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Psychologists workshop emotional impact of strokes

The emotional toll of stroke and its impact

on physical recovery was on the agenda at the

recent Clinical Psychologist National Conference

in Melbourne.

Statistics show about 50,000 people en-

counter a new or recurrent stroke each year and

more than 400,000 people live with the effects of

stroke in Australia.

Professor of Clinical Psychology Ian Knee-

bone, of the University of Western Sydney, said

stroke survivors are in a high risk group for de-

pression and anxiety, with around 50 per cent of

post stroke patients suffering clinical depression

while 20 per cent experience anxiety.

“If you are depressed after a stroke, you are

likely to be in hospital longer, you’re likely to have

more functional problems, you’re less likely to go

home and more likely to go to some sort of sup-

ported accommodation,” he said.

“You’re more likely to have another stroke

and you’re more likely to die sooner.”

Professor Kneebone, who presented a work-

shop on the topic at the Australian Psychological

Society’s (APS) June 20-22 conference, said de-

pression and anxiety was often overlooked due

to the focus on the patient’s physical recovery

post stroke.

“The other thing is a lot of the symptoms of

stroke overlap with something like depression so,

for instance, fatigue is a sign of depression but

it’s also common after stroke, memory and con-

centration problems are common after stroke and

they are also signs of depression - so it makes it

harder to detect,” he said.

“I’m involved in a project up at Hunter New

England Health Local Health District in Newcastle

where we are attempting to screen for depres-

sion and anxiety after stroke as routine, and their

screening rate is about five per cent at the mo-

ment.

“Where I worked previously in the UK we

went from 55 per cent to 80 per cent so it’s ear-

ly days in terms of this being developed in this

country.”

Professor Kneebone, who was a member of

the core steering group that developed the Na-

tional Stroke Strategy for England and retains

a visiting post at the University of Surrey in the

UK, said it’s important for clinical psychologists

to consider the emotional recovery of stroke sur-

vivors, particularly around issues such as fear of

falling.

“Up to 60 per cent of people are affected by

fear of falling,” he said.

“Being a bit vigilant is important but if you are

fearful of falling it’s an independent risk factor of

losing functional ability.

“The important thing about the fear of fall-

ing is it’s a risk factor for actually having falls and

so the more fearful you are, the less you do, you

de-condition and then when you do try and do

something, you are more likely to fall over.”

Professor Kneebone said psychologists can

intervene to assist stroke survivors to manage

their fear, working to improve their functional abil-

ity and their outcomes.

Clinical psychologists should firstly work to

educate survivors about how the fear of falling

can be self-fulfilling, he said.

“Getting them to think - if I can manage my

fear, I can continue to do things, I’m more likely

to get home from hospital, I’m less likely to be a

burden to others - those sorts of things start to

change their mind,” he said.

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Physiotherapists are urging more people to

consider prehabilitation in a bid to safeguard

themselves against sports and fitness injuries

this winter.

Sports physiotherapists offer prehabilitation

or prehab, corrective training to amend problems

before injuries occur, which can target specific

sports and individual needs.

The call comes as physiotherapists prepare

for the annual influx of sprains, strains and other

injuries as a result of winter sports.

Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA)

president Marcus Dripps said prevention, with

a prehabilitation assessment and plan, was the

best medicine.

“We see the same risk factors again and

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and movement incongruities.”

Melbourne sports physiotherapist Aidan Rich

has been offering prehabilitation for the past five

years.

Mr Rich, a member of the APA’s national

sports committee who works at LifeCare Sports

Medicine in Ashburton and Croydon, said the

biggest risk factor for injury is having a previous

injury - so it’s important to avoid a first-time injury.

He said a sports injury can have long-lasting

implications.

“Something like an anterior cruciate ligament

injury, the return to play is typically around 10 to

14 months after an injury,” he said.

“Only about 30 or 40 per cent of people get

back to their pre-injury level of competition and

the re-injury rate for that knee or the opposite

knee is about 30 per cent.

