• APNA training calendar http://www.apna.asn.au/calendar.cfm
• New Practice Nurse Scholarships announced - 20th August 2009
  APNA are pleased to announce a new round of Practice Nurse Scholarships for the 2009-2010 financial year. Under the newly consolidated national Nursing and Allied Health Scholarship and Support Scheme, this latest round sees the release of over 500 CPD scholarships for practice nurses, providing up to $1500 each toward professional development. In recognition of the success of the recent addition of postgraduate scholarships to the scheme, a further 20 Postgraduate Scholarship places have been added, each providing up to $10,000 to practice nurses undertaking a postgraduate course of study.
  
  Applications open on Monday 31st August 2009, and run until 25th September.
  Go to www.apna.asn.au  
  for further details,
  or http://www.apna.asn.au/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=104  
  
  
• Training: ‘Knowing Her Better’
  ‘Knowing Her Better’ is a series of training on immigrant and refugee women and sexual and reproductive health. It is aimed at health and allied professionals interested in improving the health and wellbeing of immigrant and refugee women and their health experiences in Australia.
  http://www.dhs.vic.gov.au/rrhacs/ph_bulletin/training-knowing-her-better/_nocache?src=email&id=190609
• Medicare Seminar - 4 Year Old Health Check
  Friday 11th September or Monday 23rd November 2009
  This is last opportunity to participate in the GPV subsided training.
  See www.ausmed.com.au for further details and registration.
  
• Graduate Certificate in Nursing (General Practice)
• e-Learning Training Package for nurses-FREE of Charge until 31st August 2009
  AGPN in conjunction with our partner organisations Royal College of Nursing Australia and Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, announce the release of the e-Learning Training Package for Medicare Item 10997. Medicare Item 10997 applies to the provision of monitoring and support to people with a chronic disease care plan by a practice nurse or registered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker on behalf of a general practitioner.
  
  The package consists of a pre-requisite foundation module and a series of six chronic-disease modules including arthritis, asthma, cancer, coronary heart disease, dementia, and diabetes with an additional module on kidney health to be added to the package in the near future. The content for each module has been developed by expert organisations to provide current best practice and up-to-date information about chronic disease management and utilising Medicare Item 10997 in the general practice setting.
  
  The modules can be assessed free of charge until 31st August 2009, after which time a charge will be levied. The modules can be accessed on the RCNA 3LP website at the following web link: www.3lp.rcna.org.au/10997 and follow the instructions on the front page under Getting started. You do not need to be a member of RCNA to access the modules.
  
  

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