- Title
- Providing a localised cervical cancer screening course for general practice nurses
- Creator
- Porter, Joanne; Miller, Elizabeth; Prokopiv, Valerie; Sewell, Lauren; Borgelt, Kaye; Reimers, Vaughan
- Date
- 2024
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/204789
- Identifier
- vital:20073
- Identifier
-
https://doi.org/10.1071/PY24089
- Identifier
- ISSN:1448-7527 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Cervical cancer screening programs in Australia have been developed to detect early precancerous changes in women with a cervix aged between 25 and 74. Yet, many barriers remain to the uptake of cervical screening. Barriers include a lack of culturally appropriate service provision, physical access, poor health literacy, emotional difficulties, socio-economic disadvantage and not having access to a female service provider. In remote and very remote areas of Australia, additional barriers experienced by Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples include a distrust of healthcare providers and a lack of services, resulting in a much higher rate of diagnosis and death from cervical cancer. General practice nurses (GPNs) are well placed to conduct cervical screening tests (CSTs) after they have undertaken additional education and practical training. GPNs' increase in scope of practice is beneficial to general practice as it helps to remove some barriers to cervical screening. In addition, GPNs conducting CSTs reduce GP workload and burnout and increase teamwork. GPNs working in metropolitan clinics have greater access to training facilities, whereas those working in rural and remote clinics are required to travel potentially long distances to complete practical assessments. This highlights the need for training to be made available in rural and remote areas. The aim of this forum paper is therefore to generate further discussion on the need for training programs to be made available in rural and remote areas to aid the upskilling of GPNs. © 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of La Trobe University.
- Publisher
- CSIRO
- Relation
- Australian Journal of Primary Health Vol. 30, no. 5 (2024), p.
- Rights
- Culturally sensitive
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s))
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences; 42 Health sciences; 52 Psychology; Australia; Cervical cancer screening; General practice nurse; Nurse scope of practice; Nurse training; Nurse upskill; Regional; Remote; Rural
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- This project was funded through the former Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, Latrobe Health Innovation Zone: Early Detection and Screening including Tobacco Initiative, delivered by Gippsland Primary Health Network. Grant number NHP-19-021.
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