Welcome to the second edition of Handover. Handover is being distributed to make it easy for members to stay up to date with news, events, forums, polls and other things from NurseCentral.
I would also be very happy to hear from you if you would like to see different things included in Handover. Please feel free to post in the Suggestion Forum if you have ideas. I hope you enjoy this edition of Handover.
Recent Happenings
The first edition of Handover was well received and I received a number
Best Forum Topic
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Congratulations to nursemorgan on the topic " aboriginal womens business and male midwives" while it hasn't received much of a response yet, it was the most interesting new topic. A Lanyard is on the way.
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of positive comments. Over the next few editions I will be trying some new things, so please let me know what you think.
I would like to introduce a section in the newsletter and probably on the website for contributions from members. If you have something you would like to let other nurses see such as poetry, article, action research results, short story, artwork or something else, please send them to me and I will include the best in future editions.
I have started a Forum Topic on the Handover format , so please tell me what email program you use, how the Handover email looks for you and if there are any particular problems. If it's possible, we might be able to tweak further to cover as many email clients as possible.
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Upcoming Events Medical Imaging Nurses - QLD State Conference Saturday 8 April 2006 _________________________ If you have an event that you would like advertised on NurseCentral and in Handover, see the Advertising Rates here. NB: Mention you saw this promotion and receive a 50% discount for events placed in December 05.
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Poll Results Should Australia be recruiting nurses from 3rd World Countries?
Yes - not our concern – 0%
Yes - good for the nurse – 12%
Undecided – 15%
No - bad for their country – 42% No - not trained well enough anyway – 31% Have you voted in the Current Poll? Please vote to help give me an understanding of what sort of news the NurseCentral readers would prefer to be reading here. What sort of news do you want to read on NurseCentral?
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Latest Nursing News
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Nurse reality show (USA)
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Liberals plan to ease nurse shortage
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SA Public Sector Scholarships
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Bureaucratic landscape a chance to make a difference
EVALUATING the guidelines governing nurse practitioners (NPs) in women's health in a major area health service recently, a medical expert complained that they were "discriminatory" because the practitioner did not see male patients. Read more...
Nurse retention rates a worry, says federation
The Australian Nursing Federation in Tasmania has warned the state is losing more nurses. Read more...
Nurse found guilty of misconduct
An Auckland nurse has been found guilty of professional misconduct following the death of a patient at a Putaruru rest home two years ago. Read more...