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How technology will advance nursing practice

At the Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS),

nurses are using video calls to check on

patients equipped with wireless tablet devices

in their homes.

Through the Telstra Health-developed My-

CareManager telehealth platform, nurses are

able to watch older patients take their medicine

or check their blood pressure.

In Queensland, Redcliffe

Hospital has championed a

dynamic mobile solution

to boost staff efficiency

and outpatient flow,

eradicating paper-

based processes

while increasing data

accuracy and putting

an end to lengthy

patient queues.

The hospital has

introduced the MK4000

kiosk and Patient Auto-

mated Arrival System (PAAS)

where patients scan a barcoded

appointment letter to self-check in,

swiping their Medicare or Department of Vet-

erans’ Affairs (DVA) cards. A map on the kiosk

screen then points the patient to their clinic’s

waiting room as the system informs staff of the

patient’s arrival.

And at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, hand-

held computers and an hTrk application are be-

ing used in the operating theatre, cardiology

and radiology departments, allowing medical

equipment such as a stent or pacemaker to be

tracked, traced and billed.

Nurses no longer manually record each

item in a book. Instead, they scan a barcode

on the item or its packaging before uploading

the information to a central data store, which

improves efficiency and accuracy as well as pa-

tient safety.

These are just a few examples of how tech-

nology is working to advance nursing practice

in Australia.

Australian College of Nursing (ACN) CEO

Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward says nurses are

embracing the uptake of a broad

range of health care technology,

from point of care solutions

like mobile devices and

tablets with barcoding

for recording patient

notes and accessing

patient data through

to advanced infor-

mation systems.

“Years ago you

would remember a

nurse writing notes and

on admission you had

paper-based notes, which

would mean that if you were

in hospital for a couple of weeks

and we had to write an allergy - you

might have to re-write that allergy 10, 20, 30,

50 to 100 times on all sorts of paper,” she says.

“Now with technology and integrated

communications systems you put it in the care

plan on the entry to hospital, and it populates

all of the way through to the discharge plan.

There’s less room for error.”

With 25 years’ experience in nursing, health

management, academia and nurse leadership,

Adjunct Professor Ward says recent advance-

ments in technology have catapulted the pos-

sibilities for health care providers.

Adjunct Professor Ward says the rollout of

technology has a range of benefits for nurses,

from improving the accuracy of data to boosting For the full article visit HealthTimes.com.au

efficiency, which releases more time for nurses

to care for their patients, and ultimately im-

proves patient care and safety.

One device leading the charge in bolstering

nurse efficiency is the Vocera communications

badge.

The hands-free, wireless communication

device is worn on the collar of nursing uni-

forms, enabling nurses to converse immediately

with their colleagues, regardless of their loca-

tion on the ward.

“It’s exceptional,” Adjunct Professor Ward

says.

“Instead of nurses needing to run around

and try and find each other or find a phone,

nurses and other clinicians in the health team

have their hands free and they can basically just

lean over to their shoulder, speak, and find out

where people are,” she says.

“Nurses can then gain time back and re-di-

rect time to patient care. Patients benefit when

the nurse is in the room, having a conversation,

connecting, talking about concerns, educating

the patient - having all of the connection that is

essential and highly regarded for our profession

and not sitting at the nurses’ station trying to

enter in data.”

A range of apps are also enabling nurses

to access the latest evidence-based research

or education right at their fingertips. There are

also apps that provide information about dis-

eases, tests and drugs through to virtual patient

simulators.

Nurses are not only utilising apps. They are

also the innovators behind some of the apps

that are changing patient care.

One such app is the Pain Squad gaming

app. A Canadian nurse practitioner developed

the app which enables paediatric cancer pa-

tients to keep a detailed record of their pain,

which can then be shared with their team of

health professionals.

While Australia is making progress in the

introduction of health technology, Adjunct

Professor Ward says there are some big ticket

items, such as the implementation of a national

electronic health records system, where the na-

tion is lagging behind other countries including

Denmark.

Adjunct Professor Ward says the revamped

My Health Record, previously known as the

Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record

(PCEHR), will be a major advantage to patients,

nurses, other health professionals and health

providers.

“I think that it is very important that we ad-

vocate for patients to have the right to hold onto

all of their health information - it’s enabling, it’s

empowering and it’s something that we should

really be proactively pursuing as a nursing pro-

fession,” she says.

“Patients with chronic and complex condi-

tions and comorbidities particularly, they know

their diagnosis, they know their disease, they

know their illness, so if there’s ever a need for

them to approach a hospital or another health

provider or a GP, say they’re on holidays or

they’re travelling, they have to start all over again

in giving their information.

“It is time consuming, it is a waste of re-

sources, it has no benefit to the patient to be

educating professionals that are not familiar

with their condition.

“The ability to be able to hand over a My

Health Record, where any clinician day or night

can tap in and see the history and the manage-

ment plan, will certainly have significant benefits

- for the patients, the community and for health

care in general, for better use of the health care

dollar.”

With increasing demands on Australia’s

health care sector, appropriate technological

solutions are expected to play an integral role

in advancing nurse practice, improving patient

care and delivering better health outcomes.


How technology will advance nursing practice

At the Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS),

nurses are using video calls to check on

patients equipped with wireless tablet devices

in their homes.

Through the Telstra Health-developed My-

CareManager telehealth platform, nurses are

able to watch older patients take their medicine

or check their blood pressure.

In Queensland, Redcliffe

Hospital has championed a

dynamic mobile solution

to boost staff efficiency

and outpatient flow,

eradicating paper-

based processes

while increasing data

accuracy and putting

an end to lengthy

patient queues.

The hospital has

introduced the MK4000

kiosk and Patient Auto-

mated Arrival System (PAAS)

where patients scan a barcoded

appointment letter to self-check in,

swiping their Medicare or Department of Vet-

erans’ Affairs (DVA) cards. A map on the kiosk

screen then points the patient to their clinic’s

waiting room as the system informs staff of the

patient’s arrival.

