Dr Deborah Cullen: working “where impact is made”

Dr Deborah Cullen is a Professor and Graduate Co-ordinator for the Department of Family Health in the School of Nursing at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. The school, founded in 1914, has evolved into the largest multi-purpose nursing school in the country, offering a full range of academic degrees in addition to postdoctoral research training and extensive continuing education. Click here for the full story...

Water suitable for drinking can be used to clean wounds

A review of studies into the effectiveness of water for cleansing wounds has found that water is as good as saline in preventing infection and promoting healing. This is the second update of this review. Click here for the full story...

A kaleidoscope of possibilities: The joy and frustration of nursing practice

Professor Alison Kitson vividly remembers her first shift as a nurse, but it wasn’t necessarily her first career choice. “I actually studied languages at school as well as sciences and at one point I was going to do French and Italian at University and then changed to do a degree in nursing, but I’ve always loved travelling. I’ve always loved experiencing new cultures, so I think I would have been a foreign correspondent and would have written these wonderful stories and got to know all sorts of weird and wonderful people, so that’s what I would have been [if I wasn’t a nurse].” Click here for the full story...

Falls Prevention in a Secured Dementia Unit

Located approximately 80 km from Adelaide, South Australia, Murray Bridge is the major centre on the Murray River north of Lake Alexandrina. It is a city of 17,000 people and is a typical sprawling rural Australian centre with a grain silo on the skyline and vegetable gardens, hothouses and light industry surrounding the city centre. It is here, at Lerwin Nursing Home, that a group have been working hard since 2005 to improve their falls reduction program. The result has been a 32% reduction in falls and a minimal injury rate! Click here for the full story...