Navigating the Nursing Journey – The language of nursing is currently peppered with terms like “burnout”, “compassion fatigue” and “moral distress”; whilst it sounded remote and foreign a few years ago, suddenly some of us are finding ourselves feeling seriously at risk. It is a topic of conversation from new graduate colleagues right through to our senior nurses, some who sadly feel they are “crawling to the finish line”.

Personally, it affects our physical wellbeing, our sense of self-esteem, our relationships with patients, colleagues and, sadly sometimes, our families and ultimately our satisfaction and contentment with life.

Jane’s passion for wellbeing for healthcare providers arose out of a brush with burnout herself and several family members receiving care in healthcare services. Attend this session for a thought-provoking day covering these topics and more:

• Stress and its impact on body, mind, emotions
• Managing energy and momentum (vs only “managing time”) – maintaining momentum
• Giving yourself time to reconnect and centre – with your priorities; your colleagues and your profession
• Core elements to perform at our best – sleep, positive affect and moderating stress
• Mindfulness – application in practice

ENROL NOW  for “GPS” – Going Places Seminar

Are we overthinking the whole lot?  What do we mean, anyway and….what about ME?! What’s my experience?  My satisfaction?  Is that even relevant? …and could there be a link?

As the pace of healthcare seems to increase exponentially none of us would argue that the patient ought to be at the centre of what we do. In fact, many of us chose this profession because of what we wanted to do for patients, families and communities.

But is this possible and, more importantly, is it currently true?  This one-day seminar leads us through:

• Understanding the nature of experience
• Understanding what matters to us, so we can provide what matters to others
• Understanding the role of neuroplasticity, awareness and focus
• Some basic tools, tactics and techniques to keep connection in focus
• Mindfulness and presence as professional attributes (and how to do it!)
• How hard is it? Keeping it real in our current reality!
• Oh, yes, and a few definitions, research findings and frameworks along the way.

ENROL NOW  for “SNAP” – Satisfied Nurses and Patients Seminar

The ECT4Health Team are proud to provide a 2-day fully catered nursing seminar to help raise funds for the Bundaberg Renal Support Group.  Don’t miss a great opportunity to refresh your nursing skills whilst helping a GREAT cause.

Kidney-related disease kills more Australians each year than breast cancer, prostate cancer and road accidents combined, yet awareness of this silent killer remains low according to Australia’s leading kidney health organisation.

The Bundaberg Renal Support Group meets at Bundaberg Hospital each month and anyone with a kidney condition as well as their carers and family members are welcome to attend.

Content Includes:

• Kidney anatomy, EGFR and renal physiology overview
• Hypertension, the RAAS and the antihypertensives
• Chronic heart failure
• Introduction to 12-lead interpretation
• and much more…

Join us with our nursing experts in this two day fully catered program…

ENROL NOW  for Bundaberg Renal Support Group Fundraiser

Our newest ECT4Health seminar takes you on a mindful journey through the psychology of leading clinical teams, with compassion and spunk.

This full day program for senior nurses in clinical leadership roles is ideal for Clinical Nurse (Level 2 Registered Nurses through CNC, CNS, CNF & Nurse/Midwife Educators to NUMs/MUMs.

It encompasses the psychology of caring and effective teams and the pathophysiology of compassion fatigue.  Mindfulness, and the neuroscience of stress,  bullying and collegial discourse will be addressed in this brave new workshop delivered by our favourite organisational culture coach – Jane Stanfield (Nurse/Midwife and change agent).

Nurses and midwives know that they are caught in the middle of the chaos and complexity of healthcare systems that currently leave their colleagues burnt out, stressed and seeking alternative careers.

If we are the bulk of the care/compassion workforce, why do we perceive so little self care, or kindness to each other.

Join Jane Stanfield (Nurse/Midwife and change agent) for the best education day you’ll attend this year.

Learn from real world health care data and develop immediate strategies to re-invigorate not only your career, but those you lead.

ENROL NOW  for “Let’s CLICK” Seminar

SeaMergency?

ZooMergengy?

WineMergency?

The ECT4Health newest Emergency Nursing refresher for those working in rural or remote areas is an eclectic mix of emergency presentations from mass triage, to initial trauma and shock/haemorrhage assessment and management, to cardiac related chest pain, respiratory emergencies and diabetic emergencies.

Our environmental emergency sessions discuss envenomation of snake and spider bites and exposure to the elements in a session on heat stress assessment and management.  It is an ideal two day CPD program for nurses working in regional, rural and remote facilities where they often have to manage a mix of differing presentations in any given shift.

Are you prepared for the “Mergency” that comes through the door? Then this is the course for you!

Content Includes:

• Mass triage in a rural area
• Minor head injury – understanding ALOC assessment and concussion
• Respiratory failure and shortness of breath assessment
• Snake bites and other envenomation
• Immersion injury (drowing) and diving accidents
• And much more….

Join us with our nursing experts in this two day fully catered program…

ENROL NOW  for WhatMergency – Rural Emergency Nursing Seminar

Wound care has changed and evolved into a science that nurses need to be up-to-date with.  Whether you are in acute care, perisurgical, infectious diseases, aged care/community or school based care – wounds are one of those low hanging apples that we nurses can always refresh.

