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Many Oceania aged care nurses and workers are only being paid 11 cents more than the minimum wage, according to the nurses’ union.

Around 1500 nurses and staff at New Zealand’s largest aged care provider have now held three strikes and have warned of more to come, with the latest affecting 22 rest homes for four hours on every shift.

The industrial relations dispute has intensified after the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and the Food Workers Union rejected Oceania’s latest pay and conditions offer.

Aged care workers are lobbying for a 3.5 per cent pay increase amid claims many of the experienced nurses at Oceania are earning up to $9000 less than similarly experienced colleagues at public hospitals.

The latest strike action, which affected shifts at 3am, 9am and 4pm on March 19, involved aged care staff from Riverton and Invercargill homes for the first time.

Staff in other regions, including on the Coromandel , Pahiatua, Kapiti coast and Nelson, are expected to join the fight as the union ups the ante in its bid to put an end to the long standing dispute, after the last collective agreement expired in June last year.

Campaign spokesperson Alastair Duncan said aged care workers deserve better.

“Workers in aged care facilities do an amazing job caring for our parents and grandparents,” he said in a statement.

Oceania nurses step up industrial action

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by Karen Keast

Allied health professionals, nurses and other healthcare providers across Australia will receive a first-hand look at how the new eHealth system will operate.

An innovative, interactive mobile display is touring Australia to showcase the Federal Government’s $465.7 million national Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system, which will be available from July 1.

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“The MHC truck gives healthcare providers a chance to see how eHealth will look, how it will work for their patients, and what patients will be expecting of them,” he said in a statement.

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Senior Flight Nurse> Port Augusta

The Royal Flying Doctor Service, Central Operations (SA/NT), is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and passionate individual to the position of Senior Flight Nurse. Located in Port Augusta, this role is responsible for the fi rst line management of a quality nursing service for the Port Augusta Base.

Responsibilities include:• First line management of Flight Nurses based in Port Augusta;• Participation in the development of the strategic direction for RFDS Flight Nurses;• Roster development and coverage as required; • Undertake Flight Nurse performance appraisals and clinical competency testing;• Participation in recruitment activities;• Liaison with other Health Services;• Provide support to staff after hours.

Qualifi cations and experience:• General and Midwifery Nursing qualifi cations, registered with AHPRA;• Comprehensive experience in aeromedicine and a critical care area essential;• Post graduate qualifi cations in critical care essential;• Ability to lead and manage a group of staff;• Ability to work both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team;• Confi dent in decision making abilities;• Post graduate qualifi cations in aeromedicine desirable;• General computer literacy.

In return we offer:• Attractive remuneration and benefi ts (salary packaging);• Company motor vehicle and relocation assistance provided;• Extensive training and orientation;• A supportive environment where staff are valued and personal development is encouraged.

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Registered nurse Ann Bingham is disheartened when she hears some nurses believe working in aged care is for nurses at the end of their careers.

“I have worked in hospitals and aged care and I can say that aged care is more of a challenge than hospital nursing,” she said.

“In hospitals you work on the cardiac ward looking after the patients’ heart issues or you work on an orthopaedic ward looking after a broken bone, one system at a time.

“In an aged care home you are a cardiac, orthopaedic, oncology, palliative, neurology nurse all for the one person.

“You have to think about all of their systems and how to ensure everything stays working. It is hard work!”

That hard work hasn’t deterred Ann from dedicating her career to aged care; a decision she made at a young age.

As a child, Ann spent her holidays and after school hours at aged care facility The Good Shepherd Home in Townsville, where her mum worked and which was also located at the end of her street.

There she would talk to the residents and hold their hands. And at the age of 12, Ann saw her first person pass away.

“I will always remember her, she had no family and mum asked me to hold her hand and talk to her. She passed away about 45 minutes later,” she said.

After graduating, Ann worked part-time at that same home that inspired her as a little girl, and went on to work in orthopaedics and oncology, in Aboriginal and Islander health, in palliative care, and assisted in assessing and moving older people into aged care.

