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 19 April
Chronic Disease Management - A Holistic Approach: Who is the Chronic Disease Management Team?
Chronic Disease Management is being promoted, pushed, funded, encouraged and is very much in the forefront of Health initiatives. We are all aware of how many health professionals are required to qualify for a team care arrangement, but are you aware of who is the Chronic Disease Management Team? Are there members of the team out there that you aren’t including, yet play a vital part in the care of your patient with Chronic Disease? Let us explore the team and look at the holistic angle of Chronic Disease Management.
The Management of Talking Sex in Chronic Disease Management
Sexuality is often the left out, taboo subject that most clients are longing to talk about with their clinician. This talk will focus on the changes to sexuality, sexual expression and sexual pleasure often experienced by our patients who have a chronic disease (with some practical tips on how to broach the subject).
Asthma and Respiratory Management for Practice Nurses
An overview of current best practice management for Adult and Paediatric Asthma. This session will highlight the patterns and classification of asthma including the different roles of medications used in asthma management and the importance of asthma management plans.
National Asthma Council Australia
CPR
This workshop will discuss and demonstrate the skills and knowledge required to perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in line with the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) guidelines. Participants will be required to demonstrate CPR on adult, child and baby manikins. A certificate with the National Course Code HLTCPR201A Perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) will be issued to successful participants.
Allen's Training
The Role of Nurses in Travel Medicine from the Viewpoint of Travellers’ Behaviour and Activities at the Destination
Travel Medicine is mainly concerned with vaccinations and prophylaxis. However, many health problems are not triggered by microbes but by travellers’ behaviour during the journey and at the destination. With no pills against imprudent behaviour, the purpose of travel health education is to alert to potentially harmful situations and suggest appropriate risk-minimising behaviour. Health promotion and education are Nurses' major professional roles placing them at the forefront of travel health education and making them indispensable in clinical travel health practice.
Parenting the Toddler - Common Issues and Challenges
Parenting the toddler can present many challenges and issues for families. To guide parents through these toddler months, this session, by Cindy Davenport, MCHn, RN, LC, Safe Sleep Space, assists the clinical practitioner with information and updates in the areas of:
- Breastfeeding beyond 12mths of age and its benefits to both mother and baby
- Common infectious diseases, Immunisation, resources such as immunisation including travel vaccines.
- Toddlers and sleep - transitioning from a cot to a bed.
Safe Sleep Space
Women's Health
This session will explore and discuss “The Well Woman Check”. Millions of Australian women present each year to General Practitioners, Well-Woman clinics in public hospitals, and to accredited Practice Nurses and Nurse Practitioners, for their “Well Woman Check”. However, evidence suggests that the components of these ‘checks’ are varied, as are women’s expectations of the purpose and meaning of these preventative health examinations. Even more contentious, is the role of breast and pelvic examination as part of these ‘checks’ as screening activities, fuelling debate about which health professional is the most appropriate to be involved in. This session will discuss the evidence for screening examinations in “Well Woman Checks”, the justification of same by General Practitioners performing them, the expectations of female patients regarding the process, and the role of the expanded health team in this important preventive activity.
Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF) and Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) in Queensland
The Queensland RHD Register & Control Program commenced just over two years ago. Its role is to enter all new and recurrent cases of ARF on the Register and to implement systems to coordinate clinical management to prevent progression into RHD. The talk will also discuss current research into host-pathogen (strep A) interaction.
Vascular Examination of the Foot
A thorough investigation of the vascular status of the foot is essential when assessing "at risk" patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes, arthritis and peripheral vascular disease. This session will provide tips regarding simple clinical tests nurses can use to detect those at risk of developing complications such as foot ulceration, due to poor peripheral blood flow. Hand-held doppler examination will also be demonstrated.
Friday 20 April - Day 2
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 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. Please submit your questions before the conference.
