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Mental Health Feature

Nurses applaud plan to introduce school nurses

How nurses can care for the mental health of people with chronic disease

Nurses and midwives abandon action to turn away low-risk women

More incentives the key to boosting rural and remote nursing

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New facilities, greater capacity and over 150 students currently enrolled. Study from a Home Base under faculty from top international medical schools. Receive personalised attention from your own Academic Advisor. OUM Graduates are eligible to sit for the AMC exam or NZREX. OUM Graduates are employed in Australia, New Zealand, Samoa and USA.

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CLINICAL NURSE CONSULTANT

Mental Health Division

As part of the acute unit senior management team, this position provides leadership in training

programs for staff, nurse graduates, students and other professionals on specialist mental health

topics across a range of settings; as well as a range of other specialist responsibilities.

Our service leads the state in key indicators and measures; our acute unit prides itself on its consumer

focus and innovation that is best practice and evidence based. You will need to possess change

management, project management, training and evaluation skills and demonstrate a high level of

expertise and commitment to mental health nursing.

Salary and conditions will be commensurate with experience and/or qualifications and include access

to salary packaging. The successful applicant will be required to provide a Working With Children &

Police Record Check.

A position description and further details can be found at our website under Careers.

For additional information please contact Mr Chris Healey (Manager of Residential Services) on

(03) 5563 1232 or via email [email protected]

Applications are to be submitted online via our website only under Careers and need to

include: an application letter, full personal particulars, qualifications and experience; together with the

names of three (3) referees by Friday 28 June 2013. Other documents you feel are relevant may also

be attached: however this is limited to 5 documents and there is also a size limitation of no greater

than 2 Mega Bytes.

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please send an email to: [email protected] Please note this address is for enquiries

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OCEANIA UNIVERSITY

OF MEDICINE

NOW INTERNATIONALLY ACCREDITED

Take the next step, earn your MBBS at

Oceania 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.

Receive personalised attention from your own Academic Advisor.

OUM Graduates are eligible to sit for the AMC exam or NZREX.

OUM Graduates are employed in Australia, New Zealand, Samoa and USA.

RNtoMBBS

What I like about

OUM is that I can

continue to work

part time

and continue

my studies in

medicine.

The ability to

combine my

studies with the

cases I was seeing

in the hospital

really enhanced

my education.

Vivian Ndukwe, RN

from Melbourne,

OUM Class of 2012

In AU 1300 665 343 or NZ 0800 99 01 01 www.RNtoMBBS.org

Warrnambool CampusRyot Street, Warrnambool 3280www.southwesthealthcare.com.au


Warrnambool CampusRyot Street, Warrnambool 3280www.southwesthealthcare.com.au


CLINICAL NURSE CONSULTANT Mental Health Division

As part of the acute unit senior management team, this position provides leadership in training

programs for staff, nurse graduates, students and other professionals on specialist mental health

topics across a range of settings; as well as a range of other specialist responsibilities.

Our service leads the state in key indicators and measures; our acute unit prides itself on its consumer

focus and innovation that is best practice and evidence based. You will need to possess change

management, project management, training and evaluation skills and demonstrate a high level of

expertise and commitment to mental health nursing.

Salary and conditions will be commensurate with experience and/or qualifications and include access

to salary packaging. The successful applicant will be required to provide a Working With Children &

Police Record Check.

A position description and further details can be found at our website under Careers.

For additional information please contact Mr Chris Healey (Manager of Residential Services) on

(03) 5563 1232 or via email [email protected]

Applications are to be submitted online via our website only under Careers and need to

include: an application letter, full personal particulars, qualifications and experience; together with the

names of three (3) referees by Friday 28 June 2013. Other documents you feel are relevant may also

be attached: however this is limited to 5 documents and there is also a size limitation of no greater

than 2 Mega Bytes.

Note: If you experience any difficulties with this website or completing the application process,

please send an email to: [email protected] Please note this address is for enquiries

only and applications cannot be submitted via this email.

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More incentives are needed to attract nurses and midwives to rural and remote communities across Australia, according to the Australian Nursing Federation.

The union says a shortage of highly trained nurses and midwives in hard-to-staff areas is creating increased workloads for nurses working in rural and remote communities and compromising safe patient care.

ANF federal secretary Lee Thomas said the union has called for the Federal Government to remove HECS fees in a bid to entice more graduates to work in rural and remote communities.

Rural nurses and midwives are vital in delivering quality care throughout regional communities with often limited access to health services, yet they just dont have the incentives to allow them to move into rural practice, she said.

One solution the ANF has recommended is for the removal of HECS fees as an incentive for nursing and midwifery graduates to work in short staffed areas, such as rural and remote communities.

The comments come after the Federal Government announced a $179 million investment as part of the Rural Health Outreach Fund and the Medical Outreach Indigenous Chronic Disease Program, to provide more health professionals and services to rural Australia.

The funding boost aims to increase access to maternity and paediatric services, eye health, mental health and support chronic disease management and equates to about 250,000 visits to doctors, nurses or allied health professionals.

The funding will be supplied to organisations, including Rural Health West in Western Australia and CheckUP Australia in

Queensland, to boost vital health services in areas where they are most needed.

Ms Thomas applauded the funding but said more needs to be done to attract nurses and midwives into high-need workforce areas.

