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“No matter how many security measures we have in place, paramedics must have access to drugs in the course of their duties, and if an individual is determined to misappropriate the pharmacology available, they will unfortunately do whatever they can to circumvent those security measures,” he said.

“The use of substances in the community exists and therefore it will exist in probably any workforce of any description and ambulance is not immune to this.”

Mr Walker said paramedics found to have misappropriated drugs are offered support regardless of whether or not they remain an employee.

“Ambulance Victoria has a psychological counselling unit to refer paramedics to for help which also conducts research to track the wellbeing of paramedics,” he said.

“This is also supported by our chaplaincy service.

“Paramedics are trusted with patients’ lives, treatment and privacy, and they are also entrusted with pharmacology.

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Following an earlier request from Ambulance Victoria, Victoria has become 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.



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The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) says urgent action to rectify a dearth of graduate program places is needed to ensure the current shortfall of quali�ed nurses doesn’t escalate.

ANF acting secretary Paul Gilbert told NCAH the graduate program shortage, which primarily affects the acute care sector, had reached critical levels. “Hospitals have cut back the number of graduate program places available, while the number of graduating nurses has risen in recent years.”

Victoria’s health system was feeling the brunt of the problem, he added. While about 1700 students have received a State Government-funded graduate position at Victorian public hospitals, 1142 students - including Victorians and those who studied interstate - are still looking for a Victorian nursing job.

“This year the rules have changed, with hospitals saying, ‘If you don’t do a grad year, you can’t get a job as a registered nurse’,” Gilbert said.

“This isn’t necessarily the case in other states, but in the Victorian system hospitals won’t receive graduate nurses unless they have completed a graduate program.”

The ANF had written to the Victorian health minister and had not received a response at the time of writing, he said. It had also contacted the Federal Health Minister, leading to a meeting with COAG-backed initiative Health Workforce Australia (HWA) in September with a view to solving the problem.

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Seven paramedics in the past four years have now been linked to the alleged theft of drugs from Ambulance Victoria.

The revelation comes after Victoria Police arrested a second paramedic in relation to the alleged theft of a large quantity of the pain killer drug Fentanyl.

Hundreds of patients were affected when vials of Fentanyl were allegedly replaced with tap water.

The ambulance service is remaining tight-lipped on the recent alleged thefts as police continue their investigation into the incident.

“As there is a formal police investigation underway, unfortunately we are unable to provide any further details of the investigation

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RFDS WA �ight nurse coordinator Paul Ingram said it was vital �ight nurses have midwifery quali�cations as about 10 per cent of the organisation’s work is obstetric-related.

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Nursing jobs could be in the �ring line in

South Australia, after the State Government

announced plans to axe almost 350 public

health jobs and 114 beds.

Health Minister John Hill has revealed 197

hospital and health service positions will go

and 52 health department jobs will be culled

by 2015-2016, in a move designed to save

$270 million over four years.

Another 100 jobs could be cut through

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year.

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation

SA branch secretary Elizabeth Dabars said

the union holds concerns for nursing jobs

and patient care.

“We do have concerns and we do have some

reservations,” she said.

“The only EBA we are aware of that it would

impact upon would be the nurses’ and

midwives’ EBA.

“We know we are going to be entering into an

EBA situation early next year.

“People are very concerned about what’s

being proposed. I have spoken to nurses

and midwives…and they have expressed

serious concerns and they are nervous about

the consequences for patients and patient

care.”

Ms Dabars said the union is now waiting on

SA Health to provide more detail about the

proposed cost-saving measures.

The announcement comes after independent reports into the state’s local health networks recommended job cuts and bed closures in a bid to shave costs from the health budget.

Ms Dabars said the union’s response to the hospital budget performance and remediation review outlined a series of solutions designed to improve ef�ciencies.

The union’s submission includes recommendations such as opening nurse practitioner primary care clinics as well as two 16-bed pilot nursing convalescent units.

It also recommends a review of leadership arrangements for hospital sites and nursing midwifery practice out of hours in a bid to ensure suf�cient numbers of senior staff are on hand, along with a change in the scope of nursing/midwifery management facilitator roles.

Ms Dabars said the submission also included the introduction of the nurse-led discharge program, which the government recently announced will be trialled at Flinders Medical Centre from early next year.

“That was part of our solutions package,” she said.

“Our view is you cannot pick one piece of a jigsaw puzzle and expect an outcome. You need to have all of the pieces to be operating effectively to get change.

