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

List of contents

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

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Alister Hodge, Alister Varndell Hodge, Wayne Varndell, Roianne West
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367719067
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71906-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Australia, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Nursing / General, MEDICAL / Nursing / Fundamentals & Skills, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Nursing fundamentals and skills, Nursing fundamentals & skills