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Accelerate your AOD career with some help from DANA !
DANA is delighted to announce details about its scholarship program for 2021.
In response to the recent completion of the State of the Workforce: 2020 report, DANA is pleased to offer a range of scholarships for Alcohol and other Drug (AOD) registered nurses.
Become a Nurse Practitioner
Two scholarships are available to AOD registered nurses studying to become nurse practitioners in Australia. These scholarships are intended to provide a financial stipend to assist with course costs incurred with undertaking a specialist master’s degree leading to endorsement as a nurse practitioner. Funding for these scholarships has been kindly provided by Indivior.
Click here: DANA NP scholarship information package
New Graduates these are for you
DANA believes in supporting new graduates in Australia and New Zealand who wish to develop careers in AOD nursing. With this in mind, DANA is providing scholarships for professional development activities in 2021.
Click here: DANA new graduate scholarship information package
AOD Nurses: Are we an endangered species?
DANA’s ambitious State of the Workforce: 2020 research report attempts to answer this question and many more.
Dowload your copy HERE.
Two years in the making this research paints a picture of the alcohol and other drug (AOD) nursing workforce across Australia and New Zealand.
You will:
- Find out about the demographic profile of AOD nurses, including their work location and demographic characteristics.
- Learn about issues specific to contemporary AOD nursing, including an alarming situation that could lead to the extinction of the specialty.
- Hear the voice of AOD nurses as they speak through the research about their work and the challenges they face.
- Read about ‘the recruitment paradox’ and the ‘ideal AOD nurse’.
Don’t miss DANA’s next webinar… AOD Nurses: Are we an endangered species?
Based on DANA’s ambitious State of the Workforce: 2020 research project, this webinar will paint a picture of the AOD nursing workforce across Australia and New Zealand. It will also answer the question: ‘Are we an endangered species?’
Join us for this important discussion Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 5:30pm AEDT.
Reserve your place. Click HERE to register.
You will:
- Find out about the demographic profile of AOD nurses, including their work location and demographic characteristics.
- Learn about issues specific to contemporary AOD nursing, including an alarming situation that could lead to the extinction of the specialty.
- Listen to their voice of AOD nurses as they speak through the research about their work and the challenges they face.
- Hear about ‘the recruitment paradox’ and the ‘ideal AOD nurse’.
- You will also learn about what strategies DANA is employing to improve workforce sustainability in Australia and New Zealand (plus some very special announcements).
This is a live webinar so you will have a chance to ask questions (or you can send a question in advance to [email protected])
Featured speakers:
- Dr Adam Searby RN, PhD, Deakin University / Drug and Alcohol Nurses of Australasia
- Professor Margaret Hamilton AO (DANA’s first patron)
- Mr Darren Smyth NP / Drug and Alcohol Nurses of Australasia.
Reserve your place. Click HERE to register.
We are grateful to Camurus for funding this webinar. They have had no input into its content.
DANA members: please note that a short Special General Meeting of the Drug and Alcohol Nurses of Australasia will be held on Thursday, November 19th, 2020 via Zoom, immediately following the webinar, commencing at 6:20pm AEDT.
DANA is holding a Speical General Meeting on Novmeber 19th 2020
A Special General Meeting of the Drug and Alcohol Nurses of Australasia is to be held on Thursday, November 19, 2020 via Zoom, commencing at 6:20pm AEDT. (This is timed to coincide with the end of the webinar AOD Nurses. Are we an endangered species?)
This meeting will be held via Zoom. Please click HERE to register (if you have already registered for the webinar then you do not need to re-register for the AGM – and vice versa – one registration will cover everything).
It is important that a quorum is achieved for this meeting in order for discussions to be validated.
The agenda is brief and will include:
1. A DANA Scholarship announcement
2. A special membership announcement.
An agenda is available to download. Click HERE.
If you have any questions, please contact either:
Secretary: Linda Wigginton [email protected]
or send an email to [email protected]
I look forward to seeing you at this meeting.
