Australian Nursing Journal articles

Recent articles from Australian Nursing Journal

Editorial.(Editorial)
May 1, 2008... Since the election of the Rudd Labor Government late last year, a whole new dialogue seems to have opened up in Australia that was missing for over a decade. Social justice is back on the political agenda and nurses have a greater opportunity to influence health policy and more effectively...

Conditions hamper recruitment and retention.(mail)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Julie Cooper's letter Who will care for nurses in last month's journal prompted me to recall the late and early roster when I started nursing some 23 years ago. Nurses at that time also suffered the lack of sleep that exacerbated the stresses of nursing with...

Should nurses be territorial?(mail)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... Sabina Knight's comment in last month's article Nurse to focus Commission on remote innovation, "We've got to not patrol the perimeters of our profession... we are still nurses and have a lot to offer, but we don't need to be territorial" is of concern. Aren't medical practitioners,...

Time for justice in aged care sector.(mail)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... In 2004, I returned to work in residential aged care following 13 years nursing and managing health services across the acute, rehabilitation and community sectors, I felt as though I had returned to the area of nursing I was "meant to be" despite the horrific funding model (RCS) and the...

Author unknown.(mail)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... Catherine Booth's letter last month. You know you are a nurse if... was not an original piece of work. I received this poem last year and passed it on to friends. I believe that as professionals. we need to acknowledge another person's work and not class it off as our own. It would have been...