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New Zealand is expected to experience a nursing shortage of around 15,000 nurses within 22 years.

A Nursing Council of New Zealand report, The Future Nursing Workforce: Supply Projections 2010-2035, has revealed more than half of the current nursing workforce is forecast to retire in 20 years – at the same time as a predicted increase in demand for health care due to the nation’s ageing population and lifestyle disease.

It found while there were about 45,460 nurses working in New Zealand in 2010, with 42,330 registered nurses (RN) and 3130 enrolled nurses (EN), there would be just 54,000 practising nurses in 2035 - if the nation keeps producing its current number of nursing graduates - resulting in a shortfall of about 15,000 nurses of the almost 70,000 nurses needed.

The population is also projected to increase by 17 per cent in that time to 5.26 million people.

“We won’t have enough nurses to meet the healthcare needs of the growing New Zealand population or to meet the additional needs of a growing proportion of very young and very old within our population,” the report states.

“Existing constraints on nursing student numbers, through limitations on the number of clinical

placements, will inevitably result in nurse shortages without a supply-side intervention by 2015.”

The Business and Economic Research Limited (BERL) report delivered several possible scenarios to illustrate how decisions on workforce supply made now will impact on the future nursing workforce.

Under a scenario focusing on just population growth, it found the number of RNs will need to grow to 54,660 while the number of ENs will need to increase to 4830 by 2035 – an increase

of 493 RNs and 68 ENs required to enter the workforce each year to maintain the 2010 nurse to population ratio of 10 nurses for every 1000 New Zealanders.

The ageing population scenario suggests in order to meet the health care needs of the large number of people forecast to be aged under 15 and over 65 – up to 45 per cent of the total population – an extra 865 RNs and 88 ENs will need to enter the workforce each year to create a workforce of 69,280 nurses by 2035.

The report also outlines a scenario to increase the number of internationally quali� ed (IQ) nurses in the workforce – where graduate numbers remain stable and the number of IQ nurses grows from 25 per cent of the RN workforce in 2010 to 33 per cent, and grows from 7.5 per cent of the EN workforce to 10 per cent.

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Rural and remote pharmacists should have the power to provide repeat prescriptions and vaccinations and work with GPs to help patients manage chronic conditions, according to a new report.

A Grattan Institute report, Access all areas: New solutions for GP shortages in rural Australia, calls for a greater role for pharmacists and the introduction of a new health worker, the physician assistant, to expand care in remote areas where there is limited access to GPs.

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has welcomed the proposals, outlined for seven areas with the worst shortages of GP services, including Tamworth, Goulburn and Mount Isa, as well as the Northern Territory and most of Western Australia.

The plan could be in place within �ve years at a cost of $30 million a year, which would be offset by fewer or less costly hospitalisations, according to report authors Stephen Duckett and Peter Breadon.

“The �rst step is to make much better use of pharmacists’ skills,” the authors state.

“Pharmacists are highly trained, have deep expertise in medicines, and are located in communities throughout Australia. But their role is far more limited in Australia than in many other countries.

“With the agreement of GPs and patients, pharmacists should be able to provide repeat prescriptions to people with simple, stable conditions.

“They should also be able to provide vaccinations and to work with GPs to help patients manage chronic conditions.”

Pharmaceutical Society of Australia national president Grant Kardachi said the report reinforced the PSA’s message that pharmacists

should be better integrated into the health system as a whole. “Quite simply, pharmacists’ skills and knowledge in medication management are greatly underutilised and PSA has developed a number of strategies and proposals to address this situation,” he said.

“Pharmacists can provide a wide range of professional services – working in collaboration with others – which can assist doctors and relieve pressure across the whole health sector, and importantly improve health outcomes and ease cost pressures on the health system.

“For too long, governments of all persuasions have been reluctant to change the system, while at the same time acknowledging that without change the system is in danger of not being able to meet the demands put on it.”

Mr Kardachi said the PSA hoped to work with the new Coalition Government to ensure the “speedy introduction” of greater pharmacist involvement.

The report also called for the introduction of physician assistants, health workers who practise medicine under the supervision of a doctor, to increase access to other services including diagnosis.

Report calls for greater pharmacist roleby Karen Keast

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The Coalition Federal Government has

abandoned $1.2 billion in pay rises for Australia’s

350,000 aged care nurses and care workers.

Assistant Minister for Social Services Mitch Fi�eld

has revealed the government has suspended

processing new applications from aged care

providers for the supplement, designed to deliver

the pay boost, while it consults with the sector

on alternative policy options.

