The pilot pro­gram has recent­ly received addi­tion­al fund­ing from Well­be­ing SA, Depart­ment of Health and now invites nurs­es work­ing in or near the Eyre Penin­su­la, and the Clare Val­ley dis­trict to be involved. 

RBRC is plan­ning to run two pop-up skin clin­ics at the fol­low­ing events, with the key ini­tia­tive to engage GPs and train local nurs­es to per­form skin checks:

• SALT Fes­ti­val Eyre Penin­su­la, 19 – 28 April
• Clare Val­ley SGA Gourmet Week, 17 – 26 May

The pro­gram strat­e­gy focus­es on the upskilling and edu­ca­tion of pri­ma­ry care nurs­es work­ing in col­lab­o­ra­tion with GPs and der­ma­tol­o­gists to pro­vide best prac­tice, evi­dence-based, nurse-led skin checks to rur­al and region­al South Australians.

The approach is focused on nurs­ing clin­i­cians receiv­ing edu­ca­tion (approx­i­mate­ly sev­en weeks – 1.5 hours per week of inter­ac­tive train­ing) through Skin Smart Aus­tralia and the Uni­ver­si­ty of South Aus­tralia to expand their scope of prac­tice to under­take skin checks.

This will allow nurs­es to pro­vide the ini­tial engage­ment and assess­ment of high­er-risk pop­u­la­tions who have nev­er or rarely had a skin check by means of pop-up skin check clin­ics at large rur­al and region­al events.