27th Annual Conference 2016
A new world: inspiring abilities
26 & 27 October 2016, Novotel Hotel Parramatta
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Improving health for people with disability: Mainstreaming specialised care
Dr Jacqueline Small
Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming
Dr Martyn Matthews
INVITED SPEAKERS
Interface of NDIS and Intellectual Disability Nurses
Claudine Ford
Opportunities for innovation
Tracy Wright
The lived experience of retirees with intellectual disability transitioning from work in mainstream employment to retirement
Michelle Brotherton
Inspiring abilities and promoting wellbeing through a structured social group for people with intellectual disability
Michelle Brotherton, James Luck and Amanda Sivier
PROGRAM SPEAKERS
The possibilities of the NDIS: Where can it take us?
Dr Laga Van Beek
Nurses experience delivering care to people with intellectual disability in acute care settings: Barriers, enablers, and opportunities for development
Dr Peter Lewis
Intergenerational Mentoring at Men’s Sheds – Enhancing community capacity and inspiring abilities
Dr Nathan Wilson
Strategies to manage risk as a RN and empower care staff to administer medicines safely in group homes: A pharmacy providers perspective
Sally Monstead and Lynne Freebairn
A view from the other side; disability nursing practice in the future from a Westmead Children’s Hospital perspective
Janice Jankovic and Gail Tomsic
How a Clinical Nurse Specialist uses visuals in the Emergency Department
Tracy Szanto
Education on Intellectual Disability in the Australian nursing education system: Experiences in New South Wales and Tasmania
Maryanne Furst
Working with Fragile X
Amanda Rummery-Hoy