Senator Fi�eld told media the government will

continue to pay the supplement to those aged

care providers already receiving it and the

Department of Social Services will also �nish

processing current applications.

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation

(ANMF) federal secretary Lee Thomas said the

announcement came without any consultation

with the union and its members working across

the aged care sector.

“This is a dark day for Australia’s aged care nurses

and care workers and the older Australians they

care for,” she said in a statement.

“After �ghting so long for wage parity, aged care

nurses and carers have been cruelly abandoned

by the new government.

“It’s plainly obvious the government has chosen

to place the pro�ts of providers over the interests

of thousands of frontline nurses and care workers

across the country.”

The processing suspension comes after the

new government recently revealed it planned

to redirect the funds into the general aged care

budget.

An initiative of the former Labor Government, the

agreed wage improvements aimed to deliver pay

rises of about $46 a week or $2390 a year for

registered nurses, $35 a week or $1820 a year

for enrolled nurses and $29 a week or $1510 a

year for assistants in nursing by 2016, under the

Living Longer, Living Better aged care reforms.

The ANMF fears the funds, originally allocated as

part of the Workforce Compact, will not reach

the pay packets of nurses and care workers in

the sector without enterprise bargaining.

Ms Thomas called on the government not to

keep aged care workers in limbo.

“The government must now come clean and

spell out its plans for the sector to nurses, care

workers, nursing home residents and their

families,” she said.

“If we cannot recruit and retain nursing and

care staff, it’s older Australians primarily living in

nursing homes who will ultimately suffer through

poorer care outcomes.”

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Call the midwife - catching babies is catching on

Ms Haines, who was matron of one of London’s largest hospitals about 20 years ago, was interviewed for the television series and Professor Dahlen says she is “terribly close” to the series’ midwifery character ‘Chummy’.

“A lot of people reckon that Chummy is modelled on her,” she says.

“She is very tall and aristocratically spoken. She was born in India and lived overseas.

“She thinks it’s funny – she can’t see herself that way.”

Margaret, who died seven years ago, was the inspiration behind Professor Dahlen’s own journey into midwifery.

Professor Dahlen’s earliest memories are of watching her mother tend to the care of pregnant women at a missionary clinic in Yemen, in the Middle East.

Now a renowned advocate for midwives, Professor Dahlen was just 10 when she saw her fi rst birth and 12 when she helped catch her fi rst baby.

She moved to Australia at the age of 15 and later took up her nursing studies, before venturing to England to follow in her mother’s training footsteps, where she experienced home birthing.

Then she returned to Australia and worked as a midwife at several hospitals while adding to her studies, achieving Honours, her Masters and PhD, joining both UWS and the College, where she has also been president and vice president.

Professor Dahlen says Call the Midwife has resonated with many viewers simply because it shows midwives living incredible lives.

In the face of post-war hardship and adversity, the midwives are able to provide essential healthcare with compassion and humanity.

The hit BBC period drama Call the Midwife has sparked a renewed interest and passion for one of the world’s most ancient professions. For an Australian midwifery leader, the series lies closer to home in more ways than one.

It’s the period drama that has captivated more than 13 million viewers world-wide - and inspired a new wave of midwifery students.

Call the Midwife, the BBC drama based on the memoirs of British nurse and musician Jennifer Worth, tells the story of midwives catching babies amidst the deprivation of London’s East End in the 1950s.

Two series of the hit drama have aired and fi lming has just completed on a third, with the latest series set to air next year.

Aside from being a ratings success, the show has also been attributed to sparking a 25 per cent rise in midwifery applications in England alone.

University of Western Sydney Professor Hannah Dahlen, a privately practising midwife and spokesperson for the Australian College of Midwives, says the show has also had an impact on the Australian midwifery profession.

Professor Dahlen says the show has inspired more people to pursue careers in midwifery and has also hit home with practising midwives.

“I think the show has struck a real chord,” she says.

“We have watched One Born Every Minute, which probably terrifi es mothers and midwives more than any other show.

“You ask any midwife what show they most relate to and that’s Call the Midwife.”

Professor Dahlen relates to the show on more levels than one.

Her mother Margaret Dahlen and her best friend Fiona Haines were midwives working in London’s Docklands at the same time, riding around on “those rickety old bikes” featured in Call the Midwife.

“In many ways they had a continuity of care model but they wouldn’t have used that term then,” she says.

Australia has taken major leaps in the fi eld of midwifery care in the past decade, with midwives now having access to Medicare funding and insurance while midwifery is now recognised as a profession in its own right, distinct from nursing.

Professor Dahlen says today, more than ever, Australian midwives can relate to Call the Midwife.

“I think it’s an inspiration,” she says.

