Ms Petrina Halloran1 1Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, Melbourne, Australia The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) regulates nurses and midwives who are registered to practise in Australia. The Code of conduct for nurses and the Code of conduct...
- June 30, 2017
Mrs Yvonne Zardins1 , Melanie Goode1 1WA Country Health Service, Perth, Australia The purpose of this presentation is to illustrate how technology and innovative service delivery can empower rural and remote nurses to deliver timely emergency care with the support...
- June 30, 2017
Mrs Brooke Spaeth1 1Flinders University International Centre For Point-of-care Testing, Bedford Park, Australia Introduction:Pathology services are generally situated in large urban or metropolitan centres with turnaround time for pathology results to a rural or remote health services taking 24...
- June 30, 2017
A/Prof Robyn Aitken1, Associate Professor Virginia Skinner2, Ms Louise Clark1 1Menzies School Of Health Research and Top End Health Service, Charles Darwin University, Australia, 2Office of the Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer Northern Territory Department of Health Reducing health inequalities...
- June 30, 2017
Judith Brown1 1Qld Health, Richmond, Australia Through the innovation of a nursing staff member at Richmond Multipurpose Health service. The facility is able to promote ongoing learning, onsite for nursing staff through Simulation-Based Education (SBE), It can be problematic...
- June 30, 2017
Using the emojis to address language barriers with an App supporting chronic disease self-management
Isabelle Skinner1 1Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia, 2Decision Support Analytics Pty Ltd, Darwin, Australia Introduction: This presentation will describe the process of developing a library of emojis to communicate the complex health and lifestyle issues associated with self-management for people...
- June 30, 2017
Kylie Ludwick1 1Queensland Health, Winton, Australia Problem: Perception of team confidence and function in a small rural facility emergency department in response to unprecedented increase in critically unwell patients requiring advanced level intervention in particular Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI) Design:...
- June 30, 2017
Michelle Dowden1 1One Disease, Darwin, Australia In January 2016 Crusted Scabies was made a Notifiable Disease in the Northern Territory (NT) under the Notifiable Diseases Act NT. Crusted Scabies is notifiable by laboratory on detection of scabies mites. The Centre...
- June 30, 2017