This study day is open to healthcare professionals from
all disciplines.
Please
cut off the section below and return to the
Association of Psychosexual Nursing, PO Box 2762, London W1A 5HQ by 24th
October 2008
Cost of
the day, including lunch and refreshments: £25
for Association members
£45 for non members
I enclose
a cheque payable to the Association of
Psychosexual Nursing for £
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Please
register me for the study day on Saturday November 8th 2008;
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Previous
study days: (for
information)
10th November 2007, Bedford
Medical Institute, Bedford Hospital NHS Trust,
'Undressing sexual issues in every day
practice'
Considering sexual history taking and the
potential of the intimate examination
Speakers
information:
Bridget Taylor
is a Senior
Lecturer Oxford Brookes University and also works as palliative care nurse
at Sir Michael Sobell House Hospice. Her varied nursing experience includes
coronary care, HIV and primary care. She is currently engaged in research that
explores sexuality in life limiting illness, considering the perspectives of
both patients and partners.
In
her presentation
'How
can I address sexuality and sexual health? Explicitly or Ex-PLISSITly?
Bridget recognises that sexuality and sexual health are, for many nurses,
difficult and potentially embarrassing areas to address with patients. Sometimes
it is easy to ignore these areas altogether if the patient doesn't raise the
subject. This presentation will discuss some useful tools to help nurses and
will provide many practical examples of how to broach the subject of sexual
health with patients. These will help to equip nurses, regardless of the
speciality , to address sexuality in their everyday work.
Vaginal
examinations are a routine procedure in gynaecological and sexual health
clinics, and yet can cause anxiety and discomfort to the patient/client. Mary
Stewart is a practising midwife and research Associate
at the University of West England, who has recently completed her Doctorate
which is entitled " Midwives and women's discourses of vaginal examinations
in labour". Mary has written that " Despite its routine nature ,
little attention has been paid to the experiences of those undergoing or
performing the vaginal examination. In particular, no research has been carried
out to explore who has power and control over decision making about the
procedure" this is with particular reference to women in labour. Her
research has set out to look at these issues.
Wendy
Hurn a Urology
Specialist Practitioner, has lectured widely on problems that men may have to
deal with when faced with sexual difficulties.
Paula
Pheby
trained as a 'professional patient' in
gynaecological examination in 2001 as part of a research study at KCL in London.
After 3 years as a Gynaecology
Teaching Associate with KCL Paula started UK-GTA as an independent company. UK-GTA
ltd offer teaching of the technical and interpersonal skills needed to perform
competent and sensitive speculum examination, smear taking, swab taking for STIs,
bimanual examination and fitting of contraceptive diaphragms. The company
emphasise the patient perspective on all intimate examinations. In 2007 Paula
qualified as a Registered Nurse and has applied for membership of the Academy of
Medical Educators.
'Sexuality,
Intimacy and Identity across the lifespan' Saturday
12th May 2007 9.30-16.30
The Centre for Health and Care
Soho Square London W1V 5DH
Speakers
information:
Hazel
Heath, Theresa Nash and Diane Wells are all dynamic nurses now working in
education and research, at this study day they will, from their considerable
experience, bring insights into this most complex topic. The programme will be
of interest to all health care professionals because these words describe
emotive issues at all ages and stages of our human development. While a great
deal of attention is given to these issues for people under 50 there is not so
much time devoted to those over 50 and beyond. The Speakers and presenters from
the Association of Psychosexual Nursing will address this topic from a number of
perspectives.
Hazel
Heath is an Independent Nurse Consultant, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow
City University London. Her
independent commissions have included projects for the Department of Health,
Nursing and Midwifery Council and Royal College of Nursing.
Appointments include Senior Teacher in Nursing Theory and Practice at
Barts in London, Chair of the RCNs Association for Nurses working with Older
People, a year as the RCNs Adviser on Nursing and Older People and five years
as the Editor of Nursing Older People journal. All aspects related to sexuality in
later life have remained a focus of Hazels work.
Theresa
Nash a principal lecturer and Diane
Wells a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences (FHSCS),
Kingston University and St Georges University of London (KU/SGUL) will
jointly present :Caring
for sexuality across the life spanPromoting knowledge and skills among
student nurses
Diane
Wells a senior lecturer, researcher and writer has developed the programme for
the Study Day writes that in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses she
encourages students to reflect on their clinical experience to promote awareness
and to help them develop skills to work with emotions. She has been closely
involved with the work of the Association for many years and edited Caring
for Sexuality in Illness and Health written by Doreen Clifford, Jane Selby
and Marjorie Rutter.
