The Practice Nurse Clinical Education Program is made up of larger, lecture style seminars, and smaller breakout sessions and practical, hands-on workshops, allowing you the freedom to put together the program you want.
Thursday 13th October 2011
Q&A: Future of the Practice Nurse Role & New Incentives
Your chance to have your questions answered about where APNA sees the role of primary health care Nurses going, what the new Practice Nurse incentive funding is going to look like and what impact it will have on your own role. Submit your questions prior to the conference.
APNA
Healthy Bones
Nutrition myths abound, often encouraging people to make poor food decisions. Many myths circulate by mouth and email about fruit, vegetables, artificial sweeteners, vitamins, water, milk, tea, coffee and organic food, encouraging people to make unhealthy and expensive choices. Emerging science makes the true story far more interesting, helping practice nurses give useful and practical advice to patients. Australian Mushroom Growers
Collaboration - The Key
Hear from colleagues who by collaborating with external health care providers have been able to improve the overall health of their local Aboriginal population. This has meant an increase in our GPMP’s + TCA’s. This session will explain how they implemented the overall process so as to achieve a better recall and representation of their clientele.
ECG Interpretation
This session will provide an examination of the varying facets of ECG interpretation, the implications and clinical significance of these findings, specifically looking at abnormal ECGs. A number of examples will be presented.
CareSearch: Supporting Nurses in Primary Healthcare
This session will explore the Nurses [HUB], online palliative care information specifically written to support nurses. This includes clinical information (medication management, communication and ethical issues) links to general practice and consumer information, resources and newsletters to support evidence based practice and education resources (including free online learning modules for professional development).
Prevention od Diabetes Type-2 in General Practice
This session will guide you through a process of preventing Type-2 diabetes, including identifying high risk patients, education, referral into a lifestyle modification program and a Management Plan which will enable patients to reduce their risk or even prevent Type-2 Diabetes.
Plastering - Part 1 & 2
An update on the types of materials used in plaster casting and a
hands-on opportunity for delegates to try some of the most suitable techniques in casting.
Patients Taking Control - Facilitating Warfarin & INR Self Management
The Warfarin S.M.A.R.T trial was designed to determine whether patients self managing Warfarin, could keep the INR in target range at least as often as patients managed by GP/Clinic care. Evaluations of the education process, patient satisfaction and quality of life were used to assess the impact that self-management of Warfarin could have on the warfarinised patient.
Roche Diagnostics
Asthma Management & Spirometry
Maintain and update your knowledge on the importance of effective asthma management. Additionally, be informed about how spirometry can help you to identify conditions such as asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis.
Parenting the Newborn - Common Issues & Challenges
This session will update you on various issues and challenges your patients may face with new babies. It will provide information on responsive sleep and settling, breastfeeding as well as maternal
and childhood issues.
Improve your Patient's Heart Health!
An insight into managing risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Learn more about what works, what doesn’t and what you can do to facilitate positive change to improve the heart health of your patients.
Respiratory Assessment
Learn how to recognise and assess symptoms of respiratory dysfunction to provide early, effective and appropriate care.
Influenza: The Virus, The Disease and an Insight into The Intradermal Route for Flu Vaccination
Influenza is a vaccine-preventable disease which can lead to serious complications including pneumonia and death. The severity of influenza disease depends on several factors such as virus structure, age of the infected person, underling diseases and individual’s immunity. The national immunisation program allows free access to eligible persons while healthy adults are not eligible for NIP. This session sheds a light on various aspects of influenza such as virus strains, compares seasonal and pandemic, how to differentiate common cold from influenza based on symptoms followed by an insight into the role of antivirals and the intradermal route for flu vaccination.
Sanofi Pasteur
Friday 14 October 2011
Practice Nurses & Primary Health Care - How Does it Fit Together and What Does it Mean for you?
This session will examine the primary care context that Practice Nurses work in, the changes associated with health reform and what this means for your patients, your professional development, your practice and your role. It will stimulate discussion particularly around the current, expanding, advanced and potential role that nurses will play in the future.
Chronic Kidney Disease & Diabetes for the Practice Nurse
Diabetes is one of the major risk factors for CKD with recent evidence suggesting diabetes is the underlying cause of CKD in over 30% of cases. This presentation will investigate the relationship between CKD and diabetes and the role of the Practice Nurse in managing diabetes in the context of CKD.
Kidney Health Australia
Adult Immunisation Update
Immunisation has become an essential element of preventative health. This session provides an overview of which adults are recommended to be vaccinated with influenza and pneumococcal vaccine, it also provides data into who is actually getting immunised. Tools to improve adult immunisation within medical practices will also be discussed.
√ Performing Doppler & ABI Assessments
This session will enable you to find out more about how to perform Doppler assessments and attain ankle brachial indices (ABI’s).
Travel Health
Travel health requires a broad range of knowledge by nurses in general practice and is a vital aspect of safe and healthy travel for patients of all ages and backgrounds.
Childhood Immunisation
Childhood immunisation plays a critical role in the prevention of serious infections including diphtheria, measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, rotavirus and chickenpox. This session will provide an update on recent changes to the immunisation schedule, as well as what procedures to follow in order to set up and administer immunisations.
Wound Care
Learn about the prevention and management of the most common wounds presenting in general practice.
Health Coaching - Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing (MI) can assist practice nurses in working with their patients to achieve the best health outcomes possible. You will learn some practical techniques in motivational interviewing that you can use in your practice.
Weight Management
A dietician will present various strategies for the management of obesity and the evidence behind them. Some practical tips will be provided on how to help individuals to achieve their weight loss goals - what does the dietician really do?
Influenza & Intradermal Micro-Injection System Delivery of Influenza Vaccine
An update on influenza for 2011. An intradermal (ID) influenza vaccine, delivered via micro-injection system (Intanza®), was launched in 2010. This presentation will explore the benefits of and provide training on the intradermal influenza vaccine. It will involve a hands-on workshop where delegates have an opportunity to trial the micro-injection system.
Sanofi Pasteur
Smoking Cessation
Practical information on smoking cessation and effective strategies that Practice Nurses can apply to identify with smokers and assist them to stop smoking.
4 Year Old Healthy Kids Check
This session will provide essential information you will need to know to perform this check. You will learn about different aspects of the health assessment including general health, visual screening and development.
√ Setting up Nurse Led
Clinics: An Open Forum
This session will provide a forum for Practice Nurses to exchange ideas, suggestions and feedback from their experience with clinics. If you have any ideas on planning, implementation and evaluation you would like to share or are looking for ideas on how to setup a clinic, this session is for you.
√ Nationally Accredited Certificate Courses:
√ IV Cannulation*
Designed to provide participants with the required knowledge and skills to safely perform a peripheral intravenous cannulation in a clinical setting. Involves a simulated assessment during the course.
√ Management of Anaphylaxis*
Involves monitoring and recognition of symptoms, communication, critical incident leadership as well as management and ongoing first aid maintenance until the arrival of ambulance paramedics or medical staff.
*These courses will incur a $70 additional fee each