to contain rising health
costs.
“These are things that we talk about over a
federal level and a state level as well and it’s obvi-
ously been about trying to ensure that the public,
in this particular case in Victoria, has access to
the services that we need,” she said.
The Pharmacy Guild has also welcomed the
inquiry.
“Whilst both the Guild and the PSA are op-
timistic of the progress of our advocacy work to
date, we will certainly not rest on our laurels and
ensure our submissions and presentations to the
Legislative Council of the Victorian Government
will hopefully result in community pharmacy be-
ing recognised and remunerated for the great
work they do and can do - for the benefit of all
Victorians,” Guild Victorian Branch president An-
thony Tassone said.
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http://www.galway.net/tourism/visit/galway/
About Galway University HospitalsGalway University Hospitals (GUH), comprising of University Hospital Galway (UHG) and Merlin Park University Hospital (MPUH), provide a comprehensive range of services to emergency and elective patients on an inpatient, outpatient and day care basis across the two sites. UHG and MPUH together employ approximately 3,000 whole time equivalent staff. It is a designated supra regional centre, serves a catchment area in the region of one million people from Donegal to Tipperary North. HSE - West accounts for almost one quarter of the Irish population and Galway accounts for a quarter of this.
Galway University Hospitals also has strong links with the National University of Ireland, Galway, (NUIG) for the training of medical, nursing and other health professionals and is the site for extensive academic training and research.
Why Galway City:Known the world over for its friendly people, fabulous beaches, safe charming streets, shopping and nightlife, Galway will refresh flagging spirits like no other place.
http://www.galway.net/tourism/visit/galway/
Requirements:Must have a minimum of 12 months experience in ICU or Theatres.
Benefits are as follows:• HSE scale commencing at €27,211 – €39,420
per annum increases depending on years of experience.• pay for shift differentials.• Permanent, full-time pensionable contracts.• 24 days Annual Leave plus 9 Public Holidays.• 39 perHours week.• Four weeks FREE accommodation • Assistance with accommodation – average rent per room €280pcm• Professional development and educational opportunities.• Opportunity to complete Higher Diploma in ICU and Theatres, fully funded, with close links to NUIG• Opportunity to join the HSE Pension scheme.• Within walking distance of the picturesque City of Galway.• Within easy reach of Shannon, Knock and Dublin airports.
Kate Cowhig International Healthcare Recruitment49 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
31 Southampton Row, London, WC1B 5HJ, UK
www.KCRJOBS.comFollow us on
e: [email protected]: +353 1671 5557
Permanent Full time Staff Nurse PositionsICU & Theatre, Galway, Ireland
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Rural and remote health facilities in Queens-
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increase the number of allied health graduates
working in regional areas.
Queensland Health Minister Lawrence
Springborg said 11 new graduates in allied health
professions had been allocated to rural and re-
mote facilities under the Allied Health Rural Gen-
eralist Training program, established by the De-
partment of Health.
“Nine of these graduates already have taken
up their places so far, with the remaining two in
the process of recruitment to the positions at
Longreach and Cooktown.’’
The positions were designed to provide new
graduates with on-the-job training and mentor-
ing during the first year of their career, while also
helping boost allied health services to rural and
remote areas.
“We would hope that a period of time work-
ing in regional areas will open the new graduates’
eyes to the merits of a professional career in rural
Queensland,’’ he said.
The positions also are being used to develop
and trial a new training program that would fit
allied health professionals with skills and experi-
ence more suited to working in regional and re-
mote areas.
The successful graduates have been placed
into each of the 11 new positions for a period
of 12 months, after which they will be replaced
by a new cohort of graduates for a further year.
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Physiotherapists urge move to prehab
Physiotherapists are urging more people to
consider prehabilitation in a bid to safeguard
themselves against sports and fitness injuries
this winter.
Sports physiotherapists offer prehabilitation
or prehab, corrective training to amend problems
before injuries occur, which can target specific
sports and individual needs.
The call comes as physiotherapists prepare
for the annual influx of sprains, strains and other
injuries as a result of winter sports.
Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA)
president Marcus Dripps said prevention, with
a prehabilitation assessment and plan, was the
best medicine.
“We see the same risk factors again and
again for sports and fitness injuries but usually by
the time the patient sees a physio, it’s too late,”
he said.
Mr Dripps said an APA sports physiothera-
pist can assess posture, core stability, muscle
strength and flexibility, joint alignment, mobility
and incorrect movement patterns.
“It’s not so different to going to a dentist or
doctor for regular check-ups. Everyone has their
own set of particular weaknesses, inflexibilities
and movement incongruities.”
Melbourne sports physiotherapist Aidan Rich
has been offering prehabilitation for the past five
years.
Mr Rich, a member of the APA’s national
sports committee who works at LifeCare Sports
Medicine in Ashburton and Croydon, said the
biggest risk factor for injury is having a previous
injury - so it’s important to avoid a first-time injury.
