Newsletter April 2019

WHAT’S INSIDE?

• Chairperson’s Letter
• Join the Conversation
• Credentialing for Specialist Nurses
• Membership
• WA Chapter Report
• 100 Years Child Health Service in Queensland
• Australian Childhood Foundation – Centre for Excellence in Therapeutic Care
• CNMO February Newsletter
• Childaware Conference 2019
• Revolutionising Play in Therapeutic Practice with Children and Young People
• The Subacute Rehabilitation of Childhood Stroke – Clinical Guideline 2019

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CHAIRPERSON’S LETTER

Dear Members

Welcome to the April 2019 edition of Communique.

Last month I had the opportunity to attend the Australian College of Nursing Policy Summit in Canberra. The one day meeting brought together members to discuss and identify major policy opportunities and build a strategy to address these with particular focus on chronic disease, end of life care, ageing and workforce sustainability. I participated in discussions with the chronic disease policy chapter where we focussed strategies to address obesity in children and young people. It is important that as a College we work together with like-minded organisations to strengthen our position and have a stronger voice for the specialty, and children and young people’s care. To this end we have also been involved in conversations with the Academy of Child and Adolescent Health to look at how we can work together and support each other’s activities.

Still on the advocacy theme, our College has continued to be active with submissions to national consultations including the National Action Plan for Child and Youth Health 2020-2030, and the National Digital Pregnancy Health Record project. I would like to particularly thank members for their feedback that enabled ACCYPN to provide a comprehensive organisational response on these consultations.

Regards
Catherine Marron
Chairperson – ACCYPN Board of Directors

DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING OUR MEMBERS WOULD BE INTERESTED IN HEARING ABOUT?

• An interesting article
• Something happening in your workplace
• An event you would like to share

We warmly welcome member newsletter contributions.  Please email your items to info@accypn.org.au

CREDENTIALING FOR SPECIALIST NURSES

Dear Members

We have been deliberately quiet regarding Credentialing for Specialist Nurses whilst an agreement was reached regarding the future process for the management of C4N.

As you were aware, there were five (5) specialist Colleges involved in developing the C4N process and structure.  Currently there is only ACCYPN and the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses left using C4N. A decision has been made by ACMHN that the portal for the online application for Credentialing will be available via the specialist nurse website not a standalone C4N website.

As of 1 July 2019, when wanting to access the C4N online application, you will do this via the ACCYPN website. The process for application will remain the same and all material relating to credentialing will be available via the ACCYPN website. There are a number of CCYPN’s who are due for recredentialing and you will have received a reminder. 

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Regards
Dr Jan Pratt AM
Secretary – ACCYPN Board of Directors

ACCYPN MEMBERSHIP

ACCYPN Member Renewal Notices will be sent out via email in May 2019.

NEW MEMBER SPECIAL – Join between 1 April and 30 June, pay full new member fees & receive up to15 months’ Membership for the 12 month fee!

Membership Benefits

Professional Development

• Learning on Demand – Webcasts
• Member Discount to Events
• Bi-monthly newsletters (available in members only section of website) view the current edition
• Access to the speciality Standards relating to children and young people’s nursing
• Access to Credentialing for Nurses¹,² (c4n) www.c4n.com.au 
• Access to Member only funding opportunities¹​​​​​​​

Professional Leadership Opportunities

• Membership of an organisation that advocates for the needs of children, young people and their families within the broad health context
• Opportunity to nominate for National Executive¹
• Opportunity to participate in Committees and contribute to the development of policies

College Information

• Bi-monthly newsletters (available in members only section of website) view the current edition
• Access to the ACCYPN website containing the activities of the organisation
•  Members List-serv​​​​​​​
  ¹Ordinary Members Only
  ²Registered Nurses Only​​​​

WA CHAPTER REPORT

The WA Chapter hosted our first event for 2019 on Tuesday 5 March.  Dr Nick Gottardo, the Co-Head Brain Tumour Research Team and Consultant Paediatric Oncologist / Neuro-Oncologist gave an excellent presentation about The Transformed Landscape of Childhood Brain Tumours.  We had 99 attendees and three via video conference.  These numbers are really pleasing to us.  The talk scored high on all of our evaluation parameters of: Relevance, Content and Presentation.  We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to our event sponsor Paywise.  Without the continuing support of sponsors, we would not be able to host such interesting and varied clinical events.

