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Enactment of virtue ethics: collaboration between nurse academics and international students in questionnaire design
Enactment of virtue ethics: collaboration between nurse academics and international students in questionnaire design
Increased enrolment of international nursing students in undergraduate and postgraduate programs is predicted as Australia...
Latex-sensitivity and allergy: raising awareness in Australia
Latex-sensitivity and allergy: raising awareness in Australia
Natural rubber latex allergy is a public health issue that is yet to be addressed in many Australian hospitals. It is sugg...
Nurse practitioners: an evaluation of the extended role of nurses at the Kirketon Road Centre in Sydney, Australia
Nurse practitioners: an evaluation of the extended role of nurses at the Kirketon Road Centre in Sydney, Australia
The aim of the present study was to formally evaluate the effectiveness, professional appropriateness and acceptability of...
Leadership for change
Leadership for change
The mission of AJAN is to provide a forum to showcase and promote a wide variety of original research and scholarly work...
A case for chaos theory in nursing
A case for chaos theory in nursing
This paper addresses the question of why nurses should understand chaos theory. A critique of the literature is used to de...
Forensic nursing: a review of the literature
Forensic nursing: a review of the literature
A review of the nursing literature reveals that forensic nursing is an emergent specialty area of practice that has underg...
Educating nurses to protect the past or to advance health care: a polemic
Educating nurses to protect the past or to advance health care: a polemic
Internationally, nursing is challenged by recruitment and retention issues. On the one hand nursing is expanding and exten...
Disease management: coming to a hospital near you
Disease management: coming to a hospital near you
Disease management: coming to a hospital near you: Guest Editorial | Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing ...
The development, validity and reliability of the hospital in the home dependency scale (HDS)
The development, validity and reliability of the hospital in the home dependency scale (HDS)
The aim of this study was to develop and investigate the validity and reliability of the Hospital-in-the-Home (HITH) Depen...
Using action research within a school of nursing: exposing tensions in ideologies
Using action research within a school of nursing: exposing tensions in ideologies
This paper examines and critically reflects on a recent curriculum evaluation that took place in 1999 within a school of n...
New mother groups as a social network intervention: consumer and maternal and child health nurse perspectives
New mother groups as a social network intervention: consumer and maternal and child health nurse perspectives
Maternal and child health nurses in two outer urban local government areas in Melbourne, Australia were interviewed about ...
Engendering change: empowering nurse academics to take part in a university research culture
Engendering change: empowering nurse academics to take part in a university research culture
Any school of nursing, which is building upon a college-based teaching culture to create and maintain a viable research cu...
A survey of nurses' views on indicators for continuing competence in nursing
A survey of nurses' views on indicators for continuing competence in nursing
The study, commissioned by the Australian Nursing Council Inc. (ANCI), sought to develop an approach to the maintenance of...
Factors influencing nurses' decisions to use non-pharmacological therapies to manage patients' pain
Factors influencing nurses' decisions to use non-pharmacological therapies to manage patients' pain
This study investigated nurses’ beliefs and attitudes toward the use of non-pharmacological therapies as adjunct pain mana...
Continued neglect of rural and remote nursing in Australia: the link with poor health outcomes
Continued neglect of rural and remote nursing in Australia: the link with poor health outcomes
Difficulties facing Australian rural and remote nurses first emerged decades ago and recent Australian Federal Government ...
EMOTION AND CARDIAC TECHNOLOGY: AN INTERPRETIVE STUDY
EMOTION AND CARDIAC TECHNOLOGY: AN INTERPRETIVE STUDY
This paper presents a frequently overlooked aspect of advanced technological care - that of the human dimension and emotio...
LIVING WITH BREAST CANCER: THE INFLUENCE OF RURALITY ON WOMEN’S SUFFERING AND RESILIENCE. A POSTMODERN FEMINIST INQUIRY
LIVING WITH BREAST CANCER: THE INFLUENCE OF RURALITY ON WOMEN’S SUFFERING AND RESILIENCE. A POSTMODERN FEMINIST INQUIRY
This paper focuses on rural living as a dimension of women’s experiences of living through breast cancer. The findings pre...
Towards best practice: Urgent need for surrogacy birth care guidelines in Australia
Towards best practice: Urgent need for surrogacy birth care guidelines in Australia
Towards best practice: Urgent need for surrogacy birth care guidelines in Australia | Australian Journal of Advanced Nursi...
PREDICTORS OF INFLUENZA VACCINATION AMONGST AUSTRALIAN NURSES
PREDICTORS OF INFLUENZA VACCINATION AMONGST AUSTRALIAN NURSES
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that health care workers receive influenza immunisation annually....
SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY: ARE NURSE ACADEMICS CATCHING UP?
SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY: ARE NURSE ACADEMICS CATCHING UP?
The aim of this study was to document the amount of recent change in Australian nurse academics’ scholarly productivity an...
HEALTH-EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS: A REFLECTION ON PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL PAST
HEALTH-EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS: A REFLECTION ON PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL PAST
HEALTH-EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS: A REFLECTION ON PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL PAST: Guest Editorial | Australian Journal of Ad...
A DIVERSITY OF INTELLECTUAL AND PRACTICE ENDEAVOUR
A DIVERSITY OF INTELLECTUAL AND PRACTICE ENDEAVOUR
A DIVERSITY OF INTELLECTUAL AND PRACTICE ENDEAVOUR | Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Home Archives ...
SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS OF INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH: INTERPRETIVE DATA SYNTHESIS OF PROCESSED DATA
SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS OF INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH: INTERPRETIVE DATA SYNTHESIS OF PROCESSED DATA
This paper discusses the synthesis of qualitative data during the systematic review of interpretive research. Current appr...
NON-ADHERENCE TO HIV ANTIRETROVIRAL MEDICATIONS: ‘THE DRUGS ARE WORKING AND I’M A CONTINUING SUCCESS STORY’
NON-ADHERENCE TO HIV ANTIRETROVIRAL MEDICATIONS: ‘THE DRUGS ARE WORKING AND I’M A CONTINUING SUCCESS STORY’
Non-adherence to antiretroviral (ARV) regimens has been associated with HIV drug resistance. Anecdotal evidence in our cli...
THE OLDER PERSON WITHIN A CHANGING SOCIETY
THE OLDER PERSON WITHIN A CHANGING SOCIETY
THE OLDER PERSON WITHIN A CHANGING SOCIETY: Guest Editorial | Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Home ...
USING RESEARCH AND EDUCATION TO CHANGE PRACTICE
USING RESEARCH AND EDUCATION TO CHANGE PRACTICE
USING RESEARCH AND EDUCATION TO CHANGE PRACTICE | Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Home Archives ...
TELL ME WHAT WE DO. USING WORK SAMPLING TO FIND THE ANSWER
TELL ME WHAT WE DO. USING WORK SAMPLING TO FIND THE ANSWER
As Australian hospitals have restructured and work patterns have changed ‘multi-skilling’ has become a necessary component...
DIFFERENCES IN ACCESS TO EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE TRAINING AMONG HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
DIFFERENCES IN ACCESS TO EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE TRAINING AMONG HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Research aims: To determine the availability of externally delivered awards and topics in evidence based practice to healt...