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: 4 articles
Heather Ladd, BN Student, Year 2, University of Tasmania
It is the students of nursing who will lead their discipline into an era of scientific advancement and professionalism (Radjenovic & Chally 1998, p.26). Therefore, it will be argued that, research and its methods should be taught to nursing students. There are a multitude of other reasons why research and its methods should be taught to students, some of which will be looked at in this paper. These reasons include; improving quality of client care, validating alternative medicines which enables client choice, allowing students to learn research processes in an environment which is safe, improving relations between the fields of nursing and medicine, allowing better utilization or decreasing costs to community health funding, and finally to allow nursing to continue to progress, into the future, as a profession.
Elizabeth van der Spek, BN Student, Year 2, University of Tasmania
The 1980's brought about changes in the delivery of health care. A number of services became available to help support elderly and disabled people in their homes. However, these were seen to be limited and fragmented.
The Home and Community Care Program was developed with the intention of extending and coordinating the delivery of these services. It has become evident though, that services provided by the HACC Program remain fragmented, which has led to the problem of duplication of services and the multiple assessment of clients. These problems raise doubts about the effectiveness and the efficiency of the Program.
Funding and allocation of services remain contentious issues. These limited resources are facing increasing demands from the early discharge of acute care hospital patients, from younger disabled people, and from the increasing number of frail elderly people living within the community. In addition, the question of whether the allocation of resources should be focused on the clinical aspects of care or the social aspects, which would enhance quality of life for the client, remains an issue.
Nicole Stoios, BN Student, Year 2, University of Tasmania
Intravenous therapy is now considered to be completely routine for nurses as they are involved in many of its aspects including managing intravenous cannulation and drug administration, and peripherally inserted central lines (Rogers 1997:546). As nurses have a growing responsibility in intravenous therapy and its management it is important that they anticipate the associated health risks, particularly those associated with peripheral intravenous cannulation devices (Fuller 1998:675). One potential problem associated with intravenous therapy, and perhaps the most frequent complication, is that of extravasation (Clarke 1997: 202; Jackson 1997: 22; Weinstein 1997: 524; Bohony 1993: 45; Springhouse Corporation 1993:132; Wood and Gullo 1993: 46).
Cassandra Sutton, BN Student, Year 2, University of Tasmania
The contribution of research to improved deliverance of quality health care is emerging as a widely recognized area known as evidence-based practice. The benefits of this approach to health care can be seen in a variety of fields within the discipline of nursing. In recent years, research regarding the reliability of different temperature measurements on different sites of the body has concentrated upon comparing new techniques and devices with established methods. Oral and axillary temperature-taking are both accepted methods of measuring temperature. Currently these established techniques are being compared to new techniques such as tympanic membrane temperature measurements to ascertain the reliability of both the new and accepted methods. In this process, comparisons and contrasts of axillary and oral findings often emerge. The results amongst several studies present both similar and different findings and the variability of research results is noted by many researchers. Factors such as clinical setting, age group and cost-effectiveness emerge as relevant considerations for practice.
Authorised by Head of School, Nursing and Midwifery
31 March, 2011
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