Workshops - Friday Afternoon
The 2008 ANZBA ASM will wrap up with a workshop series on Friday afternoon. These 5 concurrent workshops are designed as relaxed interactive sessions moderated by experts in the field. They will provide opportunities to exchange ideas, address issues, search for solutions and network with peers regarding selected subject matter. Come prepared with information about your own unit, or questions that have surfaced during practice. Registration for the workshops is essential and suggested pre-reading is recommended so you can hit the ground running.
Managing challenging behaviour
Medically complex, multiple social issues, psychiatric problems, physically and verbally aggressive, passively aggressive, manipulative and obstructive. Dealing with these difficult patient types has significant consequences for each member of the Burns Unit Team with regard to their health and the optimal care they are able to provide and the outcomes they can expect of their patients. The National Patient Charter of Rights and Principles contain details about what patients are entitled to and can expect from a health care facility but there is little focus on the rights of the health care provider or institution. So what are our rights as health care providers and what strategies can we adopt to best deal with these patients to elicit the best possible outcome for all?
Alwena Willis from
This workshop is intended to be interactive and generate discussion about this complex patient group. Participants should come prepared to discuss their unit’s strategies and any experiences that may be relevant.
Pre reading suggestions are included.
- Preventing occupational violence in Victorian health services - A policy framework and resource kit
- Strategies Used by Clinical Nurse Specialists in ‘‘Difficult’’ Clinician-Patient Situations
- www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118850752/HTMLSTART
- www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118850753/HTMLSTART
- Countering Workplace Aggression
- Scoping workplace aggression in nursing: findings from an Australian study
Burns pain assessment and management for nurses
Acute burn injury pain can be excruciating and is
also linked to chronic pain and stress related disorders. For the
patient
This interactive workshop designed for nurses will
begin with rumination on current validated pain measurement tools and
their suitability and/or limitations when applied in the management of
burn injury.
This will be followed by benchmarking of pain
assessment and management practices from the various participating burns
units.
The session will conclude with a think tank
opportunity to discuss the feasibility of developing nursing specific
pain management guidelines for ANZBA. The vision for these guidelines is
a multi layered – multiyear plan. It could include but not be limited to
“The road to
excellence is always under construction”
Participants must register for
this workshop. Suggested pre-reading:
Summer
Latarjet
The burns service juggling act, splints, dressings and oedema - the ongoing dilema
This workshop will explore a variety of approaches taken by experts
in the field to co-ordinate wound dressings, splint wearing regimes and
oedema management in the acute burns population. Within all
The workshop will be an interactive sessions moderated by experts in
the field. It is an opportunity for therapists and nurses to come with
ideas, examples and techniques of their own treatment regimes, as well
as questions that may have arisen in clinical practice.
Pre-reading material and resources will be available on the website
closer to the event. Please click on the links below for further details
of the workshop and presenters.
Dale Edgar, Senior Physiotherapist, Royal Perth Hospital, Burn Service of Western Australia
A Dressing Technique for Superficial and Partial Thickness Paediatric Hand burns
Simone West (OT), Britta Saunders (RN) and
Sharon Trevorrow (RN)
The Burn Edema Process: Current Concepts
Robert H. Demling, MD
This workshop will examine the needs of burns survivors in the rehabilitation and social re-integration phase of recovery. Issue to be examined include: Roles of peer-support groups, and hospital and rehabilitation personnel and services during this phase Education, training and accreditation for involved staff, families and carers Strategies to promote and support the provision of appropriate supports and services for affected individuals, their families and communities Short presentations to define issues and illustrate some models of service and support provision will be presented. Participants will be invited to share their knowledge and experience. The workshop aims to begin the process to establish a psychosocial standard of post acute care for Australian burn survivors, along with guidelines for promoting relationships with community and peer support groups.
Starting a hospital based group
program for adolescent burn patients
Bronwyn Wigg
Third Degree: A local,
hospital-run, burns peer support network
Tanja Healey*, Andrea Parker, John Greenwood
Understanding how burn survivors
view their re-engagement in life roles
Anna Tan Chew Na, Jacqueline Salway*
Pre-reading
Psychological Health and Function After Burn Injury: Setting Research
Priorities
J.A. Fauerbach, Pruzinsky, T & Saxe,
G.N. (2007) Journal of Burn Care & Research July/August pp. 587 - 592
Community Integration After Burn Injuries
Esselman, P.C. et al (2001) Journal of
Burn Care and Rehabilitation, 13 (1), 221 - 227.
Efficacy of a Short-Term, Intensive Social Skills Training Program
for Burned Adolescents
Blakeney, P et al (2005), Journal of
Burn Care & Rehabilitation. Vol. 26 (6) pp. 546 - 555.
Evidence Based Burn Care
This 90 minute workshop is aimed at clinicians who
want to gain knowledge of evidence-based health care using variuos
models designed by the Joanna Briggs Institute and The Cochrane
Collaboration. The workshop is intended to discuss the relevance and
application of evidence-based practice (EBP) to burn care.
Workshop Themes
The workshop will consist of small plenaries and
small group exercises and contain the following elements:
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Knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based practice
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Background to EBP organisations such as Joanna Briggs and Cochrane Collaboration
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Examples of EBP initiatives in burn care
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How to develop EBP skills – formulation of the research question (PICO)
Workshop Format
Plenary sessions will present and discuss general
issues in planning, executing, and evaluating EBP. Research question
development will be conducted in small groups.
Workshop preparation
Participants will be asked to read a number of
articles before the workshop. In addition you will benefit from the
workshop if you bring relevant own clinical questions from your own
practice.
Workshop facilitators
Workshop facilitators have been practicing and
teaching EBP at sites across the
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Sheila Kavanagh, Clinical Nurse Consultant,
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Jason Wasiak, Research Fellow, Victorian Adult Burns Service.
Additional EBM information
For my information on the Joanna Briggs Institue and
Cochrane Collaboration please go to
http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au
and http://www.cochrane.org.au/