Master class sessions
The conference organising committee is pleased to offer master classes in conjunction with the Cancer Nursing Under Construction Conference. An aim of the conference is to assist in providing nurses working with people living with cancer the opportunity to grow their 'toolbox' of knowledge and skills for practice. Experts will review the basics and explore more complex issues/innovations associated with each topic.
Master classes will be held on the following topics
• Central Venous Access Devices (CVAD)
• Pharmacology
• Wound care
As numbers will be limited, please indicate when you register for the conference if you will be attending these sessions.
Central Venous Access Devices
'As patients transition through the labyrinth of outpatients, hospital and post-acute care settings, it is imperative to do what's right in their vascular access voyage.' V Chopra 2016
This is an interactive class designed to augment your knowledge and develop critical thinking skills to achieve best patient outcomes. Review the decision making process to determine what is the right catheter and right reason for the individual person. Review strategies for maintaining vessel health preservation in tandem with current innovative trends in selection of catheter type, placement along with tunnelling options for Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs), flush/lock solutions.
You will take a closer look at PICC securement practice, its link to complications and understand the influence of securement methods on care and maintenance such as the use of surgical adhesives and subcutaneous sutureless securement devices.
Pharmacology
In this optional pharmacology class we provide a refresher on the basic principles of pharmacology and the role nurses play in administration of medicines. There will be an update on nurse prescribing along with presentations on drug classes used in the cancer setting.
Wound care
This session will start with the basics around wound care principals, management and use of products. The later part of the session would involve more complex issues related to radiation skin reactions and /or fungating wound management principles, and current practices.
Conference sessions
Euthanasia or Physician Assisted Dying (PAD)
Euthanasia or PAD is currently a very topical issue in New Zealand. Dr Amanda Landers is a palliative care consultant in Christchurch, she will give an overview of this broad topic and where this is currently in a New Zealand context. Amanda will discuss the legislative aspects that need consideration from a medical and nursing perspective on this extensive topic. This session will provide nurses the opportunity to understand this topic from a wider perspective and what impact legalisation may have on our role in cancer care.
Health literacy
This session will be run by a member of Health Literacy NZ with the aim to give a better understanding of what health literacy is and what it involves. Health literacy is complex and involves a number of aspects, not just the patient/client. The Three Step Model to building health literacy will be discussed which helps to reduce demands and build knowledge and skills. The speaker will aim to give nurses some concrete ideas on what they can do in each of the three steps. Useful resources will be identified to allow a better understanding of this topic, enabling nurses to gain a broader knowledge on the impact health literacy has on cancer nursing. This session will explore and address the concepts of the heart of health and discuss its particular significance in managing resilience and increasing compassion between ourselves and our patients in our busy working lives.
NZ Cancer Nurses Under Construction
The NZNO Cancer Nurses College has been instrumental in developing key documents to support cancer nursing in New Zealand. This includes the Cancer Nurses Knowledge and Skills Framework and the National Guidelines on Antineoplastic Administration. Sharron will provide an overview of these documents and how they have been utilised within the CDHB cancer services.
Technology influencing healthcare
"Health technology refers to any method that is used to promote health, to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases or to improve rehabilitation and long-term care" (MOH, 2016)
Hospital in the home
Hospital in the home has moved from being a concept to being utilised in many areas throughout the world to manage people with cancer. Elaine will present on the hospital in the home concept, eligibility criteria, how to move this from a concept to reality and the benefits and issues that it created.
Radiotherapy in cancer care
Patient wellness
People with a cancer diagnosis often lose themselves in the process. They can go from confident, independent people to where every aspect of their life is being managed by someone else which can impact the transition they have to undergo at the end of treatment. This session will focus on using exercise and relaxation to promote wellness not only during treatment but also during cancer rehabilitation.
Clinical trials
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" Albert Einstein
Since 2004, the Medical Oncology Group of Australia (MOGA) has led the Asia Pacific in educating health professionals in clinical trial design. Collaborating with international organisations including the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the Cancer Council Australia and the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia, MOGA has developed a six day educational program targeting all disciplines of cancer research to improve and advance clinical trial design in the Australia and Asia Pacific region.
Workshop participants are selected through a merit based application process whereby each individual applicant must present a clinical trial protocol to develop throughout the Workshop and subsequently conduct in a clinical setting. The underpinning goals of ACORD consist of imparting principles of good clinical trial design which yield clear results to apply in the clinic and future research and exposing participants to the full spectrum of challenges in clinical research, from conventional antineoplastic agents and multidisciplinary treatment regimens to biological therapy. A variety of educational components aid Workshop participants in successful protocol design, including development sessions where participants present and discuss their clinical trial proposal in detail.
