Nursing

The Australian Health Care System 4e, provides students with a fully updated, comprehensive and forward looking overview of the structure and operation of health systems and services in Australia.

This book is the essential guide to the complexities of health care in Australia. It comprehensively addresses contemporary issues and concepts to assist with understanding and navigating the Australian health care system.

The health disadvantages experienced by Indigenous Australians are shaped by history and the broader social and economic conditions in which they live; progress has been slow and mixed. This book evaluates the progress made towards closing the gap. How can Indigenous outcomes be improved across a range of key social and economic determinants of health and wellbeing?

This is a practical guide to the delivery of health care in rural and remote Australia. It discusses the economic, social and political forces that shape healthcare in rural and remote Australia. This title offers valuable insight into Indigenous life and social determinants of health; and it is the perfect guide for those going onto rural placements.

This book ses a cultural safety approach for undergraduate health students or professionals wanting to improve their practice in relation to Indigenous Australian clients. With fourteen chapters that include activities, critical thinking questions, poems, 'making it local' activities, and case scenarios, readers should find that the material challenges them to think in new ways about Indigenous health and about their practice more generally.

Yatdjuligin: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nursing and Midwifery Care introduces students to the fundamentals of health care of Indigenous Australians, encompassing the perspectives of both the client and the health practitioner. Written for all nurses and midwives, this book addresses the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and mainstream health services and introduces readers to practice and research in a variety of healthcare contexts.

This refreshing narrative history of nursing marks an exception to standard, often dry academic descriptions of the nursing profession. It presents dramatic, highly readable illustrated stories of nursing's pioneering, often heroic leaders.

Multicultural and broad in range, this book coves important individuals, key nursing concepts, famous breakthroughs, historical eras and treatment innovations. Includes a timeline of landmarks in nursing history from Roman times to the present.

This book explores the history of nursing by investigating the earliest records of the caring profession, how it progressed and what established it along the way to becoming the nursing we see today.

Considers the historical foundations of professional nursing in Australia. Introduces a number of factors that have influenced the evolution of nursing and explores the constructs upon which professional nursing has been built.

Organized into four parts, and addressing nursing around the globe, this book covers: New directions in the history of nursing;
New methodological approaches; The politics of nursing knowledge; Nursing and its relationship to social practice.

Beginning with the ancient goddesses and the importance of legends, myths, and symbols, this book celebrates women in medicine from Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece, and Rome to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the present. Documenting each woman's practices, achievements, and struggles, here at last is the definitive history of women's invaluable contribution to healing.

Introduction to Public Health is a foundation, introductory text addressing the principles and practice of public health. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective, the text defines the discipline, nature and scope of public health activity and the challenges that face public health in the 21st century.