Agenda

CONFERENCE DAY ONE
Monday 29 August 2011

DAY ONE | DAY TWO

8:30 Registration and Coffee

9:00 Opening Remarks from the Chair

9:10 The Balancing Act: Public Protection versus Nursing Workforce

• Objectives and guiding principles of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (NRAS)
• New role for the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
• Regulating the professional nurse – Professional codes, standards, guidelines and policy
• Registration and endorsement – Notifications on performance, health and conduct
• Educating students and nurses – Accreditation

Alyson Smith, Executive Officer, Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia

9:50 Development of the Nursing Competency Assessment

Schedule (NCAS) for use in Australian Universities The presentation will outline firstly the development of NCAS and then secondly the implementation and benchmarking processes that are currently underway within Australian universities delivering nursing eligibility to register programmes.

Roy Brown, Senior Lecturer and Bachelor of Nursing Program Coordinator, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health, University of Wollongong

10:30 Morning Tea

11:00 Developing a Clinical Placement System for Professional Entry Health Students: The Queensland Experience

• Making the Vision a reality - Interdisciplinary & State wide use
• Exploring the close partnership between People, Business Processes and Technology
• Business Analysis - 'worth its weight in gold!'
• The journey taken to develop a Clinical Placement System

Wanita Hutchinson, Project Manager - Qld Clinical Placement System, Clinical Education and Training Queensland (ClinEdQ), Queensland Health

11:40 Putting Rubber on the Road: Expanding Clinical Placement Capacity

This presentation will discuss how Queensland Health has:

• Improved collaboration and partnership between clinical placement providers and education providers
• Improved the capability of clinicians to support learners
• Provided access to resources for facilitating development of clinical learning environments
• Improved organisational culture to clinical teaching and learning

Kevin Clark, A/Nursing Director of Education, Clinical Education and Training, Queensland Health
Allen Love, Project Manager, Clinical Education and Training, Queensland Health

12:20 Lunch

1:20 Providing Quality Clinical Education Placements: Myth or Reality?

• Quality and pedagogy of clinical education
• Clinical education risk management
• Clinical education partnerships
• Interprofessional clinical education

Rose Chapman, Director of Practice Education, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University

2:00 Online Toolkit for Facilitation of Deakin Nursing and Midwifery Students

Teaching and supporting undergraduate nursing students is a professional responsibility of all registered nurses. The highly challenging nature of clinical supervision demands the need for high-level support. Nurses with varying levels of nursing and teaching experience, facilitate nursing students from a wide variety of backgrounds in the clinical setting. Such facilitation roles include; preceptor, facilitator, clinical teacher/educator, coach, and buddy. Providing this support can be difficult because of a lack of preparation and ongoing support. In addition to this, registered nurses supervise students from a range of universities all with different requirements. To build capacity within the clinical setting, Deakin University has developed an interactive online set of resources to support nurses whatever the nature of their role with nursing students.

Helen Forbes, Director of Teaching & Learning, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Faculty of Health, Deakin University

2:40 Afternoon Tea

3:10 Multidisciplinary Clinical Placement Experiences in GP Super Clinics

• Development of a trial model of multidisciplinary clinical placements in partnership with three Queensland GP Super Clinics
• Lessons learned from the implementation of the clinical placement model
• Challenges of clinical placement across multiple disciplines
• Benefits of non-traditional placements for nursing students

Susi Wise, Program Manager - QUT GP Super Clinics Project, Queensland University of Technology

3:50 Clinical Training Partnership for Community Nursing: RDNS SA, Flinders University and Health Workforce Australia

• Partnership process
• Outcomes being sought
• Influence of funding
• Challenges
• Next steps

Alexis Watt, General Manager Learning & Training, Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS), South Australia

4:30 Closing Remarks from Chair

4:40 IIR invites all speakers and delegates to an informal networking drinks reception

CONFERENCE DAY TWO
Tuesday 30 August 2011

DAY ONE | DAY TWO

8:30 Morning Coffee

9:00 Opening Remarks from the Chair

9:10 Framework for Development of a New Health Workforce

• The framework includes understanding the service need, justification for development of a new role and benefit analysis
• Outlining the process for the development and implementation of a new health workforce model
• Understanding the variables that influence the success of a new workforce
• Citing international examples of implementation of a new workforce.

Natasha Doherty, Manager, Health Advisory, Deloitte

9:50 A 'Top-Down, Bottom-Up' Approach to Nursing Workforce Development

This presentation will discuss how Cabrini Health is:

• Using a strategic vision to build the capability and capacity of nurses
• Using problem solving to engage staff in improving patient care and their work
• Developing a coaching based talent development program for Nurse Leaders
• Applying a lean thinking approach to workforce planning and management

Susan O'Neill, Director of Nursing, Cabrini Health

10:30 Stretch and Bathroom Break

10:40 Enrolled Nurses: Growing Your Own Workforce!

Mater Health Services continues to grow its own nursing workforce through the design and delivery of a unique Diploma of Nursing program entirely onsite at its tertiary acute adults, women's and children's healthcare service. The journey began with a midwifery workforce review in preparation for the opening of the new Mater Mother's Hospital, resulting in the implementation of a new Enrolled Nursing neonatal and post-natal workforce, and continues with over 100 Enrolled Nurse students now part of the Mater community on campus. The presentation will discuss the future of Enrolled Nursing in the current workforce climate, the lessons learned when you decide to grow your own and the vision for a more diverse nursing workforce for the future.

Donna Bonney, Director Learning & Development, Mater Education Centre, Mater Health Services

11:20 Morning Tea

11.50 Mental Health Nursing Workforce Strategies

• Recruitment and retention of psychiatric nurses
• Future directions
• Leadership in Acute units

Tim O'Keefe, Psychiatric Nurse Educator, Barwon Mental Health Drugs and Alcohol Education Team

12:30 Building Your Own Workforce

• Background about Enrolled Nurse Traineeship
• Course structure
• Benefits of working in the acute care setting
• Division 1 and Enrolled Nurses working as an effective team
• Retention rate post completion and transition into Graduate Enrolled Nurse Program
• Transition from Enrolled Nurse to Division 1 Nurse

Elissa Bull, Education Consultant, St Vincent's and Mercy Private

1:10 Lunch

2:10 Using Patient Simulation within the Nursing Curriculum
Lyn Taylor, Manager - Health and Wellbeing Programs, Box Hill Institute

2:50 Skilling the Workforce Using Non-Institutional Delivery for Enrolled Nurses

• Responding to the needs of students, the emerging skills needs and workforce development requirements of industry and communities – an innovative model of delivery for the Diploma of Nursing by the Challenger Institute of Technology and partnered by St John of God Hospital Murdoch
• Program delivery and scheduling
• Results and achievements to date

Julie Manning, Principal Lecturer – Hospitality and Human Services, Challenger Institute of Technology
Anissa Emeran, Manager of Learning and Development, St John of God Hospital Murdoch

3:30 Closing Remarks from the Chair

3:40 Close of Conference

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