Session topics are extensive and include areas such as global cancer research, principles of clinical trials design, phase I-III trials, basic biostatistics, epidemiology, meta-analysis and systematic review. This unique regional Workshop maintains a substantial position in oncology education due to its international focus and provision of hands-on collaboration and guidance by a world renowned Faculty. The ACORD Faculty includes some of the leading world experts in clinical trials design and oncology.
The ratio of Faculty to participants is maintained at three to one to facilitate individual project focus and learning. Participants, many fully sponsored, from all areas of the globe, come together to bridge cultural gaps in the name of science. Past Workshop participants have come from India, Nepal, Malaysia, China, Thailand, Singapore, Japan, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Iran, Bangladesh, Philippines, Pakistan, United States of America, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand.
Heart of the hospital
Heart of Health is a science-based, secular meditation-based compassionate care development programme in which staff learn and practice meditation, relaxation, mindfulness, compassion and self-compassion skills. It is mental and emotional fitness training within the team environment supporting a compassionate workplace and wellbeing of staff and enabling compassionate patient care.
Heart of Health was successfully piloted by the Sydney Local Health District (SLHD) at the Canterbury Emergency Department and RPA Oncology. SLHD have now extended this programme to 10 other teams across the health system with a projected 30+ teams participating in regular team-based meditation sessions by 2017. Evidence suggests that this programme has increased staff and patient satisfaction/ morale, increased staff resilience and reduced the incidence of sick leave.
Thursday 11 May
Pre-conference master classes
12:30pm - 5.00pm | Registration open | |
1.00pm - 3.00pm | CVAD master class Elizabeth Culverwell, Canterbury District Health Board |
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3.00pm - 3.15pm | Afternoon tea | |
3.15pm - 5.00pm | Pharmacology master class Fiona Stone Ruth Tramschek Mikaela Smith |
Wound care master class Cathy Hammond, Nurse Maude Jo Tuaine, Southern Blood and Cancer Service |
Friday 12 May
8:00am - 5.30pm | Registration open | |
8.45am - 9.15am | Welcome mihi and housekeeping | |
9.15am - 10.30am | Euthanasia Amanda Landers, Nurse Maude Association |
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10.30am- 11.00am | Morning tea amongst the exhibition | |
11.00am- 12.00pm | Complementary Therapies for Cancer - What works, what doesn't & how to tell the difference Shaun Holt, Victoria University of Wellington |
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12.00pm- 12.45pm | Cancer Nurses College Biennial General Meeting | |
12.45pm- 1.30pm | Lunch amongst the exhibition | |
1.30pm - 2.30pm | Telehealth and patient symptom management Eve Eynon, Townsville Hospital |
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2.30pm - 3.15pm | NZ Cancer Nursing Under Construction Sharron Ellis, Canterbury District Health Board |
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3.15pm - 3.40pm | Afternoon tea amongst the exhibition | |
Concurrent abstract sessions | ||
3.40pm- 4.10pm | Miss A's treatment journey through a double cord stem cell transplant; The importance of palliative care input in stem cell transplant patients care Natalie Meijer , Canterbury District Health Board |
How do New Zealand nurses who work in the area of oncology educate and provide follow-up support to patient who are prescribed oral capecitabine and what are nurses' perceptions of this process? Carol Reid, Eastern Institute of Technology |
4.15pm - 4.45pm | Men's experiences of cancer: An exploration of coping, adapting and living well Kate Reid, University of Canterbury |
A clinic for care- practicing holistically in an IV clinic Christine Shaw, Nurse Maude |
4.50pm- 5.20pm | Living with and beyond cancer Kate Reid, University of Canterbury |
The cancer patient Malaga: through Pasefika lenses Leilani Jackson, Counties Manukau District Health Board |
5.30pm - 7.00pm | Cocktail function Tait Technology Centre Atrium |
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Saturday 13 May
7.45am - 1.00pm | Registration open | |
8.00am - 9.00am | Breakfast session (via Skype) Hospital in the home Elaine Lennan, Southampton University Hospital |
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9.00am - 9.40am | The biology of cancer Jim Edwards, Canterbury District Health Board |
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9.40am - 10.10am | Morning tea amongst the exhibition | |
10.15am - 11.05am | Radiation therapy Jo Tuaine, Southern Blood and Cancer Service, Dunedin |
Novel therapies David Gibbs, Canterbury District Health Board |
11.10am - 12.00pm | Patient wellness through exercise, relaxation and rehabilitation Robyn Bayly, Physio NZ |
Clinical trials Anne Fraser, Auckland District Health Board |
12.00pm - 1.00pm | Lunch amongst the exhibition | |
1.00pm - 2.00pm | Heart of health Nickolas Yu, Sydney South West Area Health Sevice |
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2.00pm - 3.00pm | Health literacy - the New Zealand Framework Susan Reid, Health Literacy NZ |
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3.00pm - 3.30pm | Conference closing and presentations |