“It’s an injury that is career halting or career

limiting and we know that if you injure your ante-

rior cruciate ligament, for example, that the risk of

early-onset osteoarthritis in your knee is dramati-

cally increased.”

Mr Rich, who has worked with a variety of

sports and musculoskeletal conditions as a

sports physiotherapist in the past eight years,

said studies show prehabilitation programs work

to prevent knee injuries in court sport players,

hamstring injuries in AFL players, and serious in-

juries in soccer players.

FIFA’s renowned 11+ prevention program, a

warm-up based on a scientific study out of Nor-

way, has been designed to reduce injuries among

amateur soccer players.

Mr Rich said the program has produced

“good results”, showing teams that completed

the 20 minute warm-up at least twice a week

achieved a 30 to 50 per cent reduction in the

number of players injured.

He said providing prehabilitation was a sim-

ple solution aimed at helping people remain in-

jury-free.

“That’s the thing I enjoy - we get to make

a difference in someone’s long-term health and

long-term enjoyment of their sport,” he said.

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COAG delivers final health diagnosis

Australians are living slightly longer and

smoking less while deaths from circulatory dis-

ease and cancer are falling.

On the downside, almost 63 per cent of

adults are now overweight and obese while a

quarter of Australians have type 2 diabetes,

potentially preventable hospitalisation rates for

acute and vaccine-preventable conditions have

increased, and there are longer waits for elective

surgery.

The COAG Reform Council’s five-year report

card, and final diagnosis on the nation’s health

as a result of federal government funding cuts,

highlighted a range of health improvements and

challenges.

It found Australians have among the long-

est life expectancies in the world - men can now

expect to live to 79.9 years and women to 84.3

years while child and infant death rates have

dropped 20 per cent between 2007 and 2012.

The annual rate of deaths for our two biggest

broad causes of death - circulatory disease (heart

attacks and strokes) and cancer have fallen.

While rates of new cases of female breast

cancer, melanoma of the skin, bowel and cervi-

cal cancers remained stable, the actual number

of people diagnosed with new cases increased

between 2006 and 2010.

Rates of new lung cancer cases in women

significantly increased by 88 per cent between

1982 and 2012 while rates for men fell 34 per

cent during the same period.

“This is consistent with a peak in female

smoking rates in the 1970s and 1980s,” the re-

port states.

“As the rate of lung cancer among women

is likely to have not yet peaked, there is a need

for on-going emphasis on early identification and

treatment of this disease, despite the declining

rates of lung cancer overall.”

The national smoking rate fell from 19.1 per

cent to 16.3 per cent in 2011-12.

The report found 72 per cent of people pre-

senting at emergency departments are now seen

within benchmark times, up from 67 per cent,

while rates of hospital acquired infections have

fallen.

It’s taking longer for older Australians to ac-

cess aged care services, with the report finding

the proportion of people who took nine months or

longer to enter high residential care, after being

approved, increased from 3.3 per cent in 2008-09

to 14.1 per cent in 2012-13.

Australians are waiting longer for elective

surgery with wait times increasing for 14 out of

15 selected surgical procedures.

The report shows the cost of health care re-

mains a concern with more than two in five, or

43.9 per cent of, Indigenous people aged 15 and

over delayed or did not see a dentist in 2012-13

due to costs, while a third delayed or did not fill

a prescription, and one in eight, or 12 per cent,

delayed or did not see a GP.

One in five, or 18.8 per cent of, Australians

delayed or did not see a dentist due to cost, 5.8

per cent delayed or did not see a GP, and 8.8 per

cent delayed or did not fill a prescription.

The report found while the proportion of peo-

ple receiving Medicare Benefits Scheme and De-

partment of Veteran Affairs funded clinical mental

health services grew an average of 12.7 per cent

a year between 2007-08 and 2010-11 it slowed to

just 3.9 per cent between 2010-11 and 2011-12

due to a slowing in the service rate of GPs.

