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Supporting Refugee Health - ‘Where are we now?
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To celebrate International Nurses Day, the ACN VIC Melbourne Region is hosting a CPD webinar which will discuss refugee health across Australia with a focus on the Victorian network of health delivery by refugee health nurses. The event will cover a brief background of the history and progress in refugee health to date and what challenges and opportunities lie ahead including pathways to becoming a refugee health nurse. The event will also include consumer views of refugee health services from a lived experience perspective.

Learning outcomes

  1. Discuss the nursing specialty refugee health and describe the roles of refugee health nurses in Australia.
  2. Describe the challenges influencing refugee health nursing practice.
  3. Explore the current career pathways for refugee health nurses using the Standards for Refugee Health Nursing practice.
  4. Describe the lived experience of one person from a refugee/asylum seeker background.

Speakers

  • Merilyn Spratling FACN, Nurse Practitioner and Refugee Health Program Coordinator at EACH
    Merilyn Spratling is the first Nurse Practitioner in Refugee Health in Australia. She coordinates the Refugee Health Nursing program at EACH (a CHC in the east of Melbourne), which she helped establish in 2009. Merilyn was recently seconded to the Clinical Lead position at the EACH COVID-19 vaccination program which included promoting accessibility of vaccines to marginalised groups, including refugees. In 2018, Merilyn was Acting Victorian State-Wide Refugee Health Program Facilitator for 6 months. She has authored two eLearning modules about refugee health for the Victorian branch of ANMF and was awarded a Communities' Council on Ethnic Issues (CCOEI) Multicultural Excellence Award in 2020.

  • Kath Desmyth, Statewide Facilitator Refugee Health Program
    Kath Desmyth is the Statewide Facilitator of the Victorian Refugee Health Program. In her role she provides support and training to nurses and allied health staff working in the program as well as advising local, state and national agencies that provide services to people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds. Kath has over 10 years experience in international development and public health working in Africa, Asia and the Northern Territory. Kath is a registered nurse and holds a Master’s in Public Health. She sits on the executive committee for Refugee Nurses Australia and Refugee Health Network of Australia.

  • Tsunda Dolma
    Tsunda Dolma arrived in Australia with her family from Tibet in early March 2022. Dolma will discuss her experience as a newly arrived refugee in Australia as well as provide a consumer view of accessing health care as a refugee in Australia.
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Thursday, 12 May 2022
5:00 pm AEST to 6:30 pm AEST
FREE
Webinar
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Add to Calendar 05/12/2022 5:00PM 05/12/2022 6:30PM Australia/Brisbane Supporting Refugee Health - ‘Where are we now? To celebrate International Nurses Day, the ACN Melbourne region is hosting a CPD online webinar which will discuss refugee health across Australia with a focus on the Victorian network of health delivery by refugee health nurses. Online

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