“We have gained some very good things in the advances of science and none of us would ever say we would want to go back to those days.

“There are some things we have to reclaim from those days - and that’s compassion and relationships.”

“It highlights the compassion and the complexity of life and the amazing kind of beauty that comes with commitment, compassion and the human touch, and going the extra mile and not dodging people because of how much money they have,” Professor Dahlen says.

“I think it’s a really valuable and beautiful lesson and I think people are inspired by that.”

Professor Dahlen says midwifery in Australia has been largely institutionalised and incorporated into a medical model but the nation has a lot to learn from the primary health midwifery care featured in Call the Midwife.

“That primary health beauty of midwifery has been lost and we are on our way to reclaiming it, which is good news.”

Professor Dahlen says the series also showcases continuity of care, which has gradually been embraced in Australia.

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Queensland paramedic Kerri Russell has a job of

which many paramedics can only dream.

The 40-year-old shares her job with her

paramedic husband, Ben, in the rural area of

Capella, enabling the couple to both raise their

young children, Sean, 4, and Sarah, 6, in the

friendly, small community, without relying on

childcare.

Originally from the Sunshine Coast, the move to

the rural and isolated community has enabled

Kerri to pursue extra study - her Bachelor of

Nursing degree through Central Queensland

University, spend time with her family, and to also

become involved in the isolated community that

is home to about 1000 people.

“We came out on a term transfer for a year and it

turned into four years,” Kerri said.

“We came so we could be here with our kids.

We share the job and live in the house in the

backyard of the ambulance station.

“It’s worked out beautifully – especially while the

kids have been so little.”

Kerri, an advanced care paramedic, was recently

named the Queensland Ambulance Service’s

Paramedic of the Year for her dedicated work in

keeping the community safe.

Capella ambulance station of�cer in charge Colin

Salter nominated Kerri for her commitment, the

family’s lifestyle change and Kerri’s professional

ability to take on the often demanding work as a

single responder.

Situated in an agricultural and coal mining area,

Capella is located in the Central Highlands,

midway between Emerald and Clermont and

320 kilometres west of Rockhampton.

Kerri responds to medical emergencies on

her own, in a vast area where there are mostly

trauma emergencies, and it is not unusual for her

to �ag down a passing motorist to either drive

the ambulance or to help her lift a heavy patient

into the back of the ambulance.

“You go on your own and there’s a lot more work

to be done when there’s only one person,” she

said.

“It’s very different out here. We are very well

supported by our emergency drivers but anyone

will jump in and help.

“I have had so many people drive the ambulance

- which you would never ever do on the coast.”

Kerri said everyone in the community knows each

other, or of each other, which makes responding

to emergencies easier and also, at times, more

emotionally challenging.

And without a colleague at emergencies, there

is no-one to discuss clinical issues with apart

from a medical director on the other end of the

phone.

There is no doctor in town, so Kerri also follows

up on the health of patients who haven’t been

transported.

Kerri, a paramedic of 10 years, hopes to move

into a career in nursing after completing her

degree later next year.

“It’s something in the future for me because it

offers more options,” she said.

“Being a paramedic is great but unless you want

to go into management or education, there’s not

too many options sideways.”

Queensland paramedic of the year embraces rural lifeby Karen Keast

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Mental health services on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland are set for enhancement under a new partnership model, following their single biggest funding injection on record.

Key service providers working within the joint group held an inaugural meeting in recent days to map out how to cater to severe and persistent mental illness issues in the area. Headed by Medicare Local Sunshine Coast, the team of 13 separate entities will distribute the region’s $8.8 million Federal Government funding commitment, which was delivered under the former Labor Government.

Medicare Local Sunshine Coast chief executive Ian Landreth reportedly said the Partnership Council aimed to coordinate the coast’s mental health services and allow people suffering from mental illness to live comfortably, and in their community.

Those with acute or chronic mental illness typically faced issues around accommodation, employment, transport, mental health and education, with different agencies dealing with that person individually in a crisis.

“There is no wrap-around service for these people. This partnership is about bringing some coordination to the existing services.”

Partnership structure a boon to Sunshine Coast mental health by Belinda Smart

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A Victorian study is investigating the impact of four different psychological treatments on problem gambling.

Monash University’s Problem Gambling Research and Treatment Centre (PGRTC) and

the University of Melbourne are conducting a randomised controlled trial exploring the short term and long term effectiveness of different psychological treatments for problem gambling.

The trial has already begun with 160 people enrolling to receive six free sessions of free treatment, in either behaviour therapy, cognitive-behavioural therapy, motivational

interviewing and client-centered therapy, over an 18 month period.

