Wednesday 30 Sep 2009

Click on the title of the concurrent session to view abstract and further information	AA 30 Sep 01:00pm	AB 30 Sep 01:30pm	AC 30 Sep 02:00pm
- Clinically Speaking: Using technologies to improve students’ clinical communication skills Fran Rogan
- Gerontological nursing: Are novice registered nurses competently prepared for New Zealand's aged population Molly Page
- Human Patient Simulation Manikin and Information Communication Technology Use in Australian Nurse Education Tracy Levett-Jones
- Learning triggers: First year nursing students’ learning experience in the collaborative DEU model of clinical education Laurie Grealish
- Meeting the Professional Development Needs of the Gen Y Graduate- How St Vincents & Mercy Private Melbourne is Leading the Way Trish Fenner
- The Clinical Practicum Pocket Guide- A Collaboratively Designed Resource for Facilitators, Preceptors and Mentors Kerry Reid-Searl
- What does the hospital employed nurse educator contribute to the profession? – A grounded theory study Robyn Fox
- 4 Drug Errors : A New Solution Sara Olley
- Dedicated Education Units – enhancing nursing students’ belongingness. Janine Hale
- How can clinical skills improve patient safety? – The 5 R’s of Clinical Reasoning. Danielle Noble
- Making the Transition Joy Lyneham
- Simulation and its effect on clinical decision making in nursing education Jacinta Secomb
- The Challenges of Implementing a Preceptored Model of Undergraduate Student Nurses’ Clinical Placement: An Educator’s Perspective Wendy Beavis
- The experience of transition: expectations versus reality Jennifer Evans
- DEU: Collaborating to support and enhance student learning. Willem Fourie, Bev McClelland
- Friday Forums: A Cuppa and Questions! – nursing oriented clinical forums Megan Barker
- Keeping it real: Innovation in ACLS simulation based training in the private sector Samantha Heath
- Making research fun—reflections on assessment, course design and enthusing undergraduate students about research Lorinda Palmer
- The politics of nursing education: the effects of funding structures Anne Brinkman
- The use of an innovative intensive teaching unit to improve 3rd year nursing students’ appreciation of caring for the older person. Suzanne Coulson, Lorraine Mielnik
- Working together to improve students’ clinical learning environments: Validating a survey tool for education and practice. Rose Whittle

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

All posters will be displayed during the course of the entire conference in Hall A - the main conference room. The author and / or presenter of the poster will be attending the poster during the lunch hour of the day as shown below. This will provide you with the chance to discuss poster details and aspects of the research on an informal basis.

