Journal articles: 'Community health nursing Standards Australia'

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Michael, Jaklina, Tracy Aylen, and Rajna Ogrin. "Development of a Translation Standard to support the improvement of health literacy and provide consistent high-quality information." Australian Health Review 37, no. 4 (2013): 547. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah13082.

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Australia has a high number of people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds whose primary language is not English. CALD population groups have comparatively lower levels of education and health literacy, and poorer health outcomes compared with the Australian-born population. The delivery of consumer health information to people from CALD backgrounds usually includes the use of translated resources. Unfortunately, the quality of translated resources available on health issues is highly variable and may impact efforts to address the disparities in health outcomes. Currently applied guides to translation focus on accuracy and literalness of the translation; however, for health translations, conveying meaning and incorporating culturally relevant information is essential. Minimum standards for developing translated resources are needed to provide an indication of quality for end users, including healthcare providers, the client and carer. This paper describes the development of a Translation Standard, led by a community nursing organisation in collaboration and consultation with CALD community members and peak community organisations in Melbourne, Australia. The Translation Standard includes 10 components that have been identified as necessary to ensure a minimum standard of translation that is of high quality and caters to the health literacy levels of the target audience. What is known about the topic? There are many people from CALD backgrounds who have worse health outcomes than people who are Australian born. There is a gap in guidance to health professionals on how to develop high-quality translations of consumer health information that consider culture and health literacy. Higher-quality translations are needed to better inform CALD groups about their health. What does this paper add? The description of a new Translation Standard to guide the development of culturally relevant consumer health translations, considering the cultural needs and health literacy level of the target audience. What are the implications for practitioners? The Translation Standard provides assurance to practitioners that any translation that has followed this Standard is of high quality and increases the likelihood that the target audience will find the information relevant and understandable. The Translation Standard can assist consumers to make more informed choices and decisions about their health. Future translations would benefit by using such a guide.

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Keleher, Helen, Rhian Parker, and Karen Francis. "Preparing nurses for primary health care futures: how well do Australian nursing courses perform?" Australian Journal of Primary Health 16, no. 3 (2010): 211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py09064.

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Health reform is increasingly targeted towards strengthening and expansion of primary health systems as care is shifted from hospitals to communities. The renewed emphasis on prevention and health promotion is intended to curb the tide of chronic disease and sustain effective chronic disease management, as well as address health inequities and increase affordable access to services. Given the scope of nurses’ practice, the success of Australia’s health system reforms are dependent on a nursing workforce that is appropriately educated and prepared for practice in community settings. This article reports on the results of an Australian national audit of all undergraduate nursing curricula to examine the extent of professional socialisation and educational preparation of nurses for primary health care. The results of the audit are compared with Australian nursing standards associated with competency in primary health care. The findings indicate that Australian nursing competencies are general in their approach to skills and knowledge, not specifying any particular competencies for primary health care, while undergraduate student preparation for practice in primary health and community settings is patchy and not keeping pace with reform agendas that promote expanded roles for nurses in primary health care, prevention and health promotion. The implication for nursing curriculum reform is that attention to achieving nursing graduate capacity for primary health care and health promotion is a priority.

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Cashin, Andrew, Marie Heartfield, Darlene Cox, Sandra Dunn, and Helen Stasa. "Knowledge and motivation: two elements of health literacy that remain low with regard to nurse practitioners in Australia." Australian Health Review 39, no. 4 (2015): 470. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah14126.

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Objective This paper presents analysis of consumer focus groups that were undertaken as a part of the project to develop the now current Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia’s Nurse Practitioner Standards for Practice. Methods Six focus groups were conducted with consumers around Australia, including urban and remote areas. One purpose for these groups was to explore what was known of nurse practitioners and whether consumers could articulate the difference between the regulated titles of enrolled nurse, registered nurse and nurse practitioner. Results Consumers’ knowledge of nurses’ roles in the Australian primary healthcare system, and hence system literacy (particularly in terms of navigating the system), was low. Of perhaps greatest importance is the fact that those consumers with low health systems literacy also exhibited a low level of motivation to seek new knowledge. Many consumers relied on the medical profession to direct care. Conclusion The low levels of health literacy raise questions of how to meaningfully include health consumers in innovative health-related policy work. What is known about the topic? Health literacy includes individual attributes and those of the system in which the context of care is placed. Individual attributes include not only knowledge and confidence but also motivation. It is known that consumer knowledge related to the nursing workforce is low. What does this paper add ? This paper adds the finding that along with knowledge that consumer motivation is low to find out more about the nursing workforce in general. This finding extends to Nurse Practitioners in particular. This is occurring in the context of frequent contact with nurses in the context in which care is received. What are the implications for practitioners? This finding informs strategies to build health literacy in the community, as the approach that will lead to success is clearly not just one of providing accessible information. The factor of motivation warrants attention.

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Creegan, Reta, Christine Duffield, and Kim Forrester. "Casualisation of the nursing workforce in Australia: driving forces and implications." Australian Health Review 26, no. 1 (2003): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah030201.

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This article provides an overview of the extent of casualisation of the nursing workforce in Australia,focusing on the impact for those managing the system. The implications for nurse managers in particular are considerable in an industry where service demand is difficult to control and where individual nurses are thought to be increasingly choosing to work casually. While little is known of the reasons behind nurses exercising their preference for casual work arrangements,some reasons postulated include visa status (overseas trained nurses on holiday/working visas); permanent employees taking on additional shifts to increase their income levels; and those who elect to work under casual contracts for lifestyle reasons. Unknown is the demography of the casual nursing workforce, how these groups are distributed within the workforce,and how many contracts of employment they have across the health service - either through privately managed nursing agencies or hospital managed casual pools. A more detailed knowledge of the forces driving the decisions of this group is essential if health care organisations are to equip themselves to manage this changing workforce and maintain a standard of patient care that is acceptable to the community.

