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The School of Nursing at the University of Adelaide brings together an energetic, enthusiastic group of nursing clinicians and academics interested in furthering the art and science of nursing.
Established in collaboration with Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1995, the School of Nursing has been delivering postgraduate clinical education to Registered Nurses around the world. In 2005 the teaching program was expanded to include undergraduate nursing. The School enjoys a vibrant, growing and stimulating research culture with doctoral, post doctoral and research opportunities for students, clinicians and staff.
Nursing at the University of Adelaide focuses on the real world of practice to improve the health of individuals and communities through developing nursing knowledge and advancing nursing practice.
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Item Metadata only An evaluation of approaches to assessing the quality of nursing care using (predetermined) quality assurance tools(Wiley, 1991) Harvey, G.This paper examines the implementation of four of the most common approaches to nursing quality assurance in England, namely Monitor, Qualpacs, nursing audits and a patient satisfaction questionnaire entitled 'What the Patient Thinks'. The primary aim of the study was to look more closely at the context, processes and outcomes of selecting and implementing specific quality assurance tools. Data were analysed at three distinct levels. The findings are presented around the structure of this three-level framework and indicate that the process of implementing a quality assurance tool is more important than the tool itself. It is suggested that a bottom-up approach to implementation, which locates ownership and control of the quality assurance tool with practitioners, is seen to result in more favourable staff responses and positive programme outcomes. The implementation of Qualpacs is used to illustrate some of the tensions that can occur between the inherent principles of the tool and the method of implementation. In studying the factors that might influence the method of implementing a quality assurance tool, a number of organizational and managerial factors are identified.Item Metadata only Brain death: The family in crisis(Churchill Livingstone, 1995) Evans, DavidBrain death has created a new class of dead people that does not conform to society's expectations of normal death and dying. Brain death also causes intense emotions and great stress for the family and friends of the person concerned. Nurses play a major role in helping the family through this distressing time by maintaining high standards of nursing care. Major components of this care include effective communication and caring that supports the family. While these families have a variety of special needs, it is the nurses' constant bedside presence that provides many opportunities to have a positive influence on family members' ability to cope with the tragedy and begin the healing process.Item Metadata only The practical implications of a critique of traditional science(Blackwell Science, 1995) Fitzgerald, MaryItem Metadata only A history of nursing development units(Scutari Press, 1995) Pearson, A.Item Metadata only Does clinical audit improve the quality of nursing care?(Royal Society of Medicine, 1995) Kitson, A.; Harvey, G.; Morrell, C.; Conference on Evaluating Clinical Audit - Past Lessons, Future Directions (27 Apr 1995 - 27 Apr 1995 : London, England); Walshe, K.Item Metadata only British Council "Quality Improvement in Nursing" Seminar(Oxford University Press (OUP), 1995) Kitson, A.; Harvey, G.; Duff, L.; Morrell, C.Item Metadata only The impact of exercise on a man's life span development(1996) Ruler, Amanda JaneItem Metadata only Capturing the experience of the clinical nurse specialist through phenomenology(David Lovell Publishing, 1996) Borbasi, Sally Ann; School of Population Health and Clinical Practice : NursingItem Metadata only Gender and nursing in colonial Victoria, 1840-1870(Nursing Standard Publications, 1996) Pearson, A.; Taylor, B.The role of the nurse in health care has been the subject of a debate over time which engages with the ambiguity about the role of the nurse, the boundaries of nursing work, and the question of the status of women and men within the profession. In this paper we report on a historical analysis of the nature of nursing work in colonial Victoria, Australia, which was undertaken in order to understand how the nursing role evolved and was socially constructed in early Australia. A significant absence of accounts of nurses between 1840 and 1870, and a lack of comparative analysis of male and female roles in nursing care in this period, suggested a need to reveal some of the social, political and economic influences on the delineation of nursing work and the relevance of these factors to the relationships between hospital staff. The study