Following a brief stint as a volunteer nurse at a Chinese orphanage, Ann returned to aged care.

Together with a work colleague, Ann took over Queensland’s Complete Aged Care in 2009, which helps families find an aged care home for their loved one.

“We saw the struggle that people were going through making decisions about where their loved one should go,” she said.

Ann also continues to work on the frontline in aged care, working several shifts a week for an agency in several homes.

“This is the best way to find out the quality of care in the homes that I am recommending to my clients,” she said.

“I also love working in aged care. I love the people that you meet.

“The older people that have lived through war, depressions and hardship - I love their stories. I love ensuring that they are comfortable in the last few days of life.

“I love ensuring they have activities and life happening around them even if they have dementia or are bed bound. I love ensuring they hear laughter.

“I love giving to them what they have given to us - these are the people that have given us what we have today and they deserve the best.”

Ann recalled the time nurses ensured one much-loved lady nearing the end of her life, who had been in the home for 10 years, had a beautiful send off.

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Text messaging is landing New Zealand nurses in trouble, with nurses facing disciplinary action for inappropriate use of mobile phones and texting patients.

The Nursing Council of New Zealand’s draft code of conduct is warning nurses to text message with caution and only as a means of professional communication.

The code also sets out several guidelines for nurses using social media, with nurses advised to avoid relationships with current and former patients on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

Nurses are also warned to maintain health consumers’ confidentiality and to not discuss practice issues or colleagues on social networking sites.

They are also cautioned against uploading photos or videos of health consumers or colleagues that may identify them and to not place “anything” on sites about their own or their colleagues’ personal behaviour that would bring the profession into disrepute.

“This caution also applies to blogs, emails, Twitter and other electronic communication medium,” the code states.

Nursing Council of New Zealand chief executive Carolyn Reed said the inappropriate use of cell phones and texting patients, and not social networking, has landed nurses in hot water.

“We have had some nurses who have been before the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal for inappropriate use of texting, not social media as in Facebook or blogging,” she said.

“That’s a new thing that we have had to deal with, with nurses contacting their patients using text or their cell phone.

“I think that whatever the mode of communication with a patient you have to remember that it is a professional relationship.”

Ms Reed said the code, first developed in the early 1990s, had needed an update.

“The health context has changed and the media context has changed now,” she said.

Ms Reed said the council was also working with colleagues in the education sector to produce a set of social networking guidelines.

“Social media is becoming more of an issue for nurses world-wide,” she said.

“We have picked up on the fact that a lot of people don’t realise that when you put something up on social media it’s in the public arena.

“You can inadvertently breach patients’ confidentiality in that way.”

Ms Reed said while modern communication also had its benefits it was important to establish guidelines for nurses.

“We just want to be really clear with nurses and warning them of the pitfalls and letting them know what the professional standards are,” she said.

Ms Reed also had advice for nurses who were concerned about their communication via social networking or texting.

“If you have any concerns because of the response you are getting from your patient or from something you have sent yourself, document it and share it with a peer,” she said.



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Nursing and Allied Health Scholarship and Support Scheme (NAHSSS) is

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RCNA, Australia’s peak professional nursing organisation, is proud to partner

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Growing and supporting an allied health and nursing workforce for Rural AustraliaFurther your health career in the Northern Territory. If you’re a nurse or allied health professional wanting to make a difference, take a moment to consider the overwhelming health needs of the Northern Territory. High disease burden and poor indigenous health outcomes mean there is much to do. Take this opportunity to live in a location that many people will only dream about. What are you waiting for?

Contracts are available in a variety of primary health care settings such as practice nurse in a clinic to program manager in an Aboriginal Medical Service. A personalised consultant will assist you throughout the move and ensure that appropriate supports are offered once you have commenced your new role. Generous salary packages and grants for orientation, professional development, relocation and travel may be available.

