Nursing: Practice Nursing Within the Australian Health Care System (HLTENN001)

The Australian Health Care System by Stephen Duckett

Fast Facts about the Nursing Profession by Deborah Dolan Hunt ""Fast Facts about the Nursing Profession" is a brief, accessible, and very informative text in the Fast Facts series, which provides practitioners with vital information leading to success in clinical practice.Clearly and intelligently written, Fast Facts is replete with well-known information and more esoteric facts about the subject under consideration.

Introduction to health psychology in Australia by Val Morrison; Paul Bennett; Phyllis Butow; Barbara Mullan; Louise Sharpe. This text provides a comprehensive and balanced coverage of health psychology from an Australian and international perspective. With coverage across all mainstream health topics with analyses and evaluations of contemporary issues, the authors present issues then introduce theory and research evidence to assess relevant interventions.

Nurses of Australia by Deborah Burrows From the First Nation caregivers who healed, birthed and nursed for millennia to the untrained and ill-equipped convict men and women who cared for the sick in the fledgling colony of New South Wales, nursing has been practised in Australia since the beginning. It would take the arrival of a group of dedicated Irish nuns, followed by Florence Nightingale-trained nurses-and decades of constant and continuing campaigning-to transform nursing into what it is today: the most trusted profession in Australia.

Professional Transitions in Nursing: a guide to practice in the Australian healthcare system by Alister Hodge; Wayne Varndell The essential knowledge and skills required of nurse graduates entering the Australian workforce.

Understanding the Australian Health Care System by Eileen Willis (Editor); Louise Reynolds (Editor); Trudy Judge (Editor) Understanding the Australian Health Care System 4e is the essential guide to the complexities of health care in Australia. Key theoretical concepts and current issues along with the structures and policies influencing health care professionals are explored by leading experts led by authors, Eileen Willis, Louise Reynolds and Trudy Rudge. The text is divided into two sections. The first is about the multiple systems, services and schemes that make up health care in Australia.