Northern NSW Local Health District’s Post

The #scopeofpractice review offers an opportunity to improve health outcomes and equitable access to care for all Australians by maximizing the potential of all health workforces in primary care. For #midwifery this means midwifery #continuityofcare with a known midwife as already evidenced by the most recent Cochrane review and #birthingoncountry and is a key recommendation of the NSW birth trauma inquiry. It is time to be bold. Australians deserve better. Women deserve better. It’s time to prioritize evidence based best practice multi-disciplinary care. The #scopeofpractice review will be a game changer. Midwives and nurses are qualified and ready to work to full scope. See the nursing and midwifery peaks submission below via Mary Chiarella 👇 Australian College of Nursing (ACN) Australian College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) Council of Deans of Nursing and Midwifery (ANZ) Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA) Australian College of Mental Health Nurses Zoe Bradfield Helen White Alison Weatherstone

A very good read! A joint response from nursing and midwifery peaks on the scope of practice review🌟 I went straight into practice nursing extended hours, multi-disciplinary environment in NZ in 1997. 27 years ago 🤨 Practice Nursing was a revered nursing role. We had more nurses than doctors (in fact every practice I’ve worked in has), working in partnership with GPs, physiotherapists, counsellers, midwives, and pharmacists. I had the choice of an hourly rate, or 50% of what I brought into the practice (whichever was more). We leaned on and learnt from each other. It’s a very satisfying space to work in where every healthcare provider was valued and added value… and yes, GPs were still busy, yes people had more choice, and yes, it made healthcare more accessible. I would love nothing more than to see this partnership in Australia 🌟 We can do this Australian Government 🙏 We have to do this🙌 #modernisingprimaryhealthcare #healthcarepartners #accessiblehealthcare #personcentred

The Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care has released of the Nursing and Midwifery 2023 National Health Workforce Dataset (NHWDS). Some quick figures I found interesting: - there are 326,838 RNs employed in nursing. 292,509 of these are in clinical roles. - 78% obtained their qualification in Australia; 55% born in Australia - 87% are female (very small improvement from 88% the year before) - 74% work in metro locations - 1.16% are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander nurses (a slight drop from 1.48% in 2022) - The average age is 42 You can interact with the data here: https://lnkd.in/g5GDY9pU

Here is a short video summarising the open letter by Roger Kline The Nursing and Midwifery Council Want all the details? Check out the full letter here: https://lnkd.in/daS32VC7 … #NMC #Accountability #RogerKline

NMCWatch Registrant care CIC was encouraged to read this article by the Independant https://lnkd.in/diNpuXVq However the culture is not isolated to how they treat their own staff - it is endemic on how they behave and how it has become the norm to behave as above how any other organisation in healthcare is expected to behave. Someone very wise said to me recently " If this were an NHS trust it would have been in special measures years ago and the whole board / council would have gone" There are some very good personell at the NMC trying their best to influence change but when behaviour is so indoctrinated something big has to happen. We hear from families of patients, registrants and friends of registrants who have taken their own lives to hear this behaviour is to ALL the NMC deal with. Just because you are under investigation does not mean you should be treated with any less compassion, fairness and care. Many of those under investigation will have their no case to answer and many of those even going to hearing will be cleared. From those cases we have been involved with the glaring aspect is even cases that have gone on years have had very poor investigation, lack of transparency around evidence gathering and a complete disregard for what this is supposed to be about - ensuring safe practitioners remain in the workplace and ones that are beyond remediation are shown this is not the profession for them Currently the process does nothing for "learn" and all for "blame

Great to see this being published. In context of Digital Health note the following: Under Strategic Priorities: 4. Digital Healthcare The priority is to ensure that policy will have a focus on digital healthcare in line with national objectives and that nurses and midwives will continue to lead on patient and service user approaches in the design, delivery, and evaluation of the technology and digitally enabled healthcare. The priority actions will aim to: ...  focus on digital capabilities of the nursing and midwifery workforce to measure and produce data that will inform healthcare provision and improve patient and service user outcomes; 10 priority actions are identified - and while none call out 'digital' specifically, presumably should be read in and understood to be included under a number of them e.g. 5,7 & 8. Cannot over emphasise the importance of nursing involvement at the centre of development of digital health (including electronic health records) in hospitals, step down facilities, nursing homes. In my 15 years in the industry nursing input has always been critical to building systems that are fit for purpose and likely to improve patient outcomes. Interesting article recently on Becker's Health IT referencing nurses' dissatisfaction with how AI was being rolled out in specific settings. https://lnkd.in/e-iFsuFq '...Nurses took to the streets of San Francisco this week to protest the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. But what were their specific complaints? In general, they said they were demonstrating against the "untested" technology and the risk it poses to patient safety, and how AI should not replace nurses.'

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The latest issue of JBI Evidence Synthesis is out now! This issue marks both #IDM2024 & #IND2024, both held in the month of May, with an editorial discussing the challenge of attrition in the nursing profession, and a scoping review on factors that influence longevity of newcomers to nursing & midwifery. Plus much more! 👇 https://ow.ly/GeKz50Rz8tc #JBIEBHC