ACEN welcomes the appointment of Australia's first Chief Nurse
Rosemary Bryant the former Executive Director of the Royal College of Nursing Australia has been appointed to this new position.
The creation of this new position of Chief Nurse is a great opportunity for the nursing voice to be heard at a national political level. This will advance the nursing cause which has always had the patient care as its centre of its focus.
The appointment has already caused media interest and has been widely publised. It is hoped that this interest will continue and the many nursing developements, projects and theories will have renewed energy and focus. more...
Emergency Triage Education Kit ETEK
The Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing has introduced the Emergency Triage Education Kit ETEK.
This kit was developed collaboratively with The Australian Governments Department of Health and Aging, and Australian colleges of both emergency nursing and medicine and other private industry groups.
This is a comprehensive guide to triage and the Australian standards and guidelines for practice. It uses the Australasian Triage Scale to achieve it outcomes. The document focuses on communication issues, triages basics, mental health triage, rural and remote triage, pain assessment, pregnancy, and medico legal issues.
Most emergency departments should have already received a copy of this manual. Ask your manager for a look at your departments copy.
This kit can be accessed through the Australian Government Department of Health and Aging.
PO Box 9848 Canberra City 2601
Phone (02)62895081
Trauma Nursing Core Course TNCC Version 6
ACEN has proudly introduced the latest updated version of the Trauma Nursing Core Course TNCC to Australian and New Zealand nurses.
This version is an improvement on the previously version of the TNCC that thousands of nurses throughout Australia and New Zealand have been successfully taught.
The TNCC is an internationally recognised course. Originally founded in the United States of America, it is currently being taught in 11 countries internationally. The course is internationally recognised by healthcare employers as being an industry standard for trauma training for nurses. Considered by many as a right of passage for the emergency and trauma nurses.
The TNCC continues to use the mixture of learning styles and frameworks that provide the cognitive knowledge and psychomotor skills for nurses to manage traumatic injury. The course utilises self directed learning, lectures, demonstrations and participant skill stations to facilitate learning. These skills will enable trauma nurses to design, manage and co-ordinate care in the work place.
Changes to the program include advances to airway management. This expanded section includes the introduction of the Combitube and Laryngeal mask alternative airways techniques. It highlights the use of rapid sequence induction pharmacology to facilitate intubation.
Since the previous version the world has become a more dangerous place. A world where the civilian population is now potentially subjected to the introduction of terrorism style warfare. The TNCC has addressed these new threats by the introduction of a disaster management section.
The TNCC continues to focus on the ABCDEFGHI mnemonic and model to structure primary and secondary assessments and appropriate care. The course lectures and skill stations use this model of care to provide best practice for traumatic injuries.
The course utilities a systems approach and includes chapters on Brain and Cranial Trauma, Ocular, Maxillofacial, and Neck Trauma, Thoracic Trauma, Abdominal Trauma, Musculoskeletal Trauma, Surface and Burn Trauma, and the Special Populations of Children, Pregnant Women and Older Populations, and Transition of Care.
Skill stations focus on teaching scenarios for students to problem solve and use specific treatments to manage serious trauma. The course emphasises a ‘hands on’ approach. Participants are actively engaged in the physical assessments and interventions appropriate to these teaching scenarios.
Courses can be booked through ACEN to be conducted at any venue throughout Australia or New Zealand. The course is designed to be conducted in a rural remote or urban setting. Small instructor to student ratios gives the student a closer input and instruction.
This program has been endorsed by Royal College of Nursing, Australia according to approved criteria. APEC Provider 050826150. Attendance attracts 20 CNE points.
