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Nursing Review - April 2011 online

Nursing Review have announced their move into online publishing, with a new website, www.nursingreview.com.au. The comprehensive site presents the best original journalism in all their regular sections, as well as a ‘breaking news’ section updated weekly.

Mental health is one of the nation’s critical community issues. Almost half the total population experience a mental health disorder at some point in their lifetime and appropriate health services are underused. This edition of Nursing Review looks at some of the issues facing health professionals working in mental health and also some successful initiatives.

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Weekly Breaking News from Nursing Review April 5

• Shifting the balance of power The health debate must be shifted away from “hot button issues” such as hospital beds to longer term issues and priorities – such as rural health.

• Agency under scrutiny As nurses and doctors continue to face delays in renewing their registration, a Senate inquiry will investigate the competence and re-sourcing of AHPRA.

• Paperwork ‘tested’ for real at ED At 12:51pm local time on February 22, Christchurch was rocked by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake. The city was devastated, many were dead, more were injured and medical teams faced a situation “as bad as it could get”.

• United we (should) stand With the health care system of Australia moving out of large acute care hospitals and into the community, community nurses would benefit from forming a strong united face.

• At crisis point Without improved communication between health professionals, mental health outcomes will remain less than perfect.

• O'Farrell claims a mandate for change More nurses, an increase in hospital beds and hospital upgrades are among the election promises that led the Coalition to a landslide victory in NSW.

• Birthplace design set to limit stress during labour Latest university research is showing a connection between the design of rooms where mothers give birth, their stress levels and the potential risk of such stress to newborns.

• New project supports student nurses Increasing the amount of clinical placements is the aim of a new Queensland partnership.

• Health reform in jeopardy The federal government is being called upon to make last minute changes to the legislative framework of the National Health Performance Authority.

New Acquired Brain Injury Training Resources coming in 2011

Commencing in February 2011 ADHC is providing Acquired Brain Injury Awareness training. This training is aimed at frontline staff, information, referral and intake staff, case managers, service managers and supervisors. E-learning training modules and a series of facilitated training workshops will be provided across NSW.

A summary of the content of the e-learning and the facilitated workshops resources is now available at: http://www.abistafftraining.info

To register your interest for the facilitated training workshops in 2011, please contact arbias Ltd at email: training@arbias.com.au

 

The Acquired Brain Injury e-learning modules and facilitated workshops will include:

• Ageing Disability and Home Care & Acquired Brain Injury

• Introduction to Acquired Brain Injury

• Approaching working with people with Acquired Brain Injury: key messages

• Working with people with Acquired Brain Injury: practical strategies

• Acquired Brain Injury: My own learning, workplace learning and service network capacity building

In addition the e-learning modules will include:

• Acquired Brain Injury - Awareness Module

• Acquired Brain Injury - Case management Module

• Video resources

• Service pathways information

• Resources for individuals and workplaces

Australian Health Review Volume 34(4)

Contents with links to Abstracts and PDFs

• Models of care editorial Deborah Roberts

• A qualitative evaluation of a regional Early Psychosis Service 3 years after its commencement
  Thomas Callaly, Carmel A. Ackerly, Mary E. Hyland, Seetal Dodd, Melissa O'Shea and Michael Berk

• The First Steps Program: a case study of a new model of community child health service Margaret
  I. Barnes, Jan Pratt, Kathleen Finlayson, Barbara Pitt and Cheryl Knight

• Developing consumer-directed care for people with a disability: 10 lessons for user participation in health and community care policy and program development
  Goetz F. Ottmann and Carmel Laragy

• Capacity Audit Tool: identifying inpatient delays to maximise service improvement
  Kathryn M. Zeitz and Katie Tucker

• ISBAR for clear communication: one hospital's experience spreading the message
  Monica A. Finnigan, Stuart D. Marshall and Brendan T. Flanagan

• Health policy analysis: a tool to evaluate in policy documents the alignment between policy statements and intended outcomes
  K. Katherine Cheung, Masoud Mirzaei and Stephen Leeder

• Informal care and the self-management partnership: implications for Australian health policy and practice
  Beverley M. Essue, Tanisha Jowsey, Yun-Hee Jeon, Masoud Mirzaei, Carmen L. Pearce-Brown, Clive Aspin and Tim P. Usherwood

