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The Conference runs for 3 days for all Nurses and those interested in Nurse Practitioner Issues
(Thursday 8.30am to Saturday at 3.30pm).

The specific ED NursePrac element runs for 1.5 days
(Friday at 1.30pm to Saturday at 3.30pm)

On Friday afternoon while the ED NursePrac plenary sessions are running there will also be Concurrent Free Paper Sessions taking place which we encourage delegates to attend. Information on those sessions is listed below:

Friday 7 September
Concurrent Free Paper Sessions x 3 1400 - 1515
Concurrent Free Paper Sessions x 2 1545 - 1700 

Session A: 1400 - 1515

1400 - 1415: Nurse Practitioner Research Changing Health Outcomes for Pregnancies Affected by Diabetes

1415 - 1430: One Practitioner: Providing Perinatal Mental Health Support to Regional, Rural and Remote South Australians

1430 - 1445: Type 2 Diabetes Management with Glucagon like Peptide 1 Analogues: Potential Gains and Pitfalls

1445 - 1500: Womens Health Advocacy - Working with Women to Promote the Social Model of Health

1500 - 1515: Retrospective, comparative audit between a Remote Area Nurse (RAN) and a Nurse Practitioner (NP), in two remote area clinics, relating to referrals, timeliness and cost effectiveness.

Session B: 1400 - 1515

1400 - 1415: Development of a new Respiratory Service and the Introduction of a Chronic Respiratory Disease Nurse Practitioner Led Oxygen Clinic at Bendigo Health, in Regional Victoria

1415 - 1430: Management of cardiovascular risk and disease-specific complications in people with chronic kidney disease: A non-inferiority comparison of a hospital-based combined care model and a community-based multidisciplinary model of care.

1430 - 1445: Impact of Nurse Practitioner Led Multidiciplinary Care on Health Related Quality of Life Amongst Patients with Pre-Dialysis Chronic Kidney Disease.

1445 - 1500: Initial Experience of Cardia Transplant Recipient Follow up using Telehealth at the Prince Charles Hospital

1500 - 1515: Telemonitoring in Taupo and Turangi New Zealand

Session C: 1400 - 1515

1400 - 1415: Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner: Closing the Gap in an Established Service

1415 - 1430: The Victorian Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner Collaborative Future Direction

1430 - 1445: Nurse Practitioner-Palliative Care at Royal Perth Hospital: An evaluation using the palliative care outcomes collaboration (PCOC) quality improvement program

1445 - 1500: The Journey of a Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner in a Private Hospital are the Challenges Different in the Private Setting?

1500 - 1515: Simulation in Continuing Professional Development Needs of Nurse Practitioners: Findings from a Study with University of Tasmania School of Nursing and Midwifery in Collaboration with Australian College.

Session D: 1545 - 1700

1545 - 1600: Reviewing the Impact of National Registration for Nurse Practitioners on University of Curricula in Australia

1600 - 1615: The Nurse Practitioner Role: Visions, Voices, Vested Interests and Lessons from the Past

1615 - 1630: Acceptance of the Nurse Practitioner Role in Australia: Rhetoric or Reality?

1630 - 1645: Developing Emergency Nurse Practitioner Competencies for the Australian context

1645 - 1700: The accuracy of Limb X-ray Interpretation by Emergency Nurse Practitioners, in Melbourne, Australia

Session E: 1545 - 1700

1545 - 1600: The Right Care, in the Right Place, at the Right Time: Nurse Practitioners in Aged Care

1600 - 1615: Responding to ‘Wicked Problems’: Nurse Practitioners Roles in Aged Care 

1615 - 1630: Nurse Practitioners Aged Care Model of Practice Program - Nurse Practitioner Community Clinic

1630 - 1645: True G.R.I.T:  The Primary Health Chronicles

1645 - 1700: Practitioner factors in Enablement: An investigation of patients’ perceptions of the Nurse Practitioner role in primary health care.