Program*

2008 National Nurse Education Conference

Monday 8 September 2008
1800-1930	Registration Southee Complex, Sydney Showground
1930	Pre-Conference Informal Dinner Members of the Conference Committee will dine at the Novotel Brewery, Sydney Olympic Park and warmly invite conference speakers and delegates to join them.

Tuesday 9 September 2008
0730	Registration Southee Complex, Sydney Showground
Plenary Session
0830	Welcome to Country
0840	Opening Address
0910	Welcome Professor Steven Boyages, Chief Executive Sydney West Area Health Service
0920	Keynote Address Professor John Daly, University of Technology Sydney
1010	Morning Tea & Trade Display
1040	Welcome Ms Jacqui Guy, President Australian Nurse Teachers’ Society
1050	Keynote Address Professor Johanna Westbrook, The University of Sydney
Concurrent Sessions
	C1 - Contemporary Southee South	C2 - Undergraduate Southee 3	C3 - New Graduate Southee 5	C4 - eLearning J & S Room
1145	Christine Ashley Educating Nurses and Midwives about the Impact of National Regulation in 2010	Jacqui Guy	June Cox Build A Bridge, It Takes You Places, A cross-sector approach to a Graduate Nurse Transition Program for Residential Aged Care	Jed Duff & Karen Baskett Web 2.0: Experiences in teaching Quality Use of Medicine (QUM) to undergraduate nurses
1205	Patrick Crookes, Roy Brown & Angela Brown Curriculum development as a scholarly activity—a dying art?	Janet Green A hands-on approach to learning about growth and development in children	Sean Prendergast Days of Future Passed, An Exploration of the unique transition experiences of registered nurses in their graduate year who were previously enrolled nurses	Lyn Bowen When a flexible delivery learning model becomes flexible!
1225	Jan Sayers A Brave New World - from Chaos to Leadership Challenge	Janine Tarr Not a House of Cards	Sue Lichtwark & Barbara Earl An Examination Of the Perceptions of RNs engaged with a competence assessment programme and the RN's transition into Practice in New Zealand	Vivien Lane Pushing The Paradigm Shift: Multi-Disciplinary Flexible Learning Governance, Teams For On-Line Clinical Education In Nursing (OLCEN) or E-Learning
1245	Jane Street Innovation in leadership or leadership in innovation	Rhonda Roberts A PAthway to Bridge the Gap	Roy Brown The identification of a newly graduating nurses’ technical skill set and the development of competency assessment tool.	Patricia Farrar On-line as Action Leaning
1305	Lunch & Trade Display
Plenary Session
1405	Keynote Address Ms Kaye Blackburn, coaching4success Learning on the line - leadership by design or default?
Concurrent Sessions
	C5 - Leadership Development	C6 - Enrolled Nurse	C7 - Recruitment & Retention	C8 - Palliative care
1450	Lynda McGill-Rothery & Lynda Prescott Poppins Vs Nightingale – Is the Future a Fairytale?	Elizabeth McNally The Enrolled Nurse Revolution: Practical solutions for practical nurses	Yvonne Brugmans 'Nursing Our Students’ Future, Inspiring- Preparing – Achieving	Anthea Cosier Bridging the gap in palliative education: furthering palliative care in Residential Aged Care Facilities
1510	Toni Gwynn-Jones Making the most of what we've got - Growing the nursing leaders of tomorrow	Vanessa Arnison “Knowledge, Dedication and Passion” are hallmarks of the BMDH Trainee Enrolled Nurse program	Tanja Divnic Impact of qualified staff turnover & retention on nursing practice & patient outcomes	Gaye Bishop Leadership in Palliative Care Education
1530	Afternoon Tea
Concurrent Sessions
	C9 - Leadership Development	C10 - Education Management	C11 - Education Methodology	C12 - OSQN
1600	Sonya Bubnij Building bridges & breaking down barriers: Shared clinical leadership	Isabel Jamieson & Janine Hale Dedicated Education Units: The Kiwi experience	Kerry Reid-Searl Role play in the on campus learning environment-what does ‘IVA’ do for first year nursing students?	Terri Conley Overseas Program Trials Tribulations and Treasures
1620	Angela Brown The antecedents of leadership behaviours in an Undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing programme	Rose Meiruntu Bringing East and West Together	Kirsty Bailey Developing a toolbox to support educators using performance actors in health scenario based learning	Lynn Thompson A model for assessing overseas qualified nurses’ competence to practise
1640	Nicole Brooke A Simple Solution to Achieving Leadership	Marion Bowron Tackling Nurse Education Hurdles in Rural Victoria	Roy Brown Effective curriculum development
1715-1830	Welcome Reception Southee Complex, Showground, Olympic Park Sydney