And at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, hand-

held computers and an hTrk application are be-

ing used in the operating theatre, cardiology

and radiology departments, allowing medical

equipment such as a stent or pacemaker to be

tracked, traced and billed.

Nurses no longer manually record each

item in a book. Instead, they scan a barcode

on the item or its packaging before uploading

the information to a central data store, which

improves efficiency and accuracy as well as pa-

tient safety.

These are just a few examples of how tech-

nology is working to advance nursing practice

in Australia.

Australian College of Nursing (ACN) CEO

Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward says nurses are

embracing the uptake of a broad

range of health care technology,

from point of care solutions

like mobile devices and

tablets with barcoding

for recording patient

notes and accessing

patient data through

to advanced infor-

mation systems.

“Years ago you

would remember a

nurse writing notes and

on admission you had

paper-based notes, which

would mean that if you were

in hospital for a couple of weeks

and we had to write an allergy - you

might have to re-write that allergy 10, 20, 30,

50 to 100 times on all sorts of paper,” she says.

“Now with technology and integrated

communications systems you put it in the care

plan on the entry to hospital, and it populates

all of the way through to the discharge plan.

There’s less room for error.”

With 25 years’ experience in nursing, health

management, academia and nurse leadership,

Adjunct Professor Ward says recent advance-

ments in technology have catapulted the pos-

sibilities for health care providers.

Adjunct Professor Ward says the rollout of

technology has a range of benefits for nurses,

from improving the accuracy of data to boosting For the full article visit HealthTimes.com.au

efficiency, which releases more time for nurses

to care for their patients, and ultimately im-

proves patient care and safety.

One device leading the charge in bolstering

nurse efficiency is the Vocera communications

badge.

The hands-free, wireless communication

device is worn on the collar of nursing uni-

forms, enabling nurses to converse immediately

with their colleagues, regardless of their loca-

tion on the ward.

“It’s exceptional,” Adjunct Professor Ward

says.

“Instead of nurses needing to run around

and try and find each other or find a phone,

nurses and other clinicians in the health team

have their hands free and they can basically just

lean over to their shoulder, speak, and find out

where people are,” she says.

“Nurses can then gain time back and re-di-

rect time to patient care. Patients benefit when

the nurse is in the room, having a conversation,

connecting, talking about concerns, educating

the patient - having all of the connection that is

essential and highly regarded for our profession

and not sitting at the nurses’ station trying to

enter in data.”

A range of apps are also enabling nurses

to access the latest evidence-based research

or education right at their fingertips. There are

also apps that provide information about dis-

eases, tests and drugs through to virtual patient

simulators.

Nurses are not only utilising apps. They are

also the innovators behind some of the apps

that are changing patient care.

One such app is the Pain Squad gaming

app. A Canadian nurse practitioner developed

the app which enables paediatric cancer pa-

tients to keep a detailed record of their pain,

which can then be shared with their team of

health professionals.

While Australia is making progress in the

introduction of health technology, Adjunct

Professor Ward says there are some big ticket

items, such as the implementation of a national

electronic health records system, where the na-

tion is lagging behind other countries including

Denmark.

Adjunct Professor Ward says the revamped

My Health Record, previously known as the

Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record

(PCEHR), will be a major advantage to patients,

nurses, other health professionals and health

providers.

“I think that it is very important that we ad-

vocate for patients to have the right to hold onto

all of their health information - it’s enabling, it’s

empowering and it’s something that we should

really be proactively pursuing as a nursing pro-

fession,” she says.

“Patients with chronic and complex condi-

tions and comorbidities particularly, they know

their diagnosis, they know their disease, they

know their illness, so if there’s ever a need for

them to approach a hospital or another health

provider or a GP, say they’re on holidays or

they’re travelling, they have to start all over again

in giving their information.

“It is time consuming, it is a waste of re-

sources, it has no benefit to the patient to be

educating professionals that are not familiar

with their condition.

“The ability to be able to hand over a My

Health Record, where any clinician day or night

can tap in and see the history and the manage-

ment plan, will certainly have significant benefits

- for the patients, the community and for health

care in general, for better use of the health care

dollar.”

With increasing demands on Australia’s

health care sector, appropriate technological

solutions are expected to play an integral role

in advancing nurse practice, improving patient

care and delivering better health outcomes.



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If you have young children, the good news is

that your offspring are likely to live to a ripe old

age. Unfortunately, the bad news is that unless

there’s a medical breakthrough, it’s estimated

that about half of all female children born today

will develop dementia, and the males aren’t too

far behind.

While governments, organisations and

pharmaceutical companies are continuing to

pour billions of dollars into dementia research

world-wide, there remains no cure for the age-

related condition and no effective dementia

treatment that slows or modifies dementia.

Dementia research

Australia is now home to a growing area of

dementia research.

Researchers are examining causes of de-

mentia, such as genetics as well as the role

of the two main brain changes, beta-amyloid

plaques and tau tangles, in the most common

form of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease.

With no single test that can accurately diag-

nose dementia, Australian researchers are also

working to improve diagnostic measures that

lead to earlier diagnosis, with research into bio-

marker analysis, neuroimaging, and neuropsy-

chological testing.

Dementia research is also focusing on de-

veloping dementia treatments, improving risk

reduction and prevention, and in boosting de-

mentia care.

The Federal Government has increased its

investment in dementia, announcing a $200

million injection for dementia research span-

ning five years, in its 2014-15 budget.

That funding has established the National

Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHM-

RC) National Institute of Dementia Research

(The Dementia Institute), which is working to

bring together, prioritise and boost the nation’s

dementia research.

The Dementia Institute, run by Alzheimer’s

Australia in conjunction with the NHMRC, com-

prises the Dementia Collaborative Research

Centres, the Cognitive Decline Partnership Cen-

tre, and the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing De-

mentia Research.

