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Clinical Decision Making
Clinical decision making requires good quality judgment including critical thinking
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Paid Careworkers In The Home
When someone is being cared for at home there can be a lot of people involved. Sometimes paid care workers will also come in to provide support.
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Cancer Nurse Coordination Service
The Cancer Nurse Coordination Service is a team of specialist nurses located in both metropolitan Perth and rural regions of Western Australia.
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Professional Standards Committee decisions
Professional Standards Committee hearings are conducted by the Medical Council of NSW and the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW are generally held in public.
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Professional Standards Committee decisions
Professional Standards Committee hearings are conducted by the Medical Council of NSW and the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW are generally held in public. Published decisions of the Medical Professional Standards Committees from 1 October 2008 onwards are available on the website of the Medical Council of NSW's website.
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Palliative care in RAC
High care facilities (nursing homes) will be able to provide for the palliative care needs of their residents. Most "ageing in place low care facilities (hostels) will do as well. High care facilities have registered and enrolled nurses to provide skilled nursing care at all times.
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Continence Helpline 1800 33 00 66 Get help Continence Foundation of Australia
Call 1800 33 00 66 to speak to a continence nurse.
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Truth Telling and Collusion
Nurses sometimes encounter situations whereby requests are made to withhold the truth from a patient.
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
When nursing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people recognition of their culture and the context in which they live is important.
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Asthma action plans are a must - National Asthma Council Australia
Judi Wicking, nurse and asthma educator explains to parents the importance of having a written asthma action plan for their child - for school, childcare and fo
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Specialist home-based nursing services for children with acute and chronic illnesses | Cochrane
This review aimed to examine whether specialist paediatric home-based nursing services for children with acute and chronic illnesses reduce the number of hospital admissions and length of stay, enhance health care in the community and reduce stress for families at the time of their child's illness. It is an update of our original review published in 2006. We found seven relevant randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of total of 840 children aged from birth to 18 years with acute and/or chronic illnesses receiving either specialist home-based nursing services or conventional health care. The outcomes included use of health care services, physical and mental health, satisfaction, adverse health outcomes and costs. We decided not to combine the results of these RCTs because of the variety in types of services provided, types of participants and the outcome measures used. The results of individual RCTs show improved satisfaction with home-based care with no adverse impact on physical health outcomes for children. There is some evidence that specialist home-based nursing services reduce the length of hospital stay; however, there is no evidence that it leads to a reduction in use of hospital services. Further trials are required, measuring health, satisfaction, service use and long-term costs.
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Research into Rural Healthcare and Isolation - Ausmed
My resume included a wealth of home-care, nursing education, and several years of clinical practice in a major teaching hospital in the northeastern portion of the United States
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Bullying in Nursing | Ausmed | Tips for Nurses
Bullying in Nursing | Ausmed | Tips for Nurses | We've all seen it and looked the other way. Maybe we've even done it to another nurse after a bad day, o...
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Resilience in Nursing - Fall Back In Love With Nursing - Ausmed
Resilience in Nursing | Ausmed | Nurses go into their profession expecting to love it. They feel they are called; that nursing is a vocation and not mere...
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Shift Work in Nursing | Ausmed | Tips for Nurses
Shift Work in Nursing | Ausmed | Nursing is a 24 hour a day job. People get sick at all hours of the day and night, and they always need someone there to ...
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The Nursing Shift - A Survival Guide for All Nurses & Midwives
Survival. Some nursing shifts it's all you can think about. However, with these 6 things in your nursing kit, life will suddenly get a whole lot easier.
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Nursing and midwifery workforce (AIHW)
This web report outlines the workforce characteristics of nurses and midwives in 2014.
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Read the Latest Nursing Articles, Explainers & Clinical Updates
Healthcare articles covering a wide range of nursing and midwifery topics. Read tips, videos, nursing advice, explanations and clinical detective stories.
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The Nurse as Patient Advocate - Ausmed
In these days of high nurse-patient ratios, staffing challenges, and increased reliance on technology, the importance of patient advocacy can be lost in task-based nursing environments
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Nursing record systems to improve nursing practice and health care | Cochrane
When patients are in hospital or sick at home and visited by a nurse, it is important that the care they receive is recorded properly. Nurses record a wide variety of information about a patients care and progress. For example, nurses would record a patients status while in ICU every hour, or when and how pain medication should be given and when it was given, or the progress of a pregnant woman visiting a clinic. These nursing records are a way for nurses to share care information with other nurses, other health care professionals and sometimes with patients. This is Information that can ensure patient care is consistent when staff changes shifts or information that can be used later as a history of previous care.
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