Educational Needs of Rural Nurses when Entering Practice

Educational Needs of Rural Nurses

Professional development needs of general practice nurses.

The Australian general practice nurse workforce has grown exponentially in recent years as a consequence of supportive government policy and the increasing burden of chronic and complex disease in the community. This descriptive survey sought to identify the educational and professional development needs of NSW practice nurses. A total of 231 nurses employed within 12 NSW Divisions of General P...

Addressing children's mental health needs: educational preparation of advanced practice nurses.

I n 1999, the President’s New Freedom Commission Report reported that nearly 14 million children were in need of mental health services, but the vast majority of these youth did not receive care. One underlying cause of the system failure was the shortage of providers for children with mental health needs, a shortage that continues, particularly among clinicians who prescribe psychiatric medica...

Practice nurses: characteristics, workload and training needs.

AIM This study set out to identify the present and future training needs of practice nurses in South West Thames Regional Health Authority and to examine these needs within the nurses' current and changing workloads and social, educational and occupational profiles. METHOD A questionnaire was sent to 899 practice staff identified by family health services authority records whose salaries were...

Procedural skills practice and training needs of doctors, nurses, midwives and paramedics in rural Victoria

INTRODUCTION Procedural skills are a significant component of clinical practice. Doctors, nurses, midwives and paramedics are trained to use a variety of procedural skills. Rural clinicians in particular are often required to maintain competence in some procedural skills that are used infrequently, and which may require regular and repeated rehearsal. This paper reports on a research project co...