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Monash University Department of Rural and Indigenous Health

Health and Social Care Interprofessional Network (HSIN).

Mollie Burley is the convener of this new network that is expanding across non-metropolitan Victoria. The goals of the network are to provide Health & Social Care Professionals with opportunities to:

• hear about developments in implementing Interprofessional education and practice in the international and local region
• share information about local Interprofessional Learning activities and developments
• discuss ‘Interprofessional learning’ issues, from a postgraduate perspective
• understand a range of health & social care perspectives
• identify sub-regional Interprofessional Education opportunities
• enhance/develop Interprofessional research opportunities.

The objectives of “The Health & Social care Interprofessional Network (HSIN)” are to:

• facilitate Interprofessional education and practice
• provide a forum for networking, discussion, education and research into and about Interprofessional education and practice or Interprofessional Learning
• foster new, and enhance existing, Interprofessional collaboration, shared experience and undergraduate interprofessional clinical placement opportunities
• provide a vehicle for promoting the benefits of becoming an Interprofessional Learning Champion, Group or Organisation.

HSIN 2009 Goals and Objectives
Microsoft Word Document, 108kb

HSIN Vic News

As part of network development we have developed HSIN VicNews, an electronic communication tool. VicNews contains the latest information about network activities, interesting snippets from practice, links to relevant and interesting articles or websites and will have 4 issues per year.

General Resources

Documents

CPN Summit Workshop Documents
pdf file, 356kb

RIPLS Questionnaire
Microsoft Word Document, 64kb

Links

Rural Society Journal Website

Accessible to a broad readership, Rural Society is an international, peer reviewed academic journal which focuses on rural social research of interest and relating to rural communities & societies. Areas of focus include: art, commerce, crime, culture, demography, education, ecology, environments & sustainability, ethnicity, physical & mental health & healthcare, gender, globalization, government (local, regional & federal), lifestyles, media, planning, policy & politics, science & technology, social change & problems, social work & welfare, tourism, water & natural resources management. The Rural Society Journal website includes the following sections:

Rural Social Work Practice
Includes:

• Rural health and welfare practice
• Occupational stress in rural health practice
• Paucity management

Human Services and Rural Communities
Includes:

• Educating Practitioners for Integrative Rural Practice
• Meeting the Needs of Rural Families in Times of Crisis
• The Return of Community to Rural Human Services?

Women and Rural Issues
Includes:

• Prejudices, preconceptions or progress in agriculture?: Rural non-English speaking background women and leadership
• The double bind: Being female and being rural: A comparative study of Australia, New Zealand and Canada

Health Sociology Review Vol. 13/2 SYMPOSIUM ON RURAL HEALTH
Includes:

• Medical Dominance and Power: A rural perspective
• 'Heroes and Fairy Wrens': The changing face of rural general practice
• Rural Primary Care Nurses: Governing (im)mobile selves