There were so many positive comments from the audience; included is a selection below:

• Awesome talk, great speaker
• Very excellent presentation though a video showing how the subgroups work within the brain would improve the presentation
• Very informative and insightful
• The presentation was very informative and well detailed. A video will be an excellent addition
• I found this talk very interesting. Good presentation particularly enjoyed the cartoon mountain. Interesting to learn about research methodology.
• The research is amazing, continue doing what you are.
• Everything was very well explained, very engaging and interesting to listen to. Thanks
• Super interesting insight into paediatric oncology and research methodology!!:)
• Always an interesting presenter. Good to get an update on this insidious disease. Despite complex slides it was well explained and shows promising hope for children with brain tumours.
• As a student nurse it was wonderful to learn about the methods that are taken to trial the different drugs used on children with brain tumours. Nick was a wonderful speaker and he and his team are doing amazing work.
• Very interesting to learn about new research and clinical trials for cancer treatment. Only issue is with relevance as a nursing student
• Very well presented …, he is extremely knowledgeable and presents clearly and simply
• Dr Gottardo was very thorough and informative in presenting all the data. He explained everything very clearly.
• very engaging and educational presentation. Dr Nick is so passionate and made the speech so interesting, thanks.
• Very interesting and well presented. Thank you for a presentation we can understand with minimal oncology knowledge.
• Very well presented. Definitely learned a lot to take with me in the future. Thank you all.
• Really enjoyed it, very interesting on a topic I didn’t know much about. Keep up the good work!
• It was very eye opening to me as a nursing student. Very interesting to see how these researches are progressing.
• Really liked how Nick broke things down and took the time to speak about it all in layman’s terms. It was very interesting, and I really appreciate it.
• Informative and educational with rich data that can inform the general public. Inspiring to hear of the efforts being made by local and overseas people
• Thank you for letting me know about those hidden passionate people who fight against diseases for kids. It really became my motivation.
• So interesting and really exciting to see how survival rates for medullablastoma in children could be improving
• Very intriguing talk. Thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to learn about child brain tumours. Has inspired me to continue pursing my studies
• The jargon may of been hard for students or non-oncology based RN to understand
• Great presenter, he was very passionate and knowledgeable about types of childhood brain tumours and treatment options

Once again, thanks for the suggestions for future topics; it’s helpful for us to know what members want. On that note, it is worthwhile posting a friendly reminder to some attendees about the purpose of the Clinical events: They are a forum to share expert knowledge in current child health and paediatric developments. We are getting quite a few suggestions of topics such as: Side effects of drugs in children; pregnancy and the graduate nursing program at PCH. We do not want attendees to stop giving suggestions but please remember, our members have a specific interest in child health and paediatrics from diverse backgrounds of community, hospital and tertiary education. We think it would be less useful to our membership to have lectures on the aforementioned suggestions as this type of information can be obtained from many sources.

Our next Clinical Supper is on Tuesday 7^th May at PCH and is being presented by Dr Lisa Gibson, a Research Fellow from Origins and the Telethon Kids Institute. Dr Gibson will be presenting: Nature Play & Grow: Nature connectedness as a way to improve child health and well-being.

Planning is well underway for the Annual Dinner which will be in June again; watch this space for further details. We are also planning a further clinical supper in August and a Saturday breakfast in late October. When the speakers are finalised we will advertise these events.

Dorothy Clarke Scholarship

For WA members only, applications for the Dorothy Clarke Scholarship are advertised from the end of May are until 1^st July 2019. For more information and application form please visit https://www.accypn.org.au/knowledge-centre/funding-opportunities/dorothy-clarke-scholarship/

WA Chapter Survey

A big thank you to all of those who completed the members’ and non-members’ surveys that we conducted in the latter part of 2018. The purpose was to ascertain how many members and non-members attend the clinical events and what they hope to gain from them. We had 13 members and four non-members respond to the surveys.

Members Survey

15% have not attended any event within the last two years. Slightly less than 50% have attended 1-2 clinical events and a little under 40% have attended 3-5 events.

The timing of the events is always a challenge for some people with family commitments etc. but more than 50% prefer the current format of a Clinical Supper with one speaker but more than 60% state their preference is for a Clinical Breakfast at the weekend with two speakers. More than a third of the respondents would like social events such as a trivia or quiz night.

Reasons for attending are overwhelmingly for education, professional development and networking. One member stated that it was important to support the association and … what it represents but the socialising also seems to be a significant reason as 46% of respondents cited this.

The written comments seem to support the committee’s choice of events with one person asking for site visits and another stating a preference for breakfast sessions due to work commitments during the week.

Non-Members Survey

50% (n-=2) have attended more than five events within the last two years. The non-members seem to be content with any clinical event other than mid-week breakfasts. They do not attend for any social reasons and do not want quiz or trivia nights.

They all attend for professional development. One non-member suggested half or full day workshops.

Two non-members asked for child development and contemporary topics in paediatrics because they work in adult based areas.

WA Chapter Working Group

The next working group meeting is 5pm on Tuesday May 14^th in the Perth Children’s Hospital education area on level five. If you are interested in becoming a member, please come along and see what we do. The meetings rarely go on beyond 6pm.. otherwise I revert back into a Pumpkin!

As a reminder, the 2020 ACCYPN conference is in Darwin. I am sure any enthusiastic interested organisers would be welcome!

WA Chapter Committee 

100 YEARS CHILD HEALTH SERVICE IN QUEENSLAND

In March 2018, we celebrated 100 years of Child Health Services in Queensland.  Late last year, a number of Child Health Nurses (CHN) in Brisbane had an informal discussion and identified the need to document CHS history.  Because of the breadth and variation in the role of the CHN, it was agreed to include ‘stories’ from some of the practitioners. A small working Party was formed.

