Consumer participation in acute care settings: An Australian experience

Nurses in Australian acute care settings: experiences with and outcomes of e-health. An integrative review

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines e-health as the “use of information and communication technology for health” [1]. The use of e-health, including electronic medical records (EMR), is a growing trend. This integrative review of the literature examines nurses’ experiences of e-health in Australian acute care settings. A search of the literature identified 21 papers for inclusion in thi...

Transforming Cancer Survivorship Care: An Australian Experience

The number of cancer survivors is increasing, worldwide. In Australia, the number of people with a personal history of cancer now exceeds one million (over 4% of the country’s population). Survivorship challenges are similar internationally: growing numbers of survivors, broad range of issues that survivors may experience, and limited health workforce. Current models of care do not adequately i...

Consumer-to-Consumer Conversations in Service Settings

This article contributes, in two ways, to our understanding of the nature, scope, and significance of conversations between strangers in service environments. First, a framework is introduced that provides both academics and practitioners with a summary of the key issues associated with the stimuli, manifestations, and consequences of such conversations. Second, the article reports a market-ori...

Strategies for nutritional care in acute settings.

Many reports have highlighted the challenges to nutritional care that older people can face when they are in hospital. Nurses can influence and implement effective nutritional care for hospitalised older people. People at risk of malnutrition should be identified through screening and people who require help to eat and drink should receive appropriate help. This article explores some of the pra...

Enabling compassionate care in acute hospital settings