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Jakobs, Olivia M., Elizabeth M. O'Leary, Mark F. Cormack, and Guan C. Chong. "A working model for the extraordinary review of clinical privileges for doctors and dentists in the Australian Capital Territory." Australian Health Review 34, no. 2 (2010): 170. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah08694.

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The extraordinary (unplanned) review of clinical privileges is the means by which an organisation can manage specific complaints about individual practitioners’ clinical competence that require immediate investigation. To date, the extraordinary review of clinical privileges for doctors and dentists has not been the subject of much research and there is a pressing need for the evaluation and review of how different legislated and non-legislated administrative processes work and what they achieve. Although it seems a fair proposition that comprehensive processes for the evaluation of the clinical competence of doctors and dentists may improve the overall delivery of an organisation’s clinical services, in fact, little is known about the relationship between the safety and quality of specific clinical services, procedures and interventions and the efficiency or effectiveness of established methodologies for the routine or the extraordinary review of clinical privileges. The authors present a model of a structured approach to the extraordinary review of clinical privileges within a clinical governance framework in the Australian Capital Territory. The assessment framework uses a primarily qualitative methodology, underpinned by a process of systematic review of clinical competence against the agreed standards of the CanMEDS Physician Competency Framework. The model is a practical, working framework that could be implemented on a hospital-, area health service- or state- and territory-wide basis in any other Australian jurisdiction. What is known about the topic?In Australia, there is a national standard for credentialing and defining the scope of clinical practice for doctors working in hospital settings. However, there are no published reports in the national arena on established processes for the extraordinary review of clinical privileges for doctors or dentists and, despite the major inquiries investigating health system failures in Australian hospitals, the effectiveness and adequacy of existing processes for the extraordinary review of clinical privileges has not yet been prioritised nationally as an area for improvement or reform. Internationally, health care organisations have also been slow to establish frameworks for the management of complaints about doctors or dentists. What does this paper add?This paper makes a significant contribution to the national and international safety and quality literature by presenting an exposition of a working model for the extraordinary review of clinical privileges of doctors and dentists. The authors describe a methodology in the public health sector that is territory-wide (not hospital-based), peer-reviewed, objective, fair and responsive. Because the model is a practical, working framework that could be implemented on a hospital-, area health service- or state- and territory-wide basis in any other Australian jurisdiction, this paper provides an opportunity for policy makers and legislators to drive innovative change. Although incursions into the provision of care by other health professionals have been avoided, the model could be readily adopted by clinical leaders from the nursing and allied health professions. What are the implications for practitioners?An organisation dedicated to investigating serious complaints with a real sense of urgency, objectivity and transparency is far less likely to fester a climate of disquiet or anger amongst staff, or to trigger concerns of a ‘cover-up’ or disregard for accountability than an organisation not adopting such an approach. Anecdotal experience suggests the model has the potential to minimise, if not prevent, the occurrence of the kinds of complaints that become much-publicised in the media. This is positive because these types of damaging high profile cases often have the effect of diminishing community confidence in the health care system, in particular, confidence in the medical profession’s ability to self-regulate. Often, they also lead to a misrepresentation of the medical profession in the media, which is unfair since the overwhelming majority of doctors do meet the standards of their profession.

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Moehead, Anne, Kathryn DeSouza, Karen Walsh, and Sabrina W. Pit. "A Web-Based Dementia Education Program and its Application to an Australian Web-Based Dementia Care Competency and Training Network: Integrative Systematic Review." Journal of Medical Internet Research 22, no. 1 (January 22, 2020): e16808. http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/16808.

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Background Dementia education that meets quality and safety standards is paramount to ensure a highly skilled dementia care workforce. Web-based education provides a flexible and cost-effective medium. To be successful, Web-based education must contain features that promote learning and support knowledge translation into practice. The Dementia Care Competency and Training Network (DCC&TN) has developed an innovative Web-based program that promotes improvement of the attitudes, knowledge, skills, behavior, and practice of clinicians, regardless of their work setting, in order to improve the quality of life for people living with dementia. Objective This review aims to (1) determine the key features that are associated with an effective and functional Web-based education program—an effective and functional Web-based program is defined as one that measures results, is accessible, is user friendly, and translates into clinical practice—and (2) determine how these features correlate with the DCC&TN. Methods Six electronic databases—Medline, Embase, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), AusHealth, Nursing@Ovid, and Google Scholar—were searched for articles published between 2009 and 2018 using the following keywords: Education, Distance, Continuing, Learning, Online, Web-Based, Internet, Dementia, Program Evaluation, Validation Studies, Outcome and Process Assessment Healthcare, Nursing, Assisted Instruction, and Facilitated. The Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) and Kirkpatrick’s model for the evaluation of training were used to ensure quality and rigor of the analysis. Results A total of 46 studies met the inclusion criteria. In total, 14 key features were associated with an effective Web-based learning environment, which enabled the environment to be as follows: self-directed, individualized, interactive, multimodal, flexible, accessible, consistent, cost-effective, measurable with respect to participant satisfaction, equitable, facilitated, nurturing of critical thinking and reflection, supportive of creating a learning community, and translated into practice. These features were further categorized into five subgroups: applicability, attractiveness, functionality, learner interaction, and implementation into practice. Literature frequently cites Kirkpatrick’s four-level model of evaluation and application in the review of education and training; however, few studies appeared to integrate all four levels of Kirkpatrick’s model. Features were then correlated against the DCC&TN, with an encouraging connection found between these features and their inclusion within the content and structure of the DCC&TN. Conclusions A total of 14 key features were identified that support an effective and functional Web-based learning environment. Few studies incorporated Kirkpatrick’s salient elements of the model—reaction, learning, behavior, and results—in their evaluation and clinical application. It could, therefore, be considered prudent to include Kirkpatrick’s levels of training evaluation within studies of dementia training. There were few studies that evaluated Web-based dementia education programs, with even fewer reporting evidence that Web-based training could increase staff confidence, knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward people with dementia and be sustainable over time. The DCC&TN appeared to contain the majority of key features and is one of the few programs inclusive of hospital, community, and residential care settings. The 14 key features can potentially enhance and complement future development of online training programs for health sciences education and beyond. The DCC&TN model could potentially be used as a template for future developers and evaluators of Web-based dementia training.

