Education

NETS runs three Advanced Courses in Neonatal Simulation in the  Kim Oates Australian Paediatric Simulation Centre each year and enrolment is open to paediatricians and senior nurses throughout the state who care for the newborn. This course is facilitated by NETS and senior neonatal staff from the Grace Centre for Newborn Care and RPA Newborn Care.

NETS continues to deliver education state-wide. In 2015 NETS again supported Gosford Hospital's Retrieval Education Day and presented at seminars run by the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses and at the inaugural SCHN Nursing Conference.

NETS holds clinical case conferences with our referring and referral hospitals. Big Wednesday is a meeting held bi-annually in the CHW ED and Dr Jeanette Marchant leads NETS' presentations on this day. Quarterly SCH meetings are coordinated by Dr Arieta Fa'asalele and facilitated with flair by Dr Chris Webber. Dr Doron Shein and Dr Tim Cochrane took our case meeting to Liverpool recently where staff from ED, ICU, paediatrics and neonatology were able to share ideas and understand paediatric critical illness in a retrieval context.

The anaesthetic department of the Children's Hospital at Westmead continues to support NETS with airway management skills training on Tuesdays. NETS doctors attend an anaesthetic list each Tuesday to ensure their airway skills are maintained in peak condition for our challenging retrieval environment.

In October NETS staff had a meeting with Rosie Batty (pictured) to discuss with her the problems we face when dealing with children who are the victim of family violence. The AMA was launching their "Sharing Stories" campaign. Unfortunately, this situation is a common one faced by NETS' teams in our work.