Advanced Aged Care Nursing Skills
10.50
CPD
Hours
10.50
RCNA
Points
Event Type:
Duration:
Cost:
Relevant To:
Seminar
Two Days
$473.00
Nurses, Aged Care Nurses
General Description
The aim of these study days is for aged care nurses to consider aspects of advanced care. The program is structured to include contemporary issues that take into account the person, their community and ancillary carers. It will be ideal for nurses who are responsible for managing others as well as those who have some direct care role in regard to aged care. It is suitable for community-based, acute and residential aged care nurses where those in their care are aged 65+.
If you have identified a professional need to learn advanced aged care nursing techniques as part of your planned learning activities, then this program will offer you an opportunity to gain continuing professional development (CPD) hours related to this topic.
Need for Program
As the population continues to age, more people require complex health support. It is not enough for a nurse to be conversant with adult health care skills, as the needs of the elderly, particularly the 'Old, Old' are very different to those of their younger counterparts. The need for holistic care arguably increases with age as new dependencies emerge. Nurses need to understand a vast array of social considerations that affect the health of an older person. As well, nurses are required to gain a minimum of 20 CPD hours relevant to their context of practice.
Aims and Objectives
This program teaches nurses how to care for older people with advanced and complex health needs. The program is structured to included contemporary issues that take into account the person, their community and ancillary carers. It will be ideal for nurses who are responsible for managing others as well those who have some direct care role in regard to aged care. It is suitable for community-based, acute and residential aged care nurses.
At the conclusion of this program it is expected that the participants will be able to:
- Correctly apply advanced knowledge to plan appropriate and relevant care for an older person with complex health needs.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the best nursing management of a person who is simultaneously experiencing two different disabilities.
- Be able to clearly document the social care of an older person in a competent, legal and concise manner.
- Explain why emotional, social and political intelligences are required to underpin ethical management in today's workplace.
8.30am - Registration and Refreshments
9.00am - The Wonders of Ageing – Turning Negatives Into Positive
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What difficulties and benefits does ageing bring?
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Why are some older people have the ability to become less anxious, less stressed and more able to cope?
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Comments on a professional approach to ageing
9.30am - Physical Changes to the Body – What Really Happens?
Which physiological, psychological and social changes occur – for the best or for the worst?
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Why does body fat generally increase?
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Why are women more likely to experience fractures?
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Does memory always diminish and what can be done to retard this development?
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Are there any magic bullets on the horizon?
10.10am - What are the Ingredients of Successfully Ageing
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How is ‘successful ageing’ defined?
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What role does a nurse have in promoting successful ageing even when disease is present?
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What are the key areas of health promotion and the role of nurses?
10.30am - Morning Tea and Coffee
11:00am - The Damaging Impact of Ageism
Ageism occurs when a person experiences negative prejudice because of their age.
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What common ageist attitudes exist in the community and why are they a cause for concern?
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How does this form of discrimination commonly affect well-being and what are the implications for aged care providers?
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How can you ensure that you and your colleagues do not engage in ageist behaviours?
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How can the elderly be encouraged to live life to the full and to ensure they gain and maintain respect from those who are younger?
12.20pm - Better Outcomes – ‘Do Your Job’ And ‘Improve Your Job
Most people with diagnoses that have moved into the terminal stage prefer to be treated and:
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What are the benefits of this approach for patients and for the palliative care service?
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Common carer roles issues.
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Resources for home carers.
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Considerations for health professionals in a non-institutional setting.
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Being prepared to be flexible when providing tailored care.
12.30pm - Lunch Break and Time to Network
1.30pm - Care Essentials For Those With End-Stage Dementia (Part 1)
Caring for a person with advanced dementia can be exhausting and demanding for all care-givers. This session will look at the typical clinical scenarios that emerge in end-stage dementia.
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How to adequately assess a person who has severe communication obstacles.
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How should pain be assessed and managed?
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What to do when infection emerges?
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Managing agitation and delirium.
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Developing partners in care.
3.00pm - Afternoon Tea and Coffee
3.30pm - Care Essentials For Those With End-Stage Dementia (Part 2)
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Setting the scene with relatives
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Refocusing the care team
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Managing nutrition and hydration
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Managing excretion
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Reflecting and journaling care
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Dealing with loss and grief challenges
4.15pm - Close of Day One
9:00am - Start of Day Two
9.00am - Relationship-Nursing In Aged Care– Building Strong Person-Centred Practice
A key question in aged care settings is: whose needs are really being met? This sessions explores the implementation of person-centred care.
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How is a genuine, workable model of person-centred care implemented in practice?
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Patients as partners in care – what are the implications when caring for elderly patients with acute health problems?
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Making people accountable for their own care: Is this always possible?
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How to transfer power from the health service to the person.
9.50am - Communication Approaches In Person-Centred Care
An overview of the ways in which effective communications are maintained within this care framework.
10.15am - Implications For Residential Aged Care
In a residential facility, the successful implementation of patient-centred care will require that key values are acknowledged and shared.
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What are the other considerations when evidence-based aged care requires that new models of service provision be introduced?
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Examination of the need to move away from a dependency model of care.
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What are the substantial benefits of these new models of care for residential aged care nurses, and those in their care?
10.30am - Morning Tea and Coffee
11.00am - Advanced Care Planning
Advance Care Planning refers to the discussion and written record of a person’s wishes for care and treatment, should the time come when they are unable to speak for themselves due to illness or injury.
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What is an advance care directive?
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How much notice is the health care team required to take of such documents in clinical decision-making?
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Which ethical dilemmas may arise in this type of planning?
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What is a Plan of Care?
12.30pm - Lunch and Time To Browse The Book Display
1.30pm - Promoting Appropriate And Considered Culturally-Diverse Care
Being aware of, and implementing adaptive systems that take into account ‘otherness’, is a hallmark of high quality aged care. High levels of social and emotional intelligence in staff facilitate care that has respect for differences.
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How to promote enhanced care that it is truly reflective of culturally-diverse values, attitudes and beliefs.
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Guidelines for assisting elderly patients/residents from non-English speaking backgrounds, e.g. lack of understanding about doctor’s instructions which results in medication non-compliance.
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Making effective use of interpreting services.
3.00pm - Afternoon Tea And Coffee
3.30pm - Identifying And Dealing With Elder Abuse
It is a mandatory requirement for health professionals/workers to report elder abuse. This final session will empower you to identify abuse and to act confidently when you suspect it is occurring.
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Summary of the features of physical, psychological, sexual, financial and social abuse.
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What to do and when to do it.
4.15pm - Close of Program and Evaluation
Sharon WallDirector of Ageing by Caring Pty Ltd. In addition to her extensive experience as a registered nurse, Sharon’s qualifications include a Diploma of Nursing Education. a Degree in Health Sciences, a Diploma in Counselling and a Master of Public Health. Her long and impressive history working in aged care includes a special interest in transcultural issues and the elderly as well as the areas of dementia and dementia care. In her consultancy work she offers education, research and clinical practice services across the residential and community care sectors. Sharon is a former president, and long-time member, of the Australian Association of Gerontology and the current Honorary Secretary of the Australian Association of Gerontology Aboriginal Ageing Committee.