As part of the world-wide effort to expand

research into dementia, Alzheimer’s Australia’s

Dementia Research Foundation is working to

fund early career researchers in the field.

The Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and

Lifestyle Flagship Study of Ageing (AIBL) is a

research collaboration which is examining bio-

markers, cognitive characteristics, health and

lifestyle factors of dementia. It aims to improve

the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and is

working to uncover treatments and lifestyle fac-

tors that can prevent or delay dementia.

Another pioneering dementia research

organisation is the Wicking Dementia Re-

search and Education Centre at the Universi-

ty of Tasmania. The integrated dementia care

centre combines neurosciences and social

sciences research and education in the areas

of dementia causes, prevention and quality of

care.

James Vickers, centre co-director and a Pro-

fessor of Pathology, says while Australia doesn’t

receive as much funding in dementia research as

many countries, the nation is playing a lead role

when it comes to innovative, major projects in

dementia research.

Professor Vickers, whose research has fo-

cused on maintaining and improving brain plas-

ticity, says one of the centre’s three main areas of

research is examining dementia causes, includ-

ing the sequence of cellular changes that lead to

Alzheimer’s disease. For the full article visit HealthTimes.com.au

“Already we’re seeing improvements in some

cognitive measures, not all cognitive measures,

but in a number of them that are probably linked

to relative resistance to dementia.

“We also think that there’s possibly an inter-

action with gene variations that make you more

susceptible to pathology and also other genes

that might help with brain plasticity, so combi-

nations of those particular genetic variations may

well play out in that equation as well.”

While the population is rapidly ageing and

the challenges to support people in

the health system is mounting,

Australian researchers are

achieving some advance-

ments in dementia re-

search.

Professor Vickers

says the AIBL study is

making vital headway

into neuroimaging.

“Now you’ve got

new imaging markers

that you can use with

PET scans to basically try

and determine when the

early pathology starts inside

the brain,” he says.

“This is very much at the forefront be-

cause we think that a condition like Alzheimer’s

disease may start as early as 10, 15 or even 20

years before you have overt functional deterio-

ration and so maybe some of these diagnostic

tools will help us determine those who are on the

trajectory towards dementia.

“The AIBL study is trying to identify people

who are at greatest risk of developing dementia

before they get dementia. It’s the idea that these

are probably the people for new drug interven-

tions.


“We’ve studied the beta-amyloid plaques

inside the brain which is one of the key patho-

logical changes in Alzheimer’s disease - they are

causing a small amount of damage to the pro-

cesses of nerve cells, the axons, but over time it’s

the reaction of those nerve cells to damage that

probably drives the actual disease itself,” he says.

“If you’re able to freeze this disease at the

early stage when they’ve just got plaques in their

brain, they are not going to get much of a deficit.”

“We’re trying to figure out how to either

get rid of the plaques, or how to stop

them causing damage to the

nerve cells, and also if you

can protect the nerve cells

in some way from that

damage.”

The centre is also

working in the field of

dementia prevention

in a bid to improve

people’s resistance to

brain disease. A world-

first, long term cohort

study of 500 people, ti-

tled the Tasmanian Healthy

Brain Project, is investigating

whether tertiary education later in

life can reduce cognitive decline and ei-

ther delay the onset or decrease the risk of de-

veloping dementia.

Professor Vickers says while the study is an-

other four or five years away from completion,

the early results are positive.

“What we’ve found so far is that people

coming back into higher education are getting

a boost in cognitive reserve - this is a construct

that relates to your resistance to developing de-

mentia,” he says.

“In particular, getting a boost in their linguis-

tic ability, like comprehension, grammar, sen-

tence construction, which we also know from

retrospective studies, that’s also potentially going

to protect the brain as you get older.

Dementia care latest treatmentsBy Karen Keast

If you have young children, the good news is

that your offspring are likely to live to a ripe old

age. Unfortunately, the bad news is that unless

there’s a medical breakthrough, it’s estimated

that about half of all female children born today

will develop dementia, and the males aren’t too

far behind.

While governments, organisations and

pharmaceutical companies are continuing to

pour billions of dollars into dementia research

world-wide, there remains no cure for the age-

related condition and no effective dementia

treatment that slows or modifies dementia.

Dementia research

Australia is now home to a growing area of

dementia research.

Researchers are examining causes of de-

mentia, such as genetics as well as the role

of the two main brain changes, beta-amyloid

plaques and tau tangles, in the most common

form of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease.

With no single test that can accurately diag-

nose dementia, Australian researchers are also

working to improve diagnostic measures that

lead to earlier diagnosis, with research into bio-

marker analysis, neuroimaging, and neuropsy-

chological testing.

Dementia research is also focusing on de-

veloping dementia treatments, improving risk

reduction and prevention, and in boosting de-

mentia care.

The Federal Government has increased its

investment in dementia, announcing a $200

million injection for dementia research span-

ning five years, in its 2014-15 budget.

That funding has established the National

Health and Medical Research Council’s (NHM-

RC) National Institute of Dementia Research

(The Dementia Institute), which is working to

bring together, prioritise and boost the nation’s

dementia research.

The Dementia Institute, run by Alzheimer’s

Australia in conjunction with the NHMRC, com-

prises the Dementia Collaborative Research

Centres, the Cognitive Decline Partnership Cen-

tre, and the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing De-

mentia Research.

As part of the world-wide effort to expand

research into dementia, Alzheimer’s Australia’s

Dementia Research Foundation is working to

fund early career researchers in the field.

The Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and

Lifestyle Flagship Study of Ageing (AIBL) is a

research collaboration which is examining bio-

markers, cognitive characteristics, health and

lifestyle factors of dementia. It aims to improve

the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and is

working to uncover treatments and lifestyle fac-

tors that can prevent or delay dementia.

Another pioneering dementia research

organisation is the Wicking Dementia Re-

search and Education Centre at the Universi-

ty of Tasmania. The integrated dementia care

centre combines neurosciences and social

sciences research and education in the areas

of dementia causes, prevention and quality of

care.