Wednesday 10 September 2008
0800	Registration
Plenary Session
0830	Keynote Address Professor Lynette Stockhausen, University of Ballarat 'Crossing Over' - Linking, Learning, Working
0915	Keynote Address Dr Cathy Balding, Qualityworks, Pty. Ltd Clinical Governance – The role of nurse education
1000	Morning Tea & Trade Display
Concurrent Sessions
	C13 - Clinical Governance & Practice Development	C14 - Undergraduate	C15 – Postgraduate & eLearning	C16 - Clinical Education
1030	Jennifer McAfee Nursing M&M meetings – one bridge towards quality care	Sandra Campbell Critique of an acute care undergraduate nursing unit	Creina Mitchell Challenges for the teaching team: creating a distance learning environment to engage postgraduate students with a primary health care approach to Child, Family and Community Nursing	Kathleen McMillan Clinicians, Librarians and Patient Care: Opportunities for Partnerships in the Clinical Setting
1050	Christine O’Neill Early recognition of the deteriorating patient…	Janie Petersen & Veronica Barlow Strong Foundations, Remote Recruitment Gains	Kathryn den Hertog Learning by experience - lessons from a CAP (Clinical Accreditation Program)	Nicola Drayton & Catherine Seager 'Kept in the Dark' meeting the educational needs of night staff at Nepean emergency department
1110	Jutta Nissen & Peter Berry Bridging risk management and education technology to build a flexible orientation program	Jim Kevin An Alternative Model of Nursing Education	Linda Mulheron and Ratnes Singham The Changing Roles of Librarians. Improved Information Provision For Nurses and other Health Professionals Where And When It Is Most Needed	Amanda Craig Preoperative education impacts on patient outcomes
1130	Jackie Crisp The gap between the implementation of clinical governance and the creation of effective workplace cultures	Janet Green Collaborative learning to improve staff and student experiences	Lorraine Ferguson Reflections on teaching reflective practice	Rhonda Roberts Management of patients with CVADs – Making a Difference
1150	Robyn Galway The Contemporary Learning Environment	Kerry Reid-Searl Shifting Supervision – What is really happening for Undergraduate Nursing Students when Administering Medications in the Off Campus Learning Environment?	Mary-Bridgid Naylor & Jenny Pita Enhancing Teaching through eLearning	Melissa Bloomer Medication Error Prevention - its not a bitter pill to swallow
1210	Cheryl Waters The Community of Practice and Professional Development	Tracy Levett-Jones Belongingness: Essential for optimising the learning of nursing students in the clinical environment	Victoria Gardner Old Nurses, New Tricks	Merylese Mercieca Improving Quality of Patient Care Through Staff Competency Levels
1230	Karleen Thornton Creating learning environments for the future: development of a teaching and learning framework	Erin Sheehan and Julieann Browning Support and Education Initiatives for New Graduate Nurses in Paediatric Oncology	Aileen Wyllie ePortfolios: enabling students in the skills necessary for leadership	Jennifer Critchley & Brian Julien Culture within a Culture: New learning environment informs clinical teaching
1250	Lunch, Trade Display & Posters
1300	ADInstruments Workshop LabTutor for Nursing Workshop
Plenary Session
1400	Keynote Address Professor Enrico Coiera, The University of New South Wales
1445	Keynote Address Professor George Rubin, The University of Sydney
1530	Afternoon Tea & Trade Display
Concurrent Sessions
	C17 Teaching & Learning	C18 Aged Care	C19 Clinical Education
1600	Jacqui Guy, Gerda Tolhorst, Christine Taylor, Mary Bridgid Naylor & Janet Roden Nurse Educator Perceptions of the ANTS Nurse Teacher Nurse Competencies	Catherine Wallace Teaching Nursing Home, An Australian experience. Improving undergraduate nursing students experiences with older adults in high Care residential facilities	Rose Whittle, Mark Crawford Clinical Leadership: Supporting Dedicated Education Units
1620	Tracy Naidoo, Emma ClarkeThe Novice Nurse Educator – ‘From Chrysalis to Butterfly’	Jeanette Dyason How do we prepare our beginning Division 1 nurses to be the Aged Care specialists of the future: Setting up an Aged Care Specific Graduate Nurse Program in country Victoria	Karleen Thornton Engaging medical nurses in teaching and learning through the design of a\|\| dedicated learning hub.
1640	Judy Seccombe Academics or educators? Peripheral issues in research	Frances Barraclough North Coast AHS Positive Approach to Care of the Older Person	Sue McLarrry Healthy Ager Project: Inter-professional clinical learning experience with older adults for nursing and physical therapy students
1930	Conference Dinner Novotel, Sydney Olympic Park

