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.
Saturday 21st May
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
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.
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
Work Life Balance – Yes it exists. Yes you can achieve it!
Are you happy with your work life balance? Are you devoting enough time to your family, your health, your friends, and your fitness? Well you need to! An interesting and fun workshop that will give you a practical guide on how to achieve that objective.
Bongiorno Group
Management of Hypertension
Hypertension is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, but practice nurses can play a key role to assist in preventing the onset of these conditions. This session will guide delegates through the management of hypertension, and lifestyle factors that may contribute to the condition including alcohol consumption, smoking, nutrition, body weight and physical activity.
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
Current Trends in PN Salary & Conditions
An update on the results of the 2010 APNA salary & conditions survey. You will have the opportunity to compare your current salary & conditions to those of your colleagues, & discuss these issues with other PNs.
√ Prevention of Diabetes Type 2 in General Practice
Health coaching and education for patients around lifestyle factors has become an important part of the day to day role of practice nurses. This session will guide you through a process of preventing type 2 diabetes, including identifying high risk patients, education and health coaching, referral into a lifestyle modification program, and a Management Plan along with Team Care Arrangement which will enable patients to access allied health services to assist them reduce their risk and prevent or prolong Type 2 Diabetes.
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 disease, especially as we realise that Vitamin D, calcium, sodium and bio-active compounds in food have wider health effects.
Australian Mushroom Growers Association
Caring for Patients Suffering from Alcohol & Drug Abuse
Alcohol & drug abuse is a serious problem facing patients of the PN & many factors can lead to this abuse. Learn about the effects, ways in which you can manage your patients’ addictions & preventative ways that will aid in deterring alcohol & drug abuse.
Identification & Management of Diabetes Type 2 in General Practice
Type 2 is the most common form of Diabetes, so it is essential that practice nurses have a thorough understanding of how to identify and manage the condition. This session will discuss the various identifying factors of Type 2 Diabetes, as well as an overview of the management of the condition.
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.
Point of Care Testing - “To QC or not to QC”?
The Australian Point of Care Practitioner’s Network (APPN) will present why it is important to perform quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) testing for Point of Care Testing. What can go wrong if you don’t perform QC or QA? This discussion will teach you to produce a quality system for your Point of Care requirements so you produce accurate, consistent results every time.
Australian Association of Clinical Biochemists
BP Software – Convert to BP & take advantage of the latest software & hardware technologies
Take a look at how easy is it to convert to Best Practice Software from your current software program without losing any time or data. Computercare will explain how to make it possible for you to use the latest software and hardware technologies and give technical advice.
Best Practice Software
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 22nd May
GPs and Nurses working together: making sense of the new Practice Nurse Incentive Program
The Australian Government has announced planned changes to Practice Nurse payments. Under the new program due to start in 2012 MBS item numbers will be replaced by block payments of up to $25,000 per full time GP for a RN and $12,500 per full time GP for an EN. This session will explore the clinical and financial implications of the new incentive, including the opportunity for greater flexibility in PN roles.
√ Wound Related Pain – a call to action
Our knowledge, beliefs and actions – What we choose to do or not do in our practice has a direct positive or negative influence on both the person and their wound. It has been proposed that “the last decade focused on healing; the next decade must focus on the patient with pain management a priority.” (EWMA 2002) .We have to ask ourselves the question, “Are we there yet, have we achieved this goal? Or have we dropped the ball”?
Molnlycke Health Care
√ 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
Mental Health Assessment and Management
This session will guide delegates through how to assess patients with a suspected mental health issue such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. You will also be updated on the management of these conditions.
Superannuation - How to Maximize your Benefits
Now that deductions have halved for Superannuation, how do I maximize both the taxation deductions and the benefits in my fund? Did you know that superannuation is still the best taxation advantaged investment vehicle? This session you will teach you at least five new strategies to maximize your benefits in superannuation.
Bongiorno Group
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.
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 take back to your practice.
Ophthalmology in General Practice
This session will cover the basics of vision testing, such as visual acuity, amsler grid and colour vision; ocular examination, such as fluorescein staining, lid eversion and irrigation. Delegates will also be updated on some common presentations of patients in the general practice setting and macular degeneration, including Lucentis treatment.
Asthma Management
Maintain & update your knowledge on the importance of effective asthma management. Additionally, learn about preventative measures, medication management, & the importance of a tailored asthma action plan.
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
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.
Foot Check and Assessment
Diabetes is a common condition which affects a large portion of the population. It can affect the body in many ways including having adverse effects on the health of the lower limbs. Good foot health is important for your patients who have diabetes. Learn how prevention and protection play key roles in foot health, and how to conduct a foot check and assessment.
Common Dermatological Problems
This session focuses on three common dermatological problems facing patients of the Practice Nurse - eczema, psoriasis and acne/rosacea. The aim of this session is to discuss the management of each of these conditions in the context of the young adult.
√ 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.
Weight management
A dietician will present various strategies for management of overweight and obesity and the evidence behind them. Some practical tips will be provided around how to help individuals to achieve their weight loss goals - what does the dietician really do?
Smoking Cessation
Learn some practical information about smoking cessation and effective strategies that you can apply to identify smokers and assist them to stop smoking.
BP Software – Actions/ Reminders/ Preventative Health – Getting your patients back for improved care
Understand the entire reminder and actions workflow to get the best out of your reminder system. Learn about Preventative health searches and getting your patients back for improved care.
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.
Practical: ECG Interpretation
This session will provide an examination of the varying facets of ECG interpretation & the implications & clinical significance of these findings, specifically looking at abnormal ECGs. Examples will be presented.
Practical: Spirometry
Learn the basics for performing spirometry & interpreting the results. Additionally, be informed about how spirometry can help you to identify conditions such as asthma, COPD & cystic fibrosis.
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).
Practical: Wound closure – an alternative to suturing
A practical workshop looking at other methods of skin closure, the workshop will include a demonstration of the skin closure system “Leukosan Skinlink”.
Smith & Nephew
Practical: CPR
This workshop will discuss and demonstrate the skills and knowledge required to perform CPR in line with the Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) guidelines. Participants will be required to demonstrate CPR on adult, child and baby manikins and complete a short multiple choice questionnaire. A CPR certificate will be issued.
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
Practical: Management of Chronic Wounds
Wound bed preparation can be defined as the process of removing local barriers which may facilitate healing & provide a more efficient means of wound management. This session looks at the T.I.M.E approach to wound care.
Smith & Nephew
Practical: Skin Tear Management
A practical look at modern skin tear management.
Smith & Nephew
√ Nationally Accredited Certificate Courses
Intravenous (IV) Cannulation
Designed to provide participants with the required knowledge and skills to safely perform a peripheral intravenous cannulation in a clinical setting.Course includes self directed learning and two (2) hours of delivery including lecture, demonstration and practical assessment.
Management of Anaphylaxis
Involves monitoring & recognition of symptoms, communication, critical incident leadership & management and ongoing first aid maintenance until the arrival of ambulance paramedics or medical staff.
*These courses incur a $70 additional fee each