James Vickers, centre co-director and a Pro-

fessor of Pathology, says while Australia doesn’t

receive as much funding in dementia research as

many countries, the nation is playing a lead role

when it comes to innovative, major projects in

dementia research.

Professor Vickers, whose research has fo-

cused on maintaining and improving brain plas-

ticity, says one of the centre’s three main areas of

research is examining dementia causes, includ-

ing the sequence of cellular changes that lead to

Alzheimer’s disease. For the full article visit HealthTimes.com.au

“Already we’re seeing improvements in some

cognitive measures, not all cognitive measures,

but in a number of them that are probably linked

to relative resistance to dementia.

“We also think that there’s possibly an inter-

action with gene variations that make you more

susceptible to pathology and also other genes

that might help with brain plasticity, so combi-

nations of those particular genetic variations may

well play out in that equation as well.”

While the population is rapidly ageing and

the challenges to support people in

the health system is mounting,

Australian researchers are

achieving some advance-

ments in dementia re-

search.

Professor Vickers

says the AIBL study is

making vital headway

into neuroimaging.

“Now you’ve got

new imaging markers

that you can use with

PET scans to basically try

and determine when the

early pathology starts inside

the brain,” he says.

“This is very much at the forefront be-

cause we think that a condition like Alzheimer’s

disease may start as early as 10, 15 or even 20

years before you have overt functional deterio-

ration and so maybe some of these diagnostic

tools will help us determine those who are on the

trajectory towards dementia.

“The AIBL study is trying to identify people

who are at greatest risk of developing dementia

before they get dementia. It’s the idea that these

are probably the people for new drug interven-

tions.


Nurses a force for change on International Nurses Day

Nurses have sent a warning to political parties

on International Nurses Day, in the lead up to

the federal election.

With this year’s theme ‘Nurses: a force for

change - improving health systems’ resilience’,

several key nursing groups have called for the na-

tion’s 366,000 nurses to be celebrated, listened to,

and to be included at the heart of the

nation’s health care reforms.

The call on International

Nurses Day, which cel-

ebrates the birthday an-

niversary of Florence

Nightingale, comes as

the 2016 Roy Morgan

Image of Professions

Survey rated nurses as

the most ethical and

honest profession, out

of 30 professions, for the

22nd year in a row.

Australian Nursing and

Midwifery Federation (ANMF)

acting federal secretary Annie But-

ler said the theme was particularly relevant

amid the ANMF’s fight to restore billions of dollars

axed from health funding while creating an equi-

table and sustainable public health care system for

all Australians.

“Nurses now represent the largest proportion

of the nation’s health workforce and continue to

be voted by the community as Australia’s most

trusted professionals,” she said.

“As Australia’s largest union, with a growing

membership, the ANMF and our members are a

force to be reckoned with and all political parties

should be listening to us.”

Australian College of Mental Health Nurses

(ACMHN) chief executive officer Adjunct Associ-

ate Professor Kim Ryan said all political parties

will be making promises in health, and change

will not be achieved without nurses, including the

nation’s 20,000 mental health nurses, leading the

way.

“Nurses make up the largest workforce in

health and also in mental health,” she said.

“Quite simply, all of the promises made by

politicians won’t mean anything if they

don’t think about the role of nurses

in these changes and reforms,

and include them in the

stakeholder groups that

advise them.”

Ms Ryan said the

community values

nurses and so should

governments and pol-

icy-makers.

“Too often we are

left out of committees

and decision-making pro-

cesses and our opinions are

sought through consultation,

not valuing the role and scope of the

nursing profession.

“With over 300,000 nurses in Australia, we are

a force for change.”

New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Asso-

ciation (NSWNMA) general secretary Brett Holmes

said nurses remain under pressure with the state

losing $1.2 billion in federal funds for nursing home

residents with complex needs in the budget.

Mr Holmes said the cut comes as the State

Government recently revealed its intention to re-

move the requirement to have at least one regis-

tered nurse on duty around-the-clock in the state’s

aged care facilities.

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Emotional intelligence training boosts aged care workersBy Karen Keast

A unique training project for aged care

nurses and assistants-in-nursing (AINs)

has improved their wellbeing and psycho-

logical empowerment while reducing their

stress.

A group of La Trobe University

researchers are hoping to roll

out their Feeling Good,

Working Well training

program to aged care

organisations after

achieving positive

results for workers’

emotional health

and resilience in a

recent trial.

The emotional

intelligence training

program was designed

after the university’s

previous research showed

many nurses are overworked

due to under-staffing and often feel

under-appreciated while caring for sick and

frail patients.

Dr Leila Karimi, a senior lecturer in health

services management at La Trobe University

and former Royal District Nursing Service

(RDNS) Institute research fellow who led the

trial, says the study showed emotional intel-

ligence is trainable to some extent.

Dr Karimi says the training equipped

workers with new tools and skills in emo-

tional intelligence that boosted their sense

of empowerment, performance and effective

practice for delivering person-centred care.

“Many participants reported that they be-

came calmer, happier and more relaxed at

work. They also felt more empowered,” she

says.

“Coming together as a group from differ-

ent areas of the facility….catering, lifestyles,

nursing, as well as people from other cultures

produced immediate benefits.”

Fifty-seven workers at a

Victorian aged care or-

ganisation, including

clinical support nurs-

es, enrolled nurses,

AINs (personal care

workers) and other

lifestyle, food and

service workers,

participated in the

small training study

that included monthly

training days and data

collection spanning a six-

month period.

One group received emo-

tional intelligence training from expe-

rienced emotional intelligence trainer Taruni

Falconer while the comparison group did not

receive any training.

Researchers found the training group

received benefits associated with emotional

intelligence that extended beyond the work-

place - into their personal lives.

While there were no significant changes

in job satisfaction, the training group report-

ed better wellbeing, empowerment and less

stress. The training also led to improved care,

with patients and their families reporting a

higher quality of care.

