Flexible Needs led Community COPDOutreach Service

Nurses’ experience establishing a nurse‐led bladder cancer surveillance flexible cystoscopy service AUTHORS

Managing medical service delivery gaps in a socially disadvantaged rural community: a Nurse Practitioner led clinic

Objective The aim of this pilot project was to investigate how Nurse Practitioners (NP) manage medical service delivery gaps in a socio‐disadvantaged rural Victorian region. Design A cross‐sectional study utilising data from patient consultations that took place at the Nurse Practitioner Community Clinic (NPCC) over six months in 2013 and patient satisfaction survey. Setting The NPCC is a rural...

Preschool growth and nutrition service – addressing common nutritional problems: a community based, primary care led intervention

Childhood obesity has been prioritised by the World Health Organization in a recent report, which calls for a holistic multiagency approach to tackling and reducing future risks of obesity and its associated co-morbidities. This article examines a health service approach to improving recognition and management of pre-school nutritional problems as part of training health care professionals. It ...

Wellness works: community service health promotion groups led by occupational therapy students.

OBJECTIVE In the context of a group process course, occupational therapy students learned health promotion skills through working on personal wellness goals and leading community-based health promotion groups. The groups targeted topics such as smoking cessation, improving diet, reducing stress through yoga, meditation, tai chi chuan, ROM (Range of Motion) Dance, aerobics, and a variety of othe...

Nurse-led liaison psychiatry service for older adults: service evaluation

recognition of psychosomatic disorders. Liaison psychiatry demands a different set of specialised skills to those required in general adult psychiatry. The liaison psychiatrist must be adept at assessing relevant physical findings in addition to mental state, at engaging individuals with somatic presentations of psychiatric illness and at managing those with psychiatric and physical comorbidity...