She said the government must find funding solutions to tackle the nations nursing crisis, which extends to Australias rural and remote areas.

As Australias largest health union, the ANF is becoming increasingly concerned by the growing shortage of nurses and midwives and the underemployment of graduates in health and aged care, she said.

As a nation, we need to start building a future nursing and midwifery workforce to replace the current staff, retiring over the next 15 to 20 years, with 90,000 highly trained nurses expected to retire.

Rural and remote communities in particular are areas of real need for highly-trained nursing and midwifery professionals.

Unfortunately, this is leading to increased workloads for the existing nursing workforce, compromising safe patient care for rural and remote communities.

More incentives the key to boosting rural and remote nursingby Karen Keast

To see what we can offer you as a member of the Epworth team, please contact:

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Colour Artwork Deadline: Monday 24th June 2013

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Nurses and midwives have shelved industrial

action which would have capped new low-risk

antenatal admissions at Nepean Hospitals

Women and Childrens Service.

Nurses and midwives had planned to refer

low-risk women from outside the catchment

to other public hospitals amid concerns over

a staff shortage of 21 full-time equivalent

(FTE) midwives.

The cap, which was expected to affect about

1000 women a year, would not have applied

to current patients, new high-risk pregnancies

or obstetric emergencies.

The New South Wales Nurses and Midwives

Association (NSWNMA) urged nurses and

midwives not to proceed with the action after

Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District

invoked the dispute clause in the award,

calling for the status quo to continue until

further discussions take place to resolve the

dispute.

NSWNMA general secretary Brett Holmes said

the services nurses and midwives believed

critical staff shortages were compromising

patient safety.

With 21 vacancies it means that people

are doing extra shifts, theres a reliance on

extra support from casuals and agencies but

because of budget restrictions theres a great

reluctance on behalf of management to use

those, he said.

That means that midwives believe that they

are not in a position to provide the level of care

that they believe the patients are deserving.

Midwives are always very reluctant to take

action that may have an impact on their

delivery of services but its got to such a point

at Nepean that they have been asking for this

to be fixed since 2012.

We are ultimately trying to achieve an

outcome which delivers safe patient care and

we do support nurses and midwives standing

up on behalf of their patients and standing up

to protect their professional integrity by taking

legitimate action.

Mr Holmes said the service had endured

critical staff shortages after a Birthrate Plus

miscalculation.

He said Nepean was operating with about

140 FTE midwives, and he said a shortage

of midwives was also affecting services at

Westmead and Dubbo.

Mr Holmes said fewer universities were now

offering post graduate midwifery degrees in

line with the growing popularity of direct-entry

three-year Bachelor of Midwifery degrees.

That leaves many people who are registered

nurses who would like to go and do midwifery

a smaller number of opportunities to do that,

he said.

Ultimately, that will have a long term impact

on the numbers of midwives who have dual

registration and a breadth of skills across

nursing and midwifery.

Mr Holmes said many registered nurses with

midwifery qualifications are also unable to fulfil

their recency of practice requirements, forcing

them to give up their midwifery qualifications,

there was also limited availability of supervised

practice, which was time consuming and

unpaid, and no re-entry program in Australia

for midwives.

There does need to be a re-entry program

developed for midwives so when they have

been out of the workforce for those five

magical yearsthey can get back in, he

said

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NSW Health - Bloomfield Hospital

NSW Health - Hunter New England

NSW Health - Northern Sydney Local

Health District

Oceania University of Medicine

Oxford Aunts Care

Quick and Easy Finance

Royal Flying Doctor Service

South West Healthcare

TR7 Health

Unified Healthcare Group

University of New England

We hope you enjoy perusing the range of opportunities

included in Issue 12, 2013.

If you are interested in pursuing any of these opportunities,

please contact the advertiser directly via the contact details

provided. If you have any queries about our publication or

if you would like to receive our publication, please email us

at [email protected]

FACT, NOT FICTION

The NCAH Magazine distribution is independently audited

by the Circulations Audit Board.

Total Audited Print and

Digital Distribution: 28,090

The NCAH Magazine is the most widely distributed national

nursing and allied health publication in Australia

For all advertising and production enquiries please contact

us on +61 (0) 3 9271 8700, email

[email protected] or visit www.ncah.com.au

If you would like to change your mailing address,

or be included on our distribution, please email

[email protected]

Published by Seabreeze Communications Pty Ltd Trading as NCAH.

ABN 29 071 328 053.

2013 Seabreeze Communications Pty Ltd.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be copied or

reproduced by any means without the prior written permission of

the publisher. Compliance with the Trade Practices Act 1974 of

advertisements contained in this publication is the responsibility of

those who submit the advertisement for publication.

Issue 12 17 June 2013

www.ncah.com.au

Next Publication: Midwifery & Maternal

Publication Date: Monday 1st July 2013

Colour Artwork Deadline: Monday 24th June 2013

Mono Artwork Deadline: Wednesday 26th June 2013

Nurses and midwives have shelved industrial action which would have capped new low-risk antenatal admissions at Nepean Hospitals Women and Childrens Service.

Nurses and midwives had planned to refer low-risk women from outside the catchment to other public hospitals amid concerns over a staff shortage of 21 full-time equivalent (FTE) midwives.

