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Nursing Workforce Sustainability Group Meeting - 3-4 September

Meeting

Agenda

Other Information

Dates
Thursday, 3 September 2009 - Friday, 4 September 2009

Meeting Code
HRT0914

Location
Novotel Brisbane
200 Creek Street
Brisbane
QLD
Australia

Please register your delegates by 5 August 2009. Delegate Registrations may be cancelled up 27 August 2009, with a full credit of monies paid. After that date, no credits are possible. However, you may substitute a different person for those registered at any time. Hotel and airfare arrangements are separate, and may have different policies regarding cancellations and name changes. Please contact them directly.

NOTE: Delegates are responsible for making their own accommodation and travel/flight arrangements. If you require accommodation please call the Hotel on +61 (0)7 3309 3309 and then select 1 for Reservations and mention THE HEALTH ROUNDTABLE Block Booking by 2 August 2009. All requests for accommodation after this date will depend on the Hotel’s availability.

DRAFT AGENDA - Day 1 – Data Benchmarking – Thursday 3 September 2009
8.30 – 9.00am	Registration and Arrival Tea & Coffee
9.00 – 10.00am	Welcome and Overview Indicators Potentially Sensitive to Nursing UTI Pressure Ulcers Hospital-acquired Pneumonia Surgical Wound Infection Failure to Rescue Patient Falls Small group review of indicators
10.00 – 10.30am	Agency Nurses and Nurse retention: Survey Data Review
10.30 – 11.00am	Morning Tea
11.00 – 11.30am	Tying nursing indicators to survey data: Correlation between nursing sensitive indicators and Agency and retention data
11.30 – 12.00 noon	Small groups discussion: Next Steps in Data Collection and analysis
12.00 – 1.00pm	Lunch
1.00 – 3.00pm	Poster Presentations: Each organisation is to display its most successful example of an intervention geared at reducing reliance on agency nurses and/or retaining current nursing staff
3.00 – 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea
3.30 – 5.00pm	What good ideas have we heard? Team meetings Next Steps for Data Collection
5.00pm	Close of Day 1
6.30pm	Dinner (optional): Augustine's on George, 40 George Street, Brisbane
DRAFT AGENDA - Day 2 – Friday 4 September 2009
8.30 – 9.00am	Arrival Tea & Coffee
9.00 – 10.30am	Keynote presentation: Making Time for Caring
10.30 – 11.00am	Morning Tea
11.00 – 12.00 noon	Hot Issues Open Market Place: Each delegation is to list their one key nursing issue that would benefit from input from other participants. All participants then have an opportunity to view and comment on all the hot issues.
12.00 – 1.00pm	Lunch
1.00 – 2.00pm	Action Planning In Health Service Teams: What ideas can we begin to implement in our hospital?
2.00 – 2.30pm	Review of Benchmarking Group: Next Steps and topics for next year
2.30pm	Close of Meeting

Accommodation & Flight Arrangements

Delegates are responsible for making their own accommodation and travel/flight arrangements.

The Novotel Brisbane has set aside rooms for the nights of 2 & 3 September 2009 for The Health Roundtable at the Conference rate of $219.00 inc GST (room only).

To receive this rate, Delegates should call Reservations on +61 (0)7 3309 3309, then select 1 for reservations and mention THE HEALTH ROUNDTABLE Block Booking.

To reserve one of these rooms please book before 2 August 2009.

Requests for accommodation after this date will depend on the Hotel’s availability.