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Provisional Program Overview
   
This program is provisional and will be updated as planning proceeds; it is likely some sessions and times will change between now and the conference. Please ensure you check this program regularly.
 
 

Wednesday 28 October 2009

 

Registration

1830 - 2000

Welcome Reception
Bayside Terrace, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
Short address by Conference Convenor Amal Helou & NPS
Nurse Practitioner Online Educational Modules launch by Sandra Dunn

 

 

 

Thursday 29 October 2009

0800

Registration

   
  Opening Session
Chair: Amal Helou – Conference Convenor
0845

Conference Opening
Professor Andrew Cashin, Vice President, ACNP

0910

National nursing issues
Rosemary Bryant

0930

From evidence to innovation - The story of Nurse Practitioners as a case study
Alison Kitson

1015

Morning Tea

  Plenary Session
Chair: Leonie Burdack
1045

How Far Have we Come?
Professor Judy Lumby AM

1130

Current issues in quality use medicines and the nurse practitioner
Judith Mackson

1200

Knowledge Translation - How to win friends and influence systems
Alison Kitson

1230 Rapid Poster Communication Session
Chairs: Chris Helms & Monica Rossi 
 

Lunch & Poster Viewing

1345-1515

Topical Seminars

Leadership in clinical practice
Chair: Anne Finley

Threatened miscarriage
Chair: Donna Muscardin

Sick kid and tool kit
Chair: Michael Haddad

The legacy of Spiros: Congruent leadership discovered
D Stanley

Emergency Nurse Practitioner management of threatened or inevitable miscarriage: A clinical update
D Webster-Bain

Little people, Big challenges – A toolkit for neonatal & paediatric assessment and intervention
T De Koning, S Knight, O Tegg 

1515

Afternoon Tea

1545-1700 Free Papers
 

Research
Chair: Alison Bean Hodges

Educational Initiative
Chair: Sharyn J Plath

Clinical Practice
Chair: Robin Moon

 

Evaluation of outcomes: twelve months post-implementation of a nurse practitioner led Wound Healing Community Outreach Service
M Gibb, Prof H Edwards, K Finlayson, Prof M Courtney

The NP educator:  Meeting the demands of University roles
Dr M J Gagan

Nurse Practitioners bridging gaps in quality use of medicines
Dr K Price

 

Investigating nurse practitioner work activities in Australia: Developing an innovative work sampling framework
Prof S Middleton, Prof G Gardner, Prof A Gardner, M Gibb, Dr V Kain, Prof C Duffield, Prof P Della

Scope of Practice Guidelines - A way forward for nurse practitioners as we move towards national registration
M Thomas, C Harvey, N Dobroff, G Lee, P Halloran

Issues with timely access to medicines for community-based palliative care nurse practitioners
S Brown, I Murphy

 

Cardiovascular disease and diabetes – could the Nurse Practitioner be the answer?
G Lee

The development of clinical centres of multi-disciplinary advanced practice training
Dr D Stephenson, T Doherty

Out of the fires…… the role of the Nurse Practitioner in a Bushfire Medical Relief Centre
D Bourne

 

 

Holding them Back?  Discourses surrounding the nurse practitioner role in rural and remote South Australia
J Anderson

Nimbin: An Alternative Culture.  An Alternative Clinical Approach
G Beggs

The Campsie Well Women Clinic - a model for Nurse Practitioner care?
J Perks

 

Breaking the Silence... Autism and Palliative Care: A case Study
A Booms

(NPEP) Post exposure prophylaxis after non occupational exposure to HIV
M Bush

V Brotto
D Phillips

 

1700-1800 Annual General Meeting
 

 

1900

Conference Dinner
Bayside Gallery, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre

 

 

 

Friday 30 October 2009

0800

Registration

   
  Plenary Session
Chair: Amal Helou
0900

What do Australian nurse practitioners do? Findings from the AUSPRAC Study – Work Sampling Phase
Professor Glenn Gardner

0930

New Futures require New Leaders
Professor Judy Lumby AM

1000

PBS for the Beginner
John Bell

1025 Announcements
1030

Morning Tea

  Plenary Session
Chair: Coral Shankley
1100

Drug Interactions - why do they occur and which ones are important?
Professor Peter Carroll  

1145

Current acute pain management strategies
Dr Stephen Gibson

1230

AGM Summary Highlights
Awards – Paper & Poster Winners, Next year’s conference
Professor Andrew Cashin

1245

Lunch & Poster Viewing

1345-1515 Topical Sessions

Depression & the Medical Patient
Chair: Elaine Ford

Hypertension and Heart Failure
Chair: James McVeigh

Therapeutic Massage
Chair: Monica Rossi

Depression – Masks of melancholia
Prof P Boyce, E Ford

Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease: Understanding the burden of blood pressure and an approach to its diagnosis and management
Dr  Paul Snelling
 

Heart Failure 2009 – Where are we now and where are we going?
Dr Jo-dee Lattimore

Massage Therapy Workshop - Bridging the Gap between Clinicians, Carers and Clients
Lyn Lane, N Haynes

1515

Afternoon Tea

1545-1700

Topical Sessions

Regional Blocks
Chair:  Luke Christofis

Bones
Chair: Corinne Bridge

Advanced wound care therapy
Chair:  Chris Helms

Emergency Nurse Practitioner Workshop: Regional anaesthesia
B Donkin-Evers, M Lutze, Dr C Tan

Hand Injuries: What you need to know and what not to miss
M Kuzilini

Kiddies bones - Discussion of differences between children and adults in interpretation, diagnosis and treatment of minor trauma
Mark Jones
Best practice in wound management
A Purcell

Wounds West: Delivering comprehensive strategies to improve wound management in Western Australian Health Services
Dr J Prentice

1700

Conference Close



 



 

 

 

 

 
     


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