The knowledge of ageing nurses
Registered nurse Shirley Allott retired a few months ago, aged 65, after spending the past two decades working in aged care. Her body began showing signs of decline years earlier, with hearing and vision loss and arthritis increasingly problematic. “Some years before I got hearing aids I denied my hearing loss and when I got […]
Forging a successful nursing career
National Health Workforce Dataset (NHWDS) figures show almost 16,000 newly registered nurses and midwives entered the professions in 2016. Earlier this year, 26-year-old New South Wales resident Thomas West joined the next generation when he began a 12-month transition program at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney designed to arm him with the skills and knowledge […]