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The New Zealand Nurses Organisation has questioned why United States’ physician assistants are being funded and recruited to work in rural parts of the country.

The nurses’ union has spoken out in opposition to the plans and called for nurse practitioners to instead be considered for the positions.

In a statement, the union said it is “disappointed” �ve New Zealand practices will host the recruited health workers instead of employing nurse practitioners, who come equipped with a minimum of eight years’ experience and post graduate education.

“We are disappointed that following a �awed and poorly evaluated demonstration at just one District Health Board more U.S. health workers are being funded and recruited to work in rural New Zealand,” NZNO professional services manager Susanne Trim said.

“There are New Zealand trained specialty registered nurses and nurse practitioners who do similar work but who have not been considered for these funded positions.”

Ms Trim said there is no evidence to prove physician assistants are necessary in New Zealand.

The comments come amid reports four Waikato practices and one Southland practice will host the physician assistants as part of the second phase of the Health Workforce New Zealand demonstration.

In the �rst demonstration, two U.S.-trained physician assistants were employed for one year to work at an acute surgical unit at Middlemore Hospital in Counties Manukau District Health Board.

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“It was acknowledged that the �rst demonstration had limitations in that it was the �rst experience of the role in New Zealand,” the website states.

“Being an unregulated profession the PAs could not operate to their full scope as they do in US.

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An initiative to create Victoria’s �rst state-wide approach to wound management has received national acclaim.

The Connected Wound Care Project, a partnership between the Royal District Nursing Service, the Victorian Department of Health and Regional Wounds Victoria, has been recognised with an Australian Institute of Project Management award for its outstanding achievements.

The project, which began in July 2010, developed nine wound health care guides and a diabetes foot kit in a bid to improve the management and prevention of chronic wounds, including leg and foot ulcers, pressure injuries and burns, across Victoria.

The guides were developed for both nurses and patients, covering topics such as healthy eating for healing, skin care, activity and healing, and the use of footwear for patients with wounds or at risk of developing wounds.

The resources have now been distributed to 275 public healthcare providers, while the project has received requests from GPs and there has also been interstate interest in the project.

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Community pharmacies in rural New Zealand are struggling to recruit and retain pharmacists.

A Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand survey has found 24 per cent of pharmacies are �nding it dif�cult to recruit professional pharmacy staff, up from 15 per cent last year, because they are located in rural areas.

The survey results prompted the Guild’s executive chair Karen Crisp to repeat calls for the government to include pharmacists and pre-registration pharmacists in its voluntary bonding scheme.

“The Guild believes including pharmacists and pre-registration pharmacists in the voluntary bonding scheme would help alleviate staff shortages in rural pharmacy and improve

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“The primary reason given by respondents for the dif�culty recruiting pharmacists and technicians was because the pharmacy was located in a rural area.”

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The future of Victoria’s unique Nursing and

Midwifery Health Program is under threat.

The Australian Nursing Federation’s Victorian

branch fears the con�dential program, which

helps nurses and midwives battling addiction

or mental health issues, could fold with the

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ANF Vic branch acting secretary Paul Gilbert

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“We will continue to be advocating and

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“We don’t believe there’s any alternative

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Mr Gilbert said the program, launched in

2006, is assisting 700 nurses and midwives,

with about 30 per cent of those requiring

ongoing care.

He said about 70 per cent of presentations

to the program are for mental health issues

while about 30 per cent are for addiction,

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“It’s about looking after nurses and midwives

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“They (addiction problems) often arise

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“The program is used quite a bit by the Nursing and Midwifery Board as a very affective program for referring people who come to the attention of the board.

“The majority of people come by way of self-referral. We had the experience of nurses who had particularly a drug addiction problem and were unable or unwilling to seek treatment because the only treatment provided was their own employer, particularly outside of Melbourne and occasionally within Melbourne.

“Your capacity to have any con�dential support or treatment was compounded….and people weren’t seeking treatment.”

The Nurses Board of Victoria previously funded the program until the move to national registration, when the funding was guaranteed to continue until June 2013.

The Nursing and Midwifery Board has now revealed it has decided against providing ongoing funding for the program or supporting the proposed national expansion of the program.

The board stated it will provide a year’s additional funding to June 2014 to enable the program to explore alternative funding sources and establish transitional arrangements.

“The national board’s role and functions are de�ned under the National Law,” the board said in a statement.

“In this context, having reviewed both the current NMHPV and other jurisdictional services available for the management

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of nurses and midwives with a health

impairment, the national board has decided

not to fund a health program nationally or to

support the ongoing funding of the NMHPV.

“An independent report guided the national

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“In summary, the report identi�ed that a

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“The national board is also aware of

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The board also ruled out increasing fees to

support the program’s funding to 2014.

