ACORN 14th National Conference

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

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PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS AND REGISTRATION: Wednesday 19 May 2010
0830	Registration Desk Opens
	PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS (includes tea break)
	N Stenning & Co Pty Ltd	ConMed Linvatec Australia	Covidien	Kimberly-Clark Health Care	Olympus Australia	Anaesthetics
0900 - 1230	Caring for your surgical instrument assets; The limitations of tray tracking and why is it worth fighting for instrument level tracking; Life and smoke in post Industrial Revolution operating theatres.	An insight into the latest technologies used in theatres	Innovations in Surgery - Innovative new products and the evolution in surgical techniques	Surgical site infections: Overview and impact	Getting the best from new camera technology in OR	Anaesthetics - Cell Saver
1300	ACORN NEWCOMERS SESSION (Information Session)
1400	ACORN 2010 AGM AND OPEN FORUM (includes State Reports)
1600	Afternoon Tea
1630	JUDITH CORNELL ORATION AND INVESTITURE OF FELLOWS
1800 - 2000	WELCOME RECEPTION AND OFFICIAL OPENING OF HEALTH PARTNERS EXHIBITION

DAY ONE: Thursday 20 May 2010
0800	Registration
0830	WELCOME AND OPENING CEREMONY	Cheryl Winter (ACORN President)
0900	KEYNOTE ADDRESS	From strength to strength - nurturing our roots and spreading our wings Professor Mary Chiarella
0945	Morning Tea Break with Exhibitors
	CONCURRENT SESSION ONE
Theme	Professional Growth	Teamwork	Innovation	Influential
1015	Nanette Lundie Westward bound … building a strong future through workforce planning	Phyllis Davis Clinical Governance What Why and How?	Melanie Robinson Growth of instrument coordinators role	Product Knowledge Session Facilitator: Dr Cathryn Murphy sponsored by ANSELL
1040	Dr Lois Hamlin and Dr Brigid Gillespie Measuring perioperative nurses' competence - and building a stronger future	Deborah Burrows Rural NSW area clinical nurse consultant - promoting teamwork from a distance	Kari King Evidence-based best practise principles for minimally invasive procedures
1105	Fiona Adcock and Jane Thomas Optimising the Division 2 Workforce in the perioperative environment	Heather Stormonth Managing difficult behaviours in perioperative settings	Wojciech Korczynski Water quality, chemical quality, inventory quality and instrument tracking	Dr Cathryn Murphy Drama in theatres: Can we ignore long-held infection control measures and still provide patient care?
1130	Catherine Smith Towards the future - change management keeping the future	Leanne Mastin A willing team	Wendy Di Trani Head and neck cancer: Our 2-team approach to improve efficiency	Mary Hickson, Lilian Blair and Barbara May Systematic review for best practise in Infection control in the Hastings Macleay Network (HMN) of NCAHS NSW
1200 - 1430	Lunch Break with Exhibitors and Judging of Best Poster Award
	CONCURRENT SESSION TWO
Theme	Professional Growth	Teamwork & Innovation	Innovation	Influential
1430	Leanne Rowlands Introducing the "Always" factor within perioperative services	Michelle Loth and Anne Maree Allanson University bound: Ensuring a strong future	Lesley Stewart O&G Specialists Surgical Outreach Northern Territory	Carolyn Ellis Unmasking research
1455	Peter Teekens The perioperative career pathway - a South Australian perspective	Avril Brown Innovation from the workplace: Evaluation of an interdepartmental collaboration providing supportive learning environments to undergraduate nurses	Prof Marina Wallace Road to recovery - advances in colorectal surgery	Tracy Kerle and Penny Smalley Laser safety: Demystifying standards and regulations
1520	Jane Griffiths A new and challenging environment for perioperative nurse	Paula Foran The value of operating room nursing for the undergraduate nurses innovative national research	Karen Briggs The use of simulation in anaesthetic nursing	Mona Asghari Fard Many faces: Managing diversity in health care
1545	Special Interest Group Sessions
1630	Close of Sessions
	Evening free

