The Practice Nurse Clinical Education Program is made up of a number of keynote sessions, streams and breakout sessions, allowing you the freedom to put together the program you want.
Saturday 12th March
Q&A: Future of the PN Role and New Incentives for PNs
Your chance to have your questions answered about where APNA sees the role of Practice Nurses going, what the new PN incentive funding is going to look like and what impact it will have on your own role. Submit your questions before the conference.
APNA
The Theory of Ear Syringing
Learn what you need to know when performing this procedure, what are the common pitfalls and how to best try and avoid them. This session will run you through the theory of ear syringing.
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 PN in managing diabetes in the context of CKD.
Kidney Health Australia
√ Practical: Performing Doppler & ABI Assessments
As a growing role for PNs, this session will enable you to find out more about how to perform Doppler assessments & attain ankle brachial indices (ABI’s).
Parenting the Newborn - common issues and 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, and maternal and childhood issues.
Healthy Bones
Learn some practical dietary and lifestyle tips that you can give your patients to avoid osteoporosis. The simple tips provided will also lower the risk of many lifestyle diseases, especially as we realise that Vitamin D, calcium, sodium and bio-active compounds in food have wider health effects.
Australian Mushroom Growers Association
√ Practical: Suturing
An introduction to the removal of sutures, whilst outlining & demonstrating the current trends in wound closure. This is a practical session in setting up, assisting & performing suturing.
DYNEK
Cardiovascular Disease Management
Nurses can play a key role in the primary management of patients with cardiovascular disease. Learn what the diagnostic levels are and how you can help manage treatment goals and lifestyle modifications for your patients.
Innovations in Cancer Screening
Hear about the latest innovations in cancer screening. Information relevant to your practice will be presented from the QLD Bowel Cancer Screening Program, the BreastScreen QLD Program and the QLD Cervical Screening Program. Contemporary information on skin cancer screening will also be addressed.
Cancer Screening Services, QLD Health
Practical: Plastering
An update on the types of materials used in plaster casting. You will also have the opportunity to view a practical demonstration of the most suitable techniques in casting.
ECG Interpretation -Tips & the Pitfalls
This session will provide an examination of the varying facets of ECG interpretation & the implications & clinical significance of these findings. Examples will be presented.
The 4 Year-Old Healthy Kids Check
This session will provide essential information you will need to know to take part in the activity. You will learn about different aspects of the health assessment including general health, visual screening and development.
Leg Ulcer Assessment & Management
This session is designed to provide an overview of the clinical parameters related to the assessment and management of leg ulcers.
Smith & Nephew
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 infected person, underling diseases and individual’s immunity. The national immunization 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
Sunday 13th March
Primary Health Care Nursing
Practice Nursing is a very important part of Primary Health Care Nursing which has a long history both in Australia and overseas. This session will give you insight into the ideas and principles of Primary Health Care Nursing.
GP Management Plans & Team Care Arrangements
Learn about the practice nurse role in GP Management Plans and Team Care Arrangements, which provide a structured framework for GPs & PNs to undertake assessment and management of patients with chronic conditions. Also hear about potential roles for PNs in managing chronic diseases between plans.
Hydration in Aged Care & Infants
Dehydration may not always be evident & can be overlooked whilst dealing with the causative agents. For these reasons, young children & the elderly are more at risk of involuntary dehydration. Hydration Pharmaceuticals nurse educator will help you implement simple procedures to assist your patients with this condition.
Hydralyte
The COPD Patient in the Community
How the PN can facilitate care for the COPD patient, plus a skills check including delivery devices and spirometry.
Australian Lung Foundation
Triage
This session will asses principles of effective triage. Learn how to take a team approach to the identification and management of prioritising the medical needs of patients.
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.
√ Introducing the RACGP Standards for General Practice (4th edition)
THE RACGP standards for general practices provide a template for quality care and risk management in contemporary general practices. Come and hear what is new in the latest edition and how it can help you improve what you do.
RACGP
Patient's Taking Control - Facilitating Warfarin and 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
√ The Development of a Transitional Role for a Nurse Practitioner Candidate A transitional role has been developed within the practice setting, that will support Nurse Practitioners clinically, educationally and professionally, consequently enabling a smooth transition to NP (GPN). This session will run through how to overcome some of the barriers and what conceptual frameworks are needed.
Influenza & Intradermal Micro-Injection System Delivery of Influenza Vaccine
A presentation on safety and technique of influenza vaccines. Information concerning patient selection, patient consent, vaccine administration and disposal. All nurses attending will gain hands-on experience giving the ID flue vaccine. A free vaccination will be given to all interested nurses.
Sanofi Pasteur
Mental Health First Aid
Recognising the signs of mental illness is vital to the wellbeing of all patients. The effective management and treatment of patients with or at risk of mental health emergencies is a key role for PNs. This session will discuss how to recognise and implement suitable referral pathways for mental illness.
Sexual Health
This session will examine how Practice Nurses can contribute to sexual health in the general practice setting. Learn about all the different aspects of sexual health and how to educate your patients.
√ Setting up nurse led clinics: an open forum
This session will provide a forum for PNs 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.
√ A Nationally Accredited Certificate Course
Intravenous (IV) Cannulation
The course in Intravenous (IV) Cannulation has been designed to provide participants with the required knowledge and skills to safely perform a peripheral intravenous cannulation in a clinical setting.
To be accredited to perform IV cannulation, the participant of this program must:
• Complete the Learning Package
• Satisfactorily complete the simulated assessment during the clinical skills session
• Complete 5 satisfactory supervised cannulations
Hours include self directed learning and two (2) hours of delivery including lecture, demonstration and practical assessment.
*This course incurs a $70 additional fee
√sessions for the 'experienced PN'