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Carey, Reviewed by Lindsay, and Priscilla Robinson. "Community Nursing in Australia." Australian Journal of Primary Health 15, no. 2 (2009): 182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pyv15n2_br2.

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Day, Gary. "Book review: Community Nursing in Australia." Australian Health Review 32, no. 3 (2008): 583. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah080583.

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THIS BOOK AIMS to be a comprehensive insight into community nursing in Australia. The text largely achieves this claim and in doing so has provided one of the first texts of its type contextualised specifically at Australian community nursing issues. The book comprises 24 well organised and clear chapters around the three primary elements: the organisation of community nursing in Australia; the rapidly changing environment of community health delivery; and the specific practice elements of community nursing care. The chapters are well set out and include a focussed conclusion that really distils the essential elements. The text makes appropriate use of case studies, and scenarios add to the quality of the overall product. One area that could have been given more prominence would have been a specific chapter on issues concerning the community nursing care of Australia?s Indigenous population, as well as a chapter on community nursing approaches to stigmatised and marginalised groups. While reference is made to these groups within other chapters, it may have been more powerful had chapters been specifically written on these groups. Despite this, there is a lot to like about this Australiancentred nursing text. In addition to what you would routinely expect to find in a text on community nursing, the book includes chapters on risk management; organisation culture and organisational change; the changing professional role of community nursing; and the changing focus of research. Overall, the book is easy to read and provides an excellent overview of community nursing in Australia. Additionally, as outlined earlier in this review, the text takes the reader further than what you would expect from a book of this nature. The book would suit a wide variety of readers, from those wanting a greater understanding of the complexities of nursing in the community to nurses working in a range of community health settings.

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Fry, D. "SYSTEMS OF STANDARDS FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES IN AUSTRALIA." International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2, no. 1 (March 1, 1990): 59–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/2.1.59.

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Carey, Reviewed by Lindsay, and Priscilla Robinson. "A Practice Manual for Community Nursing in Australia." Australian Journal of Primary Health 15, no. 2 (2009): 180. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pyv15n2_br1.

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Helen, Keleher. "Repeating history? Public and community health nursing in Australia." Nursing Inquiry 7, no. 4 (December 2000): 258–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1800.2000.00076.x.

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McKinnon, Val. "New threats to community/public health nursing in Australia." Collegian 4, no. 2 (January 1997): 39–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1322-7696(08)60223-1.

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Willis, Eileen, Julie Henderson, Luisa Toffoli, and Bonnie Walter. "Calculating Nurse Staffing in Community Mental Health and Community Health Settings in South Australia." Nursing Forum 47, no. 1 (January 2012): 52–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6198.2011.00251.x.

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Neville, Christine, Catherine Hangan, Diann Eley, John Quinn, and Jim Weir. "Mental health nursing standards for Australia: A review of current literature." International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 17, no. 2 (April 2008): 138–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1447-0349.2008.00522.x.

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Juniarti, Neti, Sheizi Prista Sari, and Desy Indra Yani. "ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF IMPLEMENTATION OF UNDERGRADUATE NURSING CURRICULLUM FOR FAMILY NURSING IN WEST JAWA." INDONESIAN NURSING JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND CLINIC (INJEC) 1, no. 2 (February 8, 2017): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.24990/injec.v1i2.119.

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Nurses are the backbone of the healthcare system, being the key providers of primary healthcare as they comprise 60-80% of the total health workforce, and provide 90% of all heath care services in the primary healthcare arena. This study aimed to evaluate the concordance of family nursing and community health nursing curriculum with international standards and national needs for undergraduate nursing education in West Java.This study used evaluation research design using BEKA framework as a tool to perform curriculum analysis which included Benchmarking, Evidencing, Knowing, and Applying stages. The international standards competency for family nursing and community health nursing, course study guide and samples of students reports were collected and analysed using content analysis. In addition participants from six nursing schools were interviewed to identify application of the curriculums. The results show that some of the competencies outlined in the course study guide were not aligned with international standards of family nursing from International Family Nursing Association. Four dimensional framework of family nursing and community health nursing curriculums were proposed to improve the alignment between international standards as well as local and government needs for family nursing and community health nursing curriculums. School of nursing can apply this framework as guidance to develop their own learning plans based on international standards, national, local and institutional needs. Keywords: curriculum analysis, evaluation, family nursing, community health nursing

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Davey, Grace Dorothy. "Developing Competency Standards for Occupational Health Nurses in Australia." AAOHN Journal 43, no. 3 (March 1995): 138–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/216507999504300304.

