{"title":"A REVIEW OF AGED CARE PROVISION IN MULTIPURPOSE SERVICES (MPS).","authors":"Judith Anderson, Linda Deravin-Malone, Lyn Croxon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The MPS model has been in place for over 20 years in NSW as a way to address the ongoing healthcare needs of small rural communities.</p>","PeriodicalId":89893,"journal":{"name":"Australian nursing & midwifery journal","volume":"24 7","pages":"34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35670601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"MERCILESS VERSUS MERCY KILLING?","authors":"Linda Starr","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the current legal and political climate intentionally ending a patient's life is unlawful -- euthanasia and assisted suicide continue to be crimes in Australia.</p>","PeriodicalId":89893,"journal":{"name":"Australian nursing & midwifery journal","volume":"24 7","pages":"25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35670956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RELIABLE ALLERGY RESOURCES.","authors":"Deryn Thompson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Allergic conditions now affect 20% of the Australian population (Mullins et al. 2015). This means that nurses in different clinical practice fields will be involved in involved in caring for patients who may also have an allergic condition.</p>","PeriodicalId":89893,"journal":{"name":"Australian nursing & midwifery journal","volume":"24 7","pages":"24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35670894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DEALING WITH DEATH.","authors":"Amy Benn","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One inevitable thing we all must address....is death. As soon as we are born, we are dying. Although part of the normal sequence of life, death encompasses grief, and grief is uncomfortable. So naturally death at times is avoided in general conversations, which can create fear surrounding the process.</p>","PeriodicalId":89893,"journal":{"name":"Australian nursing & midwifery journal","volume":"24 7","pages":"27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35670592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ENHANCING STUDENT NURSE PREPARATION FOR PAEDIATRIC PRACTICE.","authors":"Natasha Budd, Patrea Andersen, Penelope Harrison","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An innovative pilot project at the University of the Sunshine Coast is giving undergraduate students an opportunity to develop their skills in caring for child clients and their families.</p>","PeriodicalId":89893,"journal":{"name":"Australian nursing & midwifery journal","volume":"24 7","pages":"32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35670599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VIEWPOINT AND REFLECTION FOR THE NURSING WORKFORCE.","authors":"Faye McMillan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>If the Close the Gap Campaign is working to achieve health and life expectation equality, are we creating an ageing health workforce to work with older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people?</p>","PeriodicalId":89893,"journal":{"name":"Australian nursing & midwifery journal","volume":"24 7","pages":"28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35670594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"STUDENT KNOWLEDGE OF PROVIDING CARE FOR WOMEN WHO EXPERIENCE ALCOHOL-USE DISORDERS.","authors":"Rebecca Bosworth, Lorna Moxham, Renee Brighton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Harmful alcohol consumption is associated with detrimental health and social consequences, yet this modifiable and preventable risk factor for serious non-communicable diseases remains an unmet challenge (Spanagel et al. 2013; WHO, 2014, 2016).</p>","PeriodicalId":89893,"journal":{"name":"Australian nursing & midwifery journal","volume":"24 6","pages":"37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35665683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NURSING ATTITUDES TOWARDS PEOPLE WITH COMORBID SUBSTANCE ABUSE: A BRIEF REVIEW OF LITERATURE.","authors":"Roopalal Anandan, Wendy Cross, Ian Munro","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new study in Melbourne aims to assess knowledge, skills and attitudes of mental health nurses employed in a large mental health service. The study will use an observation as well as surveys and interviews to explore knowledge, skills, and attitude of nurses towards consumers with comorbid substance use.</p>","PeriodicalId":89893,"journal":{"name":"Australian nursing & midwifery journal","volume":"24 6","pages":"39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35665687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NURSE'S ROLE IN A FOREIGN LAND.","authors":"Shanez Sinnathamby","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For many years a team of specialist Gynaecologists and Anaesthetists from The Women's Hospital in Melbourne have travelled to the beautiful, nomadic land of Mongolia. They have helped train Mongolian doctors in advanced practices related to laparoscopic-gynaecological surgery and anaesthesia, facilitating a number of ground-breaking 'firsts' in hospitals across several regions of the country. The role of nurses in this expedition was never established, and in 2015 a team of perioperative clinical nurse specialists joined the medical team to Mongolia for the first time.</p>","PeriodicalId":89893,"journal":{"name":"Australian nursing & midwifery journal","volume":"24 6","pages":"25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35666336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}