The National Australian Pharmacy Students’ Association (NAPSA) represents students from 17 universities nationwide studying either an undergraduate or postgraduate program. The association advocates for Australian pharmacy students to ensure their future is prosperous and their status, rights and privileges are protected.
Verity Boustead as the National NAPSA President for the 2021/22 term has recently completed her 4th Year as a student and recently completed a Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours) Degree from Monash University with a High Distinction Average (First Class Honours). Well done Verity!
Past NAPSA President’s and Executive Committee members of the association have become leaders in the pharmacy industry. Australian Health Journal spoke with one of these, Trent Twomey, the National President at Pharmacy Guild of Australia on his role as past National NAPSA President from 2003 to 2004. His role at NAPSA led to being both a professional launchpad during internship and also a personal one, having met his wife, the NAPSA President immediately after his tenure.
For Verity, her focus over the next 12 months with be completing her Master of Pharmacy and working as an intern with Alfred Health in Melbourne. Verity looks forward with excitement to the autonomy in undertaking full time work as a pharmacist, yet still reflecting on the studying necessary during 2022. Recorded in October 2021, Verity spoke to Australian Health Journal on her role at NAPSA and also the value of internships for student moving from university into industry.
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Values in Workplace Culture
Professor Sabe Sabesan, is the Clinical Dean of the Townsville Regional Medical Training network incorporating the Townsville Hospital and Health Services and the Townsville Clinical School of the James Cook University and the director of the department of Medical oncology at the Townsville Cancer Centre, Townsville Hospital.
The Professor recently wrote, “Workforce wellness and engagement have become buzzwords in healthcare settings since there is an intimate relationship between staff wellbeing and performance of the healthcare system. Wellness initiatives such as wellness champions and wellness committees have been set up in response to emerging workforce mental health issues. These are largely reactive rather than being proactive in addressing or preventing the root cause of mental health issues.”
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Psychiatrists to discuss connectedness at RANZCP 2023 Congress
Next week, at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) meet for the RANZCP 2023 Congress on the theme of “New Horizons: Connected Futures”
Australian Health Journal spoke to current President-Elect Dr Elizabeth Moore and soon to be President, RANZCP about the Congress, as well as the recent Federal Budget announcements around mental health funding.
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Mid-Career Nurse Leadership Program
How does a nurse navigate senior management to affect change within their organisation? It’s a gap that Australian College of Nursing is helping to fill with it’s Mid-Career Nurse Leadership Program that gives established nursing professional access to prominent leaders in nursing.
