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Save 30%! DANA / Addiction Medicine post conference special offer

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Several delegates at last week’s DANA Conference won   copies of Addiction Medicine 2nd edition. A special post-conference offer is now extended  to you. You can save 30% and purchase this text for $70.67.

Addiction Medicine is edited by John B. Saunders – Professor and Consultant Physician in Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine, University of Queensland, University of Sydney, St. John of God Health Care, Wesley Health Care, and South Pacific Private Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

Chapters have been written by:

  • Katherine M. Conigrave – Professor in Addiction Medicine and Public Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Concord Hospitals, Sydney, Australia
  • Noeline C. Latt – Addiction Medicine Specialist, Royal North Shore Hospital and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Australia
  • David J. Nutt – Professor of Psychopharmacology, Division of Brain Science, Department of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College London, UK E.
  • Jane Marshall – Consultant Psychiatrist, Alcohol Studies, South London and Maudsley National Health Service Trust and the National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK
  • Walter Ling – Professor of Psychiatry, Integrated Substance Abuse Program (ISAP), School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA Susumu Higuchi – Director, National Hospital Organization Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center, Kanagawa, Japan.

To take advantage of this offer click HERE and follow the instructions.

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DANA launches ‘State of the Workforce’ research project

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Today we launched DANA’s State of the Workforce: 2020, a research project which aims to explore issues in alcohol and other drug nursing across Australia and New Zealand. We need your help to understand the alcohol and other drug nursing workforce.

The survey should take no longer than ten minutes to complete and all of your information remains anonymous. DANA will use the results from this study to continue to provide advocacy and support to the alcohol and other drug nursing profession.
Click  HERE to take the survey.

Daft Position statements for comment

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DANA members are invited to comment on two  draft position statements:

  • Pill testing
  • E-cigarettes.

The statements  are available for download.

DANA Draft Position Statement E-Cigarette V2

DANA Draft Position Statement Pill testing V3

Any comments that you wish to make should be using ‘track changes’ and return the documents to [email protected] no later than  September 5th 2091.

 

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Now recruiting: Residential Nurse Fitzroy (Victoria)

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Summary of position

  • Fixed Term/ Part Time
  • R.N level dependent on qualifications and experience  + 9.5 % Employer superannuation
  • Generous salary packaging options available
  • Fitzroy location

The purpose of the Nursing role is to provide direct care to the Fitzroy Residential Unit. The position will facilitate withdrawal services for young people seeking assistance in their physical detoxification from licit and illicit substances. This position works closely with YSAS General Practitioners, community General Practitioners and residential staff team.

Your key responsibilities will include

Up to six points

  • General triaging and intake screening,
  • Clinical services and General Health Assessment,
  • Education and Health Promotion,
  • Consultation,
  • Administration tasks,
  • Liaison,
  • Program Development and Evaluation

For full details of the position, please view the POSITION DESCRIPTION by visiting our website www.ysas.org.au

How to apply

To support your application you must:

  • Be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident and
  • Complete the Application Form (available on the website) and
  • Send your current CV (in Word or PDF format only)

Applications close: COB 20th August 2019

and should be addressed to: [email protected],

using the subject line: Residential Nurse application via DANA.

DANA Annual General Meeting 16th August 2019

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The 2019 AGM will be held at 7:30 am on Friday 16th August 2019 at the Swissotel, 68 Market Street, Sydney NSW.

A light breakfast will be available at 7:00 am, prior to the meeting.  Please advise if you will be attending for catering purposes.  Send an email to [email protected] 

The agenda for the meeting, minutes from the last AGM, the DANA annual report and proxy voting form are all available, along with a draft copy of the 2019-2021 Strategic Directions.  Please click on the buttons below access these documents:

Agenda 2019 AGM

Minutes DANA AGM 2018

DANA Annual Report 2019

Proxy Form 2019 AGM

DANA Strategic Plan 2019-2021 DRAFT

I look forward to seeing you there.

Darren Smyth
DANA President

Don’t miss out! DANA D&A NP Symposium and Conference registrations close on August 1st

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You need to register now if you want to attend  the DANA Inaugural Drug and Alcohol Nurse practitioner 1-day symposium and / or the DANA Australasian Conference 2019 ‘The Power of Connection’

THE INAUGURAL DRUG AND ALCOHOL NURSE PRACTITIONER 1-DAY SYMPOSIUM

will be launched on August 15th.   Featuring clinical updates and a killer line-up of speakers, this promises to be an event to remember. It is open to Nurse Practitioners*, and those in transitional or candidate positions.
Come away from the day with increased confidence in harnessing the collective potential of Drug and Alcohol Nurse Practitioners!
(*if you have already registered for this event but you are not a Nurse Practitioner or candidate, we will happily swap you over to the Conference. We’d hate you to be disappointed on the day.)