Researchers are now calling for 100 more people to participate in the trial, which will also examine whether different types of people respond better to particular psychological treatments.

PGRTC co-director and chief investigator Professor Shane Thomas said while 100 people have completed the trial and 60 are still in treatment, early �ndings show people who receive psychological treatment spend less time and money gambling.

“We know that some treatments for problem gambling work and we are now learning far more about which treatments work best,” he said.

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One-on-one midwifery care saves Australia’s public health system an average of $566 per birth, according to the results of a new study.

The Australian study, published in the Lancet Medical Journal, shows caseload midwifery care for unassisted vaginal birth costs signi� cantly less than standard maternity care, contributing to a major difference in the overall median cost of birth per woman.

“Caseload midwifery care seemed to cost less than standard care, with similar clinical outcomes,” the study’s authors stated.

“Since maternity is one of the most common reasons for hospital admission in Australia and other countries, a cost reduction from a reorganisation of the way in which care is delivered in the public hospital system could play a major part in reducing public health expenditure.”

The study involved 1748 women, with 871 assigned to caseload and 877 to standard care, who had their babies at two metropolitan teaching hospitals between December 2008 and May 2011.

The randomised, controlled trial assessed women of all risks and found similar rates of caesarean sections while the proportion of women who had elective caesarean sections before the onset of labour differed between caseload, at 8 per cent, and standard care, at 11 per cent.

Proportions of instrumental births, unassisted vaginal births and epidural use were similar while neonatal outcomes did not differ between the groups.

The authors stated the higher proportion of women with spontaneous onset of labour, less use of pharmacological analgesia for labour, and fewer women having a postpartum blood

loss greater than 500mL, combined with one

fewer antenatal visit and a signi� cant reduction

in median length of stay in the postnatal ward,

contributed to the cost reduction for women

birthing through caseload midwifery.

“Our results show that for women of any risk,

caseload midwifery is safe and cost effective,”

the authors stated.

Australian College of Midwives spokesperson

Professor Hannah Dahlen said the “outstanding”

cost saving came as Australia continues to lag

behind other countries, including New Zealand,

in the provision of one-on-one midwifery care.

Professor Dahlen said hospitals need to embrace

a more modern approach to midwifery, enabling

midwives to respond to the woman’s needs and

not the institution’s.

“Midwifery is very organic. It’s not mechanical,”

she said.

“It doesn’t � t very well into our standardised

approach of managing staff in hospitals.

“We need to think about how do we change the

way we handle these very autonomous midwives

in a way that enables them to � ourish and really

reach the maximum of their potential without

strangling them.

“It’s a really new way of thinking and I don’t think

we are very good at managing this.”

Professor Dahlen said while midwives have

access to Medicare funding, insurance and

can prescribe PBS medicines, hospitals

continue to keep their doors closed to privately

practising midwives seeking clinical privileging

arrangements.

Caseload midwifery costs lessby Karen Keast

St John of God Health Care has been operating the capacity building Nursing Development Program in Timor-Leste since 2010, in partnership with the Ministry of Health.

We are now seeking to expand our team of nurses based in Dili, who are working alongside Timorese nurses to assist in the process of building their nursing and midwifery knowledge and skills.

Positions are available for registered nurses and midwives with the following specialisations:

Paediatric or Emergency Nurse – 1 position

Midwives – 2 positions, at least one with current birthing suite experience

For further details relating to these positions please visit our e-recruitment website atsjog.erecruit.com.au. More information about our capacity building work in Timor-Leste and other neighbouring countries can be found at http://www.sjog.org.au/outreach/international_health.aspx.

Applications close Friday 25th October 2013, and deployment to Timor-Leste is expected to be in March 2014. For further information please contact Anthea Ramos, Group Manager International Health at [email protected]

The Nursing Development Program operated by St John of God Health Care is part of a wider commitment to Timor-Leste which includes a long-term Pathology Development Program and primary health care projects in remote communities. Our work in Timor-Leste has been recognised by the Global Health Fund and the World Bank as amongst the most successful by a non-government agency since the country's independence.

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Opportunities look set to open up for Australian psychologists specialising in elite sports, when the next � xture of the Olympic Games takes place in Brazil in 2016.

The Australian Olympic Committee has reportedly con� rmed plans to send a greater number of psychologists to the next Olympics than in previous games, in order to meet athletes’ increasing demand for mental support, following sporting stars, including champion swimmers Leisel Jones and Ian Thorpe, speaking out about the “mental anguish” they endured in pursuit of winning a gold medal.