It also found mental health treatment rates

by clinical psychologists and other allied health

professionals increased steadily.


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Pharmacists applaud community pharmacy inquiry

The Victorian Legislative Council will investi-

gate opportunities for community pharmacies to

have an enhanced role in primary and preventa-

tive care.

The inquiry, which is open to submissions un-

til June 30, will consider the role of pharmacies in

post-acute health care, aged care, personalised

medication management and vaccinations.

It will also examine pharmacies making refer-

rals to other health care professionals, commu-

nity pharmacies in rural and remote Victoria, and

the remuneration, workforce and financial issues

related to expanding the role of community phar-

macies.

The inquiry will also consider the enhanced

role of pharmacies in providing flu vaccinations in

Queensland and the Northern Territory.

Queensland pharmacists have administered

more than 8500 immunisations across 80 com-

munity pharmacies as part of the Queensland

Pharmacist Immunisation Project (QPIP) since

April 1.

Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA)

Victorian Branch president Michelle Lynch said

the inquiry had a broad scope.

“We certainly have been in discussions with

the Department of Health and the minister about

ensuring that the resources of health profession-

als are maximised,” she said.

“We obviously think there’s an opportunity to

better utilise the pharmacists that we have in the

community to achieve better health outcomes for

the public of Victoria.

“It’s just really reviewing the role that pharma-

cists can have particularly in rural and remote and

regional areas where there is a shortage of ac-

cess either to services or to other health profes-

sionals, and just better utilising the pharmacists

and the access points they provide, particularly

in community pharmacy, in ensuring that we are

delivering the right services to our patients.”

Ms Lynch, a pharmacist with independent

specialist consulting company PharmConsult

who also works in community pharmacy, said

community pharmacists have a role to play in the

provision of immunisations.

“Obviously with the right framework to al-

low the appropriate accreditation and training,

which obviously needs to go in line with provision

of those services but we absolutely think that’s

something pharmacists can do,” she said.

“It’s all about, I suppose, public access. It’s

not trying to replace anyone else’s health profes-

sional role, it’s really about collaboration.”

Ms Lynch said better utilising pharmacists

in community pharmacies could improve health

outcomes for consumers and also work to meet

the government’s agenda to contain rising health

costs.

“These are things that we talk about over a

federal level and a state level as well and it’s obvi-

ously been about trying to ensure that the public,

in this particular case in Victoria, has access to

the services that we need,” she said.

The Pharmacy Guild has also welcomed the

inquiry.

“Whilst both the Guild and the PSA are op-

timistic of the progress of our advocacy work to

date, we will certainly not rest on our laurels and

ensure our submissions and presentations to the

Legislative Council of the Victorian Government

will hopefully result in community pharmacy be-

ing recognised and remunerated for the great

work they do and can do - for the benefit of all

Victorians,” Guild Victorian Branch president An-

thony Tassone said.


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Mental health stretched at Dubbo Hospital

Nurses at Dubbo Hospital in New South

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mental health unit, attributed to underfunding by

the state government, could put nurses and pa-

tients at risk.

“The Local Health District want staffing levels

for a general mental health unit but they are run-

ning as a high dependency unit,” NSW Nurses

and Midwives Union co-ordinator Darius Altman

reportedly said.

Acutely unwell patients required a level of

care that current staffing levels were unable to

deliver, he said.

“Some high dependency patients might re-

quire the care of one nurse for every two patients

or even one to one in some cases.”

In a statement Western NSW Local Health

District director of operations Lindsey Gough

said there had been significant investment in up-

grades to Dubbo Hospital.

“There are absolutely no cuts, downgrades

or reductions occurring or planned for Dubbo

Health Service.

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Tasmania’s public sector nurses and mid-

wives are increasingly working overtime and dou-

ble shifts to fill roster shortages.

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federa-

tion’s (ANMF) Tasmanian Branch secretary Ne-

roli Ellis said the impact of the state’s health cut-

backs, as detailed in a recent independent health

policy analyst’s report, was taking a toll on the

state’s nurses and midwives.

