New guiding principles for health professionals about voluntary assisted dying
Ahead of the Victorian Voluntary Assisted Dying scheme from 19 June, Palliative Care Australia has released a set of principles for health professionals to help provide care to people living with a life limiting illness. PCA CEO Rohan Greenland says the document, Voluntary Assisted Dying in Australia: Guiding principles for those providing care to people […]
Personal reflection on conducting nursing research in a regional emergency department
One of the initial challenges I faced with undertaking a Nursing with Honours degree was conducting scholarly research within my own workplace. I was confronted with, and surprisingly conflicted by, the anthropological concepts of Emic and Etic perspective. The thesis concept itself had its genesis in numerous Emic observations; defined as studying a culture from […]