Victorian Clinical Placements Council

Grampians Clinical Placement Network

The Grampians Clinical Placement Network (CPN) has been established to support clinical education activities in Victoria’s west.

All health service providers within the Grampians CPN boundaries are automatic members of network. All education providers that access student clinical placements within the network are also members.

The Grampians CPN is led by a Committee that is representative of the CPN’s membership base. The Committee members represent the different sectors involved in clinical education in the CPN.

The CPN is also supported by the work of a dedicated Coordinator.

Grampians CPN Committee

 Grampians CPN Committee 2012 Terms of Reference

representative	sector	organisation
Liz McCourt	Allied Health (rural)	Primary Care Manager Stawell Regional Health
Doug Gallagher	Ambulance	Manager Clinical Education Ambulance Victoria
Adam Misseri	Community Health	Senior Podiatrist Ballarat & District Nursing & Healthcare
Kerri Gordon	Community Health	Team Leader, Health Management Team Ballarat Community Health
Tom Niederle	Department of Health (regional office)	Director, Health & Aged Care, Grampians Region Department of Health
Sally Phillip	Division of General Practice	Executive Officer Westvic Division of General Practice
Jenny D'Antonio	Higher Education	Coordinator Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Paramedicine/Clinical Lecturer in Charge Australian Catholic University
Andrew Dean	Higher Education	Head of School, Ballarat Rural Clinical School The University of Notre Dame Australia
David Pierce (Deputy Chair)	Higher Education	Director, Dept of Rural Health and Academic Campus Director (Ballarat) The University of Melbourne
Mark Yates	Higher Education	Director, Combined Medical Schools The University of Melbourne and Deakin University
Maria Noonan	Private Health and Private Aged Care	Acting Director of Nursing St John of God Healthcare
Denielle Beardmore	Public Health (regional)	Director of Clinical Education & Practice Development Ballarat Health Services
Nick Bush (Chair)	Public Health (rural)	CEO East Grampians Health Service
Don McRae	Public Health (sub-regional)	Director of Clinical Services Wimmera Health Care Group
Lisa Cheshire	Regional Training Provider (RTP)	Senior Medical Educator Beyond Medical Education
Robyn Dalton	Vocational Education and Training (VET)	Deputy Dean, School of Health Sciences University of Ballarat

News and Events

Grampians CPN member event!

Thursday 31 May
5 – 6:30pm
Pyrenees House
Girdlestone Street, ARARAT

Come and hear about projects in your CPN. For more information, please see below:

 Grampians CPN member event

All welcome and refreshments are provided. To register your interest, please contact Sue Thorpe, CPN coordinator (details in the ‘Contacts’ section at the bottom of this page).

New projects in the Grampians CPN, commencing 2012

In late 2011, the Department of Health (the department), in partnership with Health Workforce Australia (HWA), conducted a request for proposals process for strategic project funding.

A full list of funded projects is available on the request for proposals page.

The Grampians CPN and its members have been successful in gaining funding for a number of projects collectively known as the "Grampians Integrated Clinical Learning Project", and a separate project in Radiology. The projects all incorporate many health services and education providers to provide an integrated approach to improving the capacity and quality of health care student clinical placements in the region.

The following 4 projects have been funded:

Program	Project name	Summary
Simulated Learning Environments	Grampians Integrated Clinical Learning Project, part 1	To increase the capacity of staff across the CPN to deliver Simulation-Based Education and Training (SBET)
Simulated Learning Environments	Radiology Phantoms	To provide general radiography and nuclear medicine phantoms to allow students placed at Ballarat Health Services to practice exposures, positioning, acquisition and reconstruction techniques on innate objects
Clinical Supervision Support Program	Grampians Integrated Clinical Learning Project, part 2	To increase the quantity of clinical supervisors providing enhanced clinical learning opportunities for all healthcare students in the Grampians CPN, particularly those in rural and expanded settings.
Expanded Settings for Clinical Placement	Grampians Integrated Clinical Learning Project, part 3	To increase the capacity and usage of clinical placements available to healthcare students in expanded settings in the Grampians CPN.

These projects are additional to a 2011 student accommodation project in the Grampians CPN.

These projects were possible due to funding made available by Health Workforce Australia and the Department of Health, Victoria.

Newsletters

The Grampians CPN distributes a regular member newsletter.

 Grampians CPN Newsletter, April 2012
 Grampians CPN Newsletter, February 2012
 Grampians CPN Newsletter, February 2011

Agenda

 Agenda - Grampians CPN Committee Meeting, 20 April 2012
 Agenda - Grampians CPN Committee Meeting, 16 March 2012
 Agenda - Grampians CPN Committee Meeting, February 2012

Minutes

The Grampians CPN Committee commenced meeting in 2011. Minutes from these meetings are available below.

 Minutes - Grampians CPN Committee meeting, 16 March 2012
 Minutes Grampians CPN Committee meeting, 10 February 2012
 Minutes - Grampians CPN Committee meeting, 2 December 2011

Contact

For all queries relating to the Grampians CPN, or to direct a query to the Committee, please contact:

Sue Thorpe
Grampians CPN Coordinator
Telephone: (61 3) 5333 6439
Mobile: 0402 083 391
Email: sue.thorpe@health.vic.gov.au

General queries

For general queries about the CPNs see the Contact page.