Come and experience work in the NT, it’s an experience you will never forget!Opportunities include:

Physiotherapists – Darwin & Alice SpringsPractice Nurse – Darwin & surrounds

Child Health Nurse – East Arnhem & GaliwinkuRemote Area Nurse – Katherine district & Central Australia

Mental Health Clinician – RFDS in Central AustraliaSocial Worker/Psychologist – Darwin & Alice Springs

Aboriginal Health Worker – East ArnhemTo discuss these opportunities and receive a full list of vacancies please contact Karen on 08 8982 1010 or email [email protected]

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KerangKerang District Health, a 54 bed public health service is currently looking for a Nurse Unit Manager to lead and manage “Glenarm” its 30 bed aged care home. Reporting to the Director of Nursing, you will be accountable for the day-to-day management of Glenarm.

To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate and possess:1. Current registration with the Nursing Board of Australia.2. Experience as a manager with an ability to initiate, lead and manage

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Physiotherapist Jennifer Fitzgerald has become the head of one of Victoria’s largest disability service providers at a time when the disability sector faces fundamental change.

The new CEO of Scope, a not-for-profit organisation that provides disability services for children and adults, said the National Disability Insurance Scheme was the most significant reform of the sector in her 30 year career.

“For the first time people with a disability will have real control, real choice and an independent voice,” Ms Fitzgerald said.

“They and their families will experience full citizenship and the future for the first time will hold some measure of certainty.”

Under the scheme, Ms Fitzgerald said demand for skilled workers would outstrip supply.

“We need to influence the curricula of undergraduate and post-graduate programs to ensure that we are building a workforce with the requisite skill-set to address the needs of both an ageing population and an increased demand for support to people with a disability,” she said.

Originally from Ballarat, Ms Fitzgerald worked

as a physiotherapist in the health and disability sectors while raising four children.

“I first commenced working with Scope, or what was then the Spastic Society of Victoria, after the birth of my first child,” she said.

“I was fortunate to work with one of the most talented group of clinicians I have ever met at Pennyweight Park in Ballarat - one of the Spastic Society of Victoria’s regional centres at that time. “Their skill, professionalism and empathy for the children, adults and families that the service supported made a deep impression on me.

“It is the people that Scope supports and the staff that provide that support that has both inspired and driven me to return to this organisation over the years.”

Ms Fitzgerald spent seven years serving as Scope director and two as board president, and most recently was the group manager for allied health and community programs at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital.

Ms Fitzgerald, who has a Post Graduate Diploma of Physiotherapy (Neurology) and a Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Physiotherapy), is now completing a Professional Doctorate of Physiotherapy.

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Interested in being part of the future of Forensic Mental Health in NSW?

Opportunities for Endorsed Enrolled Nurses and Registered Nurses with recent Mental Health experienceOperated by Justice Health, The Forensic Hospital is an integral part of the Forensic Mental Health Network.

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Heroic mental health nurse Robert Fenwick has been posthumously awarded one of Australia’s highest bravery awards, the Star of Courage.

Mr Fenwick, 62, was working at the Bloomfield Hospital in Orange, New South Wales, when he was stabbed in the chest with a steak knife, receiving multiple lacerations to his body, while protecting a female colleague from a psychiatric patient on January 5, 2011.

Governor General Quentin Bryce awarded Mr Fenwick the Star of Courage, the nation’s second highest bravery decoration, which recognises “acts of conspicuous courage in circumstances of great peril”.

Patient Brett French, who helped Mr Fenwick struggle with the offender, has also been awarded a bravery medal.

Mr Fenwick and nurse Emily Pritchard were attending Mr French when the offender lunged at Ms Pritchard armed with a steak knife in each hand, almost severing her finger.

Mr Fenwick then placed himself between the offender

and Ms Pritchard, receiving multiple injuries, according to the Bravery Council Honours List.

“Despite his injuries, Mr Fenwick, and his patient, who came to assist, forced the offender outside,” it states.

“Mr Fenwick grabbed a broom and defended himself with it. The offender backed off and security staff apprehended him.”

Mr Fenwick, a veteran nurse, died the following morning at Westmead Hospital.

Meanwhile, a Melbourne nurse has received a commendation for brave conduct for coming to the assistance of a man being chased by a man wielding a large stick.

