Division 2 Directions Forum

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Division 2 Directions Forum
Adjunct Professor Belinda Moyes Principal Nurse
Advisor Director Nurse Policy Branch 29 October
2007
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SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS

• PROJECT/PILOT
• PROGRAM
• CORE BUSINESS

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Strategic Challenges

• System capacity is unknown to date
• Departure from custom and convention
• Effective utilisation of the new health training
  package (HLT07)
• Industrial, regulatory and legislative frameworks
• National registration
• Funding and policy frameworks

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Division 2 strategy

• Coordinated and cohesive policy approach to
  division 2 nurses in Victorian public health
  services.
• Purpose
• To meet nurse workforce and service demand in a
  changing health and demographic context
• Aim
• To increase the number of division 2 nurses
  employed in Victorias public health services
• To better deploy and utilise division 2 nurses in
  the nursing team to deliver health services

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Central tenets.

• Div 2 roles and practice meet local and
  system-wide need, are consistent with their
  training and level of competence, and align with
  any guidance for nurses by the Nurses Board of
  Victoria
• Div 2 nurses are valued members of the nursing
  team, who work as associates to division 1 nurses
  in contexts where their practice and roles are
  safely supported to ensure the best outcomes for
  health consumers

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Central tenets.

• Successful reform and innovation is achieved
  through consultation and working collaboratively
  with the key industry, professional and
  government stakeholders.
• An integrated and cohesive approach provides
  policy direction to guide public investment and
  focuses activity to achieve practical and
  tangible outcomes in addressing nurse workforce
  demand.

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Strategic elements

• Establish the enabling framework
• Support service and workforce planning
• Build capacity and capability
• Implement change
• Evaluate impact

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Arms of work

• Reforming legislation and regulation
• Enabling policy frameworks for practice
• Developing professional practice
• Supporting effective training and education
• Increasing supply of Division 2 nurses through
  increased training places
• Portraying contemporary practice
• Promoting workforce planning and innovation

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Current Activities

• Funded study leave for division 2 nurses
• 200,000
• Funded medicines endorsement places
• 1,125,000 allocated in 2007
• Greater than 3.2 million invested since 2003-04
• Additional 1500 places with TAFE providers over 4
  years
• 230 additional places in 2007

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Current Activities

• Communication, consultation and collaboration
  with stakeholders
• IV medicines
• Joint working party NPB and NPB

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Contemporary portrayals of Division 2
practiceDivision 2 profiles - Nursing in
Victoria website

• Division 2 RN in the Emergency Department at The
  Northern Hospital since May 2007
• Current role and responsibilities
• admit and assess new patients using a primary
  survey (airway, breathing, circulation),
• initiate investigations such as ECG, pulse
  oximetry, urinalysis,
• implement nursing interventions such as
• oxygen therapy, oral dehydration and facilitate
  interventions such as analgesia and x-rays in
  collaboration with ED medical staff.

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For more information

• Nurse in Victoria website
• www.health.vic.gov.au/nursing
• Nurse Policy Branch
• www.health.vic.gov.au/nursing
• Brett Aimers
• Project Officer
• brett.aimers_at_dhs.vic.gov.au
• State Nursing Excellence Awards
• 29 November 2007