More than 5200 people have signed the

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save the program, at a time when nursing and

midwifery registration fees have increased

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Mr Gilbert said the union will explore other

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the program and will lobby Victorian Health

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national meeting of health ministers this

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Nurses are taking Queensland Health to court amid claims they were not compensated for inadequate breaks between shifts.

The Queensland Nurses’ Union has �led a case in the Industrial Magistrates Court on behalf of four nurses and it’s revealed it is also considering another 92 applications, including 89 from Gold Coast nurses and midwives.

The union states the Queensland Health nurses and midwives failed to receive the full 10-hour break between shifts for up to six years, in breach of the state award.

QNU secretary Beth Mohle said the compensation owed to one nurse could be as high as $40,000 but most would be “much, much less than that”.

In one case, the union believes there were 80 alleged award breaches against one employee over �ve years and it has estimated compensation to be in the order of $17,000.

In another case, the union estimates the award was breached 30 times in the past three years which could result in that employee’s compensation reaching about $7500.

Ms Mohle said members �rst alerted the union around July or August last year and attempts to resolve the issue with Queensland Health had failed.

She said the nurses had not formally agreed to an eight hour break in a written agreement between them and their employer.

Ms Mohle said the award was there for the bene�t of nurses and was also there to protect

safe patient care.“This is to make sure that

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Ms Mohle said it was a standard case being

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New statistics forecast an extra 10 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer every day in Australia in 2020.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare and Cancer Australia report, Breast cancer in Australia: an overview, has revealed 37 Australian women are now diagnosed with the disease every day but that �gure is expected to jump to 47 women diagnosed daily in eight years’ time.

The report predicts the number of women diagnosed with the disease will rise due to the ageing population with about 17,200 new breast cancers expected to be diagnosed in 2020.

The statistics come as the McGrath Foundation continues to work towards its target of introducing 150 breast care nurses to support families experiencing breast cancer across Australia.

McGrath Foundation ambassador and director Tracy Bevan said there are now 77 McGrath breast care nurses across Australia, and based on current breast cancer statistics, the foundation aims to reach its target of 150 to ensure every family going through breast cancer has access to a breast care nurse.

“Jane (McGrath, the foundation founder) passed away in 2008 and before she passed we had four. In that short time we have gone to 77,” Ms Bevan said.

“We have had an amazing amount of support but we realise we are not going to get to 150 in the same amount of time.

“We have still got to continue the funding for the 77 nurses, so we know we have got a big job.”

Ms Bevan said, like all nurses, it takes a special kind of person to become a breast care nurse.

She said Jane went through her �rst treatment in 1997 without a breast care nurse and experienced the difference of having a breast care nurse at her side following her re-diagnosis in 2003.

“I know all breast care nurses are special people. I know it’s true because of what Jane told me,” she said.

“Jane said ‘she’s you going through the breast cancer - she’s the friend holding my hand’.

“Jane said ‘I didn’t invite breast cancer into my life and I don’t want it to be part of my friendship’.

“She said ‘she answers all of the questions that you can’t and I can speak with her and tell her how I am truly feeling’.

“They just bring so much support to the person going through breast cancer.”

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Almost 80 per cent of physiotherapists lack the con�dence to manage rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and require professional development in the area, according to the results of a new Australian study.

The study, published in Arthritis Care and Research, found 77.5 per cent of physiotherapists reported a lack of con�dence in managing RA, with most indicating they would bene�t or de�nitely need professional development in RA-speci�c disease knowledge and clinical skills.

“The survey data suggest that clinicians in primary care currently lack the con�dence to initiate safe and effective management for patients with RA, highlighting the need for PD to ensure that workforce capacity can meet the needs of consumers and health policy directives,” the report states.

Australian National Health Survey, 2007-2008, �gures reveal 2.1 per cent of Australians self-reported a diagnosis of the chronic systemic in�ammatory disease, that targets �exible joints and also affects tissues and organs.

The disease affects up to 1.1 per cent of the adult population worldwide and its prevalence in Australia is forecast to double by 2050.

Curtin University of Technology School of Physiotherapy’s Dr Andrew Briggs was lead author of the study, which included an international Delphi panel of rheumatologists, physiotherapists and patients.

The study aimed to identify the essential disease-speci�c knowledge and skills community-based physiotherapists need to effectively and safely deliver recommended care for RA.

“To effectively manage RA, community-based physiotherapists require excellent communication skills and disease-speci�c knowledge, including understanding the role of the multidisciplinary team and the principles of early referral, chronic disease management, and monitoring,” the report states.

“Physiotherapists identi�ed a need for PD to develop these skills.”

The report recommends combining the use of clinical and research leaders in the �eld with a review of clinical practice guidelines to develop professional development targeted to the current and future workforce.