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Oldman, Crystal. "Common standards for education." Journal of Health Visiting 8, no. 2 (February 2, 2020): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/johv.2020.8.2.86.

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The Nursing and Midwifery Council announced in January that it will review the standards of proficiency for specialist community public health nursing programmes. What will this mean for health visitors?

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OʼTarpey, Margie. "Quality Improvement, Standards, and Accreditation for Community Health Services in Australia, 1983–1995." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 4, no. 4 (July 1998): 37–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00124784-199807000-00013.

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OʼTarpey, Margie. "New Directions for the National Community and Health Accreditation Standards Program in Australia." Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 4, no. 4 (July 1998): 44–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00124784-199807000-00014.

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Pappas-Rogich, Maria, and Michalene King. "Faith Community Nursing: Health and Healing Within a Spiritual Congregation." Creative Nursing 19, no. 4 (2013): 195–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1078-4535.19.4.195.

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Originally named parish nursing because of its beginnings in the Christian faith, the term faith community nursing (FCN) has been adopted to encompass nurses from other faiths. The American Nurses Association recognized parish nursing as a nursing specialty and, in collaboration with the Health Ministries Association, published the Scope and Standards of Parish Nursing Practice in 1998 (revised in 2005). In this article, the authors explore the philosophy, objectives, growth, and practice of this specialty.

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Oldman, Crystal. "Review of pre-registration standards." Journal of Health Visiting 9, no. 5 (May 2, 2021): 216–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/johv.2021.9.5.216.

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The specialist community public health nursing and specialist practice qualification standards are under review by the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Crystal Oldman urges you to share the opportunity to participate in the consultation

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Smith, Judy. "The changing face of community and district nursing." Australian Health Review 25, no. 3 (2002): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah020131.

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The Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) of South Australia provides home- and community-based nursing care to people residing in the Adelaide Metropolitan area. The service is funded predominantly by the Home and Community Care Program. It provides community nursing services in the areas of wound management, palliative care, HIV/AIDS care, continence management, disability care, mental health and dementia care, and diabetes management. In 2000-2001, the service made 439,700 visits to people's homes or saw them in a nurse-led nursing centre. In addition, the nursing staff had 84,000 contacts other than face to face that were related to client care. These contacts include the co-ordination of care with other service providers for new and existing clients of RDNS.

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Miller, Sylvia, and Susan Carson. "A Documentation Approach for Faith Community Nursing." Creative Nursing 16, no. 3 (August 2010): 122–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1078-4535.16.3.122.

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Faith Community Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice (American Nurses Association and Health Ministries Association, 2005) establishes the professional responsibility for documenting relevant data in a retrievable format that is both confidential and secure. Documentation systems used by faith community nurses (FCNs) need to be accurate, yet simple and concise. This article presents an approach to documenting FCN activities, the provided care, and outcomes of that care, while emphasizing the use of standardized nursing language.

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Belita, Emily, Ruth Schofield, Genevieve Currie, Marie Dietrich Leurer, Aliyah Dosani, Cheryl Cusack, Audrey Danaher, et al. "Advancing Excellence in Community Health Nursing Through Evidence-Based National Standards of Practice." Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing 52, no. 4 (April 2021): 168–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/00220124-20210315-05.

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Paul, Alison. "Fact and Fiction in Community Health." Australian Journal of Primary Health 3, no. 3 (1997): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py97031.

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In July 1996, La Trobe University's Schools of English, Nursing and Public Health joined forces to produce a unique program for three Writers-in-Residence. For six weeks the writers spent one day a week teaching writing techniques to clients from two Community Health Centres. In response, the clients and staff drew on their experiences of illness and health, producing autobiographical and fictional works. The Writers-in-Residence Program was funded by the Literature Board of the Australia Council. Financial support was also provided by the Public Health Branch of the Victorian Department of Health and Community Services. The writers involved were author Andrea Goldsmith, playwright Ray Mooney and poet Earl Livings. Projects involving two of these authors are described here.

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Salerno, John P., Evan McEwing, Yui Matsuda, Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda, Olutola Ogunrinde, Mona Azaiza, and Jessica R. Williams. "Evaluation of a nursing student health fair program: Meeting curricular standards and improving community members' health." Public Health Nursing 35, no. 5 (April 17, 2018): 450–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phn.12402.

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Darr, Jenifer Olive, Richard C. Franklin, Kristin Emma McBain-Rigg, Sarah Larkins, Yvette Roe, Kathryn Panaretto, Vicki Saunders, and Melissa Crowe. "Quality management systems in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services: a review of the literature." BMJ Open Quality 10, no. 3 (July 2021): e001091. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2020-001091.

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BackgroundA national accreditation policy for the Australian primary healthcare (PHC) system was initiated in 2008. While certification standards are mandatory, little is known about their effects on the efficiency and sustainability of organisations, particularly in the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service (ACCHS) sector.AimThe literature review aims to answer the following: to what extent does the implementation of the International Organisation for Standardization 9001:2008 quality management system (QMS) facilitate efficiency and sustainability in the ACCHS sector?MethodsThematic analysis of peer-reviewed and grey literature was undertaken from Australia and New Zealand PHC sector with a focus on First Nations people. The databases searched included Medline, Scopus and three Informit sites (AHB-ATSIS, AEI-ATSIS and AGIS-ATSIS). The initial search strategy included quality improvement, continuous quality improvement, efficiency and sustainability.ResultsSixteen included studies were assessed for quality using the McMaster criteria. The studies were ranked against the criteria of credibility, transferability, dependability and confirmability. Three central themes emerged: accreditation (n=4), quality improvement (n=9) and systems strengthening (n=3). The accreditation theme included effects on health service expenditure and clinical outcomes, consistency and validity of accreditation standards and linkages to clinical governance frameworks. The quality improvement theme included audit effectiveness and value for specific population health. The theme of systems strengthening included prerequisite systems and embedded clinical governance measures for innovative models of care.ConclusionThe ACCHS sector warrants reliable evidence to understand the value of QMSs and enhancement tools, particularly given ACCHS (client-centric) services and their specialist status. Limited evidence exists for the value of standards on health system sustainability and efficiency in Australia. Despite a mandatory second certification standard, no studies reported on sustainability and efficiency of a QMS in PHC.

