Upcoming Medical Conferences in Australia

Mackay Nurses' Conference is organized by Ausmed Education Pty Ltd and will be held from Dec 13 - 14, 2018 at Windmill Motel and Reception Centre, Mackay, Queensland, Australia. The target audience for this medical event is Nurses. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 11.00 CPD Hours. Course Overview: Healthcare is undergoing constant change, therefore the need to keep up to date with current evidence is imperative. Attend this conference and discover: • What are the emerging health priorities that affect you now and in the future? • How can you implement preventative health strategies and improve patient outcomes? • What can you do to minimise the impact of certain conditions? • What is the latest evidence on a range of current treatments? • How can you deliver the best patient centred care? Need for Program: In regard to the nursing care you provide, the need to continually seek new information is a given no matter where you work. Nursing safety and quality are essential and both are directly linked to knowledge. This is a time when: • Healthcare budgets are under increased stress • The community purse is shrinking • Quality outcomes are now the goal of all care Now more than ever, if safe, quality outcomes are to be achieved, it is important that you take a leadership role in providing outcome focused high-value care. This can be done by addressing emerging gaps in your knowledge through up-to-date information. Purpose of Program: This program provides you with current knowledge relating to a range of professional and clinical practice topics that will improve how you provide holistic nursing care. Learning Objectives: • People in your care with health risks will receive preventative nursing action to avoid illness • Better patient outcomes will be achieved through the application of up-to-date knowledge related to specific nursing interventions • Interprofessional collaboration will be optimised to enhance patient outcomes • Patient outcomes will be underpinned by evidence-based practice, recognised standards, and guidelines  

Midwifery and the Law Seminar is organized by Ausmed Education Pty Ltd and will be held from Dec 13 - 14, 2018 at Rydges Sydney Central, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The target audience for this medical event is Nurses. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 11.30 CPD Hours. Course Overview: Potential risks manifest in all areas of health care, including obstetrics and within midwifery practice. Do you have informed knowledge about modern legal and professional aspects of midwifery? Attend this seminar to gain a comprehensive update on these topics. Includes: • Laws relating to midwifery, including documentation and duty of care • Modern midwifery legal considerations - prescribing, Medicare and professional indemnity insurance • What is the legal status of an unborn child? • A woman’s right to refuse treatment • What are the rights of fathers and grandfathers? • How can social media be used safely? Attend this seminar and gain an opportunity to discuss a range of contemporary legal, professional and regulatory issues of relevance to midwives. Don’t miss out! Need for Program: Midwives are regulated health professionals who function in accordance with legislation and common law affecting midwifery practice. They are accountable and responsible for their own actions within their practice; therefore it is essential that midwives have access to ongoing, relevant education to remain up-to-date with legal and professional regulatory issues relevant to their context and conditions of practice. Purpose of Program: The purpose of this seminar is to provide midwives with a forum to enhance their knowledge of modern law and relevant contemporary professional and regulatory issues as these affect their practice. Learning Objectives: • Reflect on the laws relevant to the profession and practice of midwifery • Review current professional issues affecting midwives, including professional frameworks for competent practice • Explore concepts of negligence, liability and professional indemnity as they apply to midwives • Discuss the processes that occur when an untoward event takes place within a midwifery context

Wound Management: A Practical Guide Seminar is organized by Ausmed Education Pty Ltd and will be held from Dec 13 - 14, 2018 at Oaks Elan Darwin, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The target audience for this medical event is all Nurses, General Practitioners, Podiatrists, Pharmacists and Occupational Therapists. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 10.30 CPD Hours. Course Overview: Ausmed's Wound Management seminar is an essential and very popular course for healthcare professionals including nurses, general practitioners, podiatrists, pharmacists and occupational therapists. It is based on latest evidence for effective wound management. You will learn about: • A strong focus on foundation principles of wound management • How to incorporate a patient-centered approach to care • How to assess and manage chronic and acute wounds • Dressing selection, compression therapy, and bandaging Ausmed has a long-standing track record in educating thousands of nurses and other health practitioners across Australia on this topic. Our experienced presenters are popular and extremely adept educators who are consistently very highly evaluated. Need for Program: Nearly half a million Australians are affected by wounds in some way. It is predicted that the prevalence and cost of wound care will rise over the next few years because of the aging population. Comprehensive assessment guides treatment. Knowledge of foundation principles of wound care is essential. Additionally, new wound dressing products are becoming increasingly sophisticated. If best patient outcomes are to be achieved, applying evidenced wound management is essential. Purpose of Program: The purpose of this program is to provide health professionals with up-to-date information, tools, and strategies for best practice wound management. Learning Objectives: • Build an understanding of the physiology and pathophysiology of wounds with factors that impact on healing • Use a systematic approach for assessing a patient and their wound to guide appropriate care • Describe an appropriate management plan, including dressings, taking into account patient considerations and the pathophysiology of the wound • Gain confidence in the management of a person with a wound and advocate for best practice care

