Nuritinga is a special journal. There are many nursing journals but Nuritinga specifically provides a showcase for student work. Nursing students are bright, articulate and seriously concerned with health, this is after all the reason they want to be become nurses. They have important insights to offer to the nursing world. In addition, registered nurses are increasingly expected to publish in order to share knowledge and understandings with colleagues. Publishing is also one way nurses can prove intellectual engagement when seeking advancement within the profession.
For these reasons it is important that students are encouraged to publish their work. Nuritinga accepts papers from all nursing students at all levels of their undergraduate and postgraduate studies. Papers are reviewed and writers are given feedback on their submissions. The quality of submitted work is high and we are delighted to have had the opportunity to publish a solid body of quality student work on a wide range of subjects over the past few years.
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Total: 2 articles
Melissa Harwood, 3rd Year Undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing Student, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith Univeristy, Logan, QLD
Since the early 1990’s newly graduated Registered Nurses in Australia have struggled with the transition from the protected ‘thinking orientated’ environment of academia to the clinical ‘practice orientated’ environment in the real world of nursing. The current educational system no longer fosters the traditional and informal passing down of knowledge and clinical expertise that was evident in hospital based training. Due to increased student nurse enrolments hospitals have trouble placing the increased number of students – therefore less clinical placements are available and students are completing degrees with minimal clinical exposure. The theory-practice divide that exists has created disparity between the expectation of the workplace and how well graduates are prepared for it. The need for graduates to ‘hit the ground running’ has manifested into a phenomenon coined ‘Transition Shock’ where the fear of making a mistake and feeling unsafe can be crippling to a new graduates confidence and self-image. Professional socialisation, the students ability to assimilate to the workforce environment, is identifed as a potential buffer to Transition Shock, as are Graduate Nurse Programs, both of which are explored in this informative essay.
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Tyson Lewis, Bachelor of Nursing 1st year, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Victoria University
Differences in culture can become apparent when families seek out or require access to health care in Australia. The importance of family health care is that it aims to strengthen and support families, prevent illness and manage risks (Barnes & Rowe 2009). Given that the health status of Indigenous Australians is reported as among the worst of any group in the so-called “first world” (ABS 2005) it would appear that there is a disparity between health outcomes of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians resultant of these cultural differences. This paper focuses on, with relation to Indigenous Australian families, why there is a health disparity, Aboriginal health beliefs, Western health beliefs, worldviews and cultural vitality in order to ascertain if in fact these cultural differences can and do affect family’s access to health care.
Authorised by Head of School, Nursing and Midwifery
22 August, 2011
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