Nursing care for people with intellectual disability
With the inception of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) nurses will increasingly need to be competent in the care and support of people with intellectual disability (ID). Nurse academic and disability advocate Virginia Howie talks to the ANMJ. Despite decades of government reform to improve health outcomes for people with ID, mortality and morbidity […]
Voice to Parliament the structural reform needed to Closing the Gap
“More of the same isn’t good enough, we have to do better,” said Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney on the release of the latest Closing the Gap report which shows slow progress with few targets on track to be met by 2031. An Indigenous Voice to Parliament is the structural reform needed to […]
Adelaide nurse provides protective presence against human rights abuses in Palestine
Adelaide nurse provides protective presence against human rights abuses in Palestine
Thousands turn up to support YES campaign for Voice to Parliament
Thousands turn up to support YES campaign for Voice to Parliament
First impressions from a 1st year midwifery student
“I now realise that every woman’s journey is different,” says Eva Barba, first year Bachelor of Midwifery student at the Australian Catholic University (ACU). Eva shares her first impressions of midwifery with the ANMJ. What attracted you to midwifery? I have wanted to be a midwife since I was 10 years old. I was a […]
Back to Bangka: One woman’s journey to uncover the truth
Australian Army nurse Bud Elmes was excited, describing “the opportunity of a lifetime” being in Malaya, to her friends and family back home – only months before her brutal death in the waters off Radji Beach during WWII in one of the worst wartime massacres in history. Melbourne writer Georgina Banks’ search for the truth […]
Engage men earlier for better health this International Men’s Health Week 2023
International Men’s Health Week which runs from 12-18 June each year, is an opportunity to highlight the importance of men’s health, and to promote and support the health and wellbeing of men and boys in our communities. Men are known as late presenters for health concerns and so it’s about engaging them earlier and better […]
Final-year university placement helps transition to aged care career
A novel final-year university placement is helping nursing students’ fast-track their transition into aged care. One of the first in Australia, a final year placement program by the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) and aged care provider Lutheran Services, could become a model for the sector. The ‘Transition to Practice’ program provides UniSC Bachelor […]
Heavy burden of clinical placements needs review
Lengthy, unpaid placements in higher education causing stress and financial instability for students have prompted calls for greater flexibility and sustainability in undergraduate clinical learning. Charles Darwin University (CDU) Head of Social Work, Associate Professor Lisa Hodge, told the ANMJ that a lack of flexibility and financial pressures put a strain on students who needed […]
From Ethicist to Artist: A natural transition
Retired Professor of Nursing and Independent Scholar Dr Megan-Jane Johnstone AO has turned her hand to her first love – art – with the same fervour she applied to a lifetime career in nursing and healthcare ethics. “The two are so closely interrelated that it has been a natural transition for me to go from […]