Linking Diet and Disease Conference is organized by Ausmed Education Pty Ltd and will be held from Dec 13 - 14, 2018 at Oaks on Collins, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The target audience for this medical event is Nurses. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 11.00 CPD Hours. Course Overview: It’s easy to list foods in our diet and say whether they’re good for us or not, right? But – is it true? Is good or not true for all of us? And in what context, specifically? And, most importantly – WHY? As a population, we need to ask; how exactly is diet linked to disease? The growing relationship between chronic illness and food means that, increasingly, nurses are required to know how and why a person’s health needs to change. Modern thinking now suggests that striving to improve health is no longer as simple as “input versus output”. Attend this conference to learn how diet and disease are actually linked. Find out how you can really enable your patients to improve their health. Discover: • Why everything we put in our mouths is within our control • The brain’s response to an “obesogenic” environment • How the gut microbiome is connected to health • How successful medicines are for weight loss • Getting “buy-in” from patients who resist change and much Need for Program: The established connections between chronic illness and food mean that, increasingly, nurses are required to explain these connections and engage with patients to meaningfully improve their health. This ability to recognize and act on clinical indicators of impaired health as a result of diet is becoming a key feature of modern nursing. Nurses need to demonstrate nutritional literacy to assist a person to improve their health outcomes and, importantly, to prevent and in some cases treat their disease. As people, often with the same questions and struggles as their patients, there’s a timely need time to empower nurses to help themselves in order to help others. Purpose of Program: The purpose of this conference is to examine the link between diet and disease and integrate this knowledge into nursing practice in order to improve health outcomes for patients. Learning Objectives: • Understand the broad links between certain foods and chronic illness to explain them to your patient • Use the data from a nutritional assessment to assist in the identification and improvement of a patient’s health status • Explain simple approaches to weight loss and maintenance to your patients to assist them to overcome barriers to weight loss • Combine holistic nursing and health coaching principles to engage with patients and enable them to improve their health outcomes Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Clinical Deterioration - Identify, Assess, Prevent Seminar is organized by Ausmed Education Pty Ltd and will be held from Dec 13 - 14, 2018 at ibis Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The target audience for this medical event is Nurses. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 10.15 CPD Hours. Course Overview: There 2-day seminar is a significant potential for patients across any clinical setting to rapidly become unwell. Recent system changes have been rolled out to encourage better management of clinical deterioration. However, your ability to recognize and respond to changes in a patient’s condition early is a high priority if the acute illness is to be averted. Attend this two-day seminar to gain knowledge that will help you to feel more confident that your essential assessment skills and early nursing management can detect early cues and prevent poor patient outcomes. Learn about: • The power of assessment when your patient is deteriorating • How to recognize sepsis early • Warning signs of acute kidney injury • How to recognize acute respiratory failure including basic CXR interpretation • Tips for recognizing common arrhythmias and electrolyte imbalances • How to perform a basic interpretation of arterial blood gases • The power of communication when things don’t go to plan Attend this seminar if you are a nurse working in a general clinical setting and want to improve your ability to identify and manage patients whose clinical condition is deteriorating. Need for Program: Growing numbers of high acuity patients are increasingly being cared for across a wide range of clinical settings, not just in acute care units such as intensive care units. The more acutely unwell a person is, the greater the risk of poor patient outcomes, including increased morbidity and mortality. Nurses are essential to the prevention, early detection, and management of developing problems that can increase such morbidity and mortality. The ability to recognize and interpret clinical cues and then implement appropriate, evidence-based interventions in a timely manner has a significant positive impact on patient outcomes. Therefore, nurses must continually increase their knowledge to ensure they are sufficiently educated to care for patients at risk of deterioration and prevent them from becoming acutely unwell. Purpose of Program: This seminar enables nurses working in general areas to feel more confident in their knowledge and ability to assess and manage patients whose clinical condition is deteriorating. Learning Objectives: • Relate pathophysiological principles that occur in acutely ill patients to prioritize assessment in a patient who is deteriorating • Correlate clinical assessment findings with pathophysiological processes occurring across a range of body systems • Apply a range of appropriate and timely evidence-based nursing interventions for a person who is acutely ill and whose condition is deteriorating • Recognise and respond to early signs of sepsis by implementing evidence-based interventions and thereby improving patient outcomes Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Newcastle Nurses' Conference is organized by Ausmed Education Pty Ltd and will be held from Dec 13 - 14, 2018 at Quality Hotel NOAH'S On The Beach, New Castle, New South Wales, Australia. The target audience for this medical event is Nurses. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 11.00 CPD Hours. Conference Overview: Every year Ausmed Education holds a nurses’ conference specifically designed for your location and aimed at assisting you to get rapidly up-to-date on current nursing topics. Attend this local nurses’ conference to gain a broad range of clinical and professional updates relevant to your practice. Take time out and network with like-minded colleagues. Find out: • What are some of the health priorities that you need to know about? • What nursing interventions make a difference, especially to those with chronic conditions? • Why is evidence so important to the way you practice? • What is the latest information about a range of current treatments? Attend this local nurses’ conference and close gaps in your knowledge, skills, and practice. Need for Program: In regard to the nursing care you provide, the need to continually seek new information is a given no matter where you work. Nursing safety and quality are essential and both are directly linked to knowledge. This is a time when: • Healthcare budgets are under increased stress • The community purse is shrinking • Quality outcomes are now the goal of all care Now more than ever, if safe, quality outcomes are to be achieved, it is important that you take a leadership role in providing outcome focused high-value care. This can be done by addressing emerging gaps in your knowledge through up-to-date information. Purpose of Program: This program provides you with current knowledge relating to a range of professional and clinical practice topics that will improve how you provide holistic nursing care. Learning Objectives: • People with health risks will receive preventative nursing action in your care to avoid illness • Better patient outcomes will be achieved through the application of up-to-date knowledge related to specific nursing interventions • Interprofessional collaboration will be optimised to enhance patient outcomes • Patient outcomes will be underpinned by evidence-based practice, recognised standards, and guidelines  

Geelong Nurses' Conference is organized by Ausmed Education Pty Ltd and will be held from Dec 13 - 14, 2018 at Rydges Geelong, Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The target audience for this medical event is Nurses. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 11.00 CPD Hours. Conference Overview: Every year Ausmed Education holds a nurses’ conference specifically designed for your location and aimed at assisting you to get rapidly up-to-date on current nursing topics. Attend this local nurses’ conference to gain a broad range of clinical and professional updates relevant to your practice. Take time out and network with like-minded colleagues. Find out: • What are some of the health priorities that you need to know about? • What nursing interventions make a difference, especially to those with chronic conditions? • Why is evidence so important to the way you practice? • What is the latest information about a range of current treatments? Need for Program: In regard to the nursing care you provide, the need to continually seek new information is a given no matter where you work. Nursing safety and quality are essential and both are directly linked to knowledge. This is a time when: • Healthcare budgets are under increased stress • The community purse is shrinking • Quality outcomes are now the goal of all care Now more than ever, if safe, quality outcomes are to be achieved, it is important that you take a leadership role in providing outcome focused high-value care. This can be done by addressing emerging gaps in your knowledge through up-to-date information. Purpose of Program: This program provides you with current knowledge relating to a range of professional and clinical practice topics that will improve how you provide holistic nursing care. Learning Objectives: • People with health risks will receive preventative nursing action in your care to avoid illness • Better patient outcomes will be achieved through the application of up-to-date knowledge related to specific nursing interventions • Interprofessional collaboration will be optimised to enhance patient outcomes • Patient outcomes will be underpinned by evidence-based practice, recognised standards, and guidelines  

