ALF KRETSCHMAR AWARD 2009
An invitation to participate in the 2009 Alf Kretschmar Award

Cancer Council Queensland invites enrolled nurses, undergraduate nurses and assistants-in-nursing in Queensland to enter the Alf Kretschmar Award 2009.

• AIM:  To involve enrolled nurses, undergraduate nurses and assistants-in-nursing in Queensland in our promotion of community attitudes about, and opinions toward cancer.
• THEME: “Caring for the Person with Cancer – A Positive Nursing Experience”.
• FORMAT: A written contribution limited to 1,200 words using personal experience to demonstrate a positive aspect of caring for a person with cancer. Presentations should be preferably typed. Entries should be printed on single-side A4 paper and should not identify the author, whose details should be attached on the official entry form.

AWARDS:

• First: $1,000 plus travel, accommodation and registration costs to attend the 32nd Annual Oncology Nurses Group Conference to be held at the Hilton Brisbane on Thursday, October 8 and Friday, October 9, 2009.
• Second: $500
• Third: Four awards of $100

Entries will be accepted until 5pm Monday, July 13, 2009.

All entrants will receive a complimentary membership to the Oncology Nurses Group for one year.
For further information and entry form visit the website www.cancerqld.org.au/professionals.asp or contact the Health Professional Education team P: 07 3258 2267 E: healthpros@cancerqld.org.au

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Does the physical design of your surgery still support the way you look after your patients?

There is no doubt that general practice has changed over the last 10 years. For one thing, we now have 9000 practice nurses that weren't there in 1999. Not to mention chronic disease managers, diabetic educators, dieticians and exercise physiologists.

Yet most of us are working in a surgery that was designed last century.

• How can we use practice design to facilitate team based care?
• How on earth can we get everyone to fit in?
• Can the design of our surgeries make our workflow more efficient?
• Can they better support 'assisted consultations'?
• Can we eliminate 'muda'?

If you had the chance, how would you redesign your surgery?

• Would the waiting room be different? (a 'patient lounge' like at the Brunswick Heads surgery?).
• Could you improve your reception area?
• How about the location, size and number of the doctors' offices?
• Given the emerging importance of practice nurses, how would you best provide facilities for them?

I'd be very interested in your thoughts and comments. we'd love to hear from you if you have addressed these issues in the design of your building - even if it is just in your dreams. Or perhaps you could 'dob in' a practice that you think has done a good job. Perhaps you've been impressed by a concept you saw overseas? Or maybe you've just got some dreams you'd like to share generously.

Please post your comments here.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Practice Nurse Clinical Education Workshop
Cairns
21 - 22 August, 2009
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Educational Seminar - "How to get the most out of your staff"
02 July, 2009
Mooloolaba
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Sunshine Coast Residential School Program
22 August - 28 August, 2009

click here for Certificate IV Program

Click here for Diploma Program
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Introduction to Health Coaching for Health Professionals - Workshop
13 July - 14 July
Warwick
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RHealth would like the locals to influence the cover of the RHealth 2008-09 AnnualReport with your happy snap!