APNA
Practice Nurse Incentive Program (PNIP)
At the completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe changes to Practice Nurse funding commencing January 2012
- Explore opportunities the PNIP will create for nurses
- Access resources to assist with implementing the PNIP
- Articulate changes that can be made in your practice to maximise the nursing role.
Principal Network Advisor - Nursing in General Practice
Detecting & Managing Chronic Kidney Disease: The Key Role of the Practice Nurse
This session will focus on the role of the practice nurse in detecting and managing CKD. The session will cover the recommended tests for CKD, identifying and monitoring patients who are at risk, and the new CKD staging system. The session will highlight the changes in recommendations in 2012 as well as involving nurses in an interactive case study.
Kidney Health Australia
TIME and the Influence of Bioburden
Break through the biofilm and take back control of wound healing.
Smith & Nephew
Prescribing Compression Stocking – Just How Difficult is it?
More and more frequently people are seeking assistance through their GP for management of their lower limb swelling, tired aching legs, wounds that are slow to heal and legs that are just leaky. Experiencing these symptoms can impact on a person’s lifestyle, cause pain and discomfort and affect the way they accomplish day to day activities. Compression stockings are very effective in treating conditions such as chronic venous insufficiency, varicose veins, post thrombotic syndrome, lymphoedema and preventing deep vein thrombosis. Compression stockings are prescribed to improve the individual’s underlying medical condition, but also need to be comfortable for that person so daily compliance is ensured.
This workshop will introduce you to a range of compression stockings that are suitable to our North Queensland climate, how to measure for stockings, which community agencies can help prescribe and fit stockings and where to refer if a person’s limb shape is too difficult to measure for off the shelf stockings.
Delving Deeply - An Exploration of Autism and its Effects
This session will deliver cutting edge information about Autism including the impact on learning and living of movement differences and sensory integration. It will offer a counter-intuitive approach to the ways we define individuals who are so labelled and gives strategies to work with rather than on the individual in a truly person-centred manner.
Getting to the Heart of Who We are and What we do
The Heart Foundation is committed to all Australians having the best cardiovascular health in the world. In order to fully realise the Heart Foundation’s objectives to encourage optimal cardiovascular care and reduce current treatment gaps in clinical practice, one of the key strategies is to engage with the primary care sector in a more strategic and consistent manner to share information and ideas. This presentation provides an overview of the Heart Foundation's programs, resources and campaigns which support primary care providers.
Heart Foundation
Specialist Gerontic Nursing - Why do We Need to Bother?
The presentation will explore the developing demography in regions such as Townsville, service availability in the community, implications for future funders and local hospital health network, finishing with a review of the value of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessments.
√ Nationally Accredited Certificate Courses
√ Wound Closure Using Tissue Adhesives
The Program is an innovative hands-on practical session that covers the underlying theory of wound closure using tissue adhesives for minor wound closure. Participants will explore the types of wounds that are suitable for closure using tissues adhesives and its limitations in clinical practice. The session will give participants the knowledge and skills to competently assess and manage minor lacerations. On completion participants will receive a nationally accredited certificate.
Additional $75 fee applies per session
√ Paediatric Oral Hydration Management
This course is both theoretical and practical based giving participants immediate knowledge and skills to utilise in their daily clinical practice. The course covers assessment and management of specific paediatric hydration states with an emphasis on gastroenteritis fluid and electrolyte replacement.
At completion participants will be able to implement oral hydration management strategies for paediatric clients, accurately monitor and evaluate hydration status and refer to specialist as required.
Additional $75 fee applies per session
√ First Aid Management of Anaphylaxis
The course in First Aid Management of Anaphylaxis involves monitoring and recognition of symptoms, communication, critical incident leadership and management and ongoing first aid maintenance until the arrival of ambulance paramedics or medical staff.
The course has a strong focus on management of allergic reactions within a clinical environment. On completion participants will receive a Nationally Accredited Statement of Attainment.
Additional $45 fee applies per session