Mr Duncan Milne
Duncan Milne is a Clinical Nurse Educator with Janssen NZ, with a focus on providing mental health education to nurses. He has 15 years of clinical practice as a mental health nurse in Auckland, including with crisis teams and in hospitals. He was Nurse Specialist at the Child and Family Unit for five years (the inpatient child and adolescent mental health unit at Starship), and before that was a lecturer in mental health nursing at the University of Auckland.
Long-acting Injectable Anti-psychotic Workshop - Nurses Programme
Saturday, 09 June 2012 Start 9:30am Duration: 60mins Sportsdrome
Historically, patients with serious mental illness have been managed primarily by secondary care services. However the Ministry of Health’s “Better, sooner, more convenient” project is placing a focus on more mental healthcare being provided in primary services. One consequence of this will be to see increasing numbers of mental health service users transitioning back to primary healthcare services. Some of these patients are likely to be on long-acting antipsychotic medications, more commonly referred to as depot antipsychotics. Janssen has recently added a team of clinical nurse educators to provide mental healthcare professionals with increased support and education around the administration and use of long-acting injectable antipsychotic medications. Risperdal Consta, a long-acting version of the oral atypical antipsychotic, Risperdal, is produced by Janssen and has been fully funded in New Zealand since 2005. An increasing number of patients transitioning back into primary care management are receiving Risperdal Consta which requires administration from a trained healthcare professional. The injection workshops are conducted by the Janssen clinical nurse educators, and will involve education on quality use of Risperdal Consta, and best practice administration of long-acting injectable medications into the dorso-gluteal, ventro-gluteal and deltoid sites. The education will involve theory and a practical lesson on reconstitution and administration with training mannequins.