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This paper addresses the hospital/community interface as an emerging context of health care practice. As a consequence of industry reforms health service managers are looking to the community space as a location for delivery of acute health care. This focus on the community is sharpened by the promise of cost savings and enhanced by the seemingly limitless potential of biomedical technology. The paper...
Programmatic research is a planned and purposeful strategy in the development of a nursing discipline. We discuss the case made for programmatic research by international scholars as a determinant of scholarship and professional advancement, as well as issues about whether it should be knowledge or methods driven. As an example, the development of a clinical program involving the establishment of...
This article reports on the opinions of specialist nurses practising in Victoria toward recommendations proposed in the National Review of Specialist Nurse Education (Specialist Review) (Russell et al 1997). Seventy-five nurses undertaking a range of specialist nursing courses offered by three educational providers (a university, major teaching hospital and professional organisation) completed a survey...
As we approach the new millennium, many changes are becoming evident in all areas of health care. In particular, the accreditation of residential aged care facilities (RAC), already begun, is becoming a major agent of change both for the way in which RAC facilities operate as well as being a requirement for continuing Commonwealth funding.
The important topic of the future of nursing directs members of the profession to consider that future critically. This paper advocates a future-building rather than a future-entering approach as nursing encounters the third millennium. That view is prompted by candid statements, gathered through a national survey of Australian nurse academics, which indicate that the term ‘nursing in the future’...
We describe an innovative integrated study pathway at the School of Nursing, Flinders University in which students can complete a Bachelor of Nursing Honours degree and Graduate Nurse Program in one year.
Over the past decade the discipline of nursing has been reviewing its practice, especially in relation to specialty areas. There has been an appreciation by nursing leaders that specialisation brings with it concerns related to a disuniting effect on the discipline and a fragmentation of nursing's traditional generalist practice. Accompanying these concerns is a debate over what is a specialty and...
This paper explores the development and implementation of specific criteria to determine the level of clinical performance of postgraduate nursing students during the first year of a Master of Nursing course. The authors describe two commonly used clinical skill assessment tools and identify limitations of these tools for postgraduate nursing students. As a result of these limitations, Clinical Assessment...
Clinical Development Units celebrate nurses as thinkers and nursing as a highly skilled professional activity. They are typified by the exploration and development of therapeutic, consumer-focused and research-based practice and participatory governance. Establishing and maintaining them, therefore, can be problematic in health care facilities typified by centralism, autocracy and nurses' disempowerment...
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