No major differences were observed for

the control group.


Emotional intelligence

While intelligence refers to a person’s ca-

pacity to acquire and apply knowledge and

skills, Dr Karimi describes emotional intel-

ligence as the capacity to understand emo-

tions and then to purposefully manage them.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to

discriminate between various feelings, to la-

bel those feelings and to then use emotional

information to guide thinking and behaviour,

she says.

“Emotional intelligence also affects how

we manage behaviour, deal with social com-

plexities, and make personal decisions to

achieve positive results.

“It manifests itself in better self-aware-

ness, motivation, empathy and good social

skills.”

There is little international experimental

research into emotional intelligence and its

impact on the nursing profession.

Training program

The Feeling Good, Working Well training pro-

gram was specifically designed for the aged care

setting, based on workers’ needs, their expectations,

educational background and the project’s time-

frame.

Dr Karimi says the emotional intelligence seg-

ment was based on the globally validated Personal

Leadership Seminars framework, which involves six

practices and two principles. It was designed to help

workers access higher levels of learning and insight,

mutual cooperation and collaboration, and creativity

in situations with significant cultural differences.

The program emphasises three key points. It

encourages participants to first know themselves in

order to be effective in their interactions with others,

and to intentionally cultivate emotional intelligence

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vironments of change.


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Emotional intelligence training boosts aged care workersBy Karen Keast

A unique training project for aged care

nurses and assistants-in-nursing (AINs)

has improved their wellbeing and psycho-

logical empowerment while reducing their

stress.

A group of La Trobe University

researchers are hoping to roll

out their Feeling Good,

Working Well training

program to aged care

organisations after

achieving positive

results for workers’

emotional health

and resilience in a

recent trial.

The emotional

intelligence training

program was designed

after the university’s

previous research showed

many nurses are overworked

due to under-staffing and often feel

under-appreciated while caring for sick and

frail patients.

Dr Leila Karimi, a senior lecturer in health

services management at La Trobe University

and former Royal District Nursing Service

(RDNS) Institute research fellow who led the

trial, says the study showed emotional intel-

ligence is trainable to some extent.

Dr Karimi says the training equipped

workers with new tools and skills in emo-

tional intelligence that boosted their sense

of empowerment, performance and effective

practice for delivering person-centred care.

“Many participants reported that they be-

came calmer, happier and more relaxed at

work. They also felt more empowered,” she

says.

“Coming together as a group from differ-

ent areas of the facility….catering, lifestyles,

nursing, as well as people from other cultures

produced immediate benefits.”

Fifty-seven workers at a

Victorian aged care or-

ganisation, including

clinical support nurs-

es, enrolled nurses,

AINs (personal care

workers) and other

lifestyle, food and

service workers,

participated in the

small training study

that included monthly

training days and data

collection spanning a six-

month period.

One group received emo-

tional intelligence training from expe-

rienced emotional intelligence trainer Taruni

Falconer while the comparison group did not

receive any training.

Researchers found the training group

received benefits associated with emotional

intelligence that extended beyond the work-

place - into their personal lives.

While there were no significant changes

in job satisfaction, the training group report-

ed better wellbeing, empowerment and less

stress. The training also led to improved care,

with patients and their families reporting a

higher quality of care.

No major differences were observed for

the control group.


Emotional intelligence

While intelligence refers to a person’s ca-

pacity to acquire and apply knowledge and

skills, Dr Karimi describes emotional intel-

ligence as the capacity to understand emo-

tions and then to purposefully manage them.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to

discriminate between various feelings, to la-

bel those feelings and to then use emotional

information to guide thinking and behaviour,

she says.

“Emotional intelligence also affects how

we manage behaviour, deal with social com-

plexities, and make personal decisions to

achieve positive results.

“It manifests itself in better self-aware-

ness, motivation, empathy and good social

skills.”

There is little international experimental

research into emotional intelligence and its

impact on the nursing profession.

Training program

The Feeling Good, Working Well training pro-

gram was specifically designed for the aged care

setting, based on workers’ needs, their expectations,

educational background and the project’s time-

frame.

Dr Karimi says the emotional intelligence seg-

ment was based on the globally validated Personal

Leadership Seminars framework, which involves six

practices and two principles. It was designed to help

workers access higher levels of learning and insight,

mutual cooperation and collaboration, and creativity

in situations with significant cultural differences.

The program emphasises three key points. It

encourages participants to first know themselves in

order to be effective in their interactions with others,

and to intentionally cultivate emotional intelligence

to ensure clarity during stress, uncertainty and in en-

vironments of change.


Physiotherapists disappointed with aged care reformsBy Karen Keast

Aged care residents are missing out on exer-

cise as a vital, evidence-based treatment for

pain management under the Aged Care Funding

Instrument (ACFI).

Australia’s peak physiotherapy body says

residents are limited to choosing from

a physiotherapist using massage

or Transcutaneous Electrical

Nerve Stimulation (TENS)

regardless of their con-

dition, despite evi-

dence showing the

overwhelming bene-

fits of using exercise

to manage pain.

Australian Physi-

otherapy Association

Gerontology Chair Rik

Dawson said while the

ACFI has put a positive fo-

cus on pain management, the

tool has failed to support the use

of exercise and other evidence-based al-

lied health treatment modalities, such at Cog-

nitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), for pain relief

since it was introduced in 2008.

Mr Dawson said the ACFI reforms, outlined

in this month’s 2016-17 federal budget, were a

missed opportunity by government to expand

pain management to incorporate evidence-

based practice.

“There’s strong evidence that exercise

reduces the pain for an older person with

arthritis compared with weak evidence for

massage and TENS,” he said.

The APA has reiterated its pre-budg-

et calls for the government to change its

funding to enable aged care residents to

access physiotherapy-managed exercise,

which works to control pain while improving

residents’ independence and their quality of life.

