Patent AU-2011100589-A4 (AU)
Title: Nurse practitioners program in aged care specifically for overseas trained doctors who are not in the workforce in Australia
Inventor: TONY BAKARE
IPC: G06Q50/00
Filed: 2011-05-21
Granted: 2011-08-04
Abstract: Patent Specification Abstract: 1. Overseas trained doctors are unrecognised for medical practice upon entering Australia unless they go through rigorous accreditation process. 2. This means that overseas trained doctor arriving in Australia will no longer remain idle or unemployed for years due to examinations or other restrictions as they can now initially attend Australian Institute of Ageing Pty Ltd and be retrained to initially work as nurse practitioners in aged care in Australia 3. Other existing pathways for overseas trained doctors focuses only on having them refrained and idle until they have passed the Australian Medical Council Examinations. 4. The thousands of these overseas trained medical practitioners who are already based in Australia or arriving in Australia annually will be admitted into the nurse practitioners program at the Australian Institute of Ageing Pty Ltd for retraining to initially work in Australia as nurse practitioners in aged care. They will be admitted straight upon arrival in Australia into the Australian institute of Ageing Pty Ltd under supervision. 5. This will provide skills for Australia in terms of training qualified people to work as nurse practitioners in aged care and help to maintain adequate nurse practitioners aged care workforce and at the same time offer these doctors a so much needed experience and a break into the medical workforce. The hope and dignity of such overseas trained practitioners are restored in that they can either continue to work as nurse practitioners or proceed to pass their examinations and work as doctors in Australia. Australia population will be better served in this manner than having these practitioners idle in the Australian medical workforce. 6. Special model of teaching delivery will be used which will include each nurse practitioner student having a log book of one hundred elderly patients based in residential aged care facilities. This logbook is ideal in that it will consist of all varieties of medical conditions common in the elderly patients and that are representative of common medical conditions among residents of residential aged care facilities. Program structure will include but not limited to: Admission criteria: Overseas trained doctors medical degrees like Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery; Doctor of Medicine from other countries other than Australia Candidate shall complete: Extended clinical practice in aged care 1 & 2 Primary care and holistic approach to the elderly patients in nursing homes Medication management and pharmacology Mental health Communication between doctors and nurse practitioners in aged care Medico-legal concerns between doctors and nurse practitioners Empirical & analytic research in health or interpretive and critical research in health in aged care Dissertation and coursework by logbook in aged care aEo These idle overseas trained doctors not in the workforce already have adequate idea about disease process and pharmacology to be retrained to manage basic prescriptions and relate to medical practitioners and work as nurse practitioners in aged care facilities. 7. Candidates shall graduate after twelve months of training with Master of Nursing In Aged Care after using the software based on the courses outline above for this innovative teaching idea for these disadvantaged overseas trained doctors to adapt them into Australia without undue stresses.