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Does the RUSON employment model support transition to practice, relieve workload pressure and improve patient care?
Can paid employment models for undergraduate nurses improve transition to practice and help to address workforce shortages? Supporting undergraduate nurses [...]
Preparation of student nurses for registration and healthcare delivery
Nursing workforce shortages and continuing pressures on healthcare systems require health services and education providers to work collaboratively to support [...]
Supporting novice nurses in an Early Career Transition Program
The Supported Registered Nurse Program (SRNP) and Supported Enrolled Nurse Program (SENP) are six-month Early Career Transition Programs (ECTP) for [...]
The call for morally just global action
The COVID-19 pandemic together with other global pressures that have been placed on the world’s healthcare systems have converged to [...]
By their side: Mental health nurses making a difference
“It’s the people and the stories and being allowed into their lives,” says acute community mental health nurse Jocelyn Douglass [...]
Q&A: Second-year nursing student
Nursing student Cristina Velez, currently in her second-year at University of Wollongong, shares her experience. What drew you to nursing? [...]
Translating positive first-year student nurses’ pressure injury prevention attitudes into knowledge and action
Findings from this study provide opportunities to invigorate the undergraduate wound management curriculum by focussing on assessment, aetiology, mechanical or [...]
Scholarship scheme to be run by an Indigenous community controlled organisation
The Puggy Hunter Memorial Scholarship Scheme, which has assisted thousands of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people studying an entry [...]
Nursing records a 19% surge exceeding growth in broader workforce, 2021 Census data reveals
Nursing has overtaken building as the third most common non-school qualification in Australia, behind business and management and teacher education [...]
10 things I wish I knew before my first clinical placement
Clinical placements give nursing and midwifery students the opportunity to build critical hands-on skills. For first-year nursing student Matilda Preston, [...]
‘More than just a nurse’: Out of the hospital and into Remote Area Nursing
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Australia, registered nurse Wayne Burns joined the response, pivoting into carrying out swabbing and, not [...]
10 tips to navigate your first undergraduate year
Congratulations! You’ve been accepted and are now enrolled into a Bachelor of Nursing Degree. You may be feeling excited and [...]
Scoping and redesign of the nursing and midwifery clinical facilitator learning support model in northern Queensland
Scoping and redesign of the nursing and midwifery clinical facilitator learning support model in northern Queensland