District nurse Lynn Brooks was driving along Brunswick Road in Brunswick, Victoria, when she saw the two men run onto the road and stopped her vehicle.

“The first man looked petrified and had a large amount of blood over his body from stab wounds to his head, neck, hands and leg,” the list states.

“As the man pleaded for help, Ms Brooks wound down her window, leaned back and managed to open her rear door.”

Ms Brooks yelled at the man to climb in, drove for 50 metres and then called 000; later returning to the scene after the police and an ambulance arrived.

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Despite his injuries, Mr Fenwick, and his patient, who came to assist, forced the offender outside.

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Fifteen midwives from the one hospital have all celebrated 20 years of service.

While many health organisations struggle to retain experienced staff, Sydney’s Hurstville Private recently celebrated with 15 midwives, five paediatricians and four obstetricians all notching up 20 years’ service at the hospital.

Registered nurse and midwife Donna Smith has been a nurse for 30 years with the past 20 years spent nursing at Hurstville Private.

“We have had many owners of the hospital over the last 20 years but many of the staff have remained the same,” she said.

“We all care about each other and support each other through life’s ups and downs.

“We all love our roles as midwives at Hurstville Private and this can be best demonstrated in the high level of care of professionalism and clinical competence by all staff on Maternity.”

Donna said it was rewarding to see parents return for their second, third, fourth and fifth babies.

“They always say it is lovely to come back to a hospital and see familiar faces; they feel safe and secure.”

Registered nurse and midwife Judith Powers said the high retention rate could be put down to nurses being recognised for their contribution to the “smooth working” of the hospital and being encouraged to share their ideas.

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Victorian paramedics are the lowest paid in the country and are prepared to fight the State Government for a 21-22 per cent pay rise, according to the ambulance union.

Ambulance Employees Association Victoria general secretary Steve McGhie said the union’s 2500 members were now prepared to take up the nurses’ industrial relations baton.

Mr McGhie said Victorian paramedics with six years’ service received a base rate of $1076 a week compared to South Australian paramedics on a base rate of $1321; a difference of $245.

“The morale in the industry is probably the lowest it has been in 30 years and they are tired and frustrated,” he said.

“They are working harder and faster and treating

more people and saving more people…they don’t believe they are being valued the same by the State Government and Ambulance Victoria.

“We are seeing people leaving and in higher numbers now than there have ever been; about 150 paramedics per annum which is about three per week.”

Mr McGhie said the union was formulating a log of claims which it would take to about 26 meetings state-wide before putting the final log to the state council on April 18.

He said the union hoped to begin negotiating for a new agreement at the end of April, with the current agreement set to expire on November 16.

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Victorian nurses have swapped their 70,000 red campaign t-shirts for their uniforms in the wake of their epic victory for improved ratios and a pay rise of between 14 to 21 per cent.

Nurses took to the Australian Nursing Federation Victorian branch’s Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/RespectOurWork, to celebrate the new four-year agreement with the Victorian Government, that includes securing nurse and midwife to patient ratios, other ratio improvements and annual payments from $900 to $1000 to cover re-registration professional development obligations with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.

Graduate nurse Liana Coulthard posted her gratitude to ANF staff on Facebook: “This gives me a sense of security and happiness that I will be working in an occupation that is given the respect and safe working conditions it deserves”.

Nurse and ANF representative Liz Barton said the “gloom and anger” of the lengthy campaign had now been replaced with a new optimism and mild euphoria.

“It is good to work as part of a great team but the last 128 days have renewed our enthusiasm for making an inspirational team even better. All the better to achieve what nurses do best...caring for the sick and

vulnerable with…hard work, intelligence and most of all with the warmth (of) caring hearts.”

Under the new agreement, a full time graduate nurse now earning $48,729 will earn $57,485 by the end of the four years, an increase of 17.95 per cent, while a full time grade two, year eight, registered nurse on $61,547 will earn $71,633, an increase of 16.38 per cent.

And a full time nurse unit manager, year one, on $82,201 will earn $94,432, an increase of 14.76 per cent.

