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Continuing Professional Development for General and Aged Care Nurses
- Upcoming
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CPD
Hours
RCNA
Points
- Day 1
- Day 2
- Educators
8.30am - Registration and Refreshments
9.00am - Dealing Intelligently With Workplace Conflict
With workplace change accelerating daily, tensions can emerge that are occasionally conflictual. This interesting session looks at approaches that nurses can take to identify “hot spots” of conflict, prevent them and then manage them appropriately if they occur.
- Is some degree of conflict between staff and others inevitable?
- What can be done to prevent unnecessary tension?
- An overview of some trouble-shooting approaches and an understanding that sometimes only partial resolution is possible.
10.30am - Morning Tea and Coffee
11.00am - When Relatives are Hostile, Demanding and/or Manipulative
- What are the feature of demanding behaviours and manipulative ploys?
- How to respond to rude and demanding behaviours.
- Which strategies are useful when responding to relatives who are manipulative?
- What is hostility and how to prevent it from escalating into verbal or physical aggression?
- If an adverse incident involving a relative occurs, what should you do.
12.30pm - Lunch Break & Time to Network
1.30pm - Smart Pump Technology
- What is a Smart Pump System?
- Learn about the components of intravenous medication errors and how to reduce risk.
- Overview of other smart pump technologies for reducing the incidence of life-threatening errors.
- Emphasis on risk identification as a foundation for effective and safe pump selection.
2.15pm - Falls Prevention and the Danger of Bed
Recent research shows that 38% of all incidents in Australian hospitals are related to falls. This presentation will provide evidence and guidance with regard to the major issues of entrapment, strangulation and suffocation from the mattress and the bedrails.
- What role do beds play in falls, restraint and even life-threatening entrapment?
- Guidelines for using this equipment safely and correctly.
3.00pm - Afternoon Tea and Coffee
3.30pm - Morbid Obesity and Best Practice Nursing Care
Care of a morbidly obese person is complex. For example, the high potential for skin breakdown and poor wound healing require intelligent, evidence-based, preventative care. As well, there is serious risk of harm to staff in areas relating to mobility.
- Which risk management strategies need to be considered when caring for a person who is obese?
- How to appropriately select equipment to prevent pressure ulcer development in this patient population.
- Bariatrics – definition and an update.
- What predisposes people to develop obesity?
- Discussion of the types of available surgical procedures and the health benefits.