Ruth Anderson, who acted as head psychologist for Australia’s Olympic team in Beijing and London, told NCAH that awareness had grown of the important role played by sports psychologists in supporting elite athletes.

“At the Beijing Olympics it was just me. Then in London I also had a clinical psychologist with me at the recovery centre; and there was increased focus on enhancing athletes’ relaxation, ensuring they could deal with intense pressure, making sure they could get a good night’s sleep, and so on. Going forward we’ll be looking to further consolidate those developments for future Olympics.”

More psychologists Olympics-bound in 2016

by Karen Keast

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The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation’s South Australian Branch has vowed to closely monitor the State Government’s plan to cut the number of nursing and midwifery hours equivalent to 200 positions.

It comes after SA Health revealed it would axe about 200 nursing positions as part of 684 health jobs set to go in the next nine months through improving efficiencies and natural attrition, with departmental figures showing about 900 of its 12,500 nurses and midwives exit the workforce each year.

ANMF SA Branch secretary Adj Assoc Professor Elizabeth Dabars said it was an “ambitious target” needed to be implemented through genuine efficiencies.

“Whether or not it is actually achievable only time will tell,” she said.

“Our interest is in ensuring that what efficiencies they propose or start to implement are advantageous and do not affect patient care and patient outcomes.”

Adj Assoc Professor Dabars said she did not believe any nurses or midwives will be made redundant, with the union and government recently achieving a new enterprise bargaining agreement protecting nurse to patient ratios.

“That industrial agreement means that the number of nurses and midwives cannot be cut – there cannot be a reduction in the quality of care,” she said.

A spokesperson for SA Health said a review of the state’s hospitals earlier this year highlighted opportunities for efficiencies in reducing the average length of stay of patients in some areas.

“Length of stay will only be reduced where it is possible to do so safely,” the spokesperson told media.

“By reducing the average length of stay, this would lead to a reduction in the number of

beds and in turn a reduction in nursing staff.”

Adj Assoc Professor Dabars said it remained unclear what type of efficiencies the government has planned.

“Provided they are genuine and are in the best interests of the patient we have no objection to that,” she said.

Adj Assoc Professor Dabars said the branch had also put forward a range of suggestions designed to drive efficiencies, including the yet to be rolled out pilot nurse-led discharge program, the use of advanced practice nurses and better bed options.

“While people are in a high intensive care ward when really they need to be in a step down rehabilitation unit we are effectively wasting money and resources,” she said.

Plan to cut nursing and midwifery hoursby Karen Keast

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Three years ago, Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm McGregor AM met a psych triage nurse on duty at the Royal Military College, Duntroon.

It was a meeting that changed the speech writer and political strategist’s life.

“I thought enough is enough because I am feeling really �at all of the time. I attend Alcoholics Anonymous regularly, I meditate and pray but it wasn’t lifting me – it was time I got some help on this.

“It saved my life and gave me a life I hadn’t dreamed was possible. I had been half alive my whole life. That’s the real gift from the support that I received.”

After commencing gender transition in June last year, Lt Col McGregor is now Catherine ‘Cate’ McGregor and continues to work in the Australian Defence Force for Army chief Lieutenant General David Morrison.

Lt Col McGregor will tell her story and the important part mental health nurses and psychologists have played in her transition from male to female as one of the key note speakers at the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses’ 39th Annual International Mental Health Nursing Conference, being held in Perth from October 22-24.

“I feel an enormous debt of gratitude to the people that worked with me over the course of the last three years,” she said.

“They helped me �nd my way to the most important decision I have had to make.

“Without them I wouldn’t be alive today. I was in quite dire straits on a few occasions.”

The psych nurse referred the Lt Col, who commanded the Australian Army Training Team in East Timor, and recovering alcoholic to a psychologist supportive of the AA’s Twelve Step program - opening up an entire new world to the Lt Col.

Lt Col McGregor said she �rst sought help from a psychiatrist in the 1980s and battled preconceived ideas of “what a transgender person looks like”, resulting in a misdiagnosis.

She said transgender people come in all shapes and sizes, and she forms a minority of the transgender population who have macho behaviours, not the stereotyped effeminate tendencies.

“I think the profession has moved forward over time,” she said.

“My presence is the message (I want to get across). You can be a transgender woman who has had an unorthodox and a male career and can still be completely identi�ed with the female gender.”

Lt Col McGregor said the encounter with the psych nurse at Duntroon was “incredibly important”.

“She treated me as a human being and just didn’t rubber stamp me. She took my individual case seriously and treated me with real respect and empathy.”

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Transgender Lt Col pays tribute to mental health professionalsby Karen Keast

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