Clinical Nursing Updates: Aged Care Skills
10.50
CPD
Hours
10.50
RCNA
Points
Event Type:
Duration:
Relevant To:
Seminar
Two Days
Aged Care Nurses, Clinical Nurses
General Description
If you work in aged care services (such as residential aged care facilities, nursing homes, community aged care, hostels), this program will give you an opportunity to update your knowledge about professional assessment of the elderly. You will learn about up-to-date, best practice nursing assessment skills. This will be an interactive educational program. Please ensure you book early to guarantee your place.
Earns 10.5 RCNA CNE points
If you have identified a professional need to update your clinical skills in aged care 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
All nurses who work in the aged care sector are required to maintain up-to-date knowledge about a range of clinical activitires. As the population ages, multi-pathologies emerge which make increasing demands on professional accountability. As a result, nurses require timely updates about clinical practice if they are to remain equipped to deal with complex demands. As well, nursing registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency through the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia requires that each nurse has at least 20 hours of continuing professional development (CPD) each year.
Aims and Objectives
This program aims to provide up-to-date, evidence-based, knowledge regarding key aspects of nursing care, for those who are elderly and frail. It includes a mix of relevant professional and clinical topics for nurses, and others responsible for providing high quality care. This is an excellent opportunity for nurese who work in the aged care sector (community / residential / acute care hospitals) to discover better ways of caring for elderly people who have complex care needs.
At the completion of this program, the participants should be able to:
- Describe three practical and research-based approaches to the care of older people
- Explain why the evidence-based guidelines, for preventing an older person from falling, are effective
- Apply care that meets the special needs of older people who require complex care and assistance
Please note, this program varies significantly in each state, an accurate agenda is available by downloading the full program. This program is also available in SA - See "Aged Care and Clinical Nursing Skills".
8:30am - Registrations Open
9:00am - Nursing Assessment of the Elderly
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Which principles underpin the nursing assessment process?
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What are the factors, which may affect the collection of accurate information?
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Should families/friends be involved in the assessment process?
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Comments on the Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI)
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Holistic care planning principles and nursing responsibilities
10:30am - Morning Tea & Coffee
11:00am - Essential Aged Care Documentation
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Who, legally, should write the progress notes?
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What is 'compliance reporting'?
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Is it legally acceptable that progress notes for older people are written regularly but not daily?
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Which type of information will reflect that physical, social and emotional issues have been addressed?
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When residents in aged care facilities are transferred to, and discharged from, acute care, what sort of documentation is needed?
11:50am - Is it Delirium, Dementia or Depression?
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What are the differences between these disorders?
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What are the commonalities?
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How does this information influence the clinical decisions of nurses when someone in their care is delirious, affect by dementia, or depressed?
12:30pm - Lunch Break
1:30pm - Dementia - The Big Picture
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Overview of the Australian Context: care challenges and choices
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Role of Alzheimers Australia (SA)
1:45pm - Dementia - Beyond the Plagues and Tangles?
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How can nurses relate to someone with little or no coherent speech or cognition, poor judgement and impaired behaviour?
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What is Dementia Care Mapping and how useful is it as a nursing tool?
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How to deal with the following disruptive, antisocial behaviours:
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hostility and agression
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screaming and shouting
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sexual dishibition
3:00pm - Afternoon Tea & Coffee
3:30pm - Preventing Falls and Harm in Older People
Falls are a big problem for older people and the services that care for them. Much can be done to prevent falls, and the adverse impacts on them.
Evidence from the National Best Practice Guidelines: Preventing Falls and Harm from Falls in Older People 2009, will be discussed:
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Standard falls prevention strategies
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Management strategies for common falls risk factors
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Minimising injuries from falls
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Responding to falls
4:00pm - Close of Day One of Program
9:00am - Start of Day Two
9:00am - Which Wound Dressing is the Most Appropriate?
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General principles for assessing and treating wounds
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Learn about the different types of traditional and modern wound healing products
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How to use what dressing and under which circumstances
10:30am - Morning Tea & Coffee
11:00am - Practical Pain Management Strategies for Older People
An overview of managment options for reducing pain in the older person:
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Changes in medications
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Sustained release medications - how do they work?