“We want to understand how SA Health and the state government are proposing to achieve their ef�ciencies in the absence of introducing such strategies.”

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Nurses and allied health professionals will be able to discharge patients under a new pilot program at South Australia’s Flinders Medical Centre.

The state government has announced its Criteria Led Discharge initiative, now being developed by doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, has been designed to reduce patients’ length of stay in hospital and free up hospital beds.

Expected to be introduced early next year, the program will enable nurses and other authorised health professionals to discharge patients who have met speci�c criteria established by the patient’s doctor or consultant.


SA branch secretary Elizabeth Dabars said the

union had been calling for more government

focus on advanced practice nurse roles,

including nurse-led discharge.

“We are very pleased that the nurse-led

discharge was picked up,” she said.

“It’s a very important initiative; we are very

pleased to see it.

“We believe it will have the capacity to reduce

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A new iPad app has been designed to help physiotherapists, occupational therapists and nurses better assess older people’s fear of falling.

Neuroscience Research Australia has developed the iconFES app (available for $4.99 through iTunes), which is the �rst app of its kind to use images to describe a range of activities and situations, and it has also been proven to work with people who have dementia.

NeuRA research fellow Dr Kim Delbaere, an emerging leading international researcher in the area of falls in older people, said her research showed having a fear of falling is an independent risk factor for older people falling.

“One in three older people fall at least once a year. About two in three people have a fear of falling,” she said.

“It is more common to be fearful of falling than to fall. Many, many older people would say they have some fear of falling.”

Dr Delbaere said older people with a fear of falling often adopt a “cautious gait”, which can increase their risk of falling.

“It’s not a stable way of walking so they actually make it harder for themselves,” she said.

Dr Delbaere said the app aims to help allied health professionals and nurses better assess fear of falling, enabling them to create targeted fall prevention strategies for older people.

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There are almost 34,000 male nurses and midwives in Australia and six nurses who are aged 86 and over, according to new statistics from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.

The national board has released its latest registration statistics which provide a snapshot of the nation’s nursing and midwifery workforce.

The data reveals a state by state breakdown of nursing and midwifery numbers and registration types and also the age of the workforce by registration type.

There are six nurses registered who are aged 86 and above, 35 who are aged 81 to 85, 254 who are aged 76 to 80, and 1,417 who are aged 71 to 75.

Most nurses and midwives, at a �gure of 51,055, are aged 51 to 55, there are 44,782 nurses aged 46 to 50, 42,783 aged 41 to 45, and 39,947 aged 56 to 60.

There are 38,621 aged 36 to 40, 35,499 are aged 26 to 30, 32,937 are aged 31 to 35, 22,537 are aged 61 to 65, 20,352 are aged 21 to 25, and 6,969 are aged 66 to 70.

When it comes to gender, the �gures show there are 33,891 male nurses and midwives with 27,307 male registered nurses, 5,348 male enrolled nurses, nine male registered midwives and 633 male registered nurses working in midwifery and nursing.

It also shows Australia has a total of 337,807 nurses and midwives, with 210,320 female registered nurses, 53,559 female enrolled nurses, 2,270 female registered midwives and 32,089 female registered nurses working in midwifery and nursing.

New South Wales is home to the largest number of nurses and midwives with 92,968, followed by Victoria with 89,959, Queensland

with 64,335, Western Australia with 33,830, South Australia with 30,695, Tasmania with 8,091, the ACT with 5,246 and the Northern Territory with 3,856.

There are 765 nurse practitioners, which includes prescribing scheduled medicines, registered in Australia, there are 777 registered nurses who can supply scheduled medicines in rural and isolated practice and one midwife practitioner who is located in NSW.

There is also one eligible midwife, who can prescribe scheduled medicines, in the nation who is located in Victoria, and there are 130 eligible midwives with a notation on their registration who are endorsed to prescribe scheduled medicines when they complete a board-approved program of study for prescribing midwifery medicines.

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65 year-old Maggie McKenna has worked as a Registered Nurse for the past 30 years at The Canberra Hospital. In that time she worked for 15 years as a paediatric nurse, took a four year break to look after her own children, and then found her passion providing renal care.

For 30 years Maggie said she always glanced at the pages in medical journals and magazines about other places where she could nurse, but one day she noticed an advertisement for RAHC in the Australian Nursing Journal and decided to act.

