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Nurses: how a nurse can help your child | Raising Children Network
Different kinds of nurses work with children. Your child might sometimes see a registered nurse, nurse practitioner, practice nurse or school nurse.
Read more on raisingchildren.net.au website
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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Analgesia - Patient or nurse controlled | Sydney Children's Hospitals Network
What is it? Patient Controlled Analgesia (PCA)allows your child to safely self-deliver strong pain relieving medicine, such as morphine (an opioid), via a special machine attached to an intravenous line (IV)
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Ophthalmology services | Vision Initiative
Information on the role of ophthalmologists and ophthalmic nurses in eye health and vision care
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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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Post cardiac surgery discharge information - CHW | Sydney Children's Hospitals Network
When your child is discharged from hospital you will be given nursing and medical discharge summaries
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Professional Standards Committee hearings
Overview of Professional Standards Committee Hearings
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A mothers instinct coupled with years of nursing experience may have saved her sons life | Rheumatic Heart Disease Australia
Desarae Clements works as a Care Coordinator with the Closing the Gap team at Boab Health Service in Broome.
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Video for primary care practitioners on childhood trauma
Video for GPs & nurse practitioners to raise awareness of patients with unresolved trauma building skills and knowledge to aid recovery & resources, tools.
Read more on Blue Knot Foundation website
Practice Tip Sheets for Nurses
The palliAGED Practice Tip Sheets for Nurses have been developed to support people providing palliative care to older people approaching the end of life.
Read more on palliAGED website
About Mental Health Nursing | ACMHN
What is mental health nursing?
Read more on Australian College of Mental Health Nurses website
Meditative Walking and the Importance of Self-Care
During my 38-year career in nursing practice I have been privileged to work at the bedside, in the classroom, and as a nurse researcher. I am one of those nurses who believes that nursing is in my genes!
Read more on Ausmed Education website
Effectiveness of intermediate care in nursing-led in-patient units | Cochrane
Authors' conclusions: There is some evidence that patients discharged from a NLU are better prepared for discharge but it is unclear if this is simply a product of an increased length of inpatient stay
Read more on Cochrane (Australasian Centre) website
What Do You Know About Kidney Health? | Ausmed
If you are like me, you may have specialised in a particular area of healthcare and had very little renal nursing experience. Perhaps you would like to know a little more about renal nursing, how to care for people with renal issues or how to care for your own kidneys?
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Stroke Care Management: Alien Hand Syndrome
A published Monash University study found that 70% of nurses surveyed reported being physically assaulted in the workplace. The challenge for nurses is that they are caring for patients who may be aggressive due to an acute or untreated medical condition such as dementia, delirium or brain injury.
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Lung, Chest and Bowel Sounds Assessment Guide
Lung sounds tell you a great deal about a patient and their relative health. Knowing the difference between rales, a crackle, and a wheeze is sometimes still a confusing proposition for many nurses, especially new nurses. Part of the reason for that is that some of the language is interchangeable.
Read more on Ausmed Education website
Lung, Chest and Bowel Sounds Assessment Guide
Lung sounds tell you a great deal about a patient and their relative health. Knowing the difference between rales, a crackle, and a wheeze is sometimes still a confusing proposition for many nurses, especially new nurses. Part of the reason for that is that some of the language is interchangeable.
Read more on Ausmed Education website
The Psychology of Dying and the Emotions it May Bring
Terminally ill patients can provide a challenge to nurses, more-so because of the physical disability caused by disease progression. However, in the last four days of a particular patients life psychological aspects began to challenge my nursing skills in a way that I had never before experienced.
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