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Devices and implantable therapies
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Physical and psychological therapies
12:30pm - Lunch Break
1:30pm - Common Types of Incontience
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What is the goal of continence assessment activities?
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Which tools best assist with the nurse's assessment role?
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What is the difference between urge and stress incontinence?
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Why do those with diabetes have frequent urinary tract infections?
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What happens in prostatic disease?
2:00pm - Maintaining Urinary and Bowel Functions
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Which factors may impact negatively on the effective elimination of urine and faeces?
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Why are older people prone to developing urinary tract infections?
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Overview of nursing management principles for remedying incontinence and allied problems
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How efficient is condom drainage for males?
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Guidance regarding sensitive questioning and bowel functions
3:00pm - Afternoon Tea & Coffee
3:30pm - Chronic Illness Challenges
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Overview of The Chronic Disease Management Program (CDMP)
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Strategies for nurses to use when encouraging people with one or more chronic diseases/disabilities to self-manage aspects of their own care.
4:00pm - Close of Program and Evaluations
Margie O'KaneMargie has extensive teaching experience and her presentations are knowledgeable and enlightening.
Linda KilworthLinda is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian who works as a consultant to various health care agencies in Brisbane and south-east Queensland. She has experience in nutritional management and dietetic support, dietary planning, food service and management. Linda has broad experience lecturing to nurses.
Tracy NowickiTracy is employed as a Clinical Nurse Consultant in the Principle Items Equipment Service in a major, acute care, teaching hospital in Brisbane. Over the years, Tracy has acquired extensive clinical expertise and management knowledge while working across a number of clinical specialties. A significant focus of her current role is to bring innovation to the development of a central equipment service of a large, teaching hospital so as to ensure optimal patient outcomes. 'She believes in fun through learning and looking at new horizons of how we do business.. '
Debbie Rigby Consultant clinical pharmacist with a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy, Advanced Diploma in Nutritional Pharmacy. Debbie is the Chair of the Australian Association of Consultant Pharmacy (AACP) Board and member of the National Advisory Group of AACP, as well as a Director of the NPS: Better choices, Better Health. Debbie has a special interest in geriatric pharmacotherapy and chronic disease self-management, regularly conducts medication review services as an accredited pharmacist and regularly lectures to health professionals.
Jane DegenaarsCredentialled Diabetes Educator Queensland Diabetes Centre. Jane was educated at a nurse at The William Harvey Hospital in Kent, UK. She has worked in a range of health care settings including many years in intensive care at The Royal Adelaide Hospital. Jane completed her Graduate Certificate in Diabetes Education and Management and subsequently has worked at the Mater Hospital as a Diabetes Educator for the past three years.
Gaye WitneyProgram Co-coordinator for Health, Nursing & Aged Care programs at Kangan Batman TAFE. As well, she is the co- editor of the multi-author textbook "Nursing Documentation in Aged Care - a Guide to Practice". Gaye is passionate about aged care nursing as a professional specialty.
Susan McCarthyContinence Nurse Consultant/Manager of the Victorian Continence Resource Centre and Former Clinical Nurse Consultant – Continence Service, Peninsula Health. Susan has a substantial background in clinical, research and teaching aspects of the care and management of those affected by incontinence problems and she is a long-time, active member of the Continence Foundation of Australia.
Judy RedmileQualified and highly experienced general nurse and mental health nurse who is currently employed as the General Manager of residential facilities at Mecwa. Her postgraduate qualifications include a Graduate Diploma in Gerontology and a Certificate IV - Workplace Training & Assessment and she has a considerable experience as an Aged Care Nurse Consultant and Educator. Based on substantial clinical experience and expert knowledge, she has special expertise in the care and management of those affected by dementia.
Dr. Jill BeattieNurse Consultant and Educator. Her long-time involvement with medicines and the role of nurses included a two-year research project, which explored the perceptions of RNs about the causes of medication errors. In her doctoral studies she examined how RNs can influence a decrease in inappropriate polypharmacy.