Theresa
Nash is a Knowledge Exchange Fellow for the WestFocus Health Network and a
co-opted member of the national forum committee for the Royal College of Nursing
Adolescent Health Forum. Her background is in public health nursing with a focus
on the needs of young people and she works a session a week as a sexual health
nurse for Lewisham PCT. However Theresa as a facilitator of learning has
been involved in developing modules in relation to sexual health and sexuality,
public health and health promotion and adolescent health. She is particularly
interested in creating inspiring opportunities to develop shared learning. She
is involved in many projects both directly focussed on service users but on
projects that offer information and support to those who deliver the service.
Information
about our speakers books and publications will be available at the Study Day.
We look forward to seeing you there. We would encourage members to stay for the
AGM.
Recent study day:-
Saturday
6th May 2006
The
unresponsive somatic Symptom: What
really is the Problem?
Developing
a new understanding with a patient/client who attends with puzzling symptoms.
The Soho Centre for Health and Care, 29-30 Soho
Square WIV 5DH
09.30
Registration and Coffee
09.45
Morning Session
Welcome
and Introductions:
Beth Bevan, Chair for the
morning session
10.00
Jean Penman
Psychosexual
Nurse Counsellor
Working
with the unresponsive somatic symptom-
if
you have eyes to see and ears to hear...
11.10
Coffee
11.25
Case Presentations by Members of the Association of Psychosexual Nursing
11.45
Psychosexual Awareness Seminars with leaders from the Association of Psychosexual Nursing
13.00
Feedback from seminars
13.10
Light lunch provided
Afternoon session
Judy Benns Chair for the afternoon session
14.00
Angela Cotter
Psychotherapist
The
practitioners somatic experience in the clinical encounter:
whose
problem?
14.45
Discussion with Panel
15.15
AGM of the Association of Psychosexual Nursing
16.30
End of Day
Dear
Members and Friends
Do you ever wonder why a number of patients/clients
with physical or sexual symptoms dont respond to the usual care, treatment
and reassurance that you offer in practice? Why do they keep coming back?
This years London based study day is for all health
care professionals who are keen to explore an exciting and effective approach
with these individuals. We aim to focus on the bodys ability to communicate,
there will be time to examine some of your own case encounters in a Balint-style
seminar and following our speakers, to join the discussion, taking away shared
new thinking and ideas for use in future practice.
In the
morning session Jean Penman Chair of the Association will present her findings
from an empirical research study she undertook from 2000-2002 as part of her MSc
in the Psychodynamics of Human Development with the British Association of
Psychotherapists and Birkbeck College (Jungian stream). Jeans research
interest arose from seeing how physical symptoms improved or disappeared
altogether whilst seeing patients in a psychosexual counselling clinic. Her
presentation is entitled Working with
the unresponsive somatic symptom-if you
have eyes to see and ears to hear...
The research
has shown some fascinating patterns. From
these Jean will present her findings and develop a new framework for thinking
about the way we work with individuals with a somatic symptom. This represents
an opportunity for developing clinical skills, which might be applied usefully
in varying degrees across all practice settings
Jean
undertook her l nurse training at St.Bartholomews, London. She worked both in
acute and
chronic
practice settings and later trained as a Health Visitor. During the mid 1980s
Jean began training in psychosexual awareness with Jane Selby and Doreen
Clifford and has since gone on to develop a
county-wide psychosexual counselling service for Luton PCT. Jean is an
accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (
BACP).
In the
afternoon, Angela Cotter will continue with the theme of the day and will
present a mixture of theory and practice under the title of
'The practitioner's somatic experience in the
clinical encounter: whose problem?'
Angela Cotter is a nurse by background, working
initially in women's health and health education in the
Marie Stopes, Margaret Pyke and Brook Clinics. In more recent years, she
worked with and for older people, clinically and in management, education and
action research. She is the current Ferguson Fellow at Woodbrooke Quaker Study
Centre exploring the spirituality of the wounded healer, developing ideas first
set out in her doctorate in 1990 about holism and nurses' own experience of
severe acute and chronic illness. Alongside this she practices as a Jungian
analytical psychotherapist privately and in the voluntary sector; and as an
organisational consultant specialising in residential care settings. The common
theme in all her work is relationship-centred care and its impact on the
body-soul of each person involved. Angela frequently presents papers to clinical
and academic nurses and has worked closely with all grades and disciplines of
clinical staff on action research projects in the workplace.
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Previous Study days:-
12th November 2005 9.30am-4pm
Bedford Medical Institute Bedford
Hospital NHS Trust
Ampthill
Road, Bedford MK4 9DJ
Working
with different approaches to sexual problems;
How
might this influence your everyday practice?
9.30
Registration and Coffee
9.45
Welcome and Introductions:-
Jean Penman,
Chair of the Association
of Psychosexual Nursing.
10.05
John Dixon :- Counsellor
and Psychosexual Therapist Relate
"Psychosexual Therapy - it's strengths and
it's limitations"
Our first speaker John Dixon has worked as a counsellor with Relate since 1990,
he holds the Relate diploma in Psychosexual therapy is accredited with BASRT and
is registered with the UKCP. He works as a trainer with Relate locally in
Bedford and with the central office. He works with several Employee Assistance
providers and in private practice.