Ms Ellis said there were 26 double shifts in

one general ward alone, last month.

“They are sick of it - there’s no doubt nurses

do not want to work this amount of over-

time,” she said.

“They get called on their

days off on a regular ba-

sis to come in and do

extra work; they are

almost ethically

obliged to do

the overtime to

ensure there is

safe staffing.

“Mistakes

and quality of

care do deterio-

rate when you are

working unsustain-

able hours.

“Nurses and mid-

wives are getting tired

in the public sector because

there’s no real commitment to em-

ploy the correct numbers of nurses on a perma-

nent basis.”

Hobart analyst Martyn Goddard’s report into

Tasmania’s public hospitals, based on Australian

Institute of Health and Welfare data, found the

system has lost 167 FTE nurses, or six per cent,

from 2011 to 2013 while nurses’ average FTE sal-

aries increased 12 per cent compared with seven

per cent for all states and territories.

“This has almost nothing to do with general

wage increases and almost everything to do with

the sharply declining efficiency with which Tas-

manian public hospitals are being staffed and ad-

ministered,” Goddard states in the report.

“Rather than employing an adequate number

of nurses, those who remain are required to work

long and expensive periods of overtime.”

Goddard’s report also found the number of

FTE doctors fell 21 per cent while their salaries

increased 32 per cent, and the overall costs of

running Tasmanian hospitals rose “substantially

faster” than the national average.

Ms Ellis said system inefficiencies were re-

sulting in nurse unit managers waiting three

months to employ into vacant base grade nurs-

ing positions.

“The nurse unit managers are incredibly frus-

trated that they can’t employ more nurses and

yet are relying on overtime,” she said.

“To recruit to a vacant position requires nine

levels of endorsement to even commence the re-

cruitment process, so that all takes time.

“While they are trying to recruit, they have got

roster shortages or holes in the roster that have

to be filled by someone and they are more often

than not filled by someone having to do a double

shift.

“It’s very poor management, both from a pa-

tient safety aspect and a nurses’ safety aspect

and of course the bottom line, to now rely on so

much overtime.”

Ms Ellis said the branch plans to release a

document outlining 40 cost-saving solutions,

most around system efficiencies, to improve the

state’s embattled health system and ultimately

patient care.




Physiotherapists to design their own conference program

Physiotherapists will be able to tailor this

year’s Physiotherapy New Zealand (PNZ) confer-

ence to their individual area of practice.

The September 19-21 ‘Linking the Chain’

conference will feature a PNZ conference smart-

phone app, more than 20 local and international

physiotherapy experts, four exterior workshops

and the addition of eight embedded workshops.

Physiotherapy New Zealand president Ian

d’Young said this year’s conference, in line with

the theme, aimed to link together a range of clini-

cal streams into one comprehensive three-day

event.

Mr d’Young said more than 300 delegates

from across New Zealand, Australia and further

afield will be able to forge their own program with

a conference smartphone app.

“We want attendees to be able to design their

own program, picking from a range of sessions

on the latest clinical research, mixed with more

specialty areas and with the option of adding in a

practical workshop or two,” he said.

“We have worked hard to give our special in-

terest groups a big role in developing a program

that is useful both in terms of presenting the lat-

est research and practical sessions.

“We want them to come away from the con-

ference with new ideas for innovation and evolv-

ing our practice to address future health chal-

lenges.”

Mr d’Young said the conference will cover

key areas of interest for physiotherapists working

in New Zealand, ranging from the prevention and

treatment of ACL injuries to the need for robust

rehabilitation programs for older adults - regard-

less of the cause of their disability.

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the area of pelvic disability and pain, and Profes-

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and Rehabilitation Research Institute, who will

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ance during rehabilitation.

Canadian sports physician Professor Karim

Khan will also cover the lack of awareness about

the effectiveness of physiotherapy among the

general public and doctors.

