Pre Conference Workshops

W1: NEN Workshop
Date: 6 June 2012
Time: 0900 - 1600
Cost: $148.00 per person
Facilitator: Peter Sinclair

In preparation for the Melbourne RSA conference, the NEN asked educators and renal nurses alike what they felt were the current hot topics in renal education. As a consequence, the NEN education workshop has been been designed to meet the current issues educators feel matter to them.  The following topics will be explored at the workshop:

  • Working with challenging learners
  • Mentorship & ‘competency’ in clinical practice
  • E-learning: Back to the future
  • How to speak like Martin Luther King jnr.
  • Creating a culture of learning

Workshop participants will be required to complete a short survey prior to the Workshop.
“Education is not the filling of a pail. It is the lighting of a fire.” (William Butler Yeats)

W2: Renal Vascular Access Management
Date: 6 June 2012
Time: 0900 - 1600
Cost: $148.00 per person
Facilitator: Clinical Nurse Consultants
Bard Australia Pty Ltd

This workshop aims to promote best practice within the dialysis environment and is designed to give participants an introduction into the theoretical components of Renal Disease and Treatment Options.  Bard’s commitment involves preserving the vasculature of patients and a major component of the workshop will focus on Vascular Assessment, Types of Vascular Access and Maintaining and Caring for these Access Types.  Technological advancements including the use of Ultrasound to achieve the aforementioned outcomes will also be focussed on.

  • Overview and Scope of Renal Disease
  • Access Factors related to Dialysis (AVF, AVG, Catheter)
  • Access Assessment Including Ultrasound, Cannulation and Mapping Techniques
  • Managing Vascular Access complications and Patient Education
  • Infection Control and Safety Compliance
  • Hands on Practical Component using Ultrasound

W3: CKD-MBD Interactive Workshop
Date: 6 June 2012
Time: 0900 - 1200
Cost: $84.00 per person
Facilitator: Nigel Toussaint

Disorders of bone and mineral metabolism contribute to an increased prevalence of bone disease and cardiovascular disease in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Abnormalities of calcium, phosphate, parathyroid hormone and vitamin D are risk factors for vascular calcification and cardiovascular disease in patients with advanced CKD on dialysis, and elevated phosphate levels especially are independently associated with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in this population. Recently the term 'Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder' (CKD-MBD) has been applied to these disturbances of mineral metabolism, renal bone disease and vascular calcification, together with patient-level outcomes of fracture, cardiovascular disease and mortality in patients with CKD.

This workshop addresses the problems of CKD-MBD and will highlight practical management issues for this commonly encountered disorder. Through a series of case studies this interactive session will provide insight into the importance of abnormalities of bone and mineral metabolism and provide an approach to improving the treatment of hyperphosphatemia, hyperparathyroidism and vitamin D deficiency.

W4: Models of Practice
Date: 6 June 2012
Time: 1300 - 1600
Cost: $84.00 per person
Facilitators: Lesley Salem, Barb Harvie, Leanne Brown

Linking evidence and practice should be relatively simple for nurses working at all levels of practice. This workshop will involve active participation from delegates, including theory, practice, demonstration and discussion. Bring your questions and thoughts to share while we take you on a journey to discover how evidence sits within practice. The development of a framework was initiated by Lesley Salem for Nurse Practitioners in Nephrology. This has since expanded into a framework for all nurses both within and outside Nephrology nursing.

Workshop overview:

  • Models of Practice and why a framework is necessary
  • ANZDATA:
  • Is this medical or nursing evidence?
  • Comparing nursing practice with medical practice - what are we really doing?
  • Demonstration: How to put evidence into a practice framework:
  • Registered Nurse model of practice
  • Heart failure model of practice
  • Demonstration: How to use the frame work for:
  • KPI's
  • Auditing
  • Research
  • Participant practice

At the end of the workshop, participants will have gained practical knowledge of how to use a framework to put evidence into practice, to define their own KPI's, develop auditing tools, identify professional development needs and to identify key research. It is anticipated that you will also be given a hard copy of the Nursing Models of Practical Framework for Implementing Evidence.

Participants will be given relevant workbook material

W5: Quality Improvement
Date: 6 June 2012
Time: 1300 - 1600
Cost: $84.00 per person
Facilitator: Lynda Ball

In clinical practice, it may be easy to recognize processes or procedures that could be improved upon, but implementing change can be quite challenging. This interactive workshop will focus on various techniques to institute continuous quality improvement.

Workshop overview:

  • Why we collect data
  • Providing optimal care
  • The challenges of quality assessment and performance improvement
  • Steps in performance improvement
  • Setting goals
  • Quality indicators
  • Using data
  • Prioritizing
  • RCA examples