This Perioperative Conference is brought to you in conjunction with our Conference Partners, Education at Sea, and is intended to provide the Nurse with an opportunity to enhance and develop their skills and knowledge relating to key areas of the perioperative environment. The conference program presents current perioperative topics of significance and explores the latest Nursing research to create a conference experience that the perioperative Nurse will find both interesting and relevant.

Developing knowledge on how to recognise and perform advanced clinical assessment of a patient who is deteriorating is an expectation of the evolving role of the Clinical Nurse. In this conference, we will explore the assessment of a patient with a variety of clinical disorders and conditions that include cardiac, respiratory, abdominal, and electrolyte imbalance.

This conference was first delivered in 2018 in conjunction with our Conference Partners, Education at Sea. This current program extends on the original content presented as well as incorporating new content not covered in the first program.

In this conference, we will explore the key legal concepts that impact Nursing practice and gain the knowledge and skill to make effective decisions for patient and staff safety with confidence.

For the majority of clinicians managing a cost centre is difficult. With little or no finance training they have become responsible for day-to-day financial decisions, including managing budgets, rosters and financial internal controls.  Often they don’t know who to ask for help or even where to start to understand finance and the role of Cost Centre Manager.

This conference will explore some of the interesting, obscure, and devastating conditions that your patients may present within a variety of clinical settings. The knowledge gained will encourage you to look beyond the obvious and enable you to enhance your assessment and clinical management skills.

This conference will focus on two key aspects of Nursing Service delivery in the care of the older person. Both have significant impact on care delivery, from skill mix requirements through to staffing and budget allocation, as well as quality of life experience for the clients concerned.

The Conference will investigate the growing health care speciality of Wilderness and Expedition Medicine – reviewing what skills are required to practice in this area, the challenges and joys of the work, and scenario discussion on clinical lessons learnt at the coal face.

Wellness for clinicians matters, not just in its own right, but because it affects performance. As clinicians, we have the following expectations within our workplace. We expect that our environment will be physically and psychologically safe; we expect that we will be resourced and enabled to do an effective job; we expect that we will be supported and given the opportunity to develop our professional skills.

Respiratory Assessment across the age continuum, management of common conditions, and exploration of the role of the Nurse/ Paramedic in respiratory disease management from diagnosis through to advocacy.

This conference will focus on two key aspects of Nursing Service delivery in the care of the older person. Both have significant impact on care delivery, from skill mix requirements through to staffing and budget allocation, as well as quality of life experience for the clients concerned.

This conference is applicable to every area of nursing, from the acute setting in the emergency department to the ward nurse managing a patient with cardiac complications.