“I spent 11 years in renal care in Canberra, and when I left The Canberra Hospital in December I knew it was my time to �nally practice remote nursing.

“It was just a matter of the timing being right and me actually making a phone call.

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While Maggie wasn’t sure initially if she had the skill set to complete the work in Tennant Creek, she has since found she is suited to her role and believes the support available to remote area nurses during their placement is in invaluable.

“Tennant Creek has been an amazing place to come to work in because there’s a good support team here. Even though it’s a busy clinic there’s always somebody available to ask for help.”

“I feel really proud of myself and the work that I’m carrying out here.”

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“In an ordinary shift you can see babies and children right through to 80 or 90 year olds and people coming in for ordinary GP-type consultations, bad backs, sore throats, grazes and sometimes for more serious issues.

During her time at Canberra Hospital, one of the things Maggie loved about her job was carrying out overall health assessments.

“The thing that strikes me about the working remote is that the nursing is so thorough. Every single person you see, you do a full set of observations on.

“My impression of remote nursing is that the health professionals are just outstanding. They will not let anyone slip through the system. I’ve been hugely impressed by that.

“The other thing is that all your allied services are just a phone call away. Every day I could phone the nutritionist, the diabetes educator, the podiatrist and the dentist.”

In between her RAHC placements Maggie works casually at a dialysis centre in Canberra, but she knows she has more to do as a remote area nurse.

“It’s so stimulating being a nurse in a remote setting. I know that next time I go remote, if I’m lucky enough to do another placement, my skills will continue to improve because there is so much to learn.

“It would probably take ten years to get your head around everything because every day is just full of huge surprises. But for me, I just love being challenged and I’m really able to do that here.”




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A new information resource to support end-of-life care looks set to bene�t staff in aged care facilities.

The RAC (Residential Aged Care) Hub was launched as part of the international activities celebrating World Hospice and Palliative Care Day on 13 October and is described as an online resource providing information about palliative care, provided to those whose illness cannot be cured.

Designed for those working and living in residential aged care, the hub contains over 50 pages of information about end-of-life needs and the appropriate care of clients experiencing the challenges presented by this life phase.

A spokesperson for Leading Age Services Australia (LASA), the national peak organisation for all providers of care, services and accommodation for older Australians, told NCAH the site offered a number of pluses for nurses and other aged care professionals.

“The RAC Hub importantly is written in plain English accessible to a range of aged care workers. It is also developed so it is easy to navigate which is another positive. It helps raise awareness of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Points, and directs the reader to further information and resources. The site provides information that will be valuable to a range of staff, recognising the added value of each position ranging from Lifestyle Co-ordinators to Registered Nurses. The My Learning modules seem easy to follow and provide good information.”

“The site will help end of life aged care professionals with a quick reference and

direction to further information. It also reminds staff of the full range of issues that need to be considered when developing a plan of care for a person receiving palliative care.”

Stephen Kobelke, Chief Executive Of�cer, Aged & Community Services WA (ACSWA), said his organisation welcomed the launch of the RAC HUB.

“The Productivity Commission inquiry into Caring for Older Australians, and the subsequent Living Longer Living Better Reforms, recognise that palliative care is core business for residential aged care, with approximately 40 per cent of all deaths nationally each year occurring in an aged care facility.”

Kobelke pointed out that the recent report of the Senate Inquiry into Palliative care also highlighted the need for alternative service delivery models that enable people to ‘die in place’ and reduce unnecessary hospital admissions. It also discussed the need to support and enhance the skills and knowledge of aged care staff to provide palliative and end of life care in residential and community environments to facilitate this.

“The RAC Hub provides an integrated resource of current literature, tools and clinical information to support nurses and allied health professionals provide quality end of life care. This initiative brings a comprehensive library of resources together to improve access to relevant information for health professionals and other aged care staff that enhances their professional development in this area.”

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New Zealand’s embattled aged care sector is once again in the spotlight after the Health Select Committee heard calls for fair pay and safe staf�ng levels.

In its submission to the committee, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, which represents more than 45,000 nurses and health workers, outlined the problems facing the sector and also a series of solutions to tackle the issues.

The union has repeatedly called for an overhaul of the sector, including funding transparency in a bid to show how government funding is used in the sector, along with better pay, training recognition and the development of standard safe staf�ng levels.

NZNO spokesperson Susan Stewart said the solutions came from the nurses and health care assistants who work in aged care.