The cap, which was expected to affect about 1000 women a year, would not have applied to current patients, new high-risk pregnancies or obstetric emergencies.

The New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) urged nurses and midwives not to proceed with the action after Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District invoked the dispute clause in the award, calling for the status quo to continue until further discussions take place to resolve the dispute.

NSWNMA general secretary Brett Holmes said the services nurses and midwives believed critical staff shortages were compromising patient safety.

With 21 vacancies it means that people are doing extra shifts, theres a reliance on extra support from casuals and agencies but because of budget restrictions theres a great reluctance on behalf of management to use those, he said.

That means that midwives believe that they are not in a position to provide the level of care that they believe the patients are deserving.

Midwives are always very reluctant to take action that may have an impact on their delivery of services but its got to such a point at Nepean that they have been asking for this to be fixed since 2012.

We are ultimately trying to achieve an outcome which delivers safe patient care and we do support nurses and midwives standing up on behalf of their patients and standing up to protect their professional integrity by taking legitimate action.

Mr Holmes said the service had endured critical staff shortages after a Birthrate Plus miscalculation.

He said Nepean was operating with about 140 FTE midwives, and he said a shortage of midwives was also affecting services at Westmead and Dubbo.

Mr Holmes said fewer universities were now offering post graduate midwifery degrees in line with the growing popularity of direct-entry three-year Bachelor of Midwifery degrees.

That leaves many people who are registered nurses who would like to go and do midwifery a smaller number of opportunities to do that, he said.

Ultimately, that will have a long term impact on the numbers of midwives who have dual registration and a breadth of skills across nursing and midwifery.

Mr Holmes said many registered nurses with midwifery qualifications are also unable to fulfil their recency of practice requirements, forcing them to give up their midwifery qualifications, there was also limited availability of supervised practice, which was time consuming and unpaid, and no re-entry program in Australia for midwives.

There does need to be a re-entry program developed for midwives so when they have been out of the workforce for those five magical yearsthey can get back in, he said


by Karen Keast

CQ Nurse, Australias premier nursing agency, has contracts available NOW.

Earn extra $$$$ Meet new people Visit new destinations Be where you are needed Exciting locations throughout Australia

discoveryours to

www.cqnurse.com.auOffice location239 Nebo Road, Mackayp 07 4998 5550 f 07 4998 5545 e [email protected]

A CHANGE is as good asA HOLIDAY

Various positions available throughout regional, rural and remote Australia

MIDWIFERY positions available throughout Australia



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National opportunities - including metropolitan, regional

and remote areas of Australia

Flexible - you set the pace, its your business!

Discover new challenges

Competitive Remuneration

National Opportunities

UHG specialises in providing support services to the insurance and legal

sectors, and currently have FANTASTIC opportunities to recruit Health

Screening Consultants to register with our national mobile network.

Exciting opportunities for Nurses, Paramedics, Nurse Vaccinators &

Pathology Collectors looking for new challenges within a growing sector

that allows freedom of choice are now available.

Essential Requirements:

Solid nursing background (min 2yrs post grad)

Venepuncture (min 2yrs exp)

Excellent general medical knowledge and terminology

Professional presentation and communication, along with impressive time

management skills

Passion for delivering high standards of service, to coincide with the

companys friendly and personable approach to Health Screening

Current CPR Certification

National Police Check

Interested to learn more?

Visit our website at www.uhg.com.au

To apply online visit www.healthscreening.com.au

For general enquiries, please contact Ashlyn Smith (03) 9692 7049 or Liz

Dickson (03) 9692 7716

Delivering tailored healthcare solutions

Work and play in beautiful Western AustraliaLive in a booming economy and reap the rewards!

Have the sun and sea right on your doorstep

TR7 Health is leading the way in Health recruitment with quality, excellence and professionalism.

We have developed strong and positive relationships within the industry and actively work to place hundreds of qualified nurses and healthcare professionals into hospitals and aged care facilities throughout Western Australia.

Western Australia is home to plenty of extraordinary experiences, the likes of which can only be found right here. WA boasts the largest collection of wildflowers on the planet, some of the whitest beaches in the country and one of only a few places world-wide where you can swim with the oceans largest fish.

We have current vacancies for

Midwives

Theatre & Recovery Nurses

Aged Care Nurses and Managers

Mental Health Nurses

Specialist Nurses

Medical and Surgical Nurses

ED Nurses

Allied Health Professionals

Send us your resume today or for career/market advice and information on living and working in Western Australia contact our specialist consultants today!

PH: (08) 9218 1431 Email:[email protected] or visit us online at www.tr7.com.au

More incentives are needed to attract nurses

and midwives to rural and remote communities

across Australia, according to the Australian

Nursing Federation.

The union says a shortage of highly trained

nurses and midwives in hard-to-staff areas

is creating increased workloads for nurses

working in rural and remote communities and

compromising safe patient care.

ANF federal secretary Lee Thomas said the

union has called for the Federal Government

to remove HECS fees in a bid to entice

more graduates to work in rural and remote

communities.

Rural nurses and midwives are vital in

delivering quality care throughout regional

communities with often limited access to

health services, yet they just dont have the

incentives to allow them to move into rural

practice, she said.

