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About the Role
Employment Type: This is a fulltime opportunity.
Closing Date: 29/06/2025
· Lead a new haematology service in a growing regional cancer centre serving a vibrant cross-border community.
· Shape care pathways and build strong partnerships with local providers and leading metro haematology teams.
· Enjoy genuine work-life balance in a region known for its outdoor lifestyle, food, wine and natural beauty.
The McGrath Cancer Care Nurse - Haematology will be a valued member of the Cancer Services team to optimise outcomes for haematology patients through advance clinical service, leadership, research and education. We are actively seeking candidates who meet the following requirements to apply for this exceptional opportunity.
· Establish and lead a specialist haematology nursing service within a regional cancer centre.
· Define and support care pathways aligned with Haematology and other Optimal Care Pathways.
· Build strong relationships across local services and metropolitan haematology networks.
· Deliver expert, person-centred care and support across the blood cancer journey.
· Contribute to education, service improvement, and McGrath Foundation initiatives.
For further details, please refer to the Position Description or alternatively contact Diane Davey at Diane.davey@awh.org.au for a confidential discussion.
Another informative and educational newsletter produced by Tracy King & Jacqui Jagger.
The April edition includes:
Download the April Newsletter here!
Tracy King and Jacqui Jagger have done it again - produced an excellent informative and interesting newsletter for the Nurses Group.
It includes:
A big thank you from HSANZ to those to attended Blood 2024 in Brisbane. It was a great success, with many saying that this was a very friendly and collaborative conference.
One of the most important, rewarding and positive aspects of the Society is the support we provide for our members.
A very big congratulations to this year's recipients of our Nurses awards.
Best Oral Presentation: Ty Simpson
Best First-Time Oral Presenter: Emily Minopoulos
Best Poster: Robyn Western
HSANZ Nurses Travel Grants
Photo: Emily Minopoulos - Best First-Time Oral Presenter
SRN Level 7 - $150,046 pa pro rata
Permanent Part-Time
Closing Date: 4pm 28 October 2024
Highly capable and values-driven Nurse Practitioner to join our dynamic Haematology, Cancer, Imaging and Clinical Service (CICS) team working at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital (SCGH). You will be a driven and innovative individual whose actions, interactions and partnerships achieve high quality patient care. You will have the opportunity to embody the NMHS Values and make a real difference by providing safe quality care through expertise and teamwork.
Current and former Nurses presidents, Nicole Gavin and Elise Button recently published an article on values and preferences of haematology patients near the end of life. Much of the data came from the HSANZ membership (via the mailing list and at conference - see methods section of publication).
Click here for the publication
Are you an internationally educated nurse working in cancer or palliative care setting in Australia?
Have you obtained your initial nursing qualification overseas before migrating to Australia?
We are seeking for volunteers to participate in our study.
What is this study about?
This research aims to understand the experiences of internationally educated nurses (IEN) in the context of cancer and end-of-life care. This study explores and analyses how cultural beliefs and practices of IENs inform their delivery of nursing care. Considering the cultural diversity of Australia and its nursing workforce, understanding this phenomenon deserves attention to advance culturally sensitive care and enhance IENs' workplace experience.
Why participate?
You will contribute valuable information to advance knowledge and understanding of your experience and may inform future strategies to enhance your work experience.
Who can participate?
What do I need to do?
If you are interested in participating or would like more information, please contact Jay Balante at jay.balante@sydney.edu.au or through mobile at 0410 808 159. If you know someone who might be interested in participating, please share the study information with them.
For more information click here
This study has been approved by the Sydney Local Health District Human Research Ethics Committee – Concord Repatriation General Hospital (Protocol Number: 2020/ETH02502).
HSANZ has endorsed these Guidelines and provide them for your information. Nicole Gavin, HSANZ Associate Nurse Member was one of the authors.
CNSA would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to our Vascular Access Device & Infusion Therapy Specialist Practice Network (VAD&IT SPN), eviQ and all who have worked tirelessly to develop the revised CNSA Vascular Access Devices: Evidence Based Clinical Practice Guidelines. In a CNSA first, these guidelines are hosted directly on the CNSA website and detail the latest evidence and recommendations for patients with cancer with peripheral intravenous cannulas and central venous access devices.
The guidelines provide standardised, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and recommendations for the safe, effective, and efficient management of vascular access devices for the patient with cancer. This knowledge base, with clinical expertise, the preferences of the individual patient, product knowledge and application, and local context of the individual healthcare environment can be integrated into comprehensive approach to vascular access management for the individual cancer patient.
