Recently added articles from Australian Nursing Journal:
Editorial.(Editorial)
May 01, 2008; ... Since the election of the Rudd Labor Government late last year, a whole new dialogue seems to have opened up in Australia that was missing for over a decade. Social justice is back on the political agenda and nurses have a greater opportunity to influence health policy and more effectively ...
Conditions hamper recruitment and retention.(mail)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Julie Cooper's letter Who will care for nurses in last month's journal prompted me to recall the late and early roster when I started nursing some 23 years ago. Nurses at that time also suffered the lack of sleep that exacerbated the stresses ...
Should nurses be territorial?(mail)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2008; ... Sabina Knight's comment in last month's article Nurse to focus Commission on remote innovation, "We've got to not patrol the perimeters of our profession ... we are still nurses and have a lot to offer, but we don't need to be territorial" is of concern. Aren't medical practitioners, ...
Time for justice in aged care sector.(mail)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2008; ... In 2004, I returned to work in residential aged care following 13 years nursing and managing health services across the acute, rehabilitation and community sectors, I felt as though I had returned to the area of nursing I was "meant to be" despite the horrific funding model (RCS) and the ...
Author unknown.(mail)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2008; ... Catherine Booth's letter last month. You know you are a nurse if ... was not an original piece of work. I received this poem last year and passed it on to friends. I believe that as ...
Don't forget loyal nurses.(mail)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2008; ... I was very excited when the Rudd government was swept to power late last year. And I was even more thrilled when health, and in particular nursing, was flagged as a priority area for the new administration. The "back to nursing" initiative is innovative and a great incentive for those ...
Network.(Calendar)
May 01, 2008 ... Epworth Nurses Reunion, 74/2 17 May 2008 at 12 noon, Observatory Cafe at the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. Melways Reference 2F/K12. The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, 1/78, 30-year reunion 6 June 2008. Please contact Kirsten Email: irwin.sails@bigpond.com.au ...
Indigenous nurse home visiting program.(NATIONAL)(Brief article)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Federal Government's Indigenous nurse home visiting program moved a step closer with two sites selected for the early roll out of the initiative last month. Under the program nurses will provide home visits from pregnancy to a child's ...
Heparin alert in Australia.(news)(Baxter Healthcare Corporation recalled affected batches of heparin)
May 01, 2008 ... Heparin should only be used where medically essential and if patients are monitored carefully, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has advised after numerous deaths from contamination in drug supplies have been reported in the USA. Drug manufacturer Baxter ...
Social justice report: NT intervention.(NEWS)(Northern Territory )(Report)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The intervention in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory places Australia at odds with its human rights obligations, according to a recent report. The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) Social Justice Report 2007 ...
Puggy Hunter memorial scholarship scheme.(NEWS)(Brief article)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Puggy Hunter memorial scholarship scheme was established by the Australian Government in 2002 to recognise the contribution made by Dr Arnold "Puggy" Hunter in the field of Aboriginal and Tortes Strait Islander health. This year the scholarship is ...
New WHO collaborating centre in nursing and midwifery.(NEWS)(Brief article)
May 01, 2008 ... The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery in Sydney launched Australia's first World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Nursing and Midwifery and Health Development on World Health Day last month. The centre will be part of an international ...
World Health Day: Australia urged to act.(NEWS)
May 01, 2008 ... Australia is one of the highest carbon emitters in the world and is growing almost faster than any other country, Australian and international public health experts heard at a symposium in Melbourne last month. The symposium held by the Alfred Medical Research and Education ...
Volunteers needed in Nepal and PNG.(NEWS)(Papua New Guinea)(Brief article)
May 01, 2008 ... Volunteer nurses are needed to assist OzQuest with the development of health programs in Nepal and Victorian based John Ward is seeking applications from nurses to assist with a health clinic in Kanabea in Papua New Guinea. OzQuest Nurses who are flexible, have a ...
ANF Branch Secretaries remember nurses who inspired them.(International Nurses Day)(Australian Nursing Federation )
May 01, 2008 ... ANF assistant national secretary Lee Thomas on mentor Chris Cornwell: "I have known Chris Cornwell for about 25 years. She interviewed me when I was a wide eye registered nurse trying to get a place to start my midwifery training, she was the ADON Management and she knocked me ...
Overhaul of chronic disease management.(STATE AND TERRITORY: NSW)(New South Wales)
May 01, 2008 ... NSW Health is set to overhaul chronic disease management, with only one fifth of patients with a chronic disease currently enrolled in a chronic care collaboratives program. NSW Health deputy director general professor Katherine McGrath said the chronic care collaboratives ...
Intervention rolls on and staff at risk.(STATE AND TERRITORY: NT)
May 01, 2008 ... Staff working in the Northern Territory as part of the federal intervention in Aboriginal communities may have been exposed to high levels of formaldehyde. Converted containers where some staff were temporarily living have shown high levels of the chemical, federal Indigenous ...
Pap smear tests by nurses doubled.(STATE AND TERRITORY: VIC)(Brief article)
May 01, 2008 ... The number of pap smear tests taken by nurses in Victoria has doubled over the past decade, according to data released last month. Figures from the Victorian Cervical Cytology Registry show 18,651 pap tests taken by 344 credentialled nurses in 2007, or 3.2% Of total pap smears ...
Half of nurses consider quitting.(STATE AND TERRITORY: NSW)(New South Wales )(Survey)
May 01, 2008 ... More than half of NSW public sector nurses have seriously considered leaving the hospital system in the past year, recent figures show. A joint survey commissioned by the NSW Nurses' Association (NSWNA, ANF NSW), Australian Medical Association and Australian Salaried Medical ...
New tropical health research unit launched.(STATE AND TERRITORY: QLD)
May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The new Tropical Health Research Unit for Nursing and Midwifery Practice at James Cook University (JCU) in Queensland will promote the practice and teaching of research related to nursing in the tropics. The unit is jointly funded by JCU and the Townsville ...