Vol. 15 No. 8, March 2008
Index
- Editorial.
- More emphasis needed on pharmacology.
- More research needed in nursing ethics.
- Student dilemma in aged care.
- Network.
- "I can now walk with hope in my own country".
- Apology must lead to concrete gains in Indigenous health.
- Nurse-led medication titration reduces death.
- Practice nurse barriers to prevention.
- ANF announces new leadership team.
- Jill Iliffe to leave the ANF.
- Nurse practitioners disadvantaged.
- ANF online education goes live.
- Funding squeeze.
- Nurses recognised in 2008 Australia Day Honours.
- Poor pap smear uptake.
- First Masters of Nursing Science.
- Surgery waits continue despite cash boost.
- ANF seeks involvement in new hospital plan.
- Midwifery one to one study.
- Bed cuts to hurt patients.
- Extra nurses welcome but plan falls short.
- Aged care nurses take industrial action.
- Prohibit doctors with financial interests.
- Public health system inquiry.
- Warfarin reaction with glucosamine.
- WorkChoices impact expected to worsen.
- Workforce to improve Indigenous health.
- Campaign starts for improved EBA.
- CATSIN acknowledges apology.
- Drug causes psychiatric symptoms.
- Improve patient travel.
- Obesity on the rise.
- Shocking maternity mortality rates.
- ICN condemns violence against health workers in Kenya.
- ICN project delivers.
- New target for flu vaccines.
- UK nurses warned.
- UN launches safe hospital campaign.
- Coalition attempt to block abolition of AWAs.
- A new national, agenda.
- Practical legal issues in end of life care.
- Ageing workforce hits rural NZ.
- Funds needed for ovarian cancer trials.
- Global study to prevent blood clots in hospitals.
- Mental health study suggests radical change.
- Secure alcohol hand rub dispensers.
- Is nursing education up to the job? After years of struggling to attract and retain nurses, the remote Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek has come up with a novel solution to its perennial workforce problems.
- Therapeutic skills in nursing: have they been lost?
- The role of the cancer nurse coordinator in neurology.
- First Simulated Refugee Camp.
- Heart Failure Guidelines for Patients.
- Nursing & Midwifery Research: Methods and Appraisal for Evidence Based Practice (3rd ed).
- Recent Advances in Immunization (2nd ed).
- Working life: increasing capacity in general practice.
- Volunteer program in palliative care: volunteers can be a valuable asset to hearth care services and can be engaged in a variety of tasks. A study is currently underway at St John of God Hospital. in Subiaco, Western Australia, to explore the feasibility and effect of establishing a volunteer program for the newly opened Bendat Family Comprehensive Cancer Centre.
- Leading and learning--palliative care conference.
- Palliative care and young people.
- Improving quality of life.
- Blood cancers research.
- Cancer and falls risk assessment.
- Cancer tool to allay panic.
- Dying at home.
- Innovative NP role in rural health palliative care.
- Quality use of medicines.
- Super tax-free for terminally ill.
- Surgery reduces cancer risk.
- To treat or not to treat.
- Patient nutrition and hydration at the end of life.
- Calendar.
- Ged: Wednesday 13 February 2008 is now one of those days that will prompt the question, "where were you?" Just like asking where you were when John F Kennedy was shot, or when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
- The future.