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Ambulance Victoria paramedics have been credited for raising the alarm after one of their colleagues allegedly stole a large quantity of the pain killer drug Fentanyl.

Ambulance Victoria chief executive of�cer Greg Sassella said “many hundreds” of patients were affected when the highly addictive drug was replaced with tap water.

Mr Sassella also revealed Victoria is the �rst state in Australia to now use Fentanyl vials with a more tamper-proof steel cap, replacing the former rubber cap which could be penetrated with a needle.

“We have been talking to them (the drug manufacturer) from before this incident to see if there can’t be improvements made,” he told a media conference.

“We asked them to expedite the changes and to their credit they have.”

Mr Sassella said the ambulance employee has been stood down on full pay while Victoria Police investigate the incident but he declined to comment on how long the alleged theft had been taking place.

“Once we were able to con�rm that indeed there was an issue it was reported immediately to Victoria Police and their investigation is still underway as we speak today so I am limited in what I can say about the actual investigation.”

He said the ambulance service had contacted all patients who may have been affected and advised them the use of water, instead of Fentanyl, was “safe”.

“We know that the misappropriation of this drug in some instances it was replaced with

tap water and the tap water was then given to the patient via the nose.

“Patients who have received this drug and it hasn’t worked they still have available to them morphine or another drug called methoxy�urane.

“We apologise for any sub-optimal pain relief they may have had; remember they may also have been given morphine due to the non-effect of the water.”

Mr Sassella said Ambulance Victoria’s security measures were “pretty tight”, and include drug safes with electronic access cards and codes along with CCTV but he said it was paramedics that alerted management to the alleged theft.

“We had advised our workforce to be vigilant and if they saw an anomaly to report them and in fact this particular incident was reported by the paramedics themselves so that’s to their great credit,” he said.

“We were then able to use our systems to clarify there was an issue and we reported it to the Victoria Police.

“It’s a very unfortunate reality but any health service, hospitals, ourselves and we know other national ambulance services have had a similar issue - extremely rare but some people are unable to overcome their desire to misappropriate drugs occasionally.”

Mr Sassella said while drug theft was “very rare” the ambulance service had been able to identify 100 per cent of cases.

“We are very con�dent in our systems and I think this is evidence of it,” he said.

Paramedics raise alarm over alleged drug theftby Karen Keast

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Members of the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) have united to oppose the O’Farrell Government’s move to reduce public service employees’ incomes and bene�ts.

NSWNMA members came together on Monday 8 October to challenge the Liberal and National Coalition’s application to vary the Crown Employees Award. The two nursing awards likely to be affected by the move are: The Nurses’ (Department of Family and Community Services – Ageing, Disability and Home Care) (State) Award 2011 and The Crown Employees Nurses’ (State) Award 2011.

It is understood nurses and midwives and their support staff, along with disability nurses are likely to be affected by the move.

Brett Holmes, general secretary of NSWNMA reportedly commented that the “full extent of what Mr O’Farrell is trying to do has become much clearer in recent days.”

“The Government has indicated that it will be making cases in the NSW Industrial Relations Commission to remove from the Crown Award some important conditions,” he told NCAH.

“Broadly speaking, key allowances and entitlements are under threat from the changes, with examples including the removal of 17.5 per cent annual leave loading.”

“They’re also planning to remove remote allowances as well as family and community service leave.”

Other changes would involve the re-

structuring of afternoon shift loadings,

whereby employees receive a percentage-

based pay uplift for afternoon shifts

because they �nish later in the day.

Holmes indicated the latest developments,

emerging as part of the State Government’s

restructuring of New South Wale’s public

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workforce that was already overstretched.

“The NSWNMA is fully across what the

State Government is trying to do with this

application against public servants and it

will vigorously oppose this unjusti�ed attack

on the income and rights of NSW wage and

salary earners, including nurses and midwives

in disability services.”

NSWNMA unites against O’Farrellby Karen Keast

Brett Holmes from the NSW nurses assoc.

The McGrath Breast Care Nurse program

continues to promote its success stories in

supporting women with breast cancer and

their families, this time marking the three

year anniversary of the McGrath Breast Care

Nurse role at Gympie in Queensland.

The McGrath Foundation has con�rmed that

McGrath Breast Care Nurse Sharon Shelford

has supported more than 275 Gympie women

experiencing breast cancer since she took up

her role at the Sunshine Coast Hospital and

Health Service Gympie Hospital.

Providing physical, psychological and

emotional support to local breast cancer

sufferers as well as their families and

carers, Sharon’s care begins from the time

of diagnosis and continues throughout

treatment.

“I am in the privileged position of being able to

step into people’s lives and help by providing

information and support at all stages of the

breast cancer experience,” Sharon reportedly

told the Gympie Times.