“Opening up pain management to current

evidence-based practice will allow residents to

have the best health outcomes re-

garding pain management,” Mr

Dawson said.

“It also gives residents

choice because at the

moment they are not

allowed to choose

exercise and a lot of

them want it.”

The federal

budget revealed $1.2

billion in cuts over four

years through changes

to the ACFI.

The government said

the redesigned matrix is a

response to “the higher than ex-

pected increase in residential aged care

funding”.

Indexation of funding in the Complex Health

Care (CHC) domain of the ACFI will be halved in

2016-17 alongside changes to certain scores in

the matrix, with the new redesigned CHC scor-

ing matrix taking effect from January 1, 2017.

Under the changes to scores, complex pain

management (ACFI item 12.4b) by allied heath

professionals at least four times a week will re-

ceive a reduced score from six to four points. A

timing requirement will also be added, requiring

120 minutes of treatment delivery over a week.




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Budget 2016: Health groups reactBy Karen Keast

The Federal Government’s fiscally conserva-

tive 2016-17 Federal Budget has received a

cautious thumbs up from some organisations

and peak bodies of the health sector while other

key stakeholders have criticised its lack of health

spending.

Here’s what they had to say:

The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) has

applauded the trial of up to 200 Health Care

Homes which will offer services to up to 65,000

patients with chronic and complex conditions at

seven locations. The trial will cost $21.3 million

from 2015-16 to 2018-19.

While the government has outlined the pre-

ferred clinician as the GP, the ACN said nurses

and nurse practitioners are well positioned to

take on the role as a coordinator of care.

The ACN said while the budget includes

some promising new initiatives it fails to deliver

ongoing health system reform with new ap-

proaches to funding, innovative models of care

and a greater utilisation of the health workforce

to boost service reach and impact.

ACN CEO Adjunct Professor Kylie Ward

welcomed the continuation of the Rural Health

General Practice Grants Program and ongoing

funding of Home and Community Care Services

in Western Australia.

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Feder-

ation (ANMF) said health and aged care has now

been neglected in the budget for three consecu-

tive years.

ANMF acting federal secretary Annie Butler

said nurses and midwives don’t have the resourc-

es they need to deliver quality care to patients.

“Our message to Prime Minister Turnbull is

clear - if you don’t care about giving nurses and

midwives the resources to run our hospitals and

health services properly or to care for our elderly

properly, we can’t care properly.”

The Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA)

welcomed the move to review private health insur-

ance.

APA president Marcus Dripps said the system is

rigidly focused on in-hospital care and needs to im-

prove cover to support patients with pre-operative

care or after-hospital rehabilitation.

“This represents a significant waste of resources

and a lack of knowledge of correct care pathways,”

he said. “We need private health insurance products

that overcome this artificial divide and reduce longer

hospital stays.”

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) said

the budget provided greater opportunities for phar-

macists but it questioned whether about $100 per

patient, or $35,000 per Health Care Home, would be

enough for patients with major chronic needs to ac-

cess integrated care, including having a pharmacist on

the team.

PSA vice president Michelle Lynch also applauded

the proposed redesign of the Practice Incentives Pro-

gram for general practice.

“We look forward to contributing to the design of

these reforms based on best practice examples be-

fore the implementation of new arrangements in May

2017, as part of our ongoing advocacy, supporting a

model for pharmacists in general practice,” she said.

The Australian Medical Association criticised the

extension of the freeze on the Medicare patient rebate

until 2020.

AMA president Professor Brian Owler said the

freeze will take $1 billion out of the pockets of patients

and householders while the pause in the indexation of

the Medicare Levy Surcharge and the Private Health

Insurance Rebate will also disadvantage many Aus-

tralians.

“The poorest, the sickest and the most vulnerable

will be the hardest hit,” he said.




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The role of exercise in rehabilitation


Exercise rehabilitation is an evidence-

based, pivotal strategy to improving patient

recovery, which often begins on the first day

of admission.

Some hospitals across Australia are fast-

tracking exercise rehabilitation with the early

mobilisation and physical therapy of patients in

the intensive care unit (ICU), including patients

connected to ventilators.

With a background in rehabilitation span-

ning almost 20 years, Dr Nicole Freene, a Clini-

cal Assistant Professor of Physiotherapy at the

University of Canberra, says many patients be-

gin exercise rehabilitation almost immediately.

“For a cardiac patient, we see them straight

away. If someone has had cardiac surgery, if

they are stable, there are no medical complica-

tions and everything is going okay, we routinely

go in on that first day and get them up and out

of bed and try to get them moving.

“Then we progress. Every day we are get-

ting them to walk further and further, we add in

some upper limb exercises for them to do, be-

cause they tend to be quite protective of their

sternal wounds and they’re usually discharged

home between six to seven days after cardiac

surgery, if everything goes smoothly.

“We know that people lose their strength

quite quickly and the longer that they sit in bed,

the harder it is for them to get back on track.”

Dr Freene, who teaches cardiorespiratory

physiotherapy and is a member of the Austral-

ian Physiotherapy Association (APA), says one

of the main goals of a physiotherapist is to ad-

vance patients to a state where they can return

to living in the community.

“To do that, they need to reach a certain

physical function,” she says.

“Our main focus are those physical goals.

We work on their range and their movement

and we also need to work on their fitness to get

them home.”

Physiotherapists prescribe exercise for a

range of patients, spanning patients with car-

diac and pulmonary conditions, post-surgical,

neurological and orthopaedic patients.

First, a physiotherapist will conduct an ini-

tial assessment, which comprises a subjective

examination, information the patient reports

and then an objective assessment.

“For our objective assessment, if some-

one’s had cardiac surgery and are now in a re-

habilitation service, we will need to go through

and check their sternum to see how that’s go-

ing and that they’re right to go ahead and exer-

cise,” Dr Freene says.

“We need to go and do a basic exercise test,

so we know what their level of fitness is cur-

rently, and then we can go and prescribe their

exercise from there.

