Understanding the Australian Health Care System
Understanding the Australian Health Care System

Author: Helen Keleher

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2008-10-30

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0729578615

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The text provides an overview of the Australian Health Care System at a level suitable for 1st year undergraduate students. It describes the 'architecture' of the system and its key components (public hospital sector, private hospital and health insurance, GPs and primary care, community health, public health), some of the things that shape the system and introduces key concepts that underpin it such as the idea of the welfare state or a universal health system.

General Practice
General Practice

Author: John Murtagh

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 1296

ISBN-13:

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From a leading figure in Australian medicine comes this edition of thi s immmensely user-friendly reference that employs a symptom-based appr oach to clinical practice. For the full range of conditions met in pri mary practice, you'll review approach to the patient, the physical exa m, probable causes, differential diagnosis, and treatment strategies. Throughout, Dr. Murtagh adds his own clinical pearls that are both ins ightful and a delight to read. Superb illustrations demonstrate examin ation technqiue and abundant use of tables and charts makes diagnosis quick and easy. Most importantly, the clinical insights of internation ally recognized authority Dr. John Murtagh make this a unique and usef ul resource for the physician, nurse practitioner or physician assista nt.

Nursing and Midwifery Portfolios
Nursing and Midwifery Portfolios

Author: Kate Andre

Publisher: Elsevier Australia

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0729540782

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Portfolios are a tool of increasing significance across the health professions in meeting the demands of contemporary regulation of professional competence. "Professional Portfolios: Evidence of Competency for Nurses and Midwives" is the first book written specifically for the Australian and New Zealand market that demonstrates the relationship between portfolios and regulation. The book offers background information on the need for and benefits of portfolios and a range of approaches and formats to communicate progress towards education for entry to practice for students of midwifery and nursing programs, continuing professional development, performance review, renewal of practice certificates and career review and planning. A key strength of this book is the way it facilitates an understanding about the rationales in portfolio design and the integration of the relevant professional standards. The book addresses the concept of evidence and examines its role in making claims to achievement of competence and learning. A further strength is the inclusion of the potential for portfolios to assist with performance review and career planning, making this book a useful resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, practicing clinicians and educators.

Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Anesthetists: The Evolution of the Global Roles
Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Anesthetists: The Evolution of the Global Roles

Author: Sophia L. Thomas

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-06-05

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 3031207629

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As the only book of its kind, this publication provides students, clinicians, researchers, ministries of health, and others with a valuable, thorough, and focused understanding of the development of the nurse practitioner (NP) and nurse anesthetist (NA), two advanced practice nursing roles which have improved access to care and healthcare outcomes as bilateral role development has progressed internationally. As the two roles have significant clinical differences, the book will appraise each role separately within two sections utilizing different approaches. After a thorough platform of defining and describing each role, including history and origins, education, practice, regulation, and leadership, the book guides by example, utilizing unique country case studies divided by WHO regions as exemplars for international role development as well as an outlook for the future of advanced practice nursing on the global stage. The book expands on the tenets and principles as outlined in the ICN Guidelines on Advanced Practice Nursing for Nurse Practitioners (2020) and Nurse Anesthetists (2021), providing the reader with an internationally vetted and accepted comprehension of the roles, guiding and inspiring future role development to improve global health care.