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Brookes, Kim, Patricia Davidson, John Daly, and Karen Hancock. "Community health nursing in Australia: A critical literature review and implications for professional development." Contemporary Nurse 16, no. 3 (April 2004): 195–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/conu.16.3.195.

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Ohr, Se Ok, Vicki Parker, Sarah Jeong, and Terry Joyce. "Migration of nurses in Australia: where and why?" Australian Journal of Primary Health 16, no. 1 (2010): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py09051.

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The Australian health care workforce has benefited from an increasing migration of nurses over the past decades. The nursing profession is the largest single health profession, making up over half of the Australian health care workforce. Migration of nurses into the Australian nursing workforce impacts significantly on the size of the workforce and the capacity to provide health care to the Australian multicultural community. Migration of nurses plays an important role in providing a solution to the ongoing challenges of workforce attraction and retention, hence an understanding of the factors contributing to nurse migration is important. This paper will critically analyse factors reported to impact on migration of nurses to Australia, in particular in relation to: (1) globalisation; (2) Australian society and nursing workforce; and (3) personal reasons. The current and potential implications of nurse migration are not limited to the Australian health care workforce, but also extend to political, socioeconomic and other aspects in Australia.

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Twigg, Diane E., Christine Duffield, and Gemma Evans. "The critical role of nurses to the successful implementation of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards." Australian Health Review 37, no. 4 (2013): 541. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah12013.

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The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards requires health service compliance by 2013 and covers several areas including governance arrangements, partnerships with consumers and eight key clinical processes. Nurses in Australia comprise 62% of the hospital workforce, are the largest component and hence play a critical role in meeting these standards and improving the quality of patient care. Several of the standards are influenced by nursing interventions, which incorporate any direct-care treatment that the nurse performs for a patient that may be nurse or physician initiated. The ability for nurses to undertake these interventions is influenced by the hours of care available, the skill mix of the nursing workforce and the environment in which they practice. Taking into consideration the predicted nursing shortages, the challenge to successfully implement the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards will be great. This paper examines the role of nursing in the delivery of the National Standards, analyses the evidence with regard to nursing-sensitive outcomes and discusses the implications for health service decision makers and policy. What is known about the topic? The National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards have been endorsed for implementation by the Australian Health Ministers. Compliance with the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards is required by Health Services in 2013. Nurses play a critical role in providing high-quality patient care and meeting accreditation standards. A decline in nursing standards is associated with inadequate staffing levels and skill mix and a lack of effective leadership and results in an increase in patient mortality. What does this paper add? The role of nurses in achieving compliance with the standards is discussed. We demonstrate that the capacity for nurses to undertake interventions is influenced by prevailing workforce characteristics. Significant nursing shortages have been identified as possible challenges to successfully implementing the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards. What are the implications for practitioners? Practitioners need to review nursing hours of care, skill mix and the practice environment as part of the actions required to achieve the National Quality and Safety Standards. The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has the opportunity to take the lead by including such indicators in the measurement of hospital performance.

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Henderson, Emily J., and Gideon A. Caplan. "Home Sweet Home? Community Care for Older People in Australia." Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 9, no. 2 (February 2008): 88–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2007.11.010.

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O'Donnell, Carol. "Policy, Funding and Management Strategies to Promote Health, Community-based Rehabilitation and Regional Development in Australia." Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling 8, no. 2 (January 2002): 81–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1323892200000557.

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People with disabilities comprise 19% of the Australian population. Normalisation, human rights, community-based rehabilitation and mutual obligation policies are consistent. All require broadly conceptualised services which develop the potential and capacities of people with disabilities, to enable their self-determination and social integration. There is commitment to a national platform of standards for health and environment protection. Regionally pooled funding and separate management streams for accommodation and services for the aged would facilitate coordinated and transparent management of all accommodation, health and disability funds. Elected government representatives and universities appear well placed to assist the broad, regionally planned approach to resolving community health problems which area health service managers and others have commenced.

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Moselhy, Manal Mohamed. "Nursing Students' Perception Regarding Community Health Nursing Practical Modules Experience, at the Faculty of Nursing, Modern University for Technology and Information, Egypt." Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice 14, no. 2 (June 9, 2021): 104–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/jdnp-d-20-00048.

