The WA Chapter held our Clinical Supper on Tuesday August 27 at Perth Children’s Hospital and via Videoconference. Our speaker, Andrea Rieusset, the 2019 WA Nurse of the Year, joined us via Video Conference.
Andrea, a Nurse Practitioner working in Fitzroy Crossing, gave an informative and somewhat confronting presentation about the work she has been involved in regarding Family and Domestic Violence in the Kimberley. Her work is predominantly in the Emergency Department and working with other service to support victim of FDV. The works she is doing with the health care team and other services to formalise pathways to support victims of FDV is commendable.
The event was attended 42 people in person and 12 via videoconference. The technology went without a hitch thanks to the support of the PCH Telehealth team Chris and Emma.
Attendees found the session interesting and informative; a selection of comments are shown below:
- Depressing stats, how we can, as a community do something to change this.
- Interesting and informative, love Telehealth connections. Perhaps less statistics and more on how to approach FDV with patients
- Thank you for a great presentation, great case study. I feel we need more training; we screen for FDV in Child Health Clinics, but referral pathway is not clear.
- Thank you Andrea for your talk and the hard work you have done working with families in the Kimberley
- I found the statistics and description of notification pathways interesting.
- Great way to learn from our rural experts
- Such an excellent speaker to learn from, so experienced and a relevant topic for all nurses
- Very informative and eye opening to the complexity and level of the issue
- Thank you, very interesting great to hear about the increasing response to the problem.
- I work in the community and it would be good to hear how to best screen for in community and referral pathways/resources
- Great presentation, the case study was effective in demonstrating FDV in the clinical environment and how to respond appropriately to promote positive patient outcomes.
- Good insight into what is happening in the Kimberley.
- Thank you, great presentation!!
As a student I really appreciate the opportunity to attend.
- First time a teleconference has gone unhindered and smoothly! Very well done. Excellent topic and presentation, timely, confronting but very informative. Well worth attending.
- You’ve raised my awareness of how extensive FDV is and of the resources available to take action. Thank you
I would also like to extend a huge thanks to our sponsors for the evening – HESTA and Paywise. Their support of the ACCYPN is much appreciated allowing us to bring these events to our members at reduce rate. I would also like to thank Leanne Gough for putting on a great spread, the food was great!
Clinical Breakfast – Saturday 2 November 2019
Our final event for 2019 is our annual Clinical breakfast. This year the breakfast will be conducted on Saturday Nov 2 at the Peninsula Golf Course. We have two wonderful speakers Fran Leclercq and Kelly West who will present the “New model of care for Newly Diagnosed Type 1 patients”.
Dorothy Clarke Scholarship
The WA Chapter is pleased to announce the two recipients of the 2019 Dorothy Clarke Scholarship.
Congratulations to Pania Falconer, Perth Children’s Hospital who received funds to attend Safety and Quality – Deteriorating Patient Conference in Melbourne and Alison Oakes, WA Country Health Service to assist with fees for Australian Breastfeeding Association Diploma (online).
Certificates will be presented at the WA Chapter Clinical Breakfast on Saturday Nov 2.
WA Chapter Working Group
The next working group meeting is 5pm on Tuesday 5th November in the Perth Children’s Hospital education area on level five / Zoom. If you are interested in becoming a working group member, please come along and see what we do.
Don’t forget …. the 2020 ACCYPN Conference is in Darwin, NT. I am sure any enthusiastic interested organisers would be welcome.