Mr d’Young said it’s an important topic for the

profession and is also a focus of the PNZ’s three-

year strategy.

“We are committed to promoting the value

of physiotherapy more effectively to the public,

other health professions and national funders,”

he said.

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Former nurse fights to decriminalise medical cannabisBy Karen Keast

Throughout her 20-plus year nursing career,

Lucy Haslam was familiar with issues around

pain management and cancer treatment.

A community nurse, Lucy founded and ran

her own home nursing service in Tamworth, New

South Wales, often assisting palliative care pa-

tients.

But it wasn’t until her son Daniel

began battling bowel cancer four

years ago that she realised

the medical benefits of

cannabis.

Cannabis has

helped Daniel, now

24, largely overcome

nausea, vomiting and

poor appetite around

his chemotherapy

treatments while Dan-

iel is also using canna-

bis oil in a final bid to halt

the terminal disease.

Now, Lucy and her hus-

band, a former drug squad police

officer, are fighting to decriminalise the

medical use of cannabis for Daniel and others

like him.

“Cannabis has really become our last hope,”

she said.

“I think people need to see it as another med-

icine instead of this big taboo.

“It should just be treated like any other pre-

scribed, restricted substance. It can remain il-

legal for general use but be legal for prescribed

restricted situations.”

Since going public with her story, Lucy, who

now works in hospitality, said she has been inun-

dated with messages from people who also use

cannabis for medicinal purposes.

“We are absolutely amazed by how many

people have come forward - saying that they are

doing the same thing or they want to be able to

do the same thing,” she said.

“We didn’t set out to start this massive cam-

paign but it’s kind of clear really that the need is

there.”

The Haslam family has

launched an online petition,

which has received more

than 125,000 signatures,

calling for the NSW

government to adopt

the five recommenda-

tions of a state parlia-

mentary committee,

outlined in 2013.

If adopted, the rec-

ommendations would

enable people with termi-

nal illnesses or those who

are suffering from chronic pain

to choose cannabis as a treatment,

while protecting them against arrest and

prosecution.

The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association

(NSWNMA) Council has thrown its weight behind

the fight, supporting the recommendations and

the Haslam family’s petition.

“Our members recognise the importance

of exploring improved options for effective pain

management, particularly for those patients who

suffer from constant chronic pain,” NSWNMA

general secretary Brett Holmes said in a state-

ment.

“We are aware of a proposed Private Mem-

ber’s Bill being drafted by the Member for Tam-

worth and will await the NSW government’s con-

sideration of this bill.”

The union stated medical cannabis is legal

and regulated in the United States, Canada and

several European countries to alleviate symp-

toms for Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis,

Crohn’s Disease, and other chronic pain and post

traumatic stress disorders.

Lucy labelled the union’s support “fantastic”.

She said the family has received a lot of

support in their campaign to decriminalise the

medical use of cannabis, particularly from local

nurses.

“I meet nurses every day who come and say

‘well done Lucy - you’re going really well’,” she

revealed.

“There’s a groundswell of support and if

nurses get behind that groundswell and can help

it along, I think hopefully we’ll get over the line.

“The politicians just have it in their heads that

there’s adequate medication out there that’s ap-

proved and listed on the TGA but they are just not

listening,” Lucy said.

“People’s individual stories are telling me that

that’s not the case; people have all sorts of needs

and cannabis seems to be the one thing that

people are always saying - ‘I’m getting a great

response, the side effects are really minimal or I

can manage them’.

“If local members start hearing from people

like nurses who are well regarded and trusted and

it’s their area of expertise, maybe they will start

to listen.”

Lucy said cannabis has also given Daniel

hope.

“He’s four years into this fight now and he

shouldn’t be here with us and he’s still here and

the most important thing for him, even if it doesn’t

work from a tumour-fighting point of view, is it’s

giving him some hope.

“I think hope can’t be underrated really - if

you’re terminally ill and the doctors take away

your hope you’re basically ready for the coffin,”

she said.