11.05
Coffee
11.20
Case Presentations
Members
of the Association will present cases to demonstrate the Balint approach to
Psychosexual counselling.
12.00
Psychosexual Awareness Seminars
There is again the opportunity to take part in Psychosexual
awareness seminars: for those who have participated in seminars in the past it
is the way to retain full membership status within the Association. For
new people it is a chance to gain an insight into this method of working. The
focus of the group is about the 'work' we do with patients, it is not about
self disclosure about personal feelings/sexuality.
For information about seminar groups go to Balint Seminars
.
13.20
Feedback from seminars
13.30
Light lunch provided
Chair
for afternoon,
Judy Benns
14.30
Norma Smith R.N. and Counsellor
A
medical approach for the treatment of erectile dysfunction
In
the afternoon Norma Smith a registered nurse and counsellor who runs a nurse-led
clinic at Bedford Hospital treating men with erectile dysfunction using a
medical approach will speak about her work. While working as a sister on a
Urology ward and through assisting in an Andrology Clinic she first became
interested in sexual dysfunction and went on to take a Diploma in Counselling.
15.
15
Discussion with Panel on working with different approaches
15.45
Summing up of day
16.00
End of Day
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Study Day with Seminars and
AGM
"Caring
for male sexuality from puberty to old age"
Saturday
May 7th 2005
The
Soho
Centre for Health and Care, 29-30 Soho Square London W1D 3QS
(nearest underground is
Tottenham Court Rd-Northern& Central line)
09.30
Registration and coffee
09.45
Welcome by Jean Penman, Chair of the Association of Psychosexual Nursing
10.00
Isabel White, MSc Nursing,P/Gdip Psychosexual Therapy, BEd(Hons), DiplSc Nurs,
RGN,RSCN RNT, Onc. Cert
'Silent Witness:
discovering male sexuality and the couple dynamic in clinical encounters'
10.50
Case Presentations: Members of the
Association of Psychosexual Nursing
11.30
Coffee
11.40
Seminars with leaders from the
Association of Psychosexual Nursing
13.10
Lunch
14.10
Alan Wood BSc (Hons) PGCE (A), RGN, Family Planning Cert
'Male Sexuality: Society,
Schools and Families
14.50
Review of the day
15.00
AGM of the
Association of Psychosexual Nursing
16.00
End of the day
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Saturday
16th October 2004 10am-4pm
Bedford
Medical Institute Bedford Hospital NHS Trust
They
said it was a routine procedure
.it didnt feel like it to me
The emotional impact of routine procedures on
sexual lives
9.30
Registration and Coffee
10.00
Welcome and Introductions
Jean Penman, Chair of the Association of
Psychosexual Nursing
10.15
Liz Bonner Consultant Nurse, Bladder/Bowel Dysfunction
Post-natal effects of instrumental delivery
11.00
Dr. Ajana Oswal Associate Specialist, Sexual and Reproductive Health Care
Minor to us but not minor to
patients
11.30
Coffee
11.45
Psychosexual Awareness Seminars with leaders from the Association
13.20
Feedback from seminars
13.30
Light lunch provided
Chair
for afternoon Judy Benns
14.15
Victoria Muir Senior
Physiotherapist- Specialist for Continence Dysfunction
14.45
Sue Burridge, Sexual Health Advisor and Specialist Practitioner for
vaginismus
Impact of routine procedures on
female sexual dysfunction
15.
15
Discussion and Summing up of the day: Marjorie Rutter
16.00
End of day
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2004
PSYCHOSEXUAL
NURSING SKILLS IN EVERYDAY WORK- ALERT TO THE
UNSPEAKABLE
SATURDAY
8TH MAY 2004
2003
Expectations:
Issues in Fertility: Loss and Risk
Saturday
12th April 2003
9.30 9.30
Registration and Coffee
Morning Session Chair Juliet Johnson
10.00
10.00
Welcome and
Introductions
Beth Bevan Chair of the Association
of Psychosexual Nursing
10.30
10.30 The
Experience of Early Menopause
Rachel Woods RN BSc Nurse
Specialist in Gynae endocrinology
11.15
Coffee
11.30 Seminars with leaders from the Association of
Psychosexual Nursing
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Afternoon Session Chair Elizabeth Bordass
14.00
The Power of Sexual Attraction
Theresa
Nash Senior Lecturer/Researcher in Sexual Health
15.00 AGM
of the Association of Psychosexual Nursing
16.00
16.00
End
of the Day
2002
November 23rd 2002
entitled Psychosexual Issues in Genito-Urinary Medicine and Continence Care.
The venue was Bedford Medical
Institute, Bedford Hospital NHS Trust, Ampthill Road, Bedford MK42 9DJ
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