One solution the ANF has recommended is

for the removal of HECS fees as an incentive

for nursing and midwifery graduates to work in

short staffed areas, such as rural and remote

communities.

The comments come after the Federal

Government announced a $179 million

investment as part of the Rural Health

Outreach Fund and the Medical Outreach

Indigenous Chronic Disease Program,

to provide more health professionals and

services to rural Australia.

The funding boost aims to increase access to

maternity and paediatric services, eye health,

mental health and support chronic disease

management and equates to about 250,000

visits to doctors, nurses or allied health

professionals.

The funding will be supplied to organisations,

including Rural Health West in Western

Australia and CheckUP Australia in

Queensland, to boost vital health services in

areas where they are most needed.

Ms Thomas applauded the funding but said

more needs to be done to attract nurses and

midwives into high-need workforce areas.

She said the government must find funding

solutions to tackle the nations nursing crisis,

which extends to Australias rural and remote

areas.

As Australias largest health union, the ANF

is becoming increasingly concerned by the

growing shortage of nurses and midwives

and the underemployment of graduates in

health and aged care, she said.

As a nation, we need to start building a future

nursing and midwifery workforce to replace

the current staff, retiring over the next 15 to

20 years, with 90,000 highly trained nurses

expected to retire.

Rural and remote communities in particular

are areas of real need for highly-trained

nursing and midwifery professionals.

Unfortunately, this is leading to increased

workloads for the existing nursing workforce,

compromising safe patient care for rural and

remote communities.


by Karen Keast

To see what we can offer you as a member of the Epworth team, please contact:

Oncology Gabrielle Weston e: [email protected]

Orthopaedics Lisa Rodgers e: [email protected]

Anaesthetics Pauline Fogarty e: [email protected]

Nursing Post_outlines.indd 1 22/05/13 10:21 AM



When Hazel Brittain moved from the United Kingdom to work as a midwife in Australia, her first position was located at a hospital in the small rural Queensland town of Beaudesert.

Maybe I had been watching too much A Country Practice in the UK, she laughs.

But I love it here I stayed here for 10 years and then I left about 13 years ago.

Twenty-three years after first arriving, Hazel is once again back at Beaudesert Hospital but this time as Nursing and Midwifery Director and Facility Manager, faced with the task of re-instating birthing services at the hospital before the end of June, 2014.

I worked here as a Director of Nursing 13 years ago, when the hospital was a very busy little hospital, which had a 24-7 operating theatre running and we had about 400 to 450 babies born every year, she says.

The services have dwindled away a little so I am back now to help revitalise the service again. Its a very exciting opportunity.

Hazel briefly returned to Beaudesert in 2010 to set up the towns group midwifery practice outreach service, which provides continuity of care midwifery services for women.

Hazel says it is exciting to reinstate the hospitals birthing services, which includes the employment of at least four full-time equivalent (FTE) midwives for generalist ward work as well as six FTE midwives for Beaudeserts group midwifery practice.

The Metro South Health hospital is also undergoing a refurbishment to overhaul the birthing facilities which have been used for other purposes in recent years, and it could soon be the first rural hospital in the state to allow access to privately practising midwives.

Women will be able to have a choice of having a privately practising midwife if they want to, Hazel says.

Many women want to birth their baby in a hospital but their midwife cant come with them. There are many hospitals around us who are now taking this option up.

Its exciting for women to have more options and its exciting for midwives as well.

An Adjunct Associate Professor at Griffith Universitys School of Midwifery, Hazel is also the president of the Queensland branch of the Australian College of Midwives and was recently recognised for her leadership in the field when she was awarded the colleges inaugural Midwifery Leadership Award.

Hazel says while midwifery has come a long way in Australia, there is still more work to be done.

I think we need more continuity models, we need more choice for women, she says.

We need more places to take up the privately practising midwives option, wherever women want them, and that homebirth becomes something thats more mainstream if women want to have a baby at home and if everything is looking good.

In the end, I would like to see women make more of the choices rather than having things thrust upon them.

Midwifery leader pioneers new era for rural hospitalby Karen Keast

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With expansion comes opportunity - the opportunity for health professionals

seeking a career in mental health and drug & alcohol to join us.

Our services provide unique and contemporary models of care across a

diverse geographical setting, from the regional cities of Bathurst, Dubbo

and Orange - to the outback settings of Bourke and Lightning Ridge.

Many health professionals from across the globe have taken up the

opportunity to join us in this exciting time of growth -

y not make it you?

It is an exciting time in the Western NSW

Local Health District with the continued

expansion of services across our region.

An exciting opportunity exists for a dynamic, highly motivated experienced Registered Nurse to join our progressive middle management team. This exciting opportunity is seen as pivotal to the strategic direction and growth of the organisations Operating Suite services.

We offer: Amodernfriendlyenvironmentthatencouragesgrowthand

professional development. Supportof,andcompliancewith,bestpracticeguidelines Freeonsiteparking GenerousSalaryPackaging. Activeparticipationintheleadershipandmanagementteam.

