Nursing
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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.
Read more on WA Health website
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.
Read more on NSW Health Care Complaints Commission website
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.
Read more on NSW Health Care Complaints Commission website
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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General practice services | Vision Initiative
Information on the role of GPs and practice 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
Read more on Sydney Children's Hospitals Network website
Professional Standards Committee hearings
Overview of Professional Standards Committee Hearings
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For nurses | Vision Initiative
Online training on eye health and vision care available for nurses
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Health providers | Vision Initiative
Information about Vision Initiative work with health providers including GPs, practice managers, practice nurses and pharmacists.
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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
Education Workforce
Workforce Education
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Workforce Education - Synthesis
Workforce Education - Synthesis
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Our partners | Vision Initiative
Profiles of all the Vision Initiative partner organisations
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About Mental Health Nursing | ACMHN
What is mental health nursing?
Read more on Australian College of Mental Health Nurses website
Breast Cancer Nurse Awareness and Reflections
Document and learn online with Ausmed's online portfolio and organiser app. All countries and health professions supported. Free to document, subscribe to learn.
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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
Midwifery prescribing in Australia | Issue 6 | Volume 39 | Australian Prescriber
Suitably qualified Australian midwives may prescribe drugs. By June 2016, 250 midwives were endorsed to prescribe. Who can become a midwiferyprescriber?
Read more on Australian Prescriber website
