Vol. 15 No. 10, May - May 2008
Index
- Editorial.
- Author unknown.
- Conditions hamper recruitment and retention.
- Don't forget loyal nurses.
- Should nurses be territorial?
- Time for justice in aged care sector.
- Network.
- Heparin alert in Australia.
- Indigenous nurse home visiting program.
- Social justice report: NT intervention.
- New WHO collaborating centre in nursing and midwifery.
- Puggy Hunter memorial scholarship scheme.
- World Health Day: Australia urged to act.
- Volunteers needed in Nepal and PNG.
- Queensland midwife receives ANF scholarship.
- ANF Branch Secretaries remember nurses who inspired them.
- Intervention rolls on and staff at risk.
- Overhaul of chronic disease management.
- Half of nurses consider quitting.
- Pap smear tests by nurses doubled.
- ANF warns proposed cuts could breach EBA.
- Mercy wins employer of choice for women award.
- New tropical health research unit launched.
- 50 years of continuous service--for the love of nursing.
- Emergency meeting over bed closures.
- IR commissioner to review 457 visas.
- Nurses walk out of Torres Strait.
- Working life: school nursing offers a zest for life and learning.
- New awards for nurses.
- University education imperative for nursing and midwifery.
- Nurse led research improves outcomes in indigenous health: Ms Lawrence says many indigenous patients were not properly informed and prepared for surgery due to language difficulties. Simple strategies to improve communicaton between the hospital and local communities mad a great contribution to improving attendace rates and successful coutcomes..
- Lee Thomas is the new ANF assistant national, secretary. Lee will be contributing a monthly column in the journal to keep readers abreast of her work on behalf of ANF members around the country.
- Nurse practitioners reduce waiting times.
- Nurses feel impact of climate change: that evening the flood had recede enough for the nurse to drive hear patient along back roads to Lismore. But it was too late. The patients died three days later. Could early weather warnings to hospital staff have changed the outcome?
- Pressure ulcers--prevention of pressure related damage.
- Judicial consideration of traditional health beliefs--a lost opportunity?
- Decolonising cultural awareness: for real change to occur, non-Indigenous health services and professionals need to decolonise their practices and responses to Indigenous people.
- A unique learning experience.
- Butting out at AMSWS.
- Remote realities for mental health nurses.
- Improving outcomes in cardiac care for Indigenous Australians.
- Calendar.
- Sharing the load in primary care.