Tobesuccessfulinyourroleyouwill: Beanexperienced/qualifiedRegisteredNursewithaminimum

ofPerioperativeCertificate/6yearsclinicalexperience,preferablywithexperienceinChangeManagementandpost-graduatequalificationshighlydesirable

Exhibithighlydevelopedinterpersonalandcommunicationskills

Demonstrateexcellenceinadvancedclinicalpracticeandknowledge

Bepro-active,highlymotivatedandaneffectivetimemanager Demonstrateactiveparticipationinandpromotionof

professional development

ApplicantsmusthaveacommitmenttocontinuousQualityimprovement.

Apersonalcommitmenttoongoingeducationanddevelopment

HoldacurrentPoliceCheck HoldcurrentAHPRAregistration.ForfurtherinformationortoobtainaPositionDescriptionpleasecontactourPatientServicesManagerorvisitourwebsite -www.bcrh.com.au

WrittenapplicationwithCV,including3refereesto: JanetLodgeDirectorofNursing BassCoastRegionalHealth,P.O.Box120,WonthaggiVic3995

NURSE UNIT MANAGER OPERATING SUITE

Emergency departments in New South Wales hospitals are being inundated by mentally ill patients due to a lack of psychiatric beds.

An exclusive report by local newspaper the Newcastle Herald newspaper has revealed one in every 36 emergency department patients in the Hunter hospital last year was mentally ill, while at Calvary Mater Newcastle, it was one in every 15 patients.

It was also reported that three psychiatric patients endured more than two days stuck in emergency departments at Maitland and Calvary Mater hospitals, while 20 spent more than 24 hours in emergency departments at Maitland, Calvary Mater and John Hunter.

Many patients were so ill that they needed to be strapped down and sedated so they didnt harm themselves or others. The number of violent incidents in which hospital staff are forced to manage patients in this way is understood to be on the rise.

Doctors reportedly said the high stress environment of emergency departments only increased distress in already agitated or psychotic patients.

Last year 6023 people mentally ill people were treated at Maitland, Calvary Mater, Belmont and John Hunter emergency departments, a rise of 121per cent from 2720 in 2007.

The biggest increase occurred following the opening of mental health facilities at Calvary Mater in 2009.

It is understood the number of patients suffering mental health problems in recent times is due to the rise in use of synthetic drugs over the past few years. This is frequently compounded by other substance abuse issues including alcohol.

The Newcastle Herald reported that according to data obtained under freedom of information laws (Government Information Public Access), 26,065 mental health patients were seen at Hunter emergency departments over the past six years.

A nurse, who did not want to be named, reportedly said the increase in emergency department presentations reflected the lack of resources for mental health in the community and a shortage of psychiatric beds.

NSW hospitals straining under mental health burden

It is understood the number of patients suffering mental health problems in recent times is due to the rise in use of synthetic drugs...

where the nurse is able to

assess and focus care on the

specific needs of children and

whnau in a community, health

outcomes improve.

Dr Jill Clendon

NZNO Nursing Policy Adviser

Almost 300 nurses would be employed at

primary and intermediate schools in low socio-

economic communities across New Zealand,

under a Green Party plan.

The party has announced its $30 million plan,

which would inject 280 public health nurses to

care for 112,000 children in 650 schools, as part

of its child poverty strategy.

Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei said children

in the most deprived neighbourhoods are three

times more likely to be admitted to hospital for

preventable illnesses than children from the least

deprived neighbourhoods.

Nurses already do a fantastic job in low decile

secondary schools and some primary schools,

she said.

But schools shouldnt have to dip into their

operations grants to fund this service.

Our proposal is for a formal national framework

for school nursing where every child from a lower

decile school can be guaranteed a basic level of

care from a nurse.

We propose engaging the profession to

establish a scope of practice and model of care

specific to primary school nursing.

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation has

welcomed the blueprint, which was one of the

unions key recommendations in its submission

to the governments Green Paper on Vulnerable

Children last year.

The union, which represents more than 46,000

nurses and health workers, has called for a full-

time government-funded nurse in every early

childhood centre and school across New Zealand

in a bid to provide better health outcomes.

NZNO nursing policy adviser and researcher Dr

Jill Clendon said locating a nurse at every school

and early childhood centre would improve

access to health care for children, young people

and their families.

Dr Clendon said nurses were able to work with

teachers and social workers in the facilities to

provide preventative health education and can

advocate, assess and provide brief intervention

and referral while coordinating care for those

experiencing difficulties.

Evidence demonstrates that health outcomes

and access to health care for children improves

with school-based nursing services, she said.

Evidence from New Zealand shows that where

the nurse is able to assess and focus care on

the specific needs of children and whnau in

a community, health outcomes improve, she

stated in the unions submission.

When the nurse at a nurse-led clinic in a primary

school in Auckland focused care on education

and interventions for families managing asthma,

skin conditions and ear conditions, significantly

decreased visitation to the citys childrens

hospital was observed for ENT services and

decreased visitation was observed for general

medical services for children from the area.

Figures show every year an average of 10

children in the country die at the hands of the

people closest to them while suspected abuse

or neglect notifications have grown 205 per cent

from 2004 to 2010.

In 2008-2009, there were 13,315 hospital

admissions for children aged under five for

conditions that could have been avoided and

1,286 hospital admissions for children and young

people aged from newborns to 24 which were a

result of assault, neglect or maltreatment.


by Karen Keast



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With expansion comes opportunity - the opportunity for health professionals seeking a career in mental health and drug & alcohol to join us.