DANA’S AUSTRALASIAN CONFERENCE 2019 ‘THE POWER OF CONNECTION’

will be held on Friday 16th August. Book your spot for this annual event, this year themed ‘The Power of Connection’, it is a reminder that in this increasingly impersonal digital age, the power to lead and make change is still derived from the relationships that we build.
We have an exciting program featuring sessions dealing with:

  • the ‘Developing Brain’, ‘Substance Use in Pregnancy’, ‘Pill-testing’, a ‘Cognitive Remediation’ workshop to highlight just a little of what is on offer.
  • three workshops
  • papers based on their abstract submissions. A sample of the topics includes – Challenging stigma & strengthening professional connection; Building Australia’s research and treatment capacity for methamphetamine and emerging drugs; a nurse-led ethnography of methamphetamine users in Queensland, workforce development, clinical supervision.

REGISTRATION AND PROGRAM

If you haven’t registered yet you still have time. Just!  Registrations close on August 1st 2019.   Click here to visit the Conference website and  register for either or both of these DANA events  and to access the full program.

BUT THAT ISN’T ALL

Make it a 3-day celebration of learning and attend a post- DANA Conference workshop!  In collaboration with the Kirby Institute, the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, ASHM, has planned a workshop, Hepatitis C in Primary Care and Drug and Alcohol Settings ‘ for Saturday August 17th . Its goal is to strengthen the capacity of Nurse Practitioners and other nurses working in drug and alcohol settings to effectively test for, treat and manage hepatitis C.
The Amora Jamison, at 11 Jamison Street Sydney is the venue.
You need to register directly with ASHM for this event.  Click here for more information and to register.

(Thank you Caleb Woods for the image)

 See you soon!

Darren Smyth
President

Thank you to our sponsors:

 

Now recruiting: CN – Alcohol and Drug Metro North Mental Health (Brisbane)

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This is a temporary full-time position from 19/8/19 to 16/8/20

  • This role reports directly to the Nurse Unit Manager Redcliffe Caboolture
  • This role has a professional reporting line to the Nursing Director, MNMH-ADS
  • This role will work directly with nursing, medical and allied health staff within MNMH-ADS, and other health and human service practitioners across Queensland.
  • This role includes direct patient care responsibilities.
  • This role does not have budgetary delegation.

You will want to know more, so click the links below to download all information:

CN Redcliffe Caboolture ADS

ROI CN

Applications  close 31.7.19

Now recruiting: CNC Drug & Alcohol Service Nowra (NSW)

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The Clinical Nurse Consultant (Grade 1) provides expert clinical advice to clients, carers and other health care professionals with complex healthcare needs within the Drug and Alcohol Service. The Clinical Nurse Consultant is a clinical expert who, through leadership, facilitates excellence in research based clinical practice, education, research and professional leadership. The Clinical Nurse Consultant models the CORE (Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment) values of the organisation.

Temporary Full Time position, until 29 June 2022 with the possibility of an extension subject to funding.

For further information contact Cherrie Laidlaw, (02) 4421 0522

Ref. No.: REQ91957
Closing Date: 18 August 2019

About Us

Our District extends about 250km along the coastal strip from Coledale in the north to Ulladulla in the south, servicing a population of approximately 400,000 residents. We are one of the region’s largest employers with a workforce of 6,300 across 9 hospital sites.

We are focused on building the workforce of the future, developing an integrated health system, matching our capital footprint to community needs and investing in contemporary patient-centred models of care.  The values ISLHD guide the behaviour and professional standards of our staff. Our CORE Values are Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment.

For further information click here.

New opportunity – Principal Project Officer – Strategic research and evaluation, alcohol and other drug services – Sydney

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Lead the development and support of collaborative research networks

Coordinate evaluation of priority statewide programs

  About this role:

Are you interested in strategic research, evaluation and population health programs?  Then consider  leading  strategic research and evaluation within the portfolio of the Centre for Population Health, NSW Ministry of Health.

The role will strengthen relationships with consumer organisations, clinical research groups and clinical academics, non-government organisations and research organisations. The role will work in close collaboration with these stakeholders to develop a prioritisation framework for strategic research and evaluation projects relating to alcohol and other drug services, ensure the necessary governance frameworks are in place, and develop the state-wide infrastructure and support necessary to sustain these strategic research activities.

As the manager of a team, you will also support the development of team members, and prepare high quality written advice in the form of briefs and reports, sometimes at short notice. You will be passionate about developing state-wide research capacity and continuously looking for better ways to engage your team and the clinical and research community to achieve better strategic research outputs that improve outcomes for people with alcohol and other drug issues.

Employment Type:  Temporary – Full Time (Up to 29 July 2021)
Role Classification:  Clerk Grade 11/12
Remuneration:  $128,089 – $148,134 pa (plus superannuation and annual leave loading)
Hours per Week: 35

Location: St Leonards
Requisition ID:  REQ118861

Closing Date: 11.59pm, Sunday 4 August, 2019

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