The ECT4Health Bugs ‘n Band-Aids seminar is a two-day program that takes nurses through the physiology of wound healing, the discourse of chronic indolent wounds, wound assessment, nutrition, medication and dressing selection.  At our wound seminar you will leave refreshed on the current direction of sophisticated wound therapies and modern advances in product types.

Ask yourself “am I confident in reading a wound?”; “do I really know what product this wound needs?”

If you are ready for something refreshing, inspiring and engaging, come to our newest seminar – Bugs ‘n Band-Aids!

Content Includes:

• Chemistry and cellular response of inflammation
• Pathological wounds – Diabetic wounds, venous/arterial and more..
• Planning care: Nutrition and other factors influencing healing
• Wound cleaning – what has changed?
• Wound dressing product choice – vacuum or compression?
• Anti-infectives and other medications

Join us with our nursing experts in this two day fully catered program…

ENROL NOW  for Bugs ‘n Band-Aids Seminar (Wound Care)

Why do we call it the Pirate seminar?   We just ARRR…….

Are you a nurse working in an acute medical unit, and want to sharpen up your knowledge and skills in assessment and management of the cardiac and respiratory patient?  Our Pirate Seminar (Acute Respiratory, Renal and Rhythms) refreshes a heap of core business like cardiac risk factors, anatomy and physiology and telemetry rhythm interpretation just to name a few topics.  We look into sepsis, and where chest infection meets pneumonia, and we look at acute lung presentations like asthma and acute exacerbation of COPD.

This seminar is perfect for Nursing Students, Registered Nurses and Enrolled Nurses to increase their assessment knowledge of common cardiac and respiratory presentations.  Good for ED, PHC and Community GP/medical centre nurses to polish up recognition of acute deterioration nursing skills.

If all you wanted to get out of it was Rhythm Interpretation, consider attending just Day one.

Content includes:

• Cardiac Rhythm interpretation – our most popular session.
• Heart blocks and life threatening arrhythmia
• Cardiac risk factors, oxygen and the cholesterol discussion we had to have
• Understanding Heart Failure and antihypertensive drugs
• Renal function, Primary (renal) Hypertension and the antihypertensive drugs
• Respiratory assessment and some Respiratory / oxygen physiology
• Asthma, COPD and chest infection

Think of our Acute Respiratory, Renal and Rhythms Seminar (ARRR) as one day of the best of our Cardiac seminar, and one day of the best of our Respiratory Failure Nursing seminar, with a dose of renal physiology and elements of pharmacology (Rusty Pills seminar) to glue it all together.

ENROL NOW  for ARRR Pirate Seminar (Acute Respiratory, Renal and Rhythms)

Are you in the final year of your Bachelor of Nursing, or recently qualified as a Registered Nurse, and need some guidance about what to expect when you start your nursing career? Are you worried about how you are going to put the knowledge and skills you have gained into practice? Which are the important areas you really need to focus on? How can you be better prepared for the journey ahead? Then this is the course for you! Here is a course designed to welcome you into the nursing profession!

Content includes:

• Cardiac review – brief overview, including ECG’s (rate and rhythm), ischaemia, infarction and interventional cardiology
• Respiratory review – brief overview, including COPD, asthma and O2 administration
• Patient assessment – Head to toe examination
• Clinical handover
• Medication safety and administration
• Medication errors
• Team work, delegation, decision making and prioritization

ENROL NOW  for Welcome To First-Year Seminar (WTF)

Professional growth for nurses across Australia is essential if you want your staff to provide the highest standard of care to patients. While there are many areas of medicine nurses need to be up to date on, the treatment of trauma injuries is one of the most fluid and changing departments of a hospital. With constant updates in treatment procedures, diagnostics and understanding, enrolling your nursing team into one of our trauma courses or seminars is an important step in ensuring patient care is kept at the highest possible standard.

Available across Australia our trauma courses and seminars are a great way to keep the knowledge in your hospital at the cutting edge of medical theory.

The ECT4Health Trauma Fundamentals Seminar is a two-day course with a comprehensive coverage of physiology, assessment and management of the patient presenting with trauma. This program is designed for Emergency Department nurses or those in rural, remote or acute care facilities who may be involved in the assessment and management of traumatic injuries.

The content starts with basic cellular overview, oxygen delivery to tissue, nursing assessment, epidemiology of trauma in Australia, shock, burns and trauma to different systems. Differences in the physiology of special populations e.g. children, elderly and pregnant women with be discussed in the context of severe injury and shock.

At the completion of this seminar, nurses will have an updated approach to assessment, fluid resuscitation and shock management. Whilst the program is basic in its content and will not replace robust study, it serves as an outstanding introduction for the nurse new to emergency, trauma care and rural/remote nursing.

This program attracts 12 CPD appropriate for general nurses and those holding Endorsements as NP or RIPRN.  CPD for Paramedics is offered in this program.

Note:  This program is theoretical.  There are no practical workshops associated with this seminar.

At ECT4Health we run a range of courses aimed at upskilling nurses and paramedics. For more information on our upcoming courses right across Australia, click here.

ENROL NOW  for Trauma Fundamentals Seminar