WHAT IS OLCEN?
WHAT IS OLCEN?
ON-LINE CLINICAL EDUCATION IN NURSING (OLCEN) WAS PILOTED AS POLCEN FOR CANCER NURSES STARTING IN MARCH 2006
OLCEN will be demonstrated at NSW Health Expo at Australian Technology Park 11-12th Oct 2007.
OLCEN combines new technologies and hand-held devices (i.e. multi-media with MP4/ video iPods which plug into TVs and chat forum) with contemporary approaches to health-service teaching, to provide a nurse-focused post-graduate cancer nursing curriculum (including radiotherapy (XRT) and ambulatory infusion services (AIS), designed to optimise patient care.
OLCEN was nominated for NSW Premier's Public Sector Awards (IT Category) 2006.
OLCEN sets a potential benchmark for delivering professional development and training to the entire healthcare workforce 24/7.
OLCEN is currently the first known program of its kind provided by a health service provider in NSW and perhaps Australia.
OLCEN directly addresses critical needs to meet shortfalls in the cancer nursing workforce NSW.
Within 11 months POLCEN produced a hospital-based 'flexible learning' resource. The OLCEN'07 website now contains over 80 hours of lectures servicing 16 post-graduate cancer nurses throughout NSW.
OLCEN serviced cancer nurses in NSW (i.e. Tweed Heads, Port Macquarie, Muswellbrook, Newcastle and Sydney) and OLCEN'07 has attracted 16 students enrollments including. rural nurses from Dubbo and further afield. Inquiries continue from local, interstate and overseas.
The OLCEN website delivers the cancer modules for the Graduate Certificate in Specialty Nursing (GCSN) which is accredited by the Higher Education Board (HEB) for 24 credit points at any university.
This is the first course in NSW for nurses who want to specialise in Radiotherapy (XRT) nursing. As well, the Ambulatory Infusion Services (AIS) elective prepares nurses for incoming service trends.
The OLCEN website includes the Iowa Project for standardised nursing language of Nursing Intervention Classifications (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classifications (NOC) to improve nursing care records and facilitate nursing research.
OLCEN assisted 9 cancer nurses, who were living throughout NSW (and often working rotating rosters including night duty), to complete their studies and graduate in February 2007 (See: Nurses Graduate 2006/7).
The pilot of OLCEN was called POLCEN was achieved by SWAHS in partnership with the Medical Faculty IT University of Sydney and NSW Dept of Commerce-Office of Information and Communication Technology.
OLCEN has lead the way towards developing 'flexible learning' strategic initiatives in SWAHS 2007-2011.
THE 2007/8 OLCEN TEAM
SWAHS Executive Sponsors
Mr Abd Malak, Ms Kylie Ward & Mr Bernard Deady
OLCEN'07 Project Director
Dr Vivien Lane
Cancer Specialty Course Co-Ordinator
Mrs Lynda Prescott
Library Services
Ms Linda Mulheran
Faculty of Medicine IT University of Sydney
Mr Daniel Burn & Mr Tim Harland
OLCEN'07 Partner
Faculty of Medicine IT, University of Sydney
Prof Chris Liddle
OLCEN'07 Partner
Pete Needham - Helpwise
SWAHS Multimedia Services (Photo top and bottom of page)
Ms Kim Lyle & Mr Glen Munro
Mr Chris Henwood, Mr Ian Armstrong & Mr Peter Woods
Mr Rudi Gottl & Ms Dianne Porter
Ms Leesa Posa, Ms Carole Woodford & Melanie Barlow
SWAHS Nursing Information Management
Ms Trish Leeder & Mr Brian Reid
SWAHS Web Services Team
Mr Daryl Harrison (no picture), Mr Darius Guilford & Mr Hilary Bridel
SWAHS Information Technology Services
Mr Robert West
Service Directors
Prof Paul Harnett, Dr Colin Bull
SWAHS Graduate Certificate in Specialty Nursing (GCSN)-Cancer Program 2006/7
Students and lecturers
Cancer Nursing Educational Advisory Committee
SWAHS Multimedia Services (Photo top and bottom of page)
Ms Kim Lyle
Mr Glen Munro
Mr Chris Henwood, Mr Ian Armstrong & Mr Peter Wood
Mr Rudi Gottl & Ms Dianne Porter
MEMBERS OF 2006 POLCEN TEAM
2006 PO
POLCEN Project Director
LCEN Project Director
Dr Vivien Lane (SWAHS Cancer Nursing Research and Practice Development)
0438875131 vivien_lane@wsahs.nsw.gov.au
POLCEN Project Manager
Ms Liz Jakubowski (Strategic Communication Consultant to SWAHS)
0400110057 ljakowski@tpg.com.au
POLCEN Partner
Faculty of Medicine IT, University of Sydney
Prof Chris Liddle
POLCEN Partner
NSW Dept. of Commerce- Electronic Services,
Office of Information and Communication Technology (OICT)
Mr Colin Griffith
SWAHS/University of Sydney
Prof John Uther & Mr Chris Aquilina
Faculty of Medicine IT University of Sydney
Mr Daniel Burn & Mr Tim Harland
Helpwise - NSW Dept. of Commerce- Electronic Services
Pete Needham
SWAHS Multimedia Services
Mr Glen Munro
Mr Chris Henwood, Mr Ian Armstrong & Mr Peter Wood
Mr Rudi Gottl & Ms Dianne Porter
SWAHS Nursing Information Management
Ms Trish Leeder & Mr Brian Reid
SWAHS Web Services Team
Mr Daryl Harrison, Mr Darius Guilford & Mr Hilary Bridel
SWAHS Information Technology Services
Mr John Haswell & Mr Tony Fung
SWAHS Professional Development-Nursing & Midwifery
Mrs Jan Sayers & Ms Dorothy Baker
SWAHS Executive
Mr Abd Malak, Ms Julie Rich & Mr Bernard Deady
Prof Paul Harnett
SWAHS Graduate Certificate in Specialty Nursing (GCSN)-Cancer Program 2006
Students and lecturers
POLCEN TEAM (Additional Members Late 2006)
Mr Conrad Gershevitch, Ms Lesa Posa (Graphic Design), Ms Linda Mulheran (Library),
Ms Brenda Bradbery (Learning and Development) and Mary-Bridgid Naylor (GCSN
Course Coordinator).
