Nurses' Health: Fit for the Future?
This event is presented by ACN President & Professor of Nursing and Health Services Management at Edith Cowan University & UTS: Professor Christine Duffield. Professor Duffield discusses that nurses provide the majority of health care and need good health to deliver quality care. However, nurses face the same issues of ageing and increasing prevalence if chronic disease as the general population. An understanding of the prevalence of chronic disease and contributing risk factors currently employed is essential for workforce planning and development of interventions. Results will be presented from a study examining nurses' health using a web-based survey distributed electronically through the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association, all local health district email lists and specialty nurse and midwives associations.
Following Professor Duffield's presentation we will also have My Ly provide an introduction to Health at Every Size principles and how a non-diet approach to health can be adopted.
During this CPD presentation you will:
Develop an understanding of how chronic disease and other risk factors might impact the nursing workforce
Develop an understanding of the need for self-care
Gain an understanding of ways to prolong and sustain a healthy career in nursing
About the Presenter - Professor Christine Duffield PhD (UNSW), MHP (UNSW), RN, BScN (Western), DipNEd (Armidale CAE, FACN FAAN
Professor Christine Duffield is an internationally acclaimed nursing workforce academic. Christine joined the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) Board in 2013 and is currently the President of ACN.
Christine is the Professor of Nursing and Health Services Management at Edith Cowan University and the University of Technology Sydney. She is a highly accomplished international researcher with significant experience in the health and education industries in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Christine is one of the top 10 most-cited Australian and New Zealand nursing and midwifery professors.
Christine has focused on transforming the nursing sector over the course of her 40-year career. During this time, she has worked extensively with state and federal decision-makers as well as internationally, with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Council of Nurses (ICN), to drive change and innovation in health care delivery. As a result, she is highly regarded by practitioners as a researcher who understands the world in which they work and can translate results into practice and policy.
Mrs My Ly
My Ly is a lecturer in the Maters of Nutrition and Dietetics and co-ordinator of the Nutrition Clinic within the Joondalup Community Clinical School, School of Medical and Health Sciences at Edith Cowan University.
My brings with her a wealth of experience and expertise in dietetics, education and training, specializing in the area of chronic disease management (diabetes and heart disease), HAES and behaviour change. She is passionate about providing patient cantered care, and is an advocate and practitioner of effective behaviour change coaching and counselling.
HAES is a theory with the main tenet involving rejection of the scientific consensus regarding the link between excessive calorie intake, a sedentary lifestyle and lack of physical exercise, improper nutrition, and greater body weight - and its effects on a person's health.
HAES advocates argue that traditional interventions focused on weight loss, such as dieting, do not reliably produce positive health outcomes. HAES includes a significant social and psychological dimension. Proponents view the common wisdom that obesity is unhealthy as part of a general stigmatisation of the obese.
Event Details:
Date: Wednesday 6 February 2019
Time: 5:30 - 7:30pm
Location: Edith Cowan University - 21.202
270 Joondalup Drive
Joondalup WA
RSVP: 3 February 2019
CPD: This event will attract 1 CPD hour, certificate will be provided post event
This Event is Kindly Sponsored by:
Thank you to Edith Cowan University for hosting ACN and providing our guest speaker(s)