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BackgroundLearning depends not only upon how teachers have designed and structured their subjects and courses but also upon how their students perceive and understand this design and structure. Understanding student's level of perception with their clinical education forms a basis of determining the quality of nursing education.ObjectiveAssess nursing students' perception of their learning experience with community health nursing practical modules.MethodsCross-sectional descriptive study, the convenience sample included 149 students studying a community health nursing practical course at the Faculty of Nursing affiliated to Modern University for Technology and Information. Three tools were used; (a) interviewing questionnaire regarding demographic characteristics. (b) Undergraduate modules experience questionnaire and (c) Student evaluation of clinical education environment inventory.ResultsStudents' total perception mean scores regarding the practical modules experience questionnaire was (79.82%), and different community clinical learning environment, family health centers (82.01%), schools (76. 83%), and geriatric homes (79. 29%) with statistical significance differences p ≤ .042. Furthermore, significant relationship was found between students' academic achievement and total perception of the Undergraduate Modules Experience Questionnaire (UMEQ) and its subscales, Good Teaching, Intellectual Motivation (p ≤ .01), Clear goals and standards and Generic Skills (p ≤ .04), Appropriate Assessment and Overall Satisfaction (p ≤ .05).ConclusionNursing students revealed a higher positive perception of community health nursing practical modules experiences. However, there was few areas are required for improving quality of the practical modules.Implications for nursing educationIncreasing period of students' clinical training exposure, teaching the skills of effective time management as well as increasing number of the academic staff in the community health nursing department are recommended strategies for improving quality of community health nursing practical modules.

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Burgell, Bob. "A rejoinder: the real story of the H&CS Enterprise Competency Standards." Children Australia 18, no. 3 (1993): 31–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200003552.

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The article ‘A Word Salad - Enterprise Based Competencies in Child Protection’, Children Australia 18 (2) 1993 by Dr. Lesley Cooper, examines the Victorian Department of Health and Community Services (H&CS) Skills Enhancement Project (SEP). H&CS plainly rejects the negative criticisms of the skill analysis work which the article espouses.

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O'Keefe, E. J. "The evolution of sexual health nursing in Australia: a literature review." Sexual Health 2, no. 1 (2005): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh04010.

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Background: The purpose of this paper is to describe and encapsulate the elements of the sexual health nurse’s role in Australia. In Australia, sexual health nursing is a fast evolving speciality operating within a climate of diverse role expectations, settings and population groups. Today’s health care climate demands that nurses’ roles and their impact on patient care be held up to scrutiny. Methods: A literature review was conducted that used descriptive analysis to elicit the recurrent themes appearing in the Australian sexual health nursing literature that would describe the role. Results: A model of sexual health nursing was evident with the two primary themes of professional responsibility and patient care. The professional role included a philosophy of sharing nursing experiences, collaboration, employment in multiple settings, and the development of the role into advanced practice, appropriate academic and clinical preparation and a commitment to research. The patient care role included the provision of individual and holistic patient care, ability to access specific at-risk groups, clinical effectiveness, patient education and community development roles. Conclusion: Australian sexual health nurses make a specific and measurable contribution to the health care system. They are likely to continue to advance their role supported by appropriate research that validates their models of practice, continues their philosophy of sharing their experiences and that documents the impact they have on the health outcomes of individuals and populations.

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Clare, Judith, Susan Mann, Charmaine Power, Tess Byrnes, and Ailsa n'ha Winifreyda. "The Continuing Challenge: Nursing's Response to Primary Health Care." Australian Journal of Primary Health 3, no. 3 (1997): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py97022.

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An innovative project which aims to balance acute care and community health care in the clinical experience for students in a generic baccalaureate nursing program, is outlined. The ways in which nurses in community practice and academia can work together to ensure that primary health care (PHC) becomes a philosophy used for guiding nursing practice, is demonstrated. The aims of the project are to gather sufficient information on which to base curricula change to the undergraduate baccalaureate nursing program, as well as to assess the employment outcomes for this group of graduate nurses. The paper sets the context for the project by providing a brief historical review that highlights the relevance and necessity of PHC as a framework for nursing. The ways in which nurses in community practice and nurses in academia can work together to ensure that primary health care (PHC) becomes a philosophy used for guiding nursing practice is discussed. Through an innovative partnership between the School of Nursing, Flinders University of South Australia (FUSA) and Noarlunga Health Services, curriculum changes ensure that nursing students experience a balance of theory and practice in both the community and acute clinical fields, and that the curriculum is underpinned by PHC philosophy and principles.

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Thompson, Delamie, Ann Smith, Terry Hallom, and E. Durrenberger. "Power, Rhetoric, and Partnership: Primary Health Care and Pie in the Sky." Human Organization 58, no. 1 (March 1, 1999): 94–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/humo.58.1.554247552x7qw3h1.

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Talk of "partnerships" between communities and primary health care professionals is widely recognized as a valuable selling point of programs competing for grant dollars and community sites. How the partnership manifests itself varies. Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to a school of nursing, one such program was presented to a Chicago community as having two equal goals: delivery of primary health care to the community; and the education of nursing students. Community Health Advocates were hired to work in the center with a registered nurse to facilitate access to the local neighborhood. This core group maintains the daily functions of the center and are the first three authors of this paper. Nursing students and faculty from the university provide services at the site on the university's schedule to meet the university's goals. In this paper the core staff reflects on the experience and discusses the clash of professional and community standards, objectives, and perspectives, which results in fragmented service

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Ho, G., S. Dallas, M. Anda, and K. Mathew. "On-site wastewater technologies in Australia." Water Science and Technology 44, no. 6 (September 1, 2001): 81–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2001.0346.

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Domestic wastewater reuse is currently not permitted anywhere in Australia but is widely supported by the community, promoted by researchers, and improvised by up to 20% of householders. Its widespread implementation will make an enormous contribution to the sustainability of water resources. Integrated with other strategies in the outdoor living environment of settlements in arid lands, great benefit will be derived. This paper describes six options for wastewater reuse under research by the Remote Area Developments Group (RADG) at Murdoch University and case studies are given where productive use is being made for revegetation and food production strategies at household and community scales. Pollution control techniques, public health precautions and maintenance requirements are described. The special case of remote Aboriginal communities is explained where prototype systems have been installed by RADG to generate windbreaks and orchards. New Australian design standards and draft guidelines for domestic greywater reuse produced by the Western Australian State government agencies for mainstream communities are evaluated. It is recommended that dry composting toilets be coupled with domestic greywater reuse and the various types available in Australia are described. For situations where only the flushing toilet will suffice the unique “wet composting” system can be used and this also is described. A vision for household and community-scale on-site application is presented.

