Collegian
Volume 14, Issue 4 , Pages 2-3, 2007

Practice Nursing in Australia: Whose Responsibility?

  • Elizabeth Patterson, RN PhD

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing & Midwifery, Griffith University, Queensland
  • ,
  • Elizabeth Halcomb, RN, PhD BN(Hons)

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, University of Western Sydney, New South Wales
  • ,
  • Patricia Davidson, RN, PhD FRCNA

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing and Midwifery, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia

Article Outline

No abstract is available. To read the body of this article, please view the PDF online.

 

Back to Article Outline

References 

  1. Australian Government Department of Health & Ageing. Nursing in general practice. Retrieved from http://www.health.gov.au/internet/wcms/Publishing.nsf/Content/health-pcd-programs-nursing-index.htm
  2. Keleher H , Joyce C , Parker R , Piterman L . Practice nurses in Australia: Current issues and future directions . Medical Journal of Australia . 2007;187(2):108–110
  3. Halcomb E , Patterson E , Davidson P . Evolution of practice nursing in Australia . Journal of Advanced Nursing . 2006;53(3):376–390
  4. Halcomb, E. (2006). Carving a niche for Australian practice nurses in chronic heart failure management”. PhD thesis, Australia: University of Western Sydney.
  5. Pascoe T , Foley E , Hutchinson R , Watts I , Whitecross L , Snowdon T . The changing face of nurses in Australian general practice . Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing . 2005;23(1):44–50
  6. Patterson, E.A. (2000) Primary health care nursing: A case study of practice nurses. PhD thesis, Australia: Griffith University.
  7. Woodard V . Comment on Halcomb E, Patterson E & Davidson P. Evolution of practice nursing in Australia . Journal of Advanced Nursing . 2006;53(3):388–390
  8. World Health Organisation (2003). The World Health Report 2003 – shaping the future. Retrieved from www.who.int/whr/2003/en/

PII: S1322-7696(08)60563-6

doi:10.1016/S1322-7696(08)60563-6

Collegian
Volume 14, Issue 4 , Pages 2-3, 2007