Universities and healthcare industry battle stereotypes in efforts to recruit men. By Antonia Maiolo. Gender stereotyping is a key deterrent keeping males from choosing to study nursing, researchers say. Edith Cowan University clinical and international nursing co-ordinator Tania Beament says ...
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Trailblazer Nick Ralph has designed a high-tech mobile learning unit to attract people to work in the health sector. By Linda Belardi. Combining an innovative 10-metre trailer, simulation technology and the ingenuity of a nurse, CQUniversity nursing lecturer, Nicholas Ralph ...
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Digital technology offers the chance to get peer-reviewed information out to professionals much more quickly, writes Sandra Campbell-Crofts. Publication of contemporary nursing knowledge is important for the translation of this knowledge to the clinical arena. The speed of access and ...
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A five-year, multimillion-dollar research centre dedicated to improving nursing care has been launched at Griffith University. The first dedicated centre for research excellence in nursing was opened by the Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, in Brisbane, who praised the quality of the ...
More »Call for more university teaching on ageing
With the greying population, universities are finding they need to adapt their nursing and medical courses. Whether you are a nursing, medical or paramedic student at the University of Tasmania, you can’t complete your studies without taking Perspectives on Ageing, ...
More »Should nursing be a four-year degree?
Some healthcare leaders argue that undergraduates need an extra year of study? Three experienced nurses share their views. Nursing is a four-year program in many parts of the world but remains a three-year undergraduate degree in Australia and New Zealand. ...
More »Med grads face no-man’s land
Hundreds of international medical students could miss out on internships when they graduate next year due to a “tsunami” of domestic graduates and a shortage of clinical places. A report on the impact of international medical students on Australia’s workforce ...
More »Enrolments ‘capped’ by lack of clinical places
Despite strong demand and new uncapped enrolments, many of Australia’s nursing and midwifery schools have limited their 2012 student intakes due to continuing clinical placement uncertainty. Students returned to campuses around the country last week and universities began to take stock ...
More »Victoria University researcher sounds alarm on nursing skill mix
Victorian aged care facilities have reduced the number of registered nurses employed in the sector following revised legislation which has allowed enrolled nurses to administer medication. Russell Freemantle, a PhD research student at Victoria University is conducting the first-ever research into ...
More »Concern over full-fee rural students
NSW TAFEs are increasing the number of full-fee training places they offer to plug a shortfall in government funding for enrolled nurse education, a federal senate inquiry has been told. Kerry Penton, director of the Riverina Institute, said the rural ...
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