Afternoon session now kicking off for @CATSINaM#BackToTheFire WA event - we will be hearing first from Assoc Prof Beverley Ewens (Associate Dean Undergraduate in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at @EdithCowanUni), and then Dr Amanda Graf and Aggie Caracciolo
Hearing (recorded) presentation from Assoc Prof Beverley Ewens #BackToTheFire
Diverse membership of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Inclusivity Committee: Ewens #BackToTheFire
Only committee of its kind in the uni, quite well established (7 years), meet every 6 weeks, report to school's executive and curricula bodies. #BackToTheFire
Ewens: enabling factors underpinned by strengths base for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to succeed at @EdithCowanUni#BackToTheFire
Some of the committee's guiding frameworks are the uni's RAP (with its own School operational plan), the Getting Em and Keeping Em report (32 recs - all still relevant today). Been part of audit of review, looking forward to its findings #BackToTheFire
. @WestRoianne notes that Indigenous nursing and midwifery students are still 30% less likely to complete Nursing and Midwifery programs. #BackToTheFire
Cultural safety training @EdithCowanUni School of Nursing and Midwifery - School is part of research being led by @WestRoianne on cultural capability measurement tool #BackToTheFire
Also in reply, @strictlykaren welcomes the work being done at the @EdithCowanUni School, to support more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, academics and leaders at all levels #BackToTheFire
"We're not just looking for mentors, we're looking for academic inputs...." says Aggie Caracciolo #BackToTheFire
Next up we're watching a recent presentation at 18th National Nurse Education Conference 2021 by @WestRoianne (she added her own inspiration to the conference's - Cultural Safety a lifelong journey) #BackToTheFire
Why cultural safety rather than cultural competency is required to achieve health equity: a literature review and recommended definition
Is an upward trajectory from 2012 in commencing nursing students, but also for non-Indigenous students...so the risk is that the disparity will remain the same, continue to result in high attrition rates, Indigenous students only account for 1pc nursing workforce #BackToTheFire
750 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students commence nursing/midwifery each year, 250-300 graduate: completion rate is only rising 1pc per year: @WestRoianne#BackToTheFire
ICYMI yesterday, here's background to Muliyan, a national collaboration to decolonise health care - to be strong, political, and call out the system for how it continues to cause harm, through racism: catsinam.org.au/muliyan-who-we…#BackToTheFire
"They don't know what they don't know." The need for truth telling in nursing and midwifery.
. @strictlykaren (Chair, Council of Deans) congratulates @WestRoianne for setting @CATSINaM on a visionary path to strengthen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses/midwives: "It's a really exciting time to be starting to work with you more closely on this." #BackToTheFire
The #ClimateHealthMatters #CroakeyLIVE #AusVotes2025 webinar (5-6pm AEST) will focus on regional communities’ experiences/responses to the climate health crisis, with great panel led by @AlisonVerhoeven, cc @healthy_climate
@AlisonVerhoeven @healthy_climate Despite hard work from health/medical orgs, there's been so little media/political focus on #climatehealth concerns #AusVotes2025. It's a different story at @CroakeyNews. Check all our coverage here: croakey.org/category/elect…
And so to end: final session set to begin for #MedicalRadiationSciences2025 #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025
Panel Discussion – The role of AI in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy: Expert Insights Panellists: Daniel Johnstone, Andrew Murphy, Courtney Ryder, Daniel Sapkaroski, Nick Woznitza
Moderated by Craig Rispin #MedicalRadiationSciences2025 #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025
What should we start doing? What should we stop doing? What should we continue doing? Questions to lead this panel discussion #MedicalRadiationSciences2025 #asmirtnzimrt2025
Day 3 #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025 opening in the Mammography stream, hearing about cultural safety and health equity from Lisa Te Paiho (Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Maniapoto) is National Program Manager, BreastScreen Aotearoa #MedicalRadiationSciences2025
A familiar but important slide from Lisa Te Paiho #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025 #MedicalRadiationSciences2025
Definitely not equity of access on breast screening for Maori and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025 #MedicalRadiationSciences2025
Day 2 at #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025 - starting off with a very timely session on the forthcoming national lung cancer screening program which will begin being offered to eligible patients from July 2025 - background here health.gov.au/our-work/nlcsp
Alan Malbon telling us that Cancer Australia initially proposed a two-step eligibility process: former was both age and smoking history-based, latter was through the application of a risk assessment.
#MedicalRadiationSciences2025 #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025
Later revised to: patients aged 50-70 years eligible for screening if they had a smoking history of at least 30 pack-years and either continued to smoke or had quit smoking within the past 10 years
Final session for Day 1 at #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025
#MedicalRadiationSciences2025
A focus on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Maori health and wellbeing.
Hearing from Lisa Te Paiho (Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Maniapoto), BreastScreen Aotearoa & Jamaine Fraser, Te Whatu Ora Hauora Māori Services Directorate, both representing MiRO (Māori in Radiation Oncology at #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025 #MedicalRadiationSciences2025
More here re MiRO (Māori in Radiation Oncology #ASMIRTNZIMRT2025 #MedicalRadiationSciences2025
We're at the historic Aboriginal Advancement League in Naarm/Melbourne, on the lands of the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin nation for the launch of the 2025 report from the @closethegapOZ #CloseTheGap2025
The 2025 @closethegapOZ report is titled: Agency, Leadership, Reform: Ensuring the Survival, Dignity and Wellbeing of First Nations Peoples
@closethegapOZ Wominjeka: Wurundjeri Elder Uncle Tony Garvey welcomes today’s #CTG2025 launch to Country, talks about his pride in standing up for his people, in the footsteps of his Elders and ancestors, who have nurtured this land over 60,000 years.