Nursing & Midwifery
What's on in the School
Conference 2009
The School of Nursing and Midwifery is preparing for its "Inaugural CSU Nursing & Midwiifery Conference 2009: Priorities in Practice, Education & Research." The conference, the first of its kind for the School is to be held at the Albury Convention Centre on the 23rd & 24th October 2009.
The conference theme is based on education, clinical practice and research and will focus on Primary Health Care, Nursing in Rural communities and the challenges facing our Rural Nurses today.
This exciting new conference will provide delegates, sponsors and exhibitors with extremely effective marketing and communication channels.
There will be a call for Abstracts leading up to the conference which will give Health professionals a chance to submit their research and receive recognition at an international level.
Professor Elaine Duffy, HOS School of Nursing & Midwifery, CSU, Professor Sue Frost, from University of Huddersield, UK, Professor Cynthia Stuhlmiller, University of Hawaii and Professor Debra Thoms, Chief Nurse NSW are our keynote speakers.
New Book Release
Associate Head of School, Dr Andrew Crowther has just had his new edition of Nurse Managers: A Guide to Practice published by Ausmed Publications.
This book "is an innovative and practical text that addresses the range of problems faced by nurse managers. Designed to provied useful advice for the nurse manager in the early stages of his or her managerial career, as well as for the nurse working in a supervisory capacity for a short period of time, it offers contemporary perspectives on the variety of issues that confront the nurse manager in day-to-day practice. Beginning with an exploration of the effect that promotion has on professional relationships, and moving through such issues as leadership and motivation, the importance of moral management, dealing with unhelpful staff, occupatonal health and safety and the need for an evidence-based approach to management, the reader is offered a range of solutions and copying strategies for the issues that confront nurse managers every day."
An international team of experienced nurses has again crafted a range of practical, eminently readable chapters that offer practical advice and ideas for the nurse manager. For more information go to www.ausmed.com.au.
There will be a book launch for Andrew's new text at the Orange campus - watch this space for more details as they are confirmed.
Visiting Scholars
The School of Nursing & Midwifery is lucky enough to have Dr Denise Seigart, Professor of Health Sciences, Mansfield University, Pennsylvania, visiting our Wagga Wagga campus to conduct research on school-based health care, specifically an international comparison (US, Australia, Canada) of models for providing health care for children through schools. This study is an expansion of her dissertaion topic "A comparision of school nursing with school-based health centres".
As well as having her many papers published, giving conference presentations and a number of research and academic work , Denise also has a number of years experience in developing and teaching numerous online courses in Childbearing, Nursing Research, Women's Health Issues and Public Health & Social Justice. She has been a Visiting Professor at Volgograd University in Russia where she taught conversational English and a course on American Women and feminism.
Community Relations
February 2008 saw Gary Shipp, Director Centre for Indigenous Studies and HOC Dubbo and Professor Elaine Duffy, Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery, amongst others visit several far west Indigenous community units to promote CSU, the Indigenous Support Services and the Centre for Indigenous Studies and introduce CSU staff to the people of these far west communities.
The busy schedule included visits to the Nari Nari Lands and the Mutthi Mutthi Nations, these involved coordinated ventures to Hay Local Aboriginal Land Council, Hay High School, St Josephs Catholic School (Balranald), Balranald Central School, Balranald Shire Council, Balranald Local Aboriginal Land Council, Balranald Medical Service, Coomealla TAFE, Coomealla Health Aboriginal Corporation, Rural Health Broken Hill Campus, Borken Hill City Council, Broken Hill Hospital, Wilyama High School, Maari Ma Primary Health Care and Robinson College.
Information about the CSU Koori Admission Program and our Nursing and Djirruwang courses were discussed with students from a number of schools. The students were very enthusiastic and asked a number of questions about moving on to tertiary level education and what was involved in the process of attending University.
This was a fabulous opportunity for CSU staff to meet members of communities in far west NSW and encourage relationships between them and the university.
Left to Right : Gary Shipp, Ray Eldridge, Elaine Duffy, Josephine Goulding, Kerry Parker. Daniel Clegg and Joey Hull. Back : Irene Woods and Rene Woods.
Careers Day
Western Student Connections (WSC) held an 'Everything Health" Careers Day on the 13th of August 2008 at the Dubbo Showgrounds. One of our Bachelor of Nursing academic advisors, Cathy Maginnis and one of our prospective student advisors, Fran Dwyer, were on hand to give student in years 10, 11 and 12 information about the large selection of health related courses on offer at CSU.
"I spoke to a lot of students that were interested in our Bachelor of Nursing course - which is great news for us!" Cathy Maginnis said.
Deans Awards
The School of Nursing boasts some high achieving students at all five campuses. This year we were fortunate enough to be able to hold small Deans Awards Ceremonies at our Dubbo and Orange campuses.
On the Dubbo campus the Deans Award recipients were Rowena Humphrey (pictured with Associate Head of School Dr Andrew Crowther) and Vanessa Wynne.
The Orange campus congratulated their 3 recipients, Luke Marks, Tabitha Pandey and Kylie MacKillop in a ceremony held in June.
NRS116 Residential School
The NRS116 Concepts and Issues in Nursing Residential School was held from the 8th to the 11th of July.
It was a cold week in Orange in which the students were treated to a day of snow. Students came from as far afield as Tasmania to attend the compulsory residential school.
