Aged care nursing in the spotlight at The Selwyn Foundation

Aged care nursing in the spotlight at The Selwyn Foundation’s annual gerontology conference, 5 August 2014

Registrations are open for The Selwyn Foundation’s annual gerontology nurses’ conference, which will be held on 5 August 2015, 7.30 am to 5.00 pm, at the Waipuna Conference Centre, Mt Wellington, Auckland.

This full-day professional development event offers a packed programme on the latest clinical and leadership issues of significance to nurses involved in the care of older people, with an emphasis on person-centred, holistic teaching of individualised aged care.

Selwyn’s Director of Advanced Nursing Practice/Gerontology Nurse Practitioner, Isabella Wright, organises the annual event and says: “This is the only conference of its kind in the country that involves expert nurses teaching other gerontology nurses. The Selwyn Foundation is pleased to be able to bring this event to all nurses practising in the field of gerontology and to those who may be seeking to move to the next level of their professional development.”

The conference is designed for clinicians working in gerontology and offers a total of six professional development hours. “It brings to light current issues in this specialist area of nursing, and helps promote a focus on ongoing training and education,” Isabella says.

Guest speakers and topics this year include:

- Dr Michal Boyd (Gerontology Nurse Practitioner and a Senior Lecturer with the School of Nursing and the Freemasons’ Department of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Auckland), who will examine dementia and depression.

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- Andrew McLachlan (Cardiology Nurse Practitioner, Counties Manukau DHB), who will be discussing the management of heart failure in the elderly.
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- Isabella Wright (Gerontology Nurse Practitioner and Director of Advanced Nursing Practice, The Selwyn Foundation), who will look at age-related comorbidities that impact on wound healing and will hold a practical wound management workshop.
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- Linda Hutchings (one of New Zealand’s leading adult educators), who will advise nurses on developing a personal leadership vision.
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The Selwyn Foundation, a charitable trust which provides quality services to older people and their families, hosts and part-funds the conference. Through the event, it aims to encourage and help ensure better care for older people, and higher professional development for New Zealand gerontology nurses.

The conference delegate fee is $120 per person (including GST). Registration and further details are available at www.selwyncare.org.nz

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