They have been received enthusiastically within Australia, with endorsement coming from the Australia Vascular Access Society (AVAS), the Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research (AVATAR), the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) Intravenous Nursing New Zealand (IVNNZ) and Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand (HSANZ).
These guidelines cover Patency, Occlusion Prevention and Management and include:
You can now access these online at www.cnsa.org.au/VADguidelines. or
The HSANZ Nurses Group Myeloma Specialist Practice Network is a very active group, with Tracy King at the helm. She not only applied for and received funding from a pharma company, however, also received an Innovation Award for developing MyeTxScheduler, a tool for clinicians to create treatment schedules to help patients to adhere to treatment protocols. The tool is pre-populated with standard myeloma treatment scheduled based on eviQ protocols, with flexibility to adapt to individual patient needs.
It is being rolled out in stages across Australia and New Zealand.
More details here
President: Nicole Gavin (QLD)
Nicole Gavin is Senior Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology and Nurse Research at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital with adjunct affiliations at the University of Queensland and Griffith University. She is an experienced haematology and bone marrow transplant nurse. Nicole’s PhD investigated the effect of parenteral nutrition on microbial growth and its influence on catheter-related infection in patients with a central venous access device. Her postdoctoral research is broadly focused in preventing and managing infections in patients diagnosed with cancer. Nicole has been an associate nurse member of HSANZ since 2010 and has been the Queensland Representative and Vice President.
Vice President – and WA rep: Andrew Steele
Andy started working in Oncology upon qualification in 1991. His first role in Haematology was 3 years later at Derriford Hospital Plymouth and he became Charge nurse there in 1998, attending the EBMT conference the same year.
In 2000 Andy moved to Kalgoorlie WA, working in Restorative and Palliative care as a manager and stayed there for 2 years before moving to Perth to work on the Haematology ward. He stayed there for 14 years night and day and then moved to the Haematology Day Ward as Clinical Nurse Specialist and then Manager in 2014. He has been a Nurses Representative for WA since 2015. He has an interest in Change theory presenting several times at the Blood conference and organised and chaired the nurses stream of Blood 2019 in Perth.
Treasurer – Elise Button
Elise Button is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Healthcare Transformation, Queensland University of Technology and Nurse Researcher in Cancer Care Services at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. She is an experienced haematology and bone marrow transplant nurse and an early career researcher. Elise’s research interests are focused on integration of palliative care, quality measures of end-of-life care and value-based health care.
Qld State Representative Jodie Marsh
Jodie is a Nurse Practitioner Townsville University Hospital. She has 23 years’ experience in Cancer Nursing with the majority involved in Haematology, Blood and Marrow Transplant and apheresis. She is an active member of both Haematology and BMT reference group committees with EVIQ and State Wide Cancer Clinical Network Specialist Education Committee. Clinical areas of interest are Clinical Morphology, Acute Leukemias, Apheresis and Blood and Marrow Transplant. Qld Pathology credentialled in procedural Bone Marrow Biopsy.
Myeloma Specialist Practice Network - Tracy King RN MN
Tracy King is a past President of the Nurses Group and currently, Myeloma Clinical Nurse Consultant at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital; Clinical Research Fellow, Lecturer and PhD candidate at the Cancer Nursing Research Unit, Sydney University. With over 28 years’ experience in the field of Haematology / BMT, Tracy developed a specialist interest in myeloma 20yrs ago working with the International Myeloma Foundation (IMF), now Myeloma UK. Since coming to Australia Tracy has been an active member of a range of national and international professional working groups including those of the Cancer Institute NSW; Myeloma and Related Disease Registry (MRDR), Chair of the HSANZ Myeloma Specialist Practice Network (M-SPN) and Past President and co-founder of the HSANZ Nurses Group. Most recently Tracy has been invited as a member of the IMF Nurse Leadership Board (NLB) and leads the nurse’s program development and delivery during the International Myeloma Workshop (IMW). Tracy completed a master’s in nursing leadership and is currently a PhD candidate at Sydney University. She was awarded the Outstanding Research Achievement Nursing & Midwifery Award 2019 by Sydney Local Health Network (SLHD) for her leadership and research in better understanding the experiences of those affected by myeloma taking high dose steroids and the role of patient reported outcome measures (PROM).
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