Thursday 11 September
0800	Registration
Plenary Session
0830	Keynote Address Professor Jill White, The University of Sydney
0915	Keynote Address Ms Tracey Osmond, The College of Nursing
1000	Morning Tea & Trade Display
Concurrent Sessions
	C20 - Ed Management	C21 - Undergraduate	C22 - Learning environment
1030	Mary-Bridgid Naylor Return on Investment in Education	Didy Button The Clinical Communication Program an innovation in clinical learning for nursing students	Fiona Orr Clinical supervision in nursing: Becoming reality or facing extinction
1050	Karleen Thornton Self Sustaining Learning Units: creating an inclusive learning environment	Ashley Kable Enhancing academic staff understanding of the learning needs of Indigenous Australian students in a tertiary education setting.	Karen White, Angie Parker Creating a Learning Environment to Promote Excellence - Embedding the PEER Support Model
1110	Sandra Ryan & Dianne Barnhill A Nursing Framework for Learning and Development, A standardised tool for nursing education at CMDHB, NZ.	Sharon Bourgeois & Cathy Dickson Overcoming Challenges in Teaching and Learning: The Use of a Virtual Health Assessment For Nursing Students	Catherine Tuohy Paradigms of nursing education: Professional status and the learning environment
1130	Wayne Thomson The Patient Free Day	Michael Carey E-Learning and E-Literacy for Engagement with Communities of Practice	Kamaree Berry The creation and enhancement of a nurse academics’ professional identity within the tertiary sector.
1150	Angela Taylor The Ward Senior: Targeting the Learning Needs Within, An innovative approach to clinical education	Monica Peddle An Evaluation of learning in large group simulation experiences; a student perspective.	Vivien Lane Multicultural Nursing In Animated Psychoeducational Products: An Australian Assessment Of 'Re-Mission' For Cancer Patients' Self-Care
1210	Jodie Ekholm SSWAHS Emergency Educators Committee (SEEC): A collaborative approach to Emergency Nursing education	Patricia Farrar Writing clinical practicum objectives: when Benjamin Bloom meets the ANMC	Vivien Lane On-Line Clinical Education In Nursing (OlCEN) For Cancer Nurses NSW: Making The Paradigm Shift To Flexible Teaching And Learning
1230	Lunch & Trade Display
Plenary Session
1330	Passing the Baton to Christchurch
1345	The Great Debate, Education Drives Practice Development Val Wilson, Director of Nursing Research & Practice Development Children' Hospital Westmead & Professor of Nursing Research & Practice Development, The University of Technology Sydney Lorraine Ferguson, Associate Professor of Nursing & Co-Director, Nursing Research Unit, Sydney West Area Health Service & School of Nursing, University of Western Sydney Frances Barraclough, Nurse Manager, Professional Development, North Coast Area Health Service Sonya Bubnij, Local Facilitator Clinical Excellence Commission State- Wide Leadership Program and Clinical Nurse Consultant Surgery St George Hospital Angela Brown, Associate Head of School / Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong Brenda Bradbery, A/Manager Clinical Education Unit & Manager, Corporate Learning & Development Services, Sydney West Area Health Service Sharon Bourgeois, Associate Head of School, School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Western Sydney
1445	Final address, Brenda Bradery A/Manager Clinical Education Unit & Manager, Corporate Learning & Development Services, Sydney West Area Health Service
1515	Closing Ceremony & Evaluation

*Please note: The Conference program is correct at the time of printing, however, the 13th National Nurse Educators Conference Steering Committee reserves the right to change or alter the program if necessary.