May 2010

DAY TWO: Friday 21 May 2010
0800	Registration
0830	KEYNOTE ADDRESS	Designing and implementing the WHO Safe Surgery Saves Lives CHecklistProf Bruce Barraclough AO
0915	KEYNOTE ADDRESS	On Q with Surgical Safety
0945	Morning Tea Break with Exhibitors
	CONCURRENT SESSION THREE
Theme	Standards	Innovation	Influential	Professional Growth
1015	Kathryn Fisher From east to west: Future directions for latex allergy	Sally Squire and Merilyn Annells PACU handover: Are we getting it right?	Leigh Anderson Safer surgery to save lives	Margaret Thomson Building a strong future through effective communication: Part 1 The way people communicate
1040	Virginia O'Hearn Get the lead out: Knowing how and when with radiation safety and protection	Leanne Mastin and Andrew Hawes Empowering recovery nurses	Dr Brigid Gillespie, Prof Wendy Chaboyer and Dr Nicole Fairweather The influence of interruptions on the length of delay in surgery	Margaret Thomson Building a strong future through effective communication: Part 2 Its all about me!
1105	IFPN	Mark Taylor Sweet dreams - improving the patients' journey	Colleen Hamilton and Christie Breen Cultural change: The foundation for a unified workplace	Libby Webb A Nursing Portfolio
1130	IFPN	Tracey Nicholls FESS made functional	Jennifer Bessell and Lesley Gilbert CQI plus - an impetus for change and professional growth	Karen Clark Burg A leap ahead
1200	Lunch Break with Exhibitors
	CONCURRENT SESSION FOUR
Theme	Influential	Teamwork	Innovation	Professional Growth
1430	Special Session sponsored by Device Technologies The latest trends in operating theatre design (45 mins) Faster turnaround in the operating room (45 mins)	Ken Leeming Paediatrics, enhancing our practice	Susan Frew Organ Donation - the theatre retrieval	Patricia Nicholson and Carollyn Williams Competency-based assessment
1455		Barbara McArthur An exploration of damage control surgery and the multiple trauma patient	Zaneta Smith, Dianne Wynaden, Gavin Leslie Perioperative nurses participation in multi-organ procurement surgical teams	Patricia Nicholson Going west to teach and learn: Developing competencies in the operating theatre
1520		Angela McKay, Nigel Chong, James Harrison Team time out - observational simulation "How the West Will be Won" for training team behaviour	Kristy Gjakun and Ann Cowie Bone Bank (WA) A broad overview of femoral head donation and cadaveric - retrieval, processing and implantation	Rose Lyall and Peter Callan Implementing the WHO surgical safety checklist in a private hospital
1545	Leslie Bateman ACHS - EQUIP	Jenny Cubitt Systems that enable operating theatre personnel to contribute to the safety quality and performance of medical devices	Dr Lois Hamlin The perioperative nursing workforce program in NSW - heading in the right direction	Joanne Agnew Informed consent from which point of view
1610	Close of Sessions
1900	CONFERENCE DINNER and EXCELLENCE IN PERIOPERATIVE NURSING AWARD Sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Medical

DAY THREE: Saturday 22 May 2010

0800 Registration

0830 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Advances in Neurosurgery

Dr Charlie Teo

0900 PANEL DISCUSSION
Humanitarian Aid

Dr Rowan Gillies; Kate Woodhead; Phyllis Davis; MSF

1000 Morning Tea Break with Exhibitors

CONCURRENT SESSION FIVE

Theme InTERNATIONal Innovation INFLUENTIAL Professional Growth

1030 Dr Rowan Gillies
Dr David Huber

Preventing heel pressure ulcers beginning in the operating theatre - a discussion of the new European and North American consensus document

Donna Watson

Surgical smoke - what we know

Suellen Moore

Preparing the perioperative staff for national registration and continuing education requirements

1055
Corinne Baker

Delivering medical humanitarian aid in Haiti: The Medecins Sans Frontieres experience

Sally Sutherland-Fraser

Building a strong future from research on pressure ulcer risk management

Pam Carter

Safety, quality and performance of medical devices

Perioperative

NOVICE PAPERS

4 x 15 minute presentations
plus Q&A

Lorraine Boerth
Perky valves - a future for those who aren't!

Nicole Jones
The role of the nurse sedationist

Carolyn Lister
Use of face masks by non-scrubbed operating room staff: A randomized controlled trial

Michelle Skrivanic
Recycling waste in the operating suite - a team approach

Question time

1120 INTERNATIONAL SESSION
Lynda Mitchell

Using clinical supervision to build strong future direction for nursing practice

Penny Smalley

Clearing the air of surgical plume: Hazards, risks, standards and solutions

1145
Fiona Shipman and
Patricia Nicholson

Working together: A partnership approach to maintaining standards by the medical technology industry

Libby Webb

The Ashmore Reef Incident

1205
Lunch Break with Exhibitors

Exhibition Raffles and Prizes

1400 MOTIVATIONAL KEYNOTE Dr Charlie Teo

1445 PRESENTATION OF AWARDS AND CLOSING CEREMONY
Closing Remarks

Cheryl Winter (ACORN President)

Best Paper and Best Novice Paper

sponsored by N Stenning & Co

1515 Conference Close

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Posters will be on display throughout the conference. Poster presenters will be available for discussion during the tea and coffee breaks. The organising committee welcomes further poster presentations for display.

Nicole Campbell and Kristy Acreman
Developing a system of ensuring completion of competencies within appropriate timeframes

Naida Hutton
Communication initiatives for specimen management and management of blood for transfusion

Soyeon Jung and Margaret Gadke
Multi vessel small thoracotomy (MVST)

Ken Leeming
Drager Primus Q+A

Tracey Nicholls
Winning a premiers scholarship: Where it will take you

Carol Rosevear
Reducing risk of post-operative complications after joint replacement surgery

Sandy Thatcher and Yvette Rogers
Transition from linen to disposable gowns - a project undertaken in 2009

Helene Topaloudis and Kathryn Sherrard
Improved patient outcome through performance feedback to anaesthesia providers