“If he can have some hope through taking

the oil and if he can feel like he’s actually being

a bit empowered to fight his disease, then that’s

enough for me - that makes it worth it.”

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Mental health care for older AustraliansDepression and mental illness are not a normal part of ageing. A national charity is recommending mandatory mental health training for nurses and allied health professionals in the aged care and community support sectors to improve care for older people with mental illness, By Karen Keast.

Almost half of the Australian population will

experience mental illness at some stage in

their lives.

SANE Australia says while the na-

tion’s increasingly ageing popu-

lation will result in more older

adults living with mental ill-

ness, it’s research shows

there is still a lack of

attention to mental ill-

ness in the elderly.

The national

mental health char-

ity says people with

mental illness are more

likely to experience the

effects of ageing sooner

than the general popula-

tion while they are also likely

to have multiple physical health

conditions, cognitive impairments and

few supports - and experience financial difficulty.

These factors also lead to older people with

mental illness living on average 25 years less than

the general population.

Late last year, SANE Australia released a

study, Growing Older, Staying Well, which found

aged care workers often have little understand-

ing of mental health issues while there are few

support and rehabilitation services aimed at older

adults living with mental illness.

It also revealed people with mental illness

face the ‘double stigma’ of age and mental ill-

ness.

SANE Australia has now called for a stigma

reduction campaign targeting the aged care sec-

tor and community support services around the

issue of mental illness in older adults.

The charity has recommend-

ed mandatory mental health

training for nurses and al-

lied health professionals

working in aged care

and community sup-

port sectors.

It’s also encour-

aging GPs and other

primary health care

professionals to seek

additional training and

education in the treat-

ment of coexisting physical

and mental health problems.

SANE Australia communica-

tions director Paul Morgan says with the

wave of ageing Baby Boomers approaching, it’s

vital to address the needs of older people living

with mental illness, which is distinct from demen-

tia.

“There is quite a significant proportion of

people who are living with a mental illness long

term,” he says.

“There’s this proportion of the population,

maybe three per cent, who are psychiatrically

disabled.

“When you have got a large part of the popu-

lation entering those 60s and 70s years, there are

going to be a lot more people in the aged care

demographic who have illnesses like schizophre-

nia and bipolar disorder and so forth.

“They are already disadvantaged and often stigmatised and isolated by having those conditions and have poor physical health, and that will only be made more complex and worse when they have older age problems as well.”

SANE Australia investigated the experience

of ageing with a mental illness, surveying 111

people in early 2013.

Most respondents were female, at 73 per

cent, and aged predominantly between 50 and

64, at 74 per cent.

The majority of participants had been diag-

nosed with depression, at 45 per cent, followed

by schizophrenia, at 28 per cent, bipolar disor-

der, at 23 per cent, anxiety disorders, at three per

cent, and personality disorders, at one per cent.

The charity also conducted 26 interviews with

consumers and service providers with results

used to identify barriers to effective care and to

inform recommendations for improvements.

Mr Morgan says separate SANE Australia re-

search of people with conditions such as schizo-

phrenia and other psychotic conditions shows 70

per cent regularly smoke, 47 per cent are obese,

and 49 per cent have a lifetime history of an alco-

hol or drug dependence.

“People with serious mental health problems

have much worse physical health than the rest of

the population,” he says.

“So when you combine that with people get-

ting older you are looking at rates of diabetes

and heart disease and other problems that are

going to be way above the national average - in

the population of people who are already getting

poorer services.

“They are likely to be getting even poorer in

their older age - so looking after these people and

looking out for them is terribly, terribly important.”

Older people with mental illness are also of-

ten not embedded within services and may have

become separated from family and friends result-

ing in isolation from the community, Mr Morgan

adds.

“A very strong message is that amongst a

population of people that aged care workers will

be looking after, a significant number of those are

going to be people with existing ongoing mental

health problems and they are going to be easy to

ignore,” he says.

“They might be late for appointments, they

may have a reluctance to come out, they won’t

be knotted into services as well.

