Timetable (January - June 2012)

How does the Fair Work Act affect me?

What are my entitlements right now in 2012?

How do I find my entitlements and answers to my questions?

This course is a must for all nurses. It’s about knowing how to determine your entitlements and how to find that information quickly. Don’t rely on the tearoom!

Learn where to find the correct documents, how to read them and how to calculate your entitlements.

(Please note that the Brisbane session on 21-22 February is now full and closed for enrolments.)

The outcomes, processes and rights established in the QH EB8 Nursing and Midwifery agreement will be vital for members to underpin these changes as they unfold.

Each QNU member's involvement in the EB8 process and its subsequent application in the workplace will be critical to ensuring that members rights are complied with across QH.

We welcome you to this day which is the next step in our EB8 campaign.

This course aims to assist Activists and potential Activists to develop the skills required to organise their workplace.

In this course we:

• Analyse your workplace.
• Look at how to grow the Union.
• Understand the grievance procedure and apply it.
• Problem solve collective issues.
• Prepare and present a negotiation based on the resolution of your issues.
• Devise plans for organising your workplace.

This course is open to all level of nurses in the public sector.

This course focuses on the role of the Activist and members in addressing nursing workloads via the Business Planning Framework- A tool for nursing workload management 4^th Edition.

We explore how to get the BPF implemented correctly in your work unit as well as how to deal with problems regarding ineffective implementation of the BPF.

We will look at:

• Examining our role in monitoring workloads through the implementation of the Business Planning Framework.
• Utilising the BPF and understanding the importance of the grievance mechanism.
• Defining nurse to patient ratios from established hours per patient day.
• Calculating the maximum number of available beds for your unit.
• Bed closure in the context of integrated bed management arrangements.
• Identifying the Activist’s role in progressing BPF issues at the Nursing Consultative Forum.
• Creating strategies to deal with barriers to effective BPF implementation.

The QH Classification for the Enrolled Nurse Advanced Practice was created in 2003.

During the initial rollout phase QH identified that there was a quota on how many positions could be paid at the EN-AP rate across the state.

This now has not been the case for some years however the number of EN-AP positions across the districts often appear to be fixed and the process to upgrade to EN-AP misunderstood.

This course is about how we can initiate, progress and resolve difficulties around the EN-AP process for all ENs who specialise in an area of practise.

We will cover:

• What are the criteria for an EN-AP?
• The process to achieve EN-AP positions in your work area.
• The escalation process when issues are not agreed.
• A close look at those who have followed the process already.
• Creating our own plan!

This course will look at the specific industrial and professional issues connected with practise as a nurse in a private hospital setting.

We will clarify the entitlements that nurses currently have in their various agreements and then look at the practical application of those and other regulations in regard to nursing workloads, patient acuity, nursing scope of practice and fatigue.

This course is about the rights of nurses in private hospital settings to be safe and practice safely.

Being a QNU Contact is the first step to getting more involved in the QNU.

This course looks at the role of the QNU Contact, the structure of the Union, how the QNU functions and how QNU members make democratic decisions.

We will cover:

• Who is the QNU?
• What does the QNU do?
• How does the QNU work?
• QNU decision making.
• QNU communication networks.
• What is happening in my workplace?

Nursing unions throughout Australia have made significant inroads into improving the health and safety of their members through campaigns such as the Zero Tolerance to Violence and No Lift policies etc.

This course aims to provide nurses with practical advice and tools to create a safe workplace culture by:

• Explaining the role of the WH&S Representative.
• Providing an overview of your employer’s obligations under the new legislation.
• Creating knowledge of the risk assessment process.
• Consideration of the major WH&S concerns facing nurses today.
• Developing a plan to organise around a WH&S issue.