Thursday 01 Oct 2009

Click on the title of the concurrent session to view abstract and further information	BA 01 Oct 10:45am	BB 01 Oct 11:15am	BC 01 Oct 11:45am	CA 01 Oct 02:00pm	CB 01 Oct 02:30pm	DA 01 Oct 03:30pm	DB 01 Oct 04:00pm
- “I got the manikin, now what? Next Steps for Educators Using Simulations.” Pamela R. Jeffries
- CareFirst – Caring For New Learners: A new initiative that has improved Preceptorship at St Vincents & Mercy Private Hospital Melbourne. Elissa Bull
- Collaboration in setting up a Dedicated Education Unit in the community Judy Yarwood, Karen Betany
- Educating for Advanced Clinical skills: Modelling Nurse Inserted Laryngeal Mask Airway in Simulation and Live Situations Sharyn Streitberg
- Educating the educators: strategies for resourcing mental health nurse educators in outcome measurement mark smith
- Preceptors and patients – the power of two: A study of the experiences of nursing students on their first acute clinical placement. Ainsley James
- Simulated interprofessional clinical cases: enhancing undergraduate nursing students' learning opportunities in the classroom and clinical setting. Jill French
- Teaching Diagnostic Reasoning in Nursing: Can it be Done? Wendy Day
- “Whakamana” (Empowerment) Cherie Kana
- Collaborative reflections from both a Clinical Liaison Nurse and an Academic Liaison Nurse working with undergraduate nursing students within the Canterbury Dedicated Education Units (DEUs). Joanne Gilmour, Karina O'Rourke
- Enhancing nursing students’ clinical reasoning skills through their engagement with computerised decision support frameworks Noelene Hickey
- Induction, Compression, Ignition, Exhaust! A change of thinking to Short Term Staff Induction programs. Julie Porter
- On the edge of the wind: Creating a way forward for nursing at Auckland University of Technology Deborah Spence
- The assessment of practice: a complementary perspective Peter Gallagher
- The Challenges of Critical Thinking - driving professional growth by recognition of individual need Kristine Dailey
- “Teaching Students to Fish; Reflecting on the introduction of CBL in an undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing programme” Anjana Naidu, Jolanda Lemow
- Crossing the cultural divide with art: Using innovative higher order thinking skills and creative visual awareness in nursing education Jennifer Carter, Melissa Carey
- Dedicated Education Unit: A personal account of the Academic Liaison Nurse and Clinical Liaison Nurse Experience. Elaine Horn, Kusum Narayan
- Putting Nursing Documentation into Focus Wendy Day, Barbara Smith
- Reality teaching: developing paediatric clinical assessment skills of New Graduate Nurses. Shelaine Zambas, Melody Trueman
- The Victorian Standardised Midwifery Clinical Assessment Tool Project: Collaboration in Action Meredith McIntyre, Linda Jones
- Working together to build capacity for clinical placements in the Health Sector Karen Missen
- A practical exercise in assessing competence: Identifying issues that influence and challenge the process of competency assessment. Patrea Andersen
- A Saudi Arabian experience of developing and refining a collaborative framework to maximize student learning. Bodrick Mustafa, Byrne Heather
- Clinical practice in nursing education: What is essential for good learning? Mikko Saarikoski, Paul Watson
- CMDHB Generic Orientation for Nurses Dee Gordon, Doreen Mak
- Preparing nursing students to measure blood pressures - how effective are our teaching strategies? Marian Bland, Karen Ousey
- Sustaining Partnerships in Clinical Education - Could the Dedicated Education Model (DEU) be at Risk? Judith Gonda
- The Generation Y Workforce - You raised them, now work with them Marion Elvy
- Collaborating and integrating: Practice Nurses learning needs driving teaching guidelines for child and youth health Philippa Seaton, Judy Yarwood, Linda Dubbeldam
- Integrating clinicians and their clinical expertise in clinical laboratory learning for undergraduate students Lynne Slater, Marian Niddrie
- Nursing lecturer and E-Learning Advisor: working together to create an online postgraduate nursing course Ruth Crawford
- Proposing frameworks and visioning to build curriculum that can address the practice challenges of the globalised workplace Fran Everingham
- Theories of education for Generation Y students – what insights can be gained for the development of undergraduate nursing curricula? Jo Grainger, Steve Guinea
- Embarking on a Complete Makeover - Redesigning an Education Service Jill Jones, Maureen Habner
- Masking the educator…an innovative way to prepare first year students Kerry Reid-Searl
- Nurse education and the experiences of indigenous student nurses: A cross-sectional survey Mereana Rapata-Hanning
- Physical Assessment: Developing an evidence base for curriculum content Ruth Wilson-Salt, Raewyn Lesa, Mereana Rapata-Hanning
- Will the Online Learning Environment Support Nurses in Dementia Care? David Lie
- A descriptive study of the experiences of the graduates from the inaugural Bachelor of nursing Pacific programme at Whitireia Community Polytechnic Des Turia, Wendy Scott
- Children’s picture books as a teaching strategy with nursing students. Josie Crawley
- Integrating Professional Knowledge & Skills in Nursing Practice: Challenges reported by non-English speaking nurses in Melbourne Australia Joan Deegan
- Reaching out to an audience: Using Movie Maker in Nurses' English class Azwin Arif Abdul Rahim, Nor Yazi Khamis
- University clinician partnerships: Developing an online “core” unit to teach complex multiple specialty clinical nursing skills Les Fitzgerald

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

All posters will be displayed during the course of the entire conference in Hall A - the main conference room. The author and / or presenter of the poster will be attending the poster during the lunch hour of the day as shown below. This will provide you with the chance to discuss poster details and aspects of the research on an informal basis.

Friday 02 Oct 2009

Click on the title of the concurrent session to view abstract and further information	EA 02 Oct 10:20am	EB 02 Oct 10:50am	EC 02 Oct 11:20am
- Is cue acquisition and clinical reasoning influenced by the use of high fidelity human patient simulation? Jan Roche, Tracy Levett-Jones
- Making numbers meaningful for undergraduate nursing students Elizabeth Hanley, Julie Bowen-Withington, Melanie Lienert-Brown
- Myth and reality: Interprofessional collaboration in healthcare teams. Sue Gasquoine
- Peer teaching in practice: Senior students teaching vital signs to first years. Jill French
- Redesigning clinical practice: A project based on facing challenges, changing behaviours and valuing best practice in the clinical setting. Natalie Hicks
- Value of U3A volunteers as standardised patients in a nursing programme Ann Framp
- Competitive forces encourage innovation in education planning and delivery Louise Carrucan-Wood
- Personal Qualities and Nursing Students Clinical & Academic Performance Victoria Pitt
- The effectiveness of using human patient simulation manikins in the teaching of clinical reasoning skills to undergraduate nursing students: a systematic review Samuel Lapkin
- The Information Explosion: Can integrating content help students avoid the fallout? Chris Spencer
- Under Constructivism: exploring the educational theory behind the construction of the Virtual Health & Wellness Project Helene Metcalfe, Melanie Zilembo, Tania Beament, Darren Falconer
- Working together means working smarter Marion Bowron
- "From Silos to Solutions" Bob Howe, Carley Jones
- Answering a need Nina Dobson
- Enhancing Preparation of Undergraduate Students for Practice in Older Adult Settings Jill Clendon
- Integrating collaborative expertise to enhance the teaching and learning of the QUALITY USE OF MEDICINES in nursing Kerry Reid-Searl
- Meeting the needs of rural nursing students? Distance education in counselling and drug/alcohol skills. Annette Woodhouse
- Navigating New Territories in the Pedagogy of Postgraduate Nursing Education Cheryle Moss, Laurie Grealish