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Rao, Hamna. "Reforms Needed in Aged Patient’s Care." International Journal of Frontier Sciences 2, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 56–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.37978/tijfs.v2i1.34.

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Today’s health workforce is constantly engaged to enhance the standards of healthcare services and ensuring comprehensive healthcare standards to the community. Queensland’s health workforce is Australia’s second largest health workforce (1) and serving proportionately in all areas of QLD, making efforts to make health better by making research, surveys and developmental planning in rural and regional areas. Aged Care is currently the most concerned health issue among OECD countries (2) as aged population continues to grow and it’s challenging for Australian health sector to meet the standards of quality care in provision of aged care health services. As per Australian Institute of Health and Welfare statistics it is projected that Australia will constitute 22% of aged population in next 30 years (AIHW).

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Mann, Susan, and Tess Byrnes. "Capacity Building and Community Enrichment: Evaluation for Sustainability." Australian Journal of Primary Health 5, no. 3 (1999): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py99032.

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Evaluation is a continuing dilemma in health promotion initiatives. However, for projects to be sustained effective indicators and tools need to be implemented in order for resources and funding to be channeled into such enterprises. The capacity building model developed by New South Wales Health (1998) provided one model for evaluating a collaborative endeavor between the School of Nursing, Flinders University and Noarlunga Health Services, a generic community health centre in the southern urban/rural area of South Australia. The Community Enrichment Program (CEP), is in the final year of a four year funded project that aimed, in part, to determine what impact an integrated knowledge of Primary Health Care (PHC) would have on students and new graduates' nursing practice and, whether enough evidence would be generated to effect ongoing curriculum change. This paper considers capacity building in relation to the CEP and how the Ottawa Charter and the Jakarta Declaration are supported by this ideal. Argument is forwarded that workforce development, organizational structure and resource allocation, seen as tenets of capacity building, have been demonstrated in the CEP. Recommendations flowing from the project include the allocation of resources into a sustained, overt and integration of PHC philosophy and health promotion principles into nursing curriculum.

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Macdonald, John, and Janine Smith. "Evidence-based health care and community nursing:issues and challenges." Australian Health Review 24, no. 3 (2001): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah010133.

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This paper examines the implications of the movement towards evidence-based health care for community-based,primary health care nursing in Australia. While both aim to improve health status, we argue that they are antitheticalin many respects. Community nurse practitioners draw upon primary health care principles and adopt a holistic,preventive, empowering approach to working with and in communities. By contrast, evidence-based approaches utilisesystematic reviews of primarily quantitative research to inform decisions about health at three levels: public health, thehealth care system, and individual patients. In response to this challenge, community nurses must reiterate theirphilosophies and practice models. Moreover, it is imperative to produce verifiable evidence of the effectiveness of theirapproach while mounting a thorough critique of the evidence-based movement.

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Cheluvappa, Rajkumar, and Selwyn Selvendran. "Palliative Care Nursing in Australia and the Role of the Registered Nurse in Palliative Care." Nursing Reports 12, no. 3 (August 12, 2022): 589–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nursrep12030058.

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The registered nurse has crucial preventative, therapeutic, sociocultural, and advocacy roles in promoting quality holistic patient-centred palliative care. This paper examines, describes, and analyses this multifaceted role from an antipodean perspective. We conducted systematic searches using PubMed, Google Scholar, government guidelines, authoritative body regulations, quality control guidelines, and government portals pertaining to palliative care nursing in Australia. This paper relies upon the information garnered from publications, reports, and guidelines resulting from these searches and analyses. The fundamental principles and guiding values of palliative care (and nursing) and the raison d’etre for palliative care as a discipline are underscored and expanded on. Australian Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) pertaining to palliative end-of-life (EOL) nursing care and associated services are discussed. The relevant NMBA nursing standards that RNs need to have to administer opioids/narcotics in palliative care are summarised. The identification of patients who need EOL care, holistic person-centred care planning for them, and consultative multidisciplinary palliative clinical decision making are discussed in the palliative care context. Several components of advance care planning apropos health deterioration and conflicts are discussed. Several aspects of EOL care, especially palliative nursing care, are analysed using research evidence, established nursing and palliative care standards, and the Australian EOL CPGs.

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Hovenga, Evelyn J. S. "Nursing Classification and Terminology Systems." Health Information Management 31, no. 1 (March 2003): 25–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183335830303100111.

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A number of terminologies exist that represent concepts of relevance to nurses, although none of these is in use by Australian nurses. Without consensus, nursing language and definitions incorporated in clinical information systems now being implemented will continue to vary considerably. The result will be an inability to compare nursing practice, or to aggregate data for research purposes, or to collect national statistical data to demonstrate the significance of nurses' contributions to health care. This article provides an international historical overview of nursing terminology developments relative to what is happening in Australia, brief reviews of the many available nursing terminologies, an update of this work relative to activities being undertaken towards the development and adoption of standards, and a discussion about desirable future research and development activities.

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Tabrizi, Jafar Sadegh, and Farid Gharibi. "Primary healthcare accreditation standards: a systematic review." International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance 32, no. 2 (March 11, 2019): 310–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa-02-2018-0052.