“Feedback from families is one of relief that

their loved one has the support of a McGrath

Breast Care Nurse and their appreciation

makes the work worthwhile.”

Sharon’s position was established by the

McGrath Foundation in May 2009 and made

possible thanks to the Federal Government’s

grant of $12 million over four years to the

McGrath Foundation to recruit, train and

place McGrath Breast Care Nurses in 44

locations across Australia.

Co-founded by Jane and Glenn McGrath after

Jane’s initial recovery from breast cancer, the

McGrath Foundation aims to funds to place

McGrath Breast Care Nurses in communities

though out Australia and increase breast

awareness in younger women.

To date the McGrath Foundation has helped

support more than16,000 Australian families

experiencing breast cancer, with 77 McGrath

Breast Care Nurses working in communities

right across Australia. There are McGrath

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Armidale (NSW) and Warrnambool (Vic).

Breast care nurse a Gympie godsendby Karen Keast


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Hannah Dahlen’s earliest memories are of watching her mother, a midwife, tend to the care of pregnant women visiting a missionary clinic in Yemen, in the Middle East.

“My early memories are of sitting in the clinic with kidney dishes and spatulas while she did all of the antenatal checks and looked after women,” she recalled.

“When I was 10 I saw my �rst birth and when I was 12 my next door neighbour gave birth and I helped the midwife catch her. They named the baby after me.

“I held this baby as the dawn was breaking over the Middle East and I thought - there can be no other job on this earth, as being at the beginning of a new life.”

That early realisation has led to a career where Hannah has followed her passion for midwifery through clinical practice, into academia and also into the domain of politics.

Now a renowned advocate for midwives, Hannah is the Australian College of Midwives’ spokesperson, an Associate Professor of Midwifery at the University of Western Sydney, where she is one of Australia’s leading midwifery researchers, and a privately practising midwife with a small Sydney midwife group practice, where she has been pivotal to the delivery of 20 home birthed babies in the past two years.

Those roles form Hannah’s public persona but now Hannah has provided an insight into her private life, revealing her mother, who trained in England, and who “caught babies in people’s houses” was the inspiration behind her career.

Her mother’s decision to move to Yemen led to her mother meeting Hannah’s father, and resulted in Hannah being born and bred in one of the poorest countries in the Arab world.

Hannah moved to Australia at the age of 15 and later took up her nursing studies, before venturing to England to follow in her mother’s training footsteps, where she experienced home birthing.

Then she returned to Australia and worked as a midwife at several hospitals while adding to her studies, achieving Honours, her Masters and PhD, joining both UWS and the College, where she has also been president and vice president.

As a privately practising midwife, Hannah is also an eligible midwife with a Medicare provider number and she hopes to be one of the �rst midwives in the nation to have prescribing rights.

Outside of work, Hannah’s husband also works in the health sector, as the nurse manager of an intensive care unit.

“He’s often at the end and I am at the beginning. There’s a lot of similarities. I call them the book ends of life; everything in between is our lives,” she said.

“It matters intensely how these two incredible events occur - that we are born with dignity, love, pride and power and that we die with dignity, love, pride and power.”

Together, the couple have two girls, aged 14 and 7, and they have also lost two little boys who died of a rare genetic condition.

Hannah Dahlen – one midwife’s journey to advocate for changeby Karen Keast

It was that experience that prompted Hannah

to spend three years running workshops for

midwives on grief and loss, and she now �nds

grieving parents contact her from across the

country.

While Australia has taken major leaps in

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ground; losing visiting rights and insurance

for home births, with the extension of the

professional indemnity insurance exemption

just a temporary solution.

Above all, Hannah wants Australia to embrace

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campaign for women to have greater choice

when it comes to how they give birth.

Hannah believes home births are safe for low risk women with a competent registered midwife, well networked into a responsive health service.

“When you have all of that in place home birth is not only safe but truly satisfying,” she said.

“I want home births to become a valid option in the interest of equity and choice.”

With so many recent changes, and more on the horizon, Hannah said it’s an exciting time to be a midwife in Australia.

“I honestly think there’s no better career on earth,” she said.

“Many people think about changing their career or doing something else, I have never had a second thought about what I do.”

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New South Wales is now home to a new nursing and midwifery research initiative.

The recently launched BRICs (Building Research and Interdisciplinary Collaborations) Nursing and Midwifery Network has forged a group of researchers focused on encouraging the growth of world class interdisciplinary research, involving nurses and midwives, nationally and internationally.

The group is the work of the Hunter Medical Research Institute, Hunter New England Health and The University of Newcastle.

BRICs Network co-chair Professor Isabel Higgins said the network will provide an essential support base for nursing and midwifery research throughout the state.

“The network is important because it has

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