He said a sports injury can have long-lasting
implications.
“Something like an anterior cruciate ligament
injury, the return to play is typically around 10 to
14 months after an injury,” he said.
“Only about 30 or 40 per cent of people get
back to their pre-injury level of competition and
the re-injury rate for that knee or the opposite
knee is about 30 per cent.
“It’s an injury that is career halting or career
limiting and we know that if you injure your ante-
rior cruciate ligament, for example, that the risk of
early-onset osteoarthritis in your knee is dramati-
cally increased.”
Mr Rich, who has worked with a variety of
sports and musculoskeletal conditions as a
sports physiotherapist in the past eight years,
said studies show prehabilitation programs work
to prevent knee injuries in court sport players,
hamstring injuries in AFL players, and serious in-
juries in soccer players.
FIFA’s renowned 11+ prevention program, a
warm-up based on a scientific study out of Nor-
way, has been designed to reduce injuries among
amateur soccer players.
Mr Rich said the program has produced
“good results”, showing teams that completed
the 20 minute warm-up at least twice a week
achieved a 30 to 50 per cent reduction in the
number of players injured.
He said providing prehabilitation was a sim-
ple solution aimed at helping people remain in-
jury-free.
“That’s the thing I enjoy - we get to make
a difference in someone’s long-term health and
long-term enjoyment of their sport,” he said.
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Psychologists workshop emotional impact of strokes
The emotional toll of stroke and its impact
on physical recovery was on the agenda at the
recent Clinical Psychologist National Conference
in Melbourne.
Statistics show about 50,000 people en-
counter a new or recurrent stroke each year and
more than 400,000 people live with the effects of
stroke in Australia.
Professor of Clinical Psychology Ian Knee-
bone, of the University of Western Sydney, said
stroke survivors are in a high risk group for de-
pression and anxiety, with around 50 per cent of
post stroke patients suffering clinical depression
while 20 per cent experience anxiety.
“If you are depressed after a stroke, you are
likely to be in hospital longer, you’re likely to have
more functional problems, you’re less likely to go
home and more likely to go to some sort of sup-
ported accommodation,” he said.
“You’re more likely to have another stroke
and you’re more likely to die sooner.”
Professor Kneebone, who presented a work-
shop on the topic at the Australian Psychological
Society’s (APS) June 20-22 conference, said de-
pression and anxiety was often overlooked due
to the focus on the patient’s physical recovery
post stroke.
“The other thing is a lot of the symptoms of
stroke overlap with something like depression so,
for instance, fatigue is a sign of depression but
it’s also common after stroke, memory and con-
centration problems are common after stroke and
they are also signs of depression - so it makes it
harder to detect,” he said.
“I’m involved in a project up at Hunter New
England Health Local Health District in Newcastle
where we are attempting to screen for depres-
sion and anxiety after stroke as routine, and their
screening rate is about five per cent at the mo-
ment.
“Where I worked previously in the UK we
went from 55 per cent to 80 per cent so it’s ear-
ly days in terms of this being developed in this
country.”
Professor Kneebone, who was a member of
the core steering group that developed the Na-
tional Stroke Strategy for England and retains
a visiting post at the University of Surrey in the
UK, said it’s important for clinical psychologists
to consider the emotional recovery of stroke sur-
vivors, particularly around issues such as fear of
falling.
“Up to 60 per cent of people are affected by
fear of falling,” he said.
“Being a bit vigilant is important but if you are
fearful of falling it’s an independent risk factor of
losing functional ability.
“The important thing about the fear of fall-
ing is it’s a risk factor for actually having falls and
so the more fearful you are, the less you do, you
de-condition and then when you do try and do
something, you are more likely to fall over.”
Professor Kneebone said psychologists can
intervene to assist stroke survivors to manage
their fear, working to improve their functional abil-
ity and their outcomes.
Clinical psychologists should firstly work to
educate survivors about how the fear of falling
can be self-fulfilling, he said.
“Getting them to think - if I can manage my
fear, I can continue to do things, I’m more likely
to get home from hospital, I’m less likely to be a
burden to others - those sorts of things start to
change their mind,” he said.
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Psychologists workshop emotional impact of strokes
The emotional toll of stroke and its impact
on physical recovery was on the agenda at the
recent Clinical Psychologist National Conference
in Melbourne.
Statistics show about 50,000 people en-
counter a new or recurrent stroke each year and
more than 400,000 people live with the effects of
stroke in Australia.
Professor of Clinical Psychology Ian Knee-
bone, of the University of Western Sydney, said
stroke survivors are in a high risk group for de-
pression and anxiety, with around 50 per cent of
post stroke patients suffering clinical depression
while 20 per cent experience anxiety.
“If you are depressed after a stroke, you are
likely to be in hospital longer, you’re likely to have
more functional problems, you’re less likely to go
home and more likely to go to some sort of sup-
ported accommodation,” he said.