Our services provide unique and contemporary models of care across a diverse geographical setting, from the regional cities of Bathurst, Dubbo and Orange - to the outback settings of Bourke and Lightning Ridge.

Many health professionals from across the globe have taken up the opportunity to join us in this exciting time of growth -

y not make it you?

It is an exciting time in the Western NSW Local Health District with the continued expansion of services across our region.

An exciting opportunity exists for a dynamic, highly motivated

experienced Registered Nurse to join our progressive middle

management team. This exciting opportunity is seen as pivotal to

the strategic direction and growth of the organisations Operating

Suite services.

We offer:

Amodernfriendlyenvironmentthatencouragesgrowthand

professional development.

Supportof,andcompliancewith,bestpracticeguidelines

Freeonsiteparking

GenerousSalaryPackaging.

Activeparticipationintheleadershipandmanagementteam.

Tobesuccessfulinyourroleyouwill:

Beanexperienced/qualifiedRegisteredNursewithaminimum

ofPerioperativeCertificate/6yearsclinicalexperience,

preferablywithexperienceinChangeManagementandpost-

graduatequalificationshighlydesirable

Exhibithighlydevelopedinterpersonalandcommunication

skills

Demonstrateexcellenceinadvancedclinicalpracticeand

knowledge

Bepro-active,highlymotivatedandaneffectivetimemanager

Demonstrateactiveparticipationinandpromotionof

professional development

ApplicantsmusthaveacommitmenttocontinuousQuality

improvement.

Apersonalcommitmenttoongoingeducationand

development

HoldacurrentPoliceCheck

HoldcurrentAHPRAregistration.

ForfurtherinformationortoobtainaPositionDescriptionplease

contactourPatientServicesManagerorvisitourwebsite

-www.bcrh.com.au

WrittenapplicationwithCV,including3refereesto:

JanetLodgeDirectorofNursing

BassCoastRegionalHealth,P.O.Box120,WonthaggiVic3995

NURSE UNIT MANAGER OPERATING SUITE

Emergency departments in New South Wales

hospitals are being inundated by mentally ill

patients due to a lack of psychiatric beds.

An exclusive report by local newspaper the

Newcastle Herald newspaper has revealed

one in every 36 emergency department

patients in the Hunter hospital last year was

mentally ill, while at Calvary Mater Newcastle,

it was one in every 15 patients.

It was also reported that three psychiatric

patients endured more than two days stuck

in emergency departments at Maitland and

Calvary Mater hospitals, while 20 spent more

than 24 hours in emergency departments at

Maitland, Calvary Mater and John Hunter.

Many patients were so ill that they needed to

be strapped down and sedated so they didnt

harm themselves or others. The number of

violent incidents in which hospital staff are

forced to manage patients in this way is

understood to be on the rise.

Doctors reportedly said the high stress

environment of emergency departments

only increased distress in already agitated or

psychotic patients.

Last year 6023 people mentally ill people were

treated at Maitland, Calvary Mater, Belmont

and John Hunter emergency departments, a

rise of 121per cent from 2720 in 2007.

The biggest increase occurred following the

opening of mental health facilities at Calvary

Mater in 2009.

It is understood the number of patients

suffering mental health problems in recent

times is due to the rise in use of synthetic

drugs over the past few years. This is

frequently compounded by other substance

abuse issues including alcohol.

The Newcastle Herald reported that according

to data obtained under freedom of information

laws (Government Information Public Access),

26,065 mental health patients were seen at

Hunter emergency departments over the past

six years.

A nurse, who did not want to be named,

reportedly said the increase in emergency

department presentations reflected the lack of

resources for mental health in the community

and a shortage of psychiatric beds.

NSW hospitals straining under mental health burden

It is understood the number

of patients suffering mental

health problems in recent

times is due to the rise in use

of synthetic drugs...

where the nurse is able to assess and focus care on the specific needs of children and whnau in a community, health outcomes improve.

Dr Jill Clendon NZNO Nursing Policy Adviser

Almost 300 nurses would be employed at primary and intermediate schools in low socio-economic communities across New Zealand, under a Green Party plan.

The party has announced its $30 million plan, which would inject 280 public health nurses to care for 112,000 children in 650 schools, as part of its child poverty strategy.

Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei said children in the most deprived neighbourhoods are three times more likely to be admitted to hospital for preventable illnesses than children from the least deprived neighbourhoods.

Nurses already do a fantastic job in low decile secondary schools and some primary schools, she said.

But schools shouldnt have to dip into their operations grants to fund this service.

Our proposal is for a formal national framework for school nursing where every child from a lower decile school can be guaranteed a basic level of care from a nurse.

We propose engaging the profession to establish a scope of practice and model of care specific to primary school nursing.

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation has welcomed the blueprint, which was one of the unions key recommendations in its submission to the governments Green Paper on Vulnerable Children last year.

The union, which represents more than 46,000 nurses and health workers, has called for a full-time government-funded nurse in every early childhood centre and school across New Zealand in a bid to provide better health outcomes.

NZNO nursing policy adviser and researcher Dr Jill Clendon said locating a nurse at every school and early childhood centre would improve access to health care for children, young people and their families.

