Victorian Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner Collaboration

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Victorian Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner
Collaboration Mentorship Program Draft Plan
(July 09) Peter Hudson Mark Boughey
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Background

• Collaborative purpose
• To assist with the development, support and
  mentorship of Palliative Care Nurse Practitioners
  in Victoria
• Collaborative leaders CPCER
• Collaborative partners (metropolitan focus)
• Melbourne City Mission and Banksia Palliative
  Care
• Target audience/service users
• Representatives from the 11 services/organisations
  funded under the rural and metropolitan NP
  schemes
• Time frame July 2009 - July 2011

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Deliverables

• Development of resources to support the training
  of NP
• candidates for e.g
• Recommendations regarding core clinical
  skills/scope of practice
• Access to information regarding palliative care
  drug formulary
• Access to clinical guidelines fact sheets and
  case studies
• Access to training on presentation skills
• Access to training on evidence based palliative
  care (writing articles for publication, ethics,
  grant proposals, etc.)
• Access to mock NP examinations
• (2) Mentorship/support via a recognised
  palliative care
• NP and specialist palliative care physician

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Deliverables (Contd)

• (3) Establish a support networking initiative
  that
• Facilitates group learning among the NP
  candidates
• Uses information technology including website,
  newsletters/updates and social networking forums
• Facilitates sharing of educational resources
• Provide forums (approx 3 p.a) for advice and
  comment on key issues
• Facilitate updates on the progress of NP models
• Provide opportunities for sustainable networking
  locally, nationally and internationally
• (4) Develop communication strategy
• (5) Evaluate outcomes of the collaborative

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Specific RolesCPCER

• Overall management to achieve deliverables
• Chair/convene management team
• Develop work plan and submit to DHS by 31st
  August
• Reports as required to DHS

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Specific Roles Melbourne City Mission
Banksia

• Focus on service wide implications of role NP
  palliative care experience for metropolitan
  services
• Offer advice (approx 2 hrs each service per week)
  via access to their services (1) Nurse
  Practitioner(s) (2) Senior manager and (3) Senior
  medical officer(s)
• Maintain record of nature of enquiry, whether via
  email, phone and or face to face visit and
  outcomes
• Advise field of enquiry procedure
• Provide rep for the Collaborative management
  group
• Assist CPCER in meeting deliverables
• Periodic reports to CPCER Director/management
  group

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Specific RolesCollaborative Management Team

• Overall management of activities to achieve
  project deliverables
• Representatives
• Director, CPCER
• Melbourne City Mission/Banksia Palliative Care
• Project Officer
• Dr Mark BougheyMedical NP Advisor
• Karen GlaetzerNursing NP Advisor
• Advisors as required

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Specific RolesCollaborative Advisory Pool

• Provide advice to the Collaborative as needed /
  able
• Attend Collaborative management team meetings and
  Collaborative forums where pertinent / able
• Representatives
• DHS Rep Jo Hall
• Nurse Policy DHS Katy Fielding
• Nurses Board Michelle Thomas
• Rural NP Rep tba
• Rural Medical Rep- tba
• College of NPs - Alison Bean-Hodges tba
• NP Non-Palliative tba
• International NZ rep USASan Francisco Sloan
  Kettering New York University Harvard
  University

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Specific RolesProject Officer

• Assist management team achieve project
  deliverables
• day to day oversight of development, management,
  maintenance and evaluation of Collaborative
• Represent the Collaborative at relevant
  meetings/forums
• Marketing, profile updates
• arising from the Collaborative
• Key/primary point of contact for
• enquiries

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Specific Roles Medical Nurse Practitioner
Advisors

• Nurse practitioners,service managers and medical
  officers from MCM and Banksia, approx 2hrs each
  service per week (focus on metropolitan - as
  previous)
• Karen Glaetzer (South Australian Palliative Care
  NP) main focus advice for rural NP services/NP
  candidates, plus member of Collaboration
  management group approx 4hrs per week
• Dr Mark Boughey (Director Palliative Medicine and
  Deputy Director, CPCER, St Vincents) main
  focus advice for rural NP services and
  collaborating with metropolitan services with
  their established medical networks plus member
  of Collaboration management group approx 4hrs per
  week. NB role does not entail day to day clinical
  management/advice for patients of participating
  services

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Specific Roles NP Support Networks

• Provide opportunity for collegial support
  (sharing of ideas/experiences) via electronic
  social networking and face to face forums
• Each network to be self governing, self-financing
  establish its own chair and specific terms of
  reference
• Provide regular reports to the collaborative
  management team on outcomes, issues and progress.
• Envisaged Networks to be established in the
  following
• Models/Service Managers
• Candidates
• Endorsed NPs
• International

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Specific Roles Expectations of the funded 11
services/organisations

• Allocate 2 representatives who will act as key
  contacts and be responsible for updating their
  service/organisation
• Familiarity with NP role and funding requirements
• Sharing experiences and knowledge via
  contribution to collaborative forums ( face to
  face and electronic)
• Access key collaboration staff (e.g. medical and
  nursing advisors) in accordance with their
  designated roles and the communication strategy
• Contribute to the development evaluation of the
  collaborative

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Communication
METRO Calvary/Metro 7 - 2 reps x 3 Southern
Health - 2 reps Northern Health - 2 reps St
Vincents Health - 2 reps Peter MacCallum - 2
reps Peninsula Health - 2 reps
RURAL Bendigo Health - 2 reps Central Gippsland
Health - 4 reps Ballarat Health - 2
reps Northeast Health Wangaratta - 2reps Barwon
Health - 2 reps
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Communication

• General Collaborative Enquiries
• Administration at CPCER
• T 9416 0000 Ecpcpa_at_medstv.unimelb.edu.au
• Focus on Metropolitan advice re NP, Medical
  Service Delivery
• Melbourne City Mission
• Anne Oakley T 9486 2666 aoakley_at_mcm.org.au
• (NP) Irene Murphy T 9486 2666 E
  imurphy_at_mcm.org.au
• Banksia Palliative Care
• (NP) Julie Paul T 9497 2100 E
  juliep_at_banksiapalliative.com.au
• (NP)Karen Conte T 9497 2100 E
  karenc_at_banksiapalliative.com.au

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Communication

• Focus on Rural advice
• Medical - Mark Boughey
• cpcpa_at_medstv.unimelb.edu.au
• Nursing - Karen Glaetzer
• T 08 8275 1732 M 0401 125 281 F 08 8277 4957
• Karen.Glaetzer_at_health.sa.gov.au
• Preference to be contacted Wednesday a/noon

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Communication

• DHS Rep - Jo Hall
• T 9096 2138 E jo.hall_at_dhs.vic.gov.au
• Nurse Policy DHS - Katy Fielding
• T 9096 6922 E katy.fielding_at_dhs.vic.gov.au
• Nurses Board - Michelle Thomas
• T 8635 1250 E mthomas_at_nbv.org.au
• College of NPs - Alison Bean-Hodges
• T 8345 3139 E Alison.BeanHodges_at_thewomens.org.au
  

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Victorian Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner
Collaboration
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Discussion