“Our members spoke passionately and articulately about the valuable work they do for our country’s most vulnerable citizens and it was heartening to see how interested our members of parliament were in the problems and solutions,” she said in a statement.

“There was clearly cross-party agreement that the residential aged care sector needs attention.

“We hope they can continue to work together to make the changes that will ensure quality care for older New Zealanders and decent pay and working conditions for those who care for them.”

More than 11,000 people last year signed a charter backing the union’s calls for safe staf�ng levels, better pay and conditions for aged care workers, training, and a guarantee that government funding is used solely for the nursing and personal care of residents.

The hearing comes after a Human Rights Commission report found discrimination is rife against New Zealand’s 48,000 aged care workers, with many workers found to be underpaid and undervalued, despite the sector evolving into one of the country’s fastest growing industries.

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The Queensland Nurses’ Union fears up to 100 nurses face redundancy and hundreds more jobs are at risk if government-owned aged care services continue to be privatised.

The concerns come after Metro North Hospital and Health Service announced plans to close two properties at its Eventide Aged Care Campus at Brighton.

The closure affects an estimated 120 jobs, including about 100 nurses, with residents to be moved before June next year.

In announcing the decision, board chair Dr Paul Alexander said the private and non-government sector had the capacity to manage residential aged care in Brisbane’s northern suburbs.

“We have looked at the market and there is the capacity and capability to look after these residents,” he said in a statement.

“We feel they are better placed to provide this type of care as we are primarily in the business of acute hospital care.”

QNU assistant secretary Des Elder said the union holds concerns more State Government aged care services could follow suit.

“The government has made comments to the affect that they believe their core business is around acute care and aged care certainly isn’t their core business,” he said.

“With aged care residents we are very concerned because we are looking at the comparison between staf�ng numbers in Queensland Health aged care facilities and those in the private sector facilities and staf�ng levels in Queensland Health are signi�cantly higher.

“The skills mix within Queensland Health facilities is signi�cantly better with the proportion of registered nurses and enrolled nurses to unlicensed workers.

“In the private sector, there is much evidence to support there are limited numbers of registered nurses in private aged care facilities and signi�cantly lower and sometimes no registered nurses on shift in private facilities.”

Mr Elder said the union was also alarmed at a growing trend in the private sector to use unlicensed workers to handle medication through Webster-paks.

“It’s a real concern for us because there’s a lot more to the management of medication than giving it to the patient – it’s understanding the side effects and also the reasons for the medication,” he said.

“We believe closing these facilities is the wrong approach – the public sector does have a very important role to play in aged care services.”

Fears more aged care nursing jobs to goby Karen Keast

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Jo Neophyton has found her niche as a

teacher in aged care.

After working as a nurse in paediatrics,

radiology, a high dependency gastro intestinal

unit, neurosurgery, day surgery, occupational

health and safety, and plastic surgery and

rehabilitation, the 44-year-old is now working

as an aged care facilitator.

Jo divides her time between healthcare

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handling and basic life support as well as

being a clinical facilitator in aged care, and

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College.

“I love seeing the students who start out and

they haven’t got a lot of con�dence and then

they are absolutely blitzing it by the end of

their time,” she said.

“Initially there’s resistance to wanting to work

in aged care. Their eyes are set on maternity

or that sharp end of nursing – A&E or ICU.

“They really end up liking aged care and they

see how important it is that there are good

nurses that are placed in aged care.”

Jo’s family is engrained in the healthcare

sector. Jo’s mother was a nurse and her

father was a surgeon, while Jo’s brother is

a psychologist and she has several cousins

who are doctors.

While Jo’s family is proud she became a

nurse, her father wanted her to become a

teacher.

Now Jo has the best of both worlds.

Jo hopes to soon embark on post graduate

study through the Royal College of Nursing

with the aim of becoming a university lecturer,

specialising in aged care.

“I love it. I would like to be talking to all the

future RNs about what a great job it is and

that they should look at aged care,” she

said.

“You can learn all of your basic nursing skills

through aged care.

“It’s all about connecting with the person you

are working with and working as part of a

team to make sure someone is going to have

a really nice day.

“You can be social with your resident in the

aged care setting; you can be involved in

whatever they are doing. It’s not all vital signs

and physical nursing.

“It’s being involved with them on an emotional

level, as well as the physical and chronic

conditions.

“It’s an all-round good job that takes every

factor into consideration and caring for

somebody.”

Jo nurses our aged care educationby Karen Keast

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