Breakfast is served from 7:00am
Breakfast Topic - Releationships in Disability Support
Stewart will discuss the benefits both for the person being supported and those supporting the person, of the long-standing therapeutic relationship. He will discuss the importance of relationship from many different perspectives, and how meaning is made from the random through relationship. This is a story of his journey from Critical Care Nurse to McArthur Health Support, and a key client he has supported for the past 26 years along the way.
Stewart Pope
RN, BN (Crit Care). National Manager – McArthur Health Support.
Stewart is a Registered Nurse with 30+ years’ experience working across the Acute Health, Community care and Disability sectors. 20 years ago Stewart made the decision to focus solely on Community Care and initially began working in the Adelaid disability sector assisting young children making the transition home from hospital while being mechanically ventilated. Since then Stewart has helped define a system of Delegated Care in South Australia and has been a major contributor to the development of DSP-15 which is now the DHS Direct Health Support for a person with a Disability Policy and Guideline.
Stewart is a member of the Spinal Injury Nurses Association, Otolaryngology Head and Neck Nursing Group, Australian Nursing and Midwife Association and a Clinical Lead for Disability in the Adelaide Primary Health Network.