“Because they are going to be easy to miss,

they are going to be neglected and we want to

see proactive systems to identify and look after

those people whether it’s in aged care settings,

whether it’s in people who are nurses and al-

lied health professionals who are seeing people

through community health centres or visiting

them in their homes.

“We really need to be looking at these people

and encouraging them to become involved with

health systems.

“We also need to be educating and training

staff in what sorts of behaviour and things will

help those people with a mental illness because

they might just be seen as awkward people or

people who don’t turn up for appointments - well,

it’s because they’ve got an illness.

“Allied health professionals who work with

GPs as well - that’s one touch point that can help

spark off a lot more integrated care for this older

population.”

SANE Australia is now working on guidelines

to assist health professionals to better care for

older people with mental illness, which will be re-

leased in late 2014.

“We don’t need to give up on people just

because they are old and affected by mental ill-

ness,” Mr Morgan says.

“They have every right to care as much as

everybody else.”




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everybody else.”


The Australian College of Mental Health Nurs-

es (ACMHN) is working to forge accredita-

tion standards for postgraduate studies in mental

health nursing.

In a project with Queensland Health, ACMHN

is developing a national framework that will out-

line agreed criteria, supporting values and princi-

ples for postgraduate studies along with a course

accreditation process.

ACMHN CEO Kim Ryan said the move will

provide national consistency for graduate diplo-

mas and masters qualifications in mental health

nursing.

“What we are going to do with

Queensland Health is de-

velop a framework that

looks at what con-

stitutes, in mental

health nursing, a

graduate certifi-

cate, a graduate

diploma and a

masters in line

with the Aus-

tralian Qual-

ity Framework

(AQF)”.

“So then uni-

versities can go -

okay, this is what the

college says should fit into

a graduate certificate, a grad-

uate diploma, a masters - we don’t

have a framework like that for any other nursing

specialty.

“This is going to help us guide what post-

graduate mental health nursing should look like,

so we’ve got consistency across the sector.”

Ms Ryan said it’s been largely left up to uni-

versities to decide the learning objectives for

their postgraduate mental health nursing studies.

“Universities have pretty much directed what

that looks like,” she said.

“If someone who has got a graduate diploma

in mental health nursing, we as a profession can

say - we think it’s important that they’ve been

able to undertake this level of education, they

have this level of knowledge, skills and educa-

tion, and be able to apply that in a clinical envi-

ronment.”

ACMHN is establishing an expert reference

group to drive the project and plans to open the

process up to consultation later this year, with the

standards expected to be completed by February

27, 2015.

Ms Ryan said once completed, universities

meeting the standards will have the option to

seek college accreditation for their mental health

nursing postgraduate studies.

“Universities have already got their courses

and there will be no requirement on them to ac-

tually meet the criteria or to have their courses

accredited by the college,” she said.

“But one would guess that in a market-driven

environment, if you wanted to go and do a post-

graduate mental health nursing course it would

probably be good to try and look for one that the

college has accredited.”

Ms Ryan said the project is part of the col-

lege’s objective to set and achieve national

standards in high quality mental health nursing

care.

“We are trying to better articulate and define

what mental health nursing is and provide more

opportunities to support nurses who are working

in mental health,” she said.

“For us it’s trying to build a workforce and try-

ing to get more people interested and supported

to undertake mental health nursing.”













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nurses.



revealed.













can manage them’.




to listen.”


hope.









she said.










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tients.





cannabis.

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his chemotherapy









like him.


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there.”





calling for the NSW

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mentary committee,

outlined in 2013.


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ment.















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can manage them’.




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calling for the NSW

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outlined in 2013.


ommendations would






prosecution.










ment.















nurses.



revealed.













can manage them’.




to listen.”


hope.









she said.










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tients.





cannabis.

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his chemotherapy









like him.


she said.

















there.”





calling for the NSW

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mentary committee,

outlined in 2013.


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prosecution.










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