Sydney 28th International Conference on “Medical, Medicine and Health Sciences” (MMHS- 2019 Sydney) is organized by Academic Fora and will be held from Jan 05 - 06, 2019 at Holiday Inn Potts Point-Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Conference Description: The conference will cover vital issues in medical, medicine and health sciences under multiple sub-themes. The aim of our conference is to support, encourage and provide a platform for networking, sharing, publishing and nurturing the potential growth of individual scholars across the globe. Conference Tracks: This conference is a premier platform for the presentation of novel and creative research results in the fields of theoretical, and applied Medical and medicine research, Health Sciences and Public Health research & practice. The conference will bring together leading researchers, social workers and scientists , students in the domain of scientific interest from around the world. The areas of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: • Medical Science • Health Science • Public Health Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Introduction to Emergency Medicine Ultrasound (POCUS) - 5 Day Course is organized by Australian Institute of Ultrasound (AIU) and will be held from Jan 07 - 11, 2019 at Australian Institute of Ultrasound, Gold coast, Queensland, Australia. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 40 Category 1 points. Description:- Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) has become an expected component of the emergency medicine toolkit. Both ACEM and ASUM expect competency with E-FAST, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA), Basic Echo in Life Support (BELS), Lung ultrasound and ultrasound guided vascular access. POCUS is a real time, non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic tool which involves both theoretical and practical domains. It also requires a well-founded grounding in basic scanning techniques which lays the foundation for safe and effective ultrasound practice. This course was designed for emergency medicine and general physicians who aim to incorporate beside ultrasound assessment in their practice. There is an emphasis on practical aspects led by expert sonographers and clinicians. A low student to tutor ratio ensures reasonable hands-on ultrasound practice on a diverse volunteer population, which increases attendance’s confidence of providing safe and focused bedside ultrasound assessment. Content:- • Introduction of physical principles of ultrasound and probe manipulation • Abdominal aortic Aneurysm • EFAST protocol • Basic Echo in Life support (BELS) • Introduction to lung (Only available on 2019 courses) • Vascular Access (Procedural Guidance will be incorporated on 2019 courses) • Basic early pregnancy Course Objective:- At the end of this course the attendees should be able to: • Identify the parameters of safe application of ultrasound and its limitations in medical diagnosis • Identify the physical principles, artefacts and the steps for image optimisation while performing ultrasound. • Practice “hands on” ultrasound scanning skills required to maximise diagnostic ability in answering relevant clinical questions • Recognise the sonographic appearances of normal and abnormal structures required to answer common clinical questions • Perform E-FAST, AAA, Lung, BELS, Vascular Access, Early pregnancy ultrasound techniques • Acquire images obtained on normal adult volunteers & phantoms • Interpret images from normal adult volunteers • Recognise the variants and abnormalities from presentations and case-based learning. • Document the ultrasound findings • Equip the learner with the foundation skills to begin to incorporate the ultrasound skills with the clinical situation to make appropriate management decisions Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Introduction to Emergency Medicine Ultrasound (POCUS) - 3 Day Course is organized by Australian Institute of Ultrasound (AIU) and will be held from Jan 07 - 09, 2019 at Australian Institute of Ultrasound, Gold coast, Queensland, Australia. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 40 Category 1 points. Description:- Point of Care ultrasound (POCUS) is a real time, non-invasive diagnostic and therapeutic tool which involves both theoretical and practical domains. Currently, POCUS is an expected component of the emergency physician skills. However, sometimes, it is hard to attend long courses when you have a busy schedule and specific ultrasound learning needs. This course was designed for those who only need to integrate Abdominal Aorta Aneurysm (AAA), Extended Focused Abdominal Scan for Trauma (E-FAST) and Basic Echocardiography in Life Support (BELS) into their clinical practice. Each day you will learn how to recognise, acquire and interpret a diagnostic quality scan set, so that you can return home and start safe proctored practice. As you require a well-founded grounding in basic scanning techniques this course emphasises on practical aspects led by expert sonographers and clinicians. A low student to tutor ratio (4:1) ensures reasonable hands-on ultrasound practice on a diverse volunteer population, which increases attendance’s confidence of providing safe and focused bedside ultrasound assessment. Course Content: • Introduction of physical principles of ultrasound and probe manipulation • Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) • Extended Focused Abdominal Scan for Trauma (E-FAST) protocol • Basic Echo in Life support (BELS) • Vascular Access • Lung​ Course Objectives: At the end of this course the attendees should be able to: • Identify the parameters of safe application of ultrasound and its limitations in medical diagnosis • Identify the physical principles, artefacts and the steps for image optimisation while performing ultrasound. • Practice “hands on” ultrasound scanning skills required to maximise diagnostic ability in answering relevant clinical questions • Recognise the sonographic appearances of normal and abnormal structures required to answer common clinical questions • Perform E-FAST, AAA and BELS ultrasound techniques • Acquire images obtained on normal adult volunteers & phantoms • Interpret images from normal adult volunteers • Recognise the variants and abnormalities from presentations and case-based learning. • Document the ultrasound findings • Equip the learner with the foundation skills to begin to incorporate the ultrasound skills with the clinical situation to make appropriate management decisions Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.