Professional Transitions in Nursing: A Guide to Practice in the Australian Healthcare System

ISBN-13: 9780367719067 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 336 str.

Alister Hodge; Wayne Varndell

Opis

The essential knowledge and skills required of nurse graduates entering the Australian workforce.

Spis treści

Figures and tables

Authors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I The Australian health system, professional standards and legislation

1. The transition to Registered Nurse

2. The Australian healthcare system

3. The health workforce

4. Professional practice

5. Nursing and the law

Part II Key clinical skills and practices

6. Health workforce culture, team development and communication

7. Assessment, care delivery and diagnostic reasoning

8. Nursing within a diverse cultural environment, and death and dying

9. Nursing and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health

10. Common mandatory training topics

Part III Gaining employment and career planning

11. Career planning and development

12. Graduate programs and gaining employment

Glossary

Appendix 1: Common medical acronyms and abbreviations

Appendix 2: Comparative names of common medications

Answers to review questions

References

Index

O autorze

Alister Hodge is a Clinical Lecturer at the School of Nursing, University of Sydney and has extensive experience as a clinical nurse consultant and nurse practitioner in the emergency speciality. Wayne Varndell is a Clinical Lecturer in the Faculty of Health, University of Technology, Sydney. He was awarded 'Australasian Emergency Nurse of the Year' in 2014 for his exceptional contribution as an Emergency Nursing leader.