New Initiatives
Focus groups with nurse’s and midwives
Your views are important and help us develop responsive programs to support nurses and midwives in Victoria.
Throughout November-December 2009, NBP is progressing work involving focus groups with nurses and midwives across metropolitan and rural regions. If you would like to be involved, the focus group cohorts to be conducted are:
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“Older” nurses and midwives Div 1 nurses and midwives and Div 2 nurses who are over 50 years of age As part of the ‘Retaining the mature nursing workforce’ project conducted by Open Mind Research |
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“Younger” nurses/midwives
As part of researching communication messages about nursing/midwifery and the work of the Branch Conducted by Auspoll Research Consulting
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Effective Nurse Banks
Establishing and maintaining effective casual pools and banks requires ongoing resources, innovation and responsive policies and procedures to engage and retain staff interest and participation. Nurse Policy Branch is currently developing a guide that will draw on current practice and knowledge about establishing and maintaining effective and efficient Nurse Banks.
Good Practice Nurse Banks – Consultation Draft
Nurse Policy Branch is currently seeking feedback on a draft version of this guide:
Nurse Bank Good Practice Guide (pdf, 1.26M)
We welcome your feedback on the issues raised in this document. If you would like to provide feedback or comments, please use this link.
Nurse Bank workshop - NOTE Change of Date
Registration essential -maximum attendees 48.
A workshop for public health services to assist in validating and finalising the Nurse bank guide will be held on 8 December 2009, 10-2.30 pm at Urban Workshop Conference Room Facility, rear of Casselden Place in the retail precinct of 50 Lonsdale St.
The workshop will involve presentations (including CasConnect) and be structured to enable sharing of current “good practice” and the contribution of health service’s to the final version of the guide.
Those not able to attend are encouraged to provide on line feedback and comments as these will be compiled and distributed to attendees of the workshop for group discussions.
NPB Contact:
katy.fielding@dhs.vic.gov.au
NP Implementation Guide
Initial development of the Nurse Practitioner (NP) role in Victoria was based on DHS pilot or demonstration projects. More recently NP collaboratives have been encouraged in targeted service areas to enable sharing of resources and ideas about effective approaches to implementation.
The guides, templates and tools developed to date by Victorian health services and DHSwill be collected together into a NP implementation guide that will assist in the establishment of NP services in a range of settings/context.
The guide will be completed in 2009 and will include information on strategic approaches to NP services, corporate and clinical governance, selection and development of candidates, business case development, evaluation of the impact on services and examples of current NP models in varying settings.
NPB Contact:
Jo.begbie@dhs.vic.gov.au
Retaining the mature nursing workforce in Victoria
A current initiative of Nurse Policy Branch ¿Retaining the mature nursing workforce¿ aims to explore the needs of older nurses and midwives including physical needs, professional satisfaction and transitional requirements.
The first stage of the work plan includes an exploration of what other jurisdictions are implementing to assist older nurses as well as challenging some of the myths about older nurses and their capacity and capabilities.
A key activity will be seek input and feedback from mature nurses about how their employers can support older workers with the view to formulating a policy response to the challenges arising from the ageing demographic of nurses and midwives.
The resulting paper will profile the current nursing and midwifery workforce and draw on the published literature about the ageing workforce generally (as well as within health). Importantly, the paper will incorporate the wisdom and experience of those supporting and managing older nurses in the workplace as well as reflecting the views, concerns and aspirations of our older nurses and midwives.
The paper will be completed in 2009-10.
NPB Contact:
Maryann.lindsay@dhs.vic.gov.au