“You’re more likely to have another stroke
and you’re more likely to die sooner.”
Professor Kneebone, who presented a work-
shop on the topic at the Australian Psychological
Society’s (APS) June 20-22 conference, said de-
pression and anxiety was often overlooked due
to the focus on the patient’s physical recovery
post stroke.
“The other thing is a lot of the symptoms of
stroke overlap with something like depression so,
for instance, fatigue is a sign of depression but
it’s also common after stroke, memory and con-
centration problems are common after stroke and
they are also signs of depression - so it makes it
harder to detect,” he said.
“I’m involved in a project up at Hunter New
England Health Local Health District in Newcastle
where we are attempting to screen for depres-
sion and anxiety after stroke as routine, and their
screening rate is about five per cent at the mo-
ment.
“Where I worked previously in the UK we
went from 55 per cent to 80 per cent so it’s ear-
ly days in terms of this being developed in this
country.”
Professor Kneebone, who was a member of
the core steering group that developed the Na-
tional Stroke Strategy for England and retains
a visiting post at the University of Surrey in the
UK, said it’s important for clinical psychologists
to consider the emotional recovery of stroke sur-
vivors, particularly around issues such as fear of
falling.
“Up to 60 per cent of people are affected by
fear of falling,” he said.
“Being a bit vigilant is important but if you are
fearful of falling it’s an independent risk factor of
losing functional ability.
“The important thing about the fear of fall-
ing is it’s a risk factor for actually having falls and
so the more fearful you are, the less you do, you
de-condition and then when you do try and do
something, you are more likely to fall over.”
Professor Kneebone said psychologists can
intervene to assist stroke survivors to manage
their fear, working to improve their functional abil-
ity and their outcomes.
Clinical psychologists should firstly work to
educate survivors about how the fear of falling
can be self-fulfilling, he said.
“Getting them to think - if I can manage my
fear, I can continue to do things, I’m more likely
to get home from hospital, I’m less likely to be a
burden to others - those sorts of things start to
change their mind,” he said.
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OCEANIA UNIVERSITYOF MEDICINE
NOW INTERNATIONALLY ACCREDITED
Take the next step, earn your MBBS atOceania University of Medicine.
OUM is proud to announce an even more attractive fee structure from 2013.Applications are now open for courses beginning in February and August. � New facilities, greater capacity and over 150 students currently enrolled.
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in the hospitalreally enhanced my education.Vivian Ndukwe, RN
from Melbourne, OUM Class of 2012
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COSMETIC NURSING… THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF NURSINGThe Vocational Graduate Certificate in Cosmetic Nursing is a postgraduate course developed specifically for Enrolled or Registered Nurses wishing to enter the field of cosmetic medicine.
This government-accredited qualification will provide nurses with the knowledge and hands-on skills required to work in a cosmetic medical practice and/or accredited day hospital performing cosmetic nursing, dermal therapies and injectable procedures.
The course is completed online over one semester full-time or two semesters part-time. Practical competencies in dermal therapies and injectables procedures are completed on-campus in Perth, Sydney and the Gold Coast.
For further information, please contact the Australasian Academy of Cosmetic Dermal Science on 08 9226 3366 or visit www.aacds.edu.au
REGISTERED TRAINING ORGANISATION PROVIDER NO: 51373
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08 9226 3366Follow us on www.facebook/aacds
Authorised providers of RCNA (APEC) endorsed Continual Nursing Education.
COSMETIC NURSING… THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF NURSINGThe Vocational Graduate Certificate in Cosmetic Nursing is a postgraduate course developed specifically for Enrolled or Registered Nurses wishing to enter the field of cosmetic medicine.
This government-accredited qualification will provide nurses with the knowledge and hands-on skills required to work in a cosmetic medical practice and/or accredited day hospital performing cosmetic nursing, dermal therapies and injectable procedures.
The course is completed online over one semester full-time or two semesters part-time. Practical competencies in dermal therapies and injectables procedures are completed on-campus in Perth, Sydney and the Gold Coast.
For further information, please contact the Australasian Academy of Cosmetic Dermal Science on 08 9226 3366 or visit www.aacds.edu.au
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Happy new year from the team at Medacs Healthcare!
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We always have a range of exciting perm or temp nursing/midwifery opportunities available!
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Nursing and Midwifery Superguide – now available
$45The Superguide
A Supervision Continuum for
Nurses and Midwives FIRST EDITIONJune 2013
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The Superguide:A practical, user friendly and concise multimedia resource from HETI.
It includes essential elements for sound, evidence-based clinical supervision of nursing and midwifery professionals: Point of Care Supervision, Facilitated Professional Development, Clinical Supervision and scenarios on DVD.
The essential resource for Nursing and Midwifery professionals
*this resource is available free for email download to all NSW Health employees
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