Vol. 20 No. 10, May - May 2013

Index

• Editorial.
• Ear candling.
• Student wage unfeasible.
• Uncertain future after Graduate Program.
• I Am the Nurse.
• In danger of losing professionalism.
• Stay strong grads.
• NPs top priority for rural hearth.
• Nurses have your say in national survey!(NATIONAL)
• Happy International Nurses' and Midwives' Days 2013: the ANF wishes nurses and midwives a Happy International Nurses' Day (IND) on 12 May and International Day of the Midwife on 5 May.
• Making a difference to Indigenous infant mortality rates.
• Bush Nurses' stories.
• Aboriginal health reforms must continue.
• Infectious risk high for children in wealthy areas.
• New resource for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
• Governments accountable for rural health inequity.
• Rural and remote grant for CPD.
• Smoking: a major contributor to Indigenous health.
• Resource to support bereaved parents.
• New centre to plan for dementia care.
• Pilot for rural mental health.
• ANF's new education and research centre.
• Nurses take to Parliament for ratios.
• Nursing lecturer makes top 10.
• Brain function research.
• Texting for a healthy pregnancy.
• UK nursing students to work as health care assistants.
• Last month I attended the Dawn Service on Anzac Day to remember the men and women who fought and fell for Australia and those that are still fighting for us.
• Recognising Indigenous people in the Australian Constitution.
• A fairer society.
• Will you be a winner?
• Immigration: Q&A.
• The ANF recently made a submission to federal parliamentary committees inquiring into proposed changes to the Fair Work Act.
• Safe staffing: critical to care.
• Nurses' wellbeing.
• Boost activity to halt cognitive decline.
• Bowel screening: don't wait.
• Increase in female obesity.
• Workplace discrimination rife.
• Treatment goals for moderate to severe psoriasis: an Australian consensus.
• Research to explore role of nurses in culturally responsive end of life care.
• Intimate Partner Violence: are Australian nurses and midwives trained to provide care?
• Death and Afterlife: The Philippine Experience.
• Kitty's War: The Remarkable Wartime Experiences of Kit McNaughton.
• Nursey Rhymes Have You Seen My Uterus?
• The Sensible Sleep Solution: A Guide to Sleep in Your Baby's First Year.
• Organisational and leadership ethics.
• Single rooms are 'hot property'.
• 'Be flusmart and you're a lifesaver'.
• Square peg in a round hole--infection control in home hearth care.
• It's not just a cannula.
• WA hospital wins world hand hygiene award.
• A shift in focus: infection control to infection prevention and control.
• Vascular access devices--a renewed focus in infection prevention.
• Copper reduces health care-acquired infections.
• Flight infection risk.
• A sustained educational program for infection prevention and control.
• Whooping cough vaccine for pregnant women.
• Link between vitamin D levels and TB.
• Is it all just in our hands?
• Challenges for the infection control practitioner.
• Electronic online infection prevention and control modules.
• Calendar.
• Network.
• Each May we collectively celebrate International Day of the Midwife and International Nurses' Day--the theme for which this year is Closing the Gap on the Millennium Development Goals.