Abstract
Background and context: The McGrath Foundation has created an e-Learning course to upskill breast care nurses in current metastatic breast cancer practice. The e-Learning course has supported better specialist knowledge and helped close the gap in metastatic cancer support services across Australia. Aim: The project aimed to deliver specialist training to breast care nurses on current trends in care and treatment of individuals with metastatic breast cancer, via an e-Learning platform to enable a cost effective delivery across Australia to 119 nurses. Strategy/Tactics: Key learning outcomes were developed to ensure specific information could be delivered via an online platform. Industry experts, clinicians and experienced breast care nurses/nurse practitioners were consulted to develop the content and an outline of what would be delivered. An experienced online content development company was also engaged to ensure that the content would be presented in an engaging way. Program/Policy process: The metastatic e-Learning course was available for McGrath Breast Care Nurses in June 2017 and accredited for professional development hours by the Australian College of Nursing to contribute to registration under the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Certificates of completion are given to all participants who successfully complete the course once they achieve competency in all areas of assessment. Outcomes: The e-Learning course has had reach across all areas of the country and allowed easy dissemination of information on current trends in metastatic breast cancer to nurses. This is seen to have great reach with almost all McGrath Breast Care Nurses also caring for a proportion of patients with metastatic disease. Additional qualitative and quantitative analysis will be available during the presentation after analysis is completed. What was learned: Some key learnings from this project have been the scalability of e-Learning as a technology enabled professional development solution. The need for good design to enable engagement with content was consistent theme during feedback sessions. As well as using competency based testing to enable participants to gain professional development in a technology enabled platform has reduced nurse down time.
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