We meet on a monthly basis. Notes from the meeting are available on request. Our goal is to produce a publication on the history of CH in Qld.

This information gathering is the first stage in our project. Our first objective is to get as many CHNs as possible involved (not just the metropolitan area).
One of our difficulties is informing CHNs outside of Brisbane of this project and encouraging them to participate.

With this in mind, PLEASE distribute this to any interested CHNs.

Information required:

• Name and contact details (not for publication – office use only).  Inclusion of the author’s name is optional
• the clinical and/or geographical area being written about and approximate year
• your experience that you would like to record. Can be an aspect of your role, challenges, variation in your role, funny incidents etc.
• word count 250 – 500
• Size 14 Font
• no identifying client details please
• contributions will be reviewed by the working party and / or an independent person.  Some editing may be required.
• availability of photographs that you are willing to share are welcome preferably send on line 

Please forward to:
Janet Henry at henryjh18@gmail.com OR
Nola Meleod at mazdaman8@bigpond.com
Postal Address: Janet Henry, 4 Presidents Place, Carseldine 4034
Amended Closing Date:  30th June 2019

The Centre for Excellence in Therapeutic Care has been launched as a partnership with Southern Cross University and funded by FACS NSW.

It will regularly publish new resources to support practitioners in many different roles. You have the opportunity to download for free a practice guide that supports you to consider how to make the physical environments in which children and young people live more therapeutic in nature.

Click here to download the guide.

Lisa Dion (USA) is taking the world by storm with her new synergistic play therapy

Lisa Dion is the creator of Synergetic Play Therapy – a researched-informed model of play therapy based on nervous system regulation, interpersonal neurobiology, physics, attachment, mindfulness, and therapist authenticity.

It aims to replicate the delicate dance of attunement that occurs between a caregiver and an infant.  It focuses on ensuring that the practitioner’s verbalisations and non-verbal activity are congruent during the play therapy sessions in order to transmit trust and safety. In doing so, the approach maximises right-hemisphere to right-hemisphere communication and acts as an external regulator for children’s dysregulated states as they arise in the therapeutic process.

Her work is also effectively applied to work with children and young people who express aggression in their behaviour during the therapeutic process. This is a vital new area that has rarely been conceptualised.

Workshops are being held in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth in June 2019.  This is a hands-on workshop where you will learn new skills and knowledge.

Click here to watch the interview with Lisa Dion.  Click here to register.

Have you wanted to know more about the way of working with traumatised children that was developed by Dan Hughes?

Dan Hughes is a master practitioner.  He has worked with traumatized children for over 30 years and has developed a unique approach to supporting them to build closer bonds with their carers.

Based on attachment knowledge, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy or DDP is one of the fastest growing evidence-informed approaches.

Level 1 DDP Courses are being run in a range of locations and are small group training opportunities –  places are limited. 

Click here to find out more.

Pat Ogden is the founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI) in Denver Colorado. She has developed a unique way to provide therapy to individuals who have experienced trauma.

This is the only accredited course in this modality in Australia and this is the only opportunity in 2019 that you will be able to attend Level 1 courses.

You can download the brochure for this course here.

Click below to read more about the training and what you can expect to learn!

Announcing:  A workshop with Professor Jennifer Freyd (USA)

Many organisations approach Safeguarding Children Services for support and training to strengthen their child safe culture.  Even more ask, what is next? What will happen once the spotlight of the Royal Commission goes away? How will children and vulnerable adults continue to be a focus of community attention?

Jennifer has been doing research into betrayal trauma for over two decades. She is a powerful speaker. She has practical strategies about how to respond to the immediate and long term needs of individuals who have suffered abuse by a perpetrator working or volunteering for an organisation.

When is the workshop?

Melbourne
21 May 2019

Sydney
22 May 2019

REGISTER NOW!

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BE PART OF THE MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE

Have you registered for CA2019 yet?  Register now!

FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE! 

MEET OUR CHILD AWARE CHAMPIONS! 

These are former Child Aware Conference keynote speakers who are recognised as Child Aware Champions.

With CA2019 being the 6th in the series, Families Australia is committed to building this rich resource library of child focussed and family sensitive research, policy and practice. 

For more information regarding the Conference, click here.

THE SUBACUTE REHABILITATION OF CHILDHOOD STROKE – CLINICAL GUIDELINE 2019

The Murdoch Children’s Research Institute has published Australia’s first rehabilitation guildelines to help children who have had a stroke.  More than half of te 100 to 300 children who suffer a stroke each year will be left with long-term disabilities, affecting their physical functioning, communication, learning and social behaviour.

Click here to download the guideline.

Please continue to share this news within your networks so the good work of ACCYPN reaches right across the country.  Our target audience for likes is Nurses involved in caring for children and young people.