• Aboriginal cultural awareness training: policy v. accountability – failure in reality
  Barbara Westwood and Geoff Westwood

• Efficient funding: a path to improving Aboriginal healthcare in Australia?
  Jane E. Lloyd and Marilyn J. Wise

• Evidence-based decision-making: practical issues in the appraisal of evidence to inform policy and practice
  Bronwyn J. Carter

• Climate change and Australia's healthcare system – risks, research and responses
  Haylee J. Weaver, Grant A. Blashki, Anthony G. Capon and Anthony J. McMichael

• Preventing the rebound: improving care transition in hospital discharge processes
  Ian A. Scott

• 'I don't know why they don't come': barriers to participation in cardiac rehabilitation
  Michelle L. DiGiacomo, Sandra C. Thompson, Julie S. Smith, Kate P. Taylor, Lynette A. Dimer, Mohammed A. Ali, Marianne M. Wood, Timothy G. Leahy and Patricia M. Davidson

• Exploring beliefs of the four major ethnic groups in Melbourne regarding healthcare and treatment
  Kai'En Leong, Tracey J. Weiland and Andrew W. Dent

• Community desires for an online health information strategy
  Jared M. Dart and Cindy Gallois

• Response to pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza in Australia – lessons from a State health department perspective
  Tarun S. Weeramanthri, Andrew G. Robertson, Gary K. Dowse, Paul V. Effler, Muriel G. Leclercq, Jeremy D. Burtenshaw, Susan J. Oldham, David W. Smith, Kathryn J. Gatti and Helen M. Gladstones

• An adolescent injury intervention: selecting targeted behaviours with implications for program design and evaluation
  Lisa D. Buckley and Mary C. Sheehan

• A strategy for real time improvement (RTI) in communication during the H1N1 emergency response
  Isaac A. Seidl, Andrew J. Johnson, Peta Mantel and Peter Aitken

• Assessment of a peer review process among interns at an Australian hospital
  Paul W. Mathews, Cathy Owen, Wayne Ramsey, Gerry Corrigan, Mark Bassett and Johannes Wenzel

• Roles, attributes and career paths of medical administrators in public hospitals: survey of Victorian metropolitan Directors of Medical Services
  Alison J. Dwyer

• Medical managers in contemporary healthcare organisations: a consideration of the literature
  Alison J. Dwyer

• Risk management: where are hospital 'green' committees and officers?
  Forbes McGain and Eugenie Kayak

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News from the Australian Centre for Child Protection

News from the Australian Centre for Child Protection

• Professor Marianne Berry on recent achievements and new directions for the Centre .

• Student journalism prize established.

• Workforce development update

• Knowledge transfer: our upcoming presentations

• Recent publications

Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Online

Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Online

Volune 28 Now available. Contents include:

• Reasons for entering and leaving nursing: an Australian regional study.
• An analysis of nurses’ views of harm reduction measures and other treatments for the problems associated with illicit drug use.
• Models of health service delivery in remote or isolated areas of Queensland: a multiple case study
• Registered nurses’ opinions about patient focused care
• Casualisation in the nursing workforce – the need to make it work
• Nursing double degrees: a higher education initiative in times of nursing shortages
• Nursing education: reducing reality shock for graduate Indigenous nurses – it’s all about time
• Nurse practitioners are well placed to lead in the effective management of delirium
• Scope of emergency nurse practitioner practice: where to beyond clinical practice guidelines
• Challenges for midwives: pregnant women and illicit drug use

What makes case management work for people experiencing homelessness? Evidence for practice

What makes case management work for people experiencing homelessness? Evidence for practice

Authored by Hellene Gronda for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute

This project, a review of the evidence about case management practice, was initiated to address the following research questions:

• How is case management undertaken in the homelessness sector and how does this compare with practice in allied service sectors?
• Which approaches to case management are most likely to lead to the best outcomes for homeless clients?

Communicating with Clients with LLN Needs (in the Community Services Sector) Feedback

The Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council are holding free national consultation forums (in every State and Territory) and online questionnaires to receive industry feedback on draft additions and changes to the Community Services Training Package (CHC08).

The draft changes are intended to assist:

• Volunteer tutors who provide adult Language, Literacy and Numeracy (LLN) support
• Workers in community services who work directly with clients with low LLN skills

Registrations for the forums are now open and the online industry feedback material is now available on the project webpage.

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