Yours sincerely
Adam Searby
President
Register now for the APSAD 2020 Webinar Series
Through November in place of the annual conference APSAD is holding a series of webinars. The series has been convened by Prof Leanne Hides with input from APSAD’s members through subcommittees and special interest groups. The Webinar Series will include the annual APSAD Awards presentation ceremony, with the APSAD Early Career Awardee Cheneal Puljevic presenting on Missed opportunities to reduce tobacco smoking among people who experience incarceration or homelessness.
Professor Wayne Hall deliver a keynote oration Retrospections of a Recovering Drug Researcher.
The ASCP-SIG have put together the annual Australasian Smoking Cessation Professionals Update Day with two 1-hour webinars. Professor Tom Calma AO will provide an Overview of the Indigenous Tobacco Strategy, and Dr Raglan Maddox takes a look at the continuing downward trend within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smoking rates, amongst other great speakers and topics.
The APSAD 2020 Webinar Series concludes with two sessions on COVID-19 and the impact it has had on people who use drugs and clinicians.
All webinars are free, APSAD members will have priority on registration, along with access to all the webinars from the end of November via the Members’ Portal.
Find out more. Click HERE.
Drug and Alcohol Nurses! You could be a recipient of an NCCRED Clinical Research Scholarship
NCCRED has developed a Clinical Research Scholarship Program to build the scope and capacity of clinical research on emerging drugs across the drug and alcohol sector. This is a national program open to clinicians at all levels, anywhere in Australia.
In 2019, three research scholars (fellows) were selected from a competitive application process, informed by each scholar’s experience, interests and career aspirations.
NCCRED is opening TWO new competitive rounds which will give financial and research support allowing recipients to conduct a new research project. The rounds will have an express focus on the following areas:
- Nursing and allied health professionals
- Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander health professionals.
This is an amazing scholarship, so do yourself a big favour and read the details carefully.
Find out everything you need to know. Click HERE.
Announcing the second webinar in DANA’s Springtime webinar series, ‘Smoking cessation for the drug and alcohol patient’.
Find out what you can do to help your patients who are dependent on alcohol or other drugs when it comes to smoking cessation.
Join our live webinar and hear about the evidence underpinning the latest smoking cessation guidelines. We will discuss research that highlights the importance of addressing smoking cessation with patients who are using alcohol and/or other drugs and also review the various methods that have been proven to help people quit smoking. With special consideration of your drug and alcohol patients, our experts aim to provide direction that’s highly relevant to your practice.
Be sure to stay for the last 10 minutes when we open the event up to you to ask questions (or you can email your questions in before the event so that our presenters answer them during their presentations).
Featured speakers
- Professor Nick Zwar
- Dr. Hester Wilson
Thursday October 15, 2020 at 5:30pm AEDT
RESERVE YOUR PLACE NOW: http://bit.ly/DANAwebinar2
We are grateful to Pfizer for funding of this webinar. They have had no input into its content.
Announcing DANA’s Springtime Webinar Series, #1 ‘Depot Buprenorphine from the Nurse Practitioner Perspective’.
Do you still have some burning questions about Depot Buprenorphine? Hear what four Drug and Alcohol Nurse Practitioners have to say.
They will speak about their experiences, their patients’ experiences, the conversations they have had about the benefits (and the risks), the impact that it has had on their practice and share practical tips with the audience.
This is a live webinar so you will have a chance to ask questions (or you can send a question in advance to [email protected]).
Featured speakers:
- Our host, Darren Smyth (Nurse Practitioner NSW)
- Jo Colvin (Nurse Practitioner Victoria)
- Jason Harrison (Nurse Practitioner Central Queensland)
- Tim Emerton (Nurse Practitioner South East Queensland).
RESERVE YOUR PLACE NOW: Click HERE
We are grateful to Camurus for funding of this webinar. They have had no input into its content.
Keen to improve your staff selection skills? DANA can assist
Staff selection is one of the most important functions of any manager. DANA’s newly released position statement: Recruitment and Selection of Drug and Alcohol Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Practitioner Candidates, Transitional Nurse Practitioners and Drug and Alcohol Nurses, can help you develop more effective recruitment and selection strategies.
Click HERE to download the position statement.
Don’t forget that DANA will also advertise AOD / Addiction nursing positions for you using its various social media platforms. If you would like to know more send an email to [email protected]
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