“Then we come up with an individual treat-

ment plan that takes into consideration the pa-

tients’ goals - what they want to achieve when

they get back to a certain level.”

For cardiac patients, Dr Freene says hos-

pital-based exercise rehabilitation programs

target aerobic exercise, including walking on a

treadmill, cycling on a stationary bike, using a

stair machine, and some upper and lower limb

strengthening and stretching exercises.

Exercise rehabilitation is known to improve

patients’ survival rates, accelerate recovery and

reduce the chance of re-injury.

It also provides a range of other benefits

such as boosting strength, endurance, stabil-

ity, mobilisation, stretching, pain relief, and im-

proving the proprioception system and cardi-

orespiratory fitness.

The list of benefits from exercise in reha-

bilitation is endless, Dr Freene says.


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Aeromedical Flight NursesCareFlight is an Australian not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing the community with rapid response critical care. Over the past 25 years we have cared for and transported over 20,000 patients.

CareFlight is government contracted and provides the Top End of the Northern Territory with a local fixed wing and helicopter aeromedical service.

• minimum 5 years experience as a nurse with minimum 2 years in emergency/critical care and post graduate certification in a critical care specialty

• current certification in ALS/ACLS and/or TNP/TNCC

• physical capability to meet the challenges of aeromedical practice

• ability to operate in an ‘out of hospital’ environment

For more information visit www.careflight.org

Forward your EOI addressing all criteria, plus CV and two referees to recruitment@ careflight.org Applicants should also indicate availability to start. Closing date 27th January 2014. Contact Darren Chilton – Clinical Manager NT Operations on 0488131431 for further information.

All employees must comply with CareFlight’s Drug and Alcohol Management Plan (DAMP) as required by CASA and may be subject to random workplace testing.

Criminal Record and Working with Children Checks apply.

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CareFlight is an Australian not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing the community with rapid response critical care. Over the past 25 years we have cared for and transported over 20,000 patients.


Applications are sought from nurses interested in working as aeromedical nursing crew members.

This is a fantastic opportunity for registered nurses to work as part of an integrated crew model in local fixed wing and helicopter retrievals. The role will involve a variety of tasks across operational bases located at Darwin, Katherine and Nhulunbuy/Gove.

Candidates should have a level of fitness and will be required to undertake a physical fitness assessment. Candidates must be able to demonstrate:

• eligibility for Registered Nurse and Midwife registration with APHRA.

• minimum 5 years experience as a nurse with minimum 4 years in emergency/critical care and post graduate certification in a critical care specialty

• current certification in ALS/ACLS and/or TNP/TNCC

• physical capability to meet the challenges of aeromedical practice, including helicopter retrieval work

• ability to operate in an ‘out of hospital’ environment

For more information visit www.careflight.org

Forward your EOI addressing all criteria, plus CV and two referees to recruitment@ careflight.org Applicants should also indicate availability to start. Closing date 15th February 2013. Contact Darren Chilton – Clinical Manager NT Operations on 0488131431 for further information.All employees must comply with CareFlight’s Drug and Alcohol Management Plan (DAMP) as required by CASA and may be subject to random workplace testing. Criminal Record and Working with Children Checks apply.

Aeromedical Flight Nurses

Aeromedical Flight Nurses CareFlight is an Australian not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing the community with rapid response critical care. Over the past 25 years we have cared for and transported over 20,000 patients.


Applications are sought from nurses interested in working as aeromedical nursing crew members

This is a fantastic opportunity for registered nurses to work as part of an integrated crew model in local fixed wing and helicopter retrievals. The role will involve a variety of tasks across operational bases located at Darwin, Katherine and Nhulunbuy/Gove.

Candidates should have a level of fitness and will be required to undertake a physicalfitness assessment. Candidates must be able to demonstrate:

• eligibility for Registered Nurse and Midwife registration with APHRA.• minimum 5 years experience as a nurse with minimum 4 years in emergency/critical care and

post graduate certification in a critical care specialty • current certification in ALS/ACLS and/or TNP/TNCC• physical capability to meet the challenges of aeromedical practice, including helicopter

retrieval work • ability to operate in an ‘out of hospital’ environment

For more information visit www.careflight.org.

Forward your EOI addressing all criteria, plus CV and two referees to [email protected] should also indicate availability to start. Closing date 15th February 2013. Contact Darren Chilton – Clinical Manager NT Operations on 0488131431 for further information.

All employees must comply with CareFlight’s Drug and Alcohol Management Plan (DAMP) as required by CASA and may be subject to random workplace testing. Criminal Record and Working with Children Checks apply.

Applications are sought from nurses interested in working as aeromedical nursing crew members.

This is a fantastic opportunity for registered nurses to work as part of an integrated crew model in local fixed wing retrievals. The role will be based at Katherine and involve a variety of tasks across operational bases located at Darwin, Katherine and Nhulunbuy/Gove.

Candidates should have a level of fitness and will be required to undertake a physical fitness assessment. Candidates must be able to demonstrate:

• eligibility for Registered Nurse with APHRA.

Flight Nurses

CareFlight is an Australian charitable organisation with 30 years’ experience in aeromedicine. With bases in NSW and the NT’s Top End, our crews are dedicated to providing the highest standard of rapid response critical care to the ill and injured. Our spe-cially trained doctors and nurses use helicopters, aeroplanes, medi-jets and road ambulances to bring a hospital level of care to and transport around 5,000 patients each year.

Our diverse workforce is comprised of committed professionals with a drive to help save lives, speed recovery and serve the community.

The role

About you

The following will also be highly regarded:

How to apply

• delivering individualised high quality clinical care.• delivering in patient assessment, clinical man agement and emergency procedures.• maintaining CareFlight’s Standard Operating Procedures and clinical treatment protocols.• coordinating the transition of patients from one mode of transport to the next.• assisting the Medical Officer with medical man agement as appropriate.• managing physiological issues related to aeromedical transport; and maintaining situational awareness throughout the retrieval process to identify safety hazards for the patient and aeromedical crew.

