29th Annual Conference 2018
People, Purpose & Passion
16 & 17 October 2018, Novotel Hotel Parramatta
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Health literacy for people with intellectual disability: Parents with passion and purpose
Jos & Deb Evans (Daughter and Mother)
People, Purpose and Passion… Be extraordinary. Models of disability nursing: The 6 Ps
Dr Linda Godard
Closing the Gap for People with Intellectual Disability: Focus on Mental Health
Professor Julian Trollor, Chair, Intellectual Disability Mental Health, UNSW
People, Purpose and Passion for Disability Rights
Dr Jeffrey Chan, Senior Practitioner, Behaviour Support at the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission
INVITED SPEAKERS
Redeveloping the Speciality Practice Standards for IDD Nursing: The NDIS and Beyond
Nathan Wilson
People, Purpose and Passion: Wisdom – Reflection – Experience
Gerard Stevens AM
The National Disability Insurance Scheme: It’s Been A Long Journey. How Did We Get Here? And What’s Next?
Kirsten Deane, Campaign Director of Every Australian Counts
‘Keeping it Real’ – Importance of peer support organisations in the development of nurse education in a large residential centre for adults with developmental disabilities
Tracy Wright has worked in Human Services for over 30 years, Tania Lewis is a Peer Mentor with CDAH and Dr Rebecca Pockney is an Occupational Therapist
INVITED SPEAKERS
Breaking a Taboo – Let us talk about People with Disabilities’ Sexuality and the Increased Risk of Sexual Violence
Marika Guggisberg
Key findings from 15 years of reviewing the deaths of people with disability in residential care
Kathryn McKenzie, Director Disability, NSW Ombudsman
PROGRAM SPEAKERS
“The child is no different”: Acute care nurses experiences of caring for children with IDD
Dr Peter Lewis
Your Purpose, Your Passion: The design of a descriptive nursing survey piloted among members of PANDDA
Hayden Jacques
Using Carer Engagement and Motivational Interview/ Flipped Classroom/Process Mapping (MIFCPM) techniques to deliver staff CPD programs that will lead to service improvement and necessary adjustments for children with DD
Gail Tomsic
The journey in building disability care
Professor Regina Lee, Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Newcastle University
Ilumination: Practice up close and personal. The battle of the bowel
Catharine Hulst
QUM what may – Use of analgesia in a teenager with developmental disability
Georgina Hoddle, Nicholas Caires and Kara Cheung
Pathways to better care: successful approach to admission and discharge planning for patients with ID and challenging behaviours. A case study
Gail Tomsic