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Nurse Practitioner seminar - Assessing Arm Injuries

Western Australian Branch

Nurse Practitioners, candidates and students are invited to attend the next

ACNPWA NURSE PRACTITIONER SEMINAR

No. 2 in this special series:

“ASSESSING ARM INJURIES”

(It is expected that this seminar will be of interest to nurses working in a variety of settings and with any age group.)

DATE: Wednesday 24^th June, 2009

TIME: 6.00 – 7.30pm

VENUE: WA Country Health Services

189 Wellington St, Perth

(Look for entrance to car park at east side of building)

FEE: FREE, but please donate a GOLD COIN

to cover the cost of refreshments

SPEAKER: Dr Hanh Nguyen, Plastic Surgeon

N.B. This education session will be video linked by WACHS to country health services.

RSVP: By 19^th June to Michelle Kuzilni email;

This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it phone 0402 149 206

Importance of the medication history

The second education session was held on 26 August, and was available to country NPs via video conferencing. We even had one participant in Launceston, Tasmania! Our thanks go to WA Country Health Services branch for helping us to arrange that.

This session was also very successful with 35 participants and 3 remote sites. Intending participants were sent case studies a week or so before the session, and two pharmacists used a tutorial style to tease out the medication history issues presenting in the case studies. Lea Dias is a pharmacist based in ED at Royal Perth Hospital, and she also presented the findings of a study in assessing patient medication histories. Marnee Symons is a pharmacist who does medication reviews and she presented an NPS Case Study on Diabetes.

Further education sessions are planned.

Media Training

The first was a face-to-face workshop held on 8th May and provided introductory training on interacting with The Media (print and TV). The session was very well received by 16 NPs/ candidates and we appreciated the knowledge and skill of Lisa Bradley (Media Department, Brightwater Care Group). David Stanley will present an overview of what we learned at the annual conference in Melbourne.

Nurse Practitioner Forum

The 2008 Forum, hosted again by the Chief Nursing Officer, was held on 23 July. Dr Jenny Carryer of The College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ) and Professor of Nursing at Massey University provided a very thought-provoking seminar.

We also organised two education sessions this year.

Nurse practitioners and medical practice: opposing forces or complementary contributions?

Perspect Psychiatr Care. 2009 Jan;45(1):9-16

Elsom S, Happell B, Manias E.
Centre for Psychiatric Nursing, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia.

PURPOSE: The medical profession in Australia has expressed concern about the expansion of nursing practice into areas that are traditionally the domain of medicine. Particular apprehension is raised in relation to the prescription of medications. This paper will consider and critique the argument that the standard of care provided by a nurse practitioner would be of lesser quality than that provided by a medical practitioner.

CONCLUSIONS: Despite the medical profession's opposition for nurse practitioner roles, there is little evidence suggesting that the quality of services offered by a nurse practitioner would be inferior.

PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Available evidence suggests that care and treatment from nurse practitioners in primary health care is equal to that provided by medical practitioners.

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