Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Upcoming workshops for health professionals
Cancer screening - why it's so important for your clients: TraralgonDate: Wednesday 13 June 2012, 12noon to 3.30pm (light lunch provided)
Venue: Dal Mondo Restaurant, 7 Post Office Place, Traralgon
This workshop will focus on the three national cancer screening programs for bowel, breast and cervical cancers.
Primary health professionals such as practice nurses, practice managers and nurse Pap test providers are encouraged to attend.
Attendance at the workshop will accumulate three hours of CPD.
Presenters:
- Kirsten Hausknecht, Community Health Professionals Coordinator, PapScreen Victoria
- Susanne Line, Bowel Cancer Program Coordinator, Cancer Council Victoria
- Marg Lannen, Health Promotion Officer, BreastScreen Victoria
Pap test training courses for Division 1 nurses
To become a nurse Pap test provider, you must be a registered Division 1 nurse, undertake a Pap test training course, then credential.
Read more about becoming a nurse Pap test provider.
Continuing Professional Development workshops for nurse cervical screening providers
PapScreen Victoria provides professional development workshops for nurse cervical screening providers each year.
Specialised presentations were filmed in 2011 and are now available for nurses to view online by clicking on the links below.
Vulvar itch and pain
Dr Ross Pagano, Generalist Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Vulval Disorder Clinic, The Royal Women's Hospital
The future of cervical screening
A/Prof Marion Saville, Director, Victorian Cytology Service
Cervical screening and HPV update
Dr Lara Roeske, Liaison Physician, Victorian Cytology Service
Heavy menstrual bleeding
Dr Catarina Ang, Head of Gynaecology Unit, Royal Women's Hospital
Nurses' cervical screening journey in Victoria
Sandy Anderson, Nurse Consultant, PapScreen Victoria
My story
Barb Edis, Consumer Advocate, Scope
Workshop for Practice Nurses and Practice Managers
A multi-system approach to cervical cancer prevention
Practice nurses are ideally placed to play an active role in increasing participation rates. This 2-hour workshop developed by PapScreen Victoria and Cancer Council Victoria provides Division 1 and 2 practice nurses who are not accredited Pap test providers with practical ways of increasing cervical screening rates in their community.
The workshop also covers current recommendations for HPV vaccinations and its implications for cervical screening.
These workshops are coordinated by individual Divisions of General Practice. Contact your local division to see if they have any workshops scheduled and to register.
General practitioners
GPs take 80% of Pap tests in Victoria, so it is essential that GPs are confident they are using the correct Pap test technique.
In conjunction with the Victorian Cytology Service, PapScreen Victoria offers an active learning module (ALM) to assist GPs to achieve best practice in cervical screening.
PapScreen provides resources and presenters for the day. Financial support for catering and venue hire will also be offered to participating Divisions of General Practice. GPs will accrue 40 CPD points for completing this ALM.
For further information please email Kirsten Hausknecht or call 03 9635 5403.
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Case study: Sue
I work at the Well Women's Clinic at the Royal Women's Hospital in Parkville.
I trained to be a Pap test provider because I understood women wanted a female practitioner.