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Purpose Accreditation is an essential component in primary healthcare (PHC) systems. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the most suitable PHC accreditation models and standards, worldwide, and to prepare a comprehensive and unbiased summary from research on these models. Design/methodology/approach A systematic search was undertaken using Web of Science, Scopus, Science Direct, Springer, PubMed and ProQuest databases in August 2016 and updated in January 2018. English language studies addressing PHC accreditation standards and models, published between 1995 and January 2018, were included, resulting in 9051 citations. After excluding duplicates and irrelevant studies, 19 were included in the final review. Two independent reviewers critically appraised the studies. Consequently, accreditation standards in the models were extracted and compared. Findings Results indicate that USA, Australia, Canada, UK and New Zealand (non-eastern Mediterranean regions (EMR)) and Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Egypt (EMR) had well-developed and high-quality PHC accreditation models. The Jordanian, Egyptian and Saudi models had the highest diversity in their PHC standards domains. Community-oriented care, safe care, high-quality care, care continuity and human resource management had the highest priority among PHC accreditation programs. Originality/value The authors provide PHC accreditation benchmarks and determine high priority practical domains in accreditation standards. The findings should help health system managers and policymakers design new PHC accreditation programs and promote PHC service quality.

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Beniston, Joanne. "Tavistock Neighbourhood Nursing Network: collaboration across settings." British Journal of Community Nursing 25, no. 3 (March 2, 2020): 122–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.12968/bjcn.2020.25.3.122.

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The modern matron role in Tavistock has been developed to extend beyond the community hospital to oversee the provision of high-quality care across community nursing services by promoting a collaborative approach to learning and development, via the establishment of a Neighbourhood Nursing Network (NNN). The Tavistock NNN helps nurses to support each other to improve practice and work collaboratively. The aim is to target health promotion and ill health prevention where it will be most effective in order to make services sustainable for the future, including engaging with young people for the purpose of preventing illness. By being part of the network, the nurses have greater power to identify patients or groups of patients at risk of health inequalities and develop innovative ways to promote good health and prevent ill health. The project aims to ensure that high-quality care is delivered throughout the neighbourhood, giving patients and residents the confidence that standards will be consistent in all settings. The network has removed barriers between nursing services and facilitated multidisciplinary working for the benefit of the community they serve.

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Kaskoun, Jeannine, and Ellen McCabe. "Perceptions of School Nurses in Addressing Student Mental Health Concerns: An Integrative Review." Journal of School Nursing 38, no. 1 (October 12, 2021): 35–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10598405211046223.

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Mental health disorders in school-aged children are on the rise. The need for mental health care is well recognized, and the provision of this care in schools is recommended. An integrative review explored how school nurses view their role in addressing students’ mental health. Fourteen articles were identified, eleven using a qualitative design and three using a quantitative design. Findings suggest that school nurses see their role as trusted members of the school community. They perceive upholding standards of practice as an integral part of their position and recognize competence in mental health care to be highly important. Practice recommendations include providing school nurses with evidence-based training on managing the mental health needs of students, as well as ensuring access to school nurses who can provide mental health supervision in the community.

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Elsom, Stephen, Brenda Happell, Elizabeth Manias, and Tim Lambert. "Expanded Practice Roles for Community Mental Health Nurses: A Qualitative Exploration of Psychiatrists’ Views." Australasian Psychiatry 15, no. 4 (August 2007): 324–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10398560701344808.

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Objective: The aim of this paper was to explore the perspectives of psychiatrists regarding the potential impact of expanded nursing practice roles on mental health care delivery. Method: In-depth interviews and a focus group were conducted with psychiatrists from metropolitan and rural Victoria, Australia, using a qualitative exploratory design. Results: Four main themes emerged: nurses’ preparation to undertake expanded practice; power and autonomy of nurses; final responsibility rests with psychiatrists; and, the future of expanded nursing practice. Participant responses to these themes were varied and diverse. Conclusions: Participant responses elucidate the complexity of the issues and suggest that a number of factors influence psychiatrists’ opinions of the expanded practice role.

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Johnson, Maree, Rhonda Griffiths, Margaret Piper, and Rachel Langdon. "Risk Factors for an Untoward Medication Event Among Elders in Community-Based Nursing Caseloads in Australia." Public Health Nursing 22, no. 1 (January 2005): 36–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0737-1209.2005.22106.x.

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Taing, Meng-Wong, Pauline J. Ford, and Christopher Freeman. "Community pharmacy staff needs for the provision of oral health care education and advice in Australia." Journal of the American Pharmacists Association 60, no. 6 (November 2020): 993–1000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.japh.2020.08.005.

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Brodie, Pat, and Lesley Barclay. "Contemporary issues in Australian midwifery regulation." Australian Health Review 24, no. 4 (2001): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah010103.

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This paper reports on research that examined the Nurses' Acts, regulations and current policies of each state and territory in Australia, in order to determine their adequacy in regulating the education and practice of midwifery. This is part of a three-year study (Australian Midwifery Action Project) set up to identify and investigate barriers to midwifery within the provision of mainstream maternity services in Australia. Through an in-depth examination and comparison of key factors in the various statutes, the paper identifies their effect on contemporary midwifery roles and practices. The work assessed whether the current regulatory system that subsumes midwifery into nursing is adequate in protecting the public appropriately and ensuring that minimum professional standards are met. This is of particular importance in Australia, where many maternity health care services are seeking to maximise midwives' contributions through the development of new models of care that increase midwives' autonomy and level of accountability.

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