ANF Vic branch secretary Lisa Fitzpatrick said it was a bittersweet victory to a marathon-long campaign that could come back to haunt the government.

“Since October more than 2000 nurses and midwives have joined the ANF union and I have seen the birth of more than 1000 activists who are very keen that this government is only in power for one term,” she said.

The union also won its battle to stop health assistants replacing nurses and has halted plans for the introduction of unlimited four-hour shifts or split shifts.

The agreement includes a new career structure for enrolled nurses and better ratios in rehabilitation wards on evening shifts, along with plans to work towards a 1 to 3 ratio in day oncology units.

Throughout the nine month-long campaign, 70,000 Respect Our Work t-shirts sold, 110,000 people signed a petition, 3452 nurses signed resignation authorities and 700 hospital beds were closed at the peak of November’s industrial action.


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“It all started out of a desire, or a personal yearning to ride around Australia on my bike,” recalls midwife Marg Phelan. “I’m an absolutely passionate bike rider, I’ve always loved it, and I’ve always had this idea that it would be wonderful just to set off – just me and the bike and some panniers.”

As if the idea of travelling around Australia aged sixty-something on a bicycle named Cecil wasn’t ambitious enough, what started as a personal enthusiasm quickly evolved into a much more far-reaching project.

“I started planning the trip in 2008. Being a midwife, when I told my colleagues about my idea they said, ‘Why don’t you cycle for women’s right to choose how they give birth?’.” So that’s how the idea of ‘Go Girl Australia’ came about.”

A not-for-profit venture that promotes continuity of care from a known midwife, normal birth and breastfeeding to women, the Go Girl Australia project kicked off in Darwin in April 2010, with Marg following

an anti-clockwise route around the country. After an extended break in 2011 for family reasons, the intrepid cyclist is set to reach Buderim on the Sunshine Coast by the end of April, before completing the last leg of her voyage along the top of Australia.

Cycling 100 to 130 kilometres a day, accompanied by ‘Muriel’ the support van, Marg says aches and pains are few and far between - “I’m pretty fit” - and that the journey, despite its sometimes gruelling nature, has been deeply satisfying.

“I just love cycling. It’s great to be on the road, watching the changes in the scenery and landscape.”

More meaningful still have been her meetings with a wide range of communities along the way, in which she has shared her passion for midwifery and the rights of women.

“We believe women are entitled to make informed choices about how they give birth, and that far too many women are not well informed about their options in pregnancy and childbirth.”

“I’ve met all kinds of people and talked to them; it’s been really rewarding.”

“I’ve spoken to school children about midwifery. So many young women don’t know what to do when they give birth. It’s good to talk to them when they’re young. I also spoke to midwifery students at Southern Cross University in Tweed Heads, and it was great to see how excited they were about their chosen field.”

A key achievement has been Marg’s fundraising for the Rodanthe Lipsett Trust. Run under the auspices of The Australian College of Midwives, the trust is a scholarship

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fund to assist Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women study to become midwives.

“It’s a great initiative that supports these women in education and then allows them to go back on country to care for other women in their own communities, which has been shown to dramatically improve the health of those women.”

As well as connecting with the public and fundraising, Marg says her trip has a broader political agenda to promote midwifery as a profession, particularly in light of the current thorny issue: self-employed midwives’ loss of professional indemnity insurance cover for home births.

“I’m not sure what impact my journey has had on that particular issue, but I’m sure it’s helped. Achieving better rights for midwives and therefore also for women is going to be a long and difficult battle and it’s certainly not over.”

If the literal distances Marg has covered are daunting, it seems the metaphorical distances to achieve her campaign’s broader objectives are also formidable, but at least the trouble free nature of the voyage seems to bode well.

“I haven’t had a single flat tyre. I did invest in some pretty good ones that, I was told, could stand up to pretty much anything. I changed them after 11,000 kilometres but they were still in fairly good nick. I’m pretty sure the new ones will see me through.”

Her abiding enthusiasm for her vocation, summed up by a statement on the Go Girl Australia website (gogirlaustralia.net.au), clearly also keeps her going.

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