Changing clinician behaviour in stroke care.

In March 2005 Sandy Middleton was appointed Professor of Nursing at the Australian Catholic University's North Sydney campus. She was also recently awarded a three-year AUS$400 000 National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC) grant, to conduct a clustered randomised control trial of acute stroke management in New South Wales. This grant will fund the Quality in Acute Stroke Care Project. Click here for the full story...

Getting beyond the next minute.

Donna Ciliska is a busy, multi-talented woman to say the least. Not only is she a professor at McMaster University's School of Nursing in Ontario, but she has an appointment with the Hamilton Public Health Services. As well as that she is lead editor of Evidence-Based Nursing, and co-director of the Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing. Her research interests include community health, obesity, eating disorders and research dissemination. Click here for the full story...

New guidelines for care of drug-misusing women and their neonates.

Anne Bartu reports on a project aimed at developing guidelines for the management of drug dependency during pregnancy, delivery, and the early development years of the newborn.In March 2005 Sandy Middleton was appointed Professor of Nursing at the Australian Catholic University's North Sydney campus. She was also recently awarded a three-year AUS$400 000 National Health and Medical Research Council (NH&MRC) grant, to conduct a clustered randomised control trial of acute stroke management in New South Wales. Click here for the full story...

Hand washing: still defying the evidence.

In his closing address at the Joanna Briggs Institute 2005 International Convention, Professor Chris Baggoley, Chair of the National Institute of Clinical Studies and Chief Medical Officer of South Australia, used the basic task of hand washing as an exemplar of the difficulties associated with achieving evidence utilisation. Click here for the full story...