adopted three strategies or methods. First, the scattered and diffuse references to the origin and development of the role and function of the nurse in this were collated, particularly identifying nursing duties and the existing division of labour. Following this, hospital administrative structures were analysed. Finally, an interpretive methodology of textual analysis was employed and the portrayal of nursing in a number of texts, including hospital histories, annual reports and contemporary literature were examined. This provided us with a socio-cultural and historical perspective on the nature of nursing work in early Victoria.Item Metadata only Some thoughts on role boundaries in nursing(1996) Pearson, A.Item Metadata only Living the experience of being nursed: a phenomenological text(1996) Borbasi, Sally AnnItem Metadata only Integrating the arts into clinical care(1996) Ebbott, MaryItem Metadata only Philosophical hermeneutics and the project of Hans Georg Gadamer: implications for nursing research(1996) Walsh, Kenneth DavidItem Metadata only Tumor necrosis factor primes neutrophils to kill Staphylococcus aureus by an oxygen-dependent mechanism and Plasmodium falciparum by an oxygen-independent mechanism(AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY, 1996) Kowanko, I.; Ferrante, A.; Clemente, G.; Kumaratilake, L.The cytokine tumor necrosis factor (TNF) plays the important role of priming neutrophils for increased antimicrobial activity. We now demonstrate that human neutrophils which lack the ability to generate oxygen radicals, from patients with chronic granulomatous disease, show TNF-induced enhancement of killing of intraerythrocytic stages of Plasmodium falciparum but not of Staphylococcus aureus.Item Metadata only In praise of tall poppies: nursing's need for leadership(Ausmed, 1996) Pearson, A.; Borbasi, S.Item Metadata only Nursing Models for practice-Second edition(Butterworth Heinemann, 1996) Pearson, A.; Vaughan, B.; Fitzgerald, M.Item Metadata only Tumor necrosis factor priming of peripheral blood neutrophils from rheumatoid arthritis patients(PLENUM PUBL CORP, 1996) Kowanko, I.; Ferrante, A.; Clemente, G.; Youssef, P.; Smith, M.Recently it was shown that tumor necrosis factor-agr (TNF) receptors on neutrophils may be down-regulated after stimulation with proinflammatory mediators. Since in rheumatoid arthritis neutrophils are likely to encounter these mediators in the circulation, we tested the hypothesis that rheumatoid arthritis neutrophil TNF receptors are down-regulated. Peripheral blood neutrophils from patients with rheumatoid arthritis and healthy subjects were compared with respect to their TNF binding activity and ability to be primed by TNF. There were no differences between rheumatoid arthritis and control neutrophils in receptor-mediated TNF binding, superoxide release in response to agonist, and TNF priming of this respiratory burst or in the ability to degrade cartilagein vitro and TNF priming for increased cartilage damage. It is evident that rheumatoid arthritis blood neutrophils retain the ability to bind TNF and can be primed by TNF for increased oxygen radical production and augmented cartilage damage. These findings further implicate the role of neutrophils in the pathogenesis of arthritis.Item Metadata only Adhesion and TNF priming in neutrophil-mediated cartilage damage(ACADEMIC PRESS INC JNL-COMP SUBSCRIPTIONS, 1996) Kowanko, I.; Ferrante, A.Neutrophils predominate in the acute stages of rheumatoid arthritis and are implicated in the cartilage damage which is characteristic of this disease. In vitro neutrophils can be primed for increased ability to damage host tissues by a number of cytokines including tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF). The role of adherence in this process was investigated. Opsonization of cartilage with aggregated IgG (HAGG) and complement promoted neutrophil damage to cartilage. Adherence was increased by HAGG and TNF. Separation of neutrophils from cartilage markedly reduced the neutrophil-mediated injury and abolished the priming effect of TNF. Inactivation of complement or antibodies against CD11a or CD11b reduced neutrophil-mediated cartilage damage and markedly reduced TNF-priming of this damage and yet did not alter adherence of control or TNF-primed cells. These results suggest that neutrophil damage to cartilage is promoted by agents that favor adherence. The failure to block adhesion of neutrophils by complement inactivation or antibodies to CD11a or CD11b suggests that neutrophil adherence to cartilage occurs simultaneously through several different receptors. The massive reduction of TNF enhancement of neutrophil damage to cartilage by preventing adhesion suggests that adherence is required for this action of TNF.Item Metadata only Quality in health care: traditions, influences and future directions(Oxford University Press (OUP), 1996) Harvey, G.Abstract not availableItem Metadata only Editorial(Wiley, 1997) Pearson, A.