Dr Clendon said nurses were able to work with teachers and social workers in the facilities to provide preventative health education and can advocate, assess and provide brief intervention and referral while coordinating care for those experiencing difficulties.

Evidence demonstrates that health outcomes and access to health care for children improves with school-based nursing services, she said.

Evidence from New Zealand shows that where the nurse is able to assess and focus care on the specific needs of children and whnau in a community, health outcomes improve, she stated in the unions submission.

When the nurse at a nurse-led clinic in a primary school in Auckland focused care on education and interventions for families managing asthma, skin conditions and ear conditions, significantly decreased visitation to the citys childrens hospital was observed for ENT services and decreased visitation was observed for general medical services for children from the area.

Figures show every year an average of 10 children in the country die at the hands of the people closest to them while suspected abuse or neglect notifications have grown 205 per cent from 2004 to 2010.

In 2008-2009, there were 13,315 hospital admissions for children aged under five for conditions that could have been avoided and 1,286 hospital admissions for children and young people aged from newborns to 24 which were a result of assault, neglect or maltreatment.

Nurses applaud plan to introduce school nursesby Karen Keast



When Hazel Brittain moved from the United

Kingdom to work as a midwife in Australia, her

first position was located at a hospital in the

small rural Queensland town of Beaudesert.

Maybe I had been watching too much A Country

Practice in the UK, she laughs.

But I love it here I stayed here for 10 years and

then I left about 13 years ago.

Twenty-three years after first arriving, Hazel is

once again back at Beaudesert Hospital but

this time as Nursing and Midwifery Director

and Facility Manager, faced with the task of re-

instating birthing services at the hospital before

the end of June, 2014.

I worked here as a Director of Nursing 13 years

ago, when the hospital was a very busy little

hospital, which had a 24-7 operating theatre

running and we had about 400 to 450 babies

born every year, she says.

The services have dwindled away a little so I am

back now to help revitalise the service again. Its

a very exciting opportunity.

Hazel briefly returned to Beaudesert in 2010

to set up the towns group midwifery practice

outreach service, which provides continuity of

care midwifery services for women.

Hazel says it is exciting to reinstate the hospitals

birthing services, which includes the employment

of at least four full-time equivalent (FTE) midwives

for generalist ward work as well as six FTE

midwives for Beaudeserts group midwifery

practice.

The Metro South Health hospital is also

undergoing a refurbishment to overhaul the

birthing facilities which have been used for other

purposes in recent years, and it could soon be

the first rural hospital in the state to allow access

to privately practising midwives.

Women will be able to have a choice of having

a privately practising midwife if they want to,

Hazel says.

Many women want to birth their baby in a

hospital but their midwife cant come with them.

There are many hospitals around us who are

now taking this option up.

Its exciting for women to have more options

and its exciting for midwives as well.

An Adjunct Associate Professor at Griffith

Universitys School of Midwifery, Hazel is also

the president of the Queensland branch of

the Australian College of Midwives and was

recently recognised for her leadership in the field

when she was awarded the colleges inaugural

Midwifery Leadership Award.

Hazel says while midwifery has come a long way

in Australia, there is still more work to be done.

I think we need more continuity models, we

need more choice for women, she says.

We need more places to take up the privately

practising midwives option, wherever women

want them, and that homebirth becomes

something thats more mainstream if women

want to have a baby at home and if everything

is looking good.

In the end, I would like to see women make

more of the choices rather than having things

thrust upon them.

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by Karen Keast

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The Infection Prevention and Control Coordinator is responsible for ensuring all services provided by Benalla Health meet best practice standards to prevent the spread of infection thereby ensuring that the risk of patients, residents, clients and staff acquiring infection is minimised.

Prospective candidates will need to:

HoldcurrentnursingregistrationwithAHPRA,preferably with substantial post basic experience in nursing

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You may or may not have heard about the Christchurch earthquakes but have you heard the buzz about the

Christchurch Rebuild? Have you ever thought about being part of something big?

Specialist Mental Health Services here at the Canterbury District Health Board are changing and we need your

expert skills as a Mental Health Nurse, or Allied Health Professional to help put the pieces together.

Its no secret that the events of February 2011 devastated parts of the city but we are thrilled to be in the

swing of building ourselves back up again. Just as the city needs builders and engineers; our community at

risk need skilled Mental Health Professionals to help put their lives back together piece by piece.

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Psychology researchers have discovered a link between alcohol use during early and mid-adolescence and violence just two years later.

Australian Catholic University researchers Professor Sheryl Hemphill and Dr Kirsty Balog, from the School of Psychology, investigated the longitudinal relationships between alcohol consumption and severe interpersonal violence among young Australians.

The study used the data of 849 Victorian adolescents, who had been followed over a five-year period from year seven until year 11 at secondary school as part of the International Youth Development Study, and found alcohol use in year seven and year nine can predict violence two years down the track.

The research also discovered a bidirectional relationship between heavy episodic drinking and violence, prompting researchers to consider further investigation of the role that social and family contexts have in influencing the relationship between alcohol use and violence.

In their report, the researchers state their findings suggest the risk processes begin in late childhood or very early adolescence, and they recommend targeting the common risk factors for alcohol and violence at this time.

Dr Balog, who is based in Melbourne, said while previous published research had found mixed results, their research showed alcohol consumption and violent behaviours impacted on the developmental periods of early to late adolescence.

