Vol. 20 No. 4, October 2012

Index

• Grim news for nurses' and midwives' health program.
• Correction.
• Giveaway.
• Rural facilities face challenges.
• Spiritual caring for aged care nurse.
• ANJ goes online.
• Safe birthing options under review.
• Calls to regulate assistants in nursing.
• Cooks and cleaners cannot provide clinical care.
• ACT: new midwife-led birth center if Labor re-elected.
• Cancer survival increase.
• NSW: phone apps to monitor ill.
• Tackle depression in aged care.
• WA: new midwifery centre.
• 16th South Pacific Nurses Forum in Australia next month.
• ANF supporting decent jobs in the pacific region.
• Health panel of asylum seekers.
• High call out for falls, say ambos.
• Largest aboriginal survey.
• OH&S for Safe Work Australia week.
• Wear your school dress for girls in Africa.
• Zip it for mental health.
• Discount generic medicines.
• Flick health switch for Girth Hour.
• Training for mental health nurses.
• Lung Health Promotion Centre at The Alfred turns 20.
• Passing of passionate union advocate.
• Too little too late, says ANF.
• Save Nursing and Midwifery Health Program.
• Tax big business not working families.
• North Queensland nurses pushed to go south.
• Queenslanders rally against job cuts.
• APP of the month.
• New resources.
• Where you do read your ANJ? Light breakfast reading for little Alethea.
• Credetialling unnecessary for qualified mental health nurses.
• National School Nursing Professional Standards launched.
• A mixed bag.
• Practice nurse campaign update.
• Education.
• Nurses' health.
• Challenged to extreme: Chad is not high on most people's must-see destinations, but for Sydney nurse Sita Cacioppe, joining an emergency nutrition program in the drought-stricken West African nation led to an invaluable professional experience.
• Get Well Soon: My [Un]Brilliant Career as a Nurse.
• Nurturing a Healthy Mind: Doing What Matters Most for Your Child's Developing Brain.
• Reflective Practice: Transforming Education and Improving Outcomes.
• The Will to Live, The Courage to Die.
• Construction of a National Boer War Memorial.
• Australia's nurses and midwives: sharing our stories: the ANF's new Australia's nurse and midwives. You couldn't be in better hands campaign kicked off late August. This month we profile some of your stories--the work you do on a daily basis.
• Update on contraception.
• Australians heavier and less active.
• Four hour ED rule backfire.
• Had a melanoma? Fill in the study.
• Support for farmers.
• Gold medal care.
• Sleep apnoea: a survey of breathing retraining.
• Clinical assessment of nursing students in practice: how prescriptive does it need to be to assure competence?
• Moral paradoxes.
• Surveying the rural health scene.
• The unsung heroes of the outback.
• No picket fences.
• Time for action in rural and remote Australia.
• Nursing re-entry goes online.
• E-learning provides nursing education in remote areas.
• New Noosa midwifery program.
• Trauma centre geographical divide.
• Flying the flag for rural health.
• Midwifery up skilling with a rural and remote focus.
• CRANAplus Bush Support Service.
• New toolkit story.
• Working safe in rural and remote Australia.
• Calendar.
• Network.
• Coral.