• be a Registered Nurse eligible for registration in the Northern Territory. • have a minimum 5 years nursing experience with evidence of 4 years Emergency/Critical Care experience.• possess critical care qualifications.

• midwifery qualifications and registration;• clinical experience working in paediatrics; and • experience working with Australian Indigenous cultures.

To download the full position description or learn more about us, visit our website at www.careflight.org. If you would like to be part of our team, forward your resume with a covering letter addressing the role’s essential criteria to [email protected]. Alternatively, use the ‘apply’ button below. Applications close on Tuesday, 7 June 2016.

We currently have an excellent opportunity for three Flight Nurses to join our Northern Operation including two casual positions and one fixed term (12 month) assignment from August 2016 to August 2017.

Key responsibilities include:

To be successful as a Flight Nurse you will:

CareFlight: ‘The next life we save could be yours’

All employees must comply with CareFlight’s Drug and Alcohol Management Plan (DAMP) as required by CASA and may be subject to random workplace testing. Criminal Record and Working With Children Checks also apply.

Two casual positions and one full time fixed term (12 months) position available • Competitive remuneration + salary packaging •Darwin • On-site parking

• have current certification in ALS/ACLS or TNP/ TNCC. • demonstrate the ability to function effectively as a team member in a critical environment.• be physically comfortable with meeting the challenges of aeromedical practice, including helicopter rescue and retrieval work. • possess highly developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills. • possess effective consultation, negotiation and conflict resolution skills• have a demonstrated ability to operate in ‘out of hospital environments; and possess a current Driver’s Licence.


New Zealand steps up dementia research

New Zealand is working to halve its prevalence of

dementia, with the launch of the first of three

pioneering Dementia Prevention Research Clinics

(DPRCs).

Alzheimer’s New Zealand figures estimate more

than 50,000 New Zealanders had dementia in 2014.

That figure is expected to more than triple to almost

150,000 people living with the age-related

condition by 2050.

Brain Research New Zea-

land (BRNZ), a government-

funded centre of research

excellence, opened the

first of the national net-

work of clinics at the

University of Auck-

land’s Centre for Brain

Research at Grafton in

April. Two further clin-

ics are set to open in

Christchurch and Dunedin

later this year.

The clinics will bring together

world-class scientific research with

health professionals as well as community re-

search and trial participants in a bid to provide hope

for halting the nation’s escalating rates of dementia.

The first clinic will develop testing and scientific

research of novel treatments and lifestyle interven-

tions with the aim of slowing the disease onset and

progression by five years - which, if successful, will

work to reduce the prevalence of Alzheimer’s and

dementia by 50 per cent.

“People would live a healthy life longer, and re-

main intellectually, physically and socially active into

old age,” BRNZ co-director Professor Richard Faull

said.

“This would have a huge benefit on the quality of

life in our increasing ageing population and markedly

reduce the costs of health care.”

The Grafton clinic, which was established last

year and is now operational, is recruiting people

with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) into a longi-

tudinal study to identify biomarkers, which indicate

who will go on to develop Alzheimer’s disease.

“This national clinic network will provide pa-

tients and their families with an unprecedented

opportunity to become a part of a dy-

namic research process which

will contribute to a significant

improvement in our under-

standing of the underly-

ing causes, treatment,

management and pre-

vention of Alzheimer’s

disease and related

dementias,” Professor

Faull said.

Patients in the ear-

liest stages of demen-

tia who participate in the

study will undergo a detailed

characterisation of their brain

health and lifestyle.

Blood tests and MRI scans will be con-

ducted for the biomarkers research. The clinic will

also collect holistic information about the experi-

ences of the patient and the needs of family mem-

bers and care-givers.

Participants will also be invited to take part in

a broad range of BRNZ’s preliminary clinical trials,

which could include testing novel drugs, nutritional

supplements, and cognitive, social and physical in-

terventions designed to prevent, delay or improve

MCI and other related dementias.

The national research collaboration comprises

neuroscientists from the Universities of Auckland,

Otago, Canterbury and AUT, as well as clinicians

from the District Health Boards and the commu-

nity.



Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi is now hiring!

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD), part of Mubadala’s network of world-class healthcare facilities, is a multispecialty hospital on Al Maryah Island in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi is a unique and unparalleled extension of US-based Cleveland Clinic’s model of care, specifically designed to address a range of complex and critical care requirements unique to the Abu Dhabi population.

VACANCIES: Ophthalmic Techs, Wound/Stoma Nurses, Critical Care, Ambulatory Care

Critical CareThis is an exciting challenging environment at CCAD offering world class innovative experiences and opportunities for nurses. You will be challenged with high acuity critical patients, work with a world class team and receive support to provide patient centered care. While patients are complex, CCAD will support your professional growth and offer mentorship. The team is growing and as they expand over this year they would like you to join them in Abu Dhabi.

Ambulatory CareThis is a unique realm of specialized practice. You will be working in multidisciplinary teams, using critical care thinking skills to help care for patients across the continuum of care. CCAD offers multiple ambulatory clinic settings including:

• Medical Sub-specialties including rheumatology, dermatology, nephrology, endocrinology, infusioncenter, infectious disease, hematology, and general medicine

• Surgical sub-specialties including ENT, plastics and urology• Digestive disease including gastroenterology, colon-rectal, and general surgery• Neurology, neurosurgery and pain management• Ophthalmology• Heart and vascular including cardiothoracic surgery• Pulmonology including allergy and immunology

Benefits: In addition to being part of an international clinical team, successful applicants will receive accommodation, a transportation allowance, health insurance, annual travel allowance to home country and generous annual leave package.

www.ccmrecruitment.com

To apply, please email: Dawn at [email protected] orRaquel at [email protected] or by phone atFree Phone AUS: 1800 818 844, Free Phone NZ: 0800 700 839



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