Its such a problem in Australia really. Every news bulletin usually has alcohol and violence involved, she said.

Our team mission is to improve the lives of young people and to understand more about

those problems that we see in society and how we can improve them.

Dr Balog, who has a background in psychological and psychophysiological research, said the study follows the release of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfares National Drug Strategy Household Survey in 2011, which found about one in five Australians aged 14 years or older drink at levels that put them at risk of alcohol-related disease or injury throughout their lifetime.

The AIHW survey also discovered about two in five Australians aged 14 years or older had a pattern of drinking which placed them at risk of alcohol-related injury from a single drinking occasion, at least once in the past year.

A Postdoctoral Research Fellow within the Senior Proven Researcher Team at the School of Psychology, Dr Balog completed her psychology undergraduate studies at Swinburne University and her PhD at the University of Western Australia.

Dr Balog has worked on projects focusing on substance use and mental health and her upcoming research projects will investigate problem online and antisocial behaviours among youth, such as online gambling and sexting.

Research finds alcohol in youth predicts violence two years later

by Karen Keast

Do you want to balance your career and lifestyle? Are you looking for

a supportive and challenging work environment? If so, employment

with Hunter New England Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

(CAMHS) could be for you.

CAMHS is an integrated mental health service for children, adolescents

and their families and carers. It provides inpatient, outpatient,

community and specialist services.

The Child and Adolescent Mental Health inpatient unit is currently

recruiting Registered and Enrolled nurses. Part and full time positions

are available.

Mental health or paediatric experience is highly regarded but not

essential to working in this specialty. Nurses interested in starting out

in CAMHS as well as those with existing CAMHS expertise are invited to

consider the change to HNE CAMHS.

If you think this opportunity might be for you or would like to find out

more please phone :

Nurse Manager

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services 02 4985 5800

Email your expression of interest with CV to

[email protected]

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Wanted Registered Midwives

Hunter New England Local Health District ( HNE Health) is offering the

opportunity for Registered Midwives to join the Maternity Services Team at

John Hunter Hospital and The Maitland Hospital.

John Hunter Hospital is the tertiary referral hospital for the Hunter New

England region. Close to 4400 women birth at John Hunter Hospital each

year. The Maitland Hospital is a rural referral hospital providing maternity care

for 2000 women a year. Maternity Services offers opportunities to:-

Maintain a broad range of midwifery skills across the pregnancy

continuum- antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal and community midwifery

care.

Future Models of Maternity Care including midwifery group practices.

John Hunter Hospital is located in Newcastle in the Hunter Region of NSW.

Maitland is a 30 minute drive from Newcastle. Less than two hours drive from

Sydney or 30 minutes by air; within an hours drive you can reach the world

renowned Hunter Valley wineries or the magnificent mountain scenery of the

Barrington Tops. It also offers easy access to NSW holiday coast, the scenic

Central Coast and has direct flights to most Australian capital cities.

So if you want a challenge and are looking for a career in a supportive,

interesting and challenging environment then make John Hunter Hospital or

The Maitland Hospital your place of choice.

For more information contact

Suzanne Kuter

Midwife Manager Postnatal Services

[email protected]

Jane Crosbie

Midwifery Unit Manager Birthing Services

[email protected]

For information about employment opportunities in Midwifery Services across

HNE Health other than those at John Hunter Hospital and Maitland Hospital

email: [email protected]

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New South Wales nurses and midwives have

not ruled out resorting to industrial action in

their campaign for improved ratios and pay.

New South Wales Nurses and Midwives

Association (NSWNMA) general secretary

Brett Holmes said it will be up to members to

decide whether to take industrial action.

I cant rule out what the members will

ultimately decide about that but nurses are

passionate about these issues, he said.

They are coming to the understanding that

the solution for the problem will be a political

one where politicians feel enough pressure for

them to want to change the legislation and

the wages policy legislation, which is being

used to hide behind in order not to address

safer staffing levels.

There will be further meetings of our members

to decide actions and we will announce those

as they get closer but politicians can expect

to see nurses in their local areas much more

frequently.

The nursing and midwifery union has accused

the OFarrell Government of attempting to

force a new sub-standard award on nurses

and midwives through the Industrial Relations

Commission.

The unions warning comes after members

recently rallied outside the electorate offices

of up to 50 Liberal and National MPs across

the state, calling for a government re-think.

Mr Holmes said nurses and midwives had

made an impact outside MPs offices,

voicing their opposition to the governments

dictatorial plan.

Those MPs that were present and knew

we were coming and hid away or closed

their offices are fully aware that nurses are

passionate about the issue and are not going

to go away just because the government

thinks it can push through those award

changes, he said.

The government has applied to the IRC to

create a new award with a 2.25 per cent pay

rise but no improved ratios.

Nurses are lobbying for a 2.5 per cent annual

pay rise, equating to a $70 a week or $3800

per year pay rise for experienced full-time

nurses and midwives.

Nurses and midwives are also calling for the

introduction of compulsory minimum ratios

to childrens hospitals, wards, neo-natal

intensive care units and paediatric critical

care units, along with compulsory minimum

ratios in all hospitals, including smaller rural

hospitals and multipurpose services.

Nurses and midwives rally for better pay and ratios

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