HESTA scholarship granted to two JCUCHS rural health students to inspire their future leadership

Congratulations to our JCU College of Healthcare Sciences students Hollie Fisher (Occupational Therapy) and Jessie Stone (Nursing), recipients of HESTA scholarship to attend the National Rural Health Conference in Cairns from 26-29 April.

Candidates were assessed with particular emphasis on their commitment to practising in rural Australia.

The scholarship will enable these aspiring future health leaders to attend the National Rural Health Conference in Cairns from 26-29 April. The conference attracts more than 1,000 delegates, including inspirational health advocates and political figures.

Two Indigenous students were among the scholarship winners chosen from more than 150 applicants belonging to university Rural Health Clubs affiliated with the National Rural Health Student Network.

HESTA CEO, Debby Blakey, said more than 150 outstanding scholarship submissions were received, with the 10 winners demonstrating their commitment to improving the health outcomes for rural communities around Australia.

“The scholarship winners are all potential future leaders in rural health and have displayed outstanding commitment to the delivery of the highest levels of health care, with many already contributing to rural communities through their studies,” Ms Blakey said.

“HESTA is proud to support these students as they begin their careers. It’s also particularly pleasing to contribute to the professional development of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rural health students as part of our Reconciliation Action Plan that supports efforts to close the health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.”

Reproduced from HESTA media release https://www.hesta.com.au/content/dam/hesta/Documents/media/HESTA-scholarship-granted-to-10-rural-health-students-to-inspire-their-future-leadership.pdf

JCU’s Healthy Learning Option - Mount Isa Centre for Rural & Remote Health (MICRRH)

A push to ensure that rural and remote communities of North Queensland are adequately populated with medical and health professionals is what led to the creation of the James Cook University (JCU), Mount Isa Centre for Rural & Remote Health (MICRRH) two decades ago.

The MICRRH is one of a national network of twelve centres, and the only one in Queensland with sites in Mount Isa, Cloncurry, Longreach and Weipa. It is federally funded under a multidisciplinary training program as a health workforce initiative.

MICRRH is a key education provider locally in outback Queensland and increasingly by distance delivery using a diverse range of IT resources.

The centre has multiple lecture and tutorial rooms, state-of-the-art video-conferencing technology, and clinical simulation facilities for teaching and learning in outback Queensland.

MICRRH is staffed with university academics from a wide range of health disciplines including nursing, medicine, mental health, pharmacy and allied health.

JCU offers an internationally recognised medical program incorporating dentistry, nursing, midwifery, pharmacy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech therapy, exercise science, physician’s assistant and tropical and public health.

 MICRRH Professor Sabina Knight said the centre provides placement for undergraduate, post graduate and international students and teaches nursing locally.

“We place great emphasis on developing rural graduates in and for rural health jobs,” Prof Knight said.

“We believe that if you recruit from rural background, give students high quality experience in rural areas and expose them to the depth and variety of practices available to them, they will be more attracted to working in these areas,” she said.

“Adventure, skills and impact is what future health professionals are looking for.

“There are plenty of jobs to be had and JCU graduates are highly valued in the workplace; the excellent and varied clinical teaching they receive ensures graduates can work comfortably anywhere with confidence.”

She said having students in placements in towns across the North also provides economic benefits for the regions they’re training in.

“We can have up to 50 students at any one time in Mount Isa, who’re spending money within the town, supporting local business.

“The staff and students living in these regions are also involved in community clubs and social activities.”

Students interested in a health career can contact JCU direct or talk with one of the staff at MICRRH facilities across Queensland.

Reproduced from Queensland Country Life
http://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/4556822/jcus-healthy-learning-option/?cs=4785

Publication: The first year experience of occupational therapy students at an Australian regional university: promoting student retention and developing a regional and remote workforce

Boehm, Jackie, Cordier, Reinie, Thomas, Yvonne, Tanner, Bronwyn, and Salata, Karen (2017) The first year experience of occupational therapy students at an Australian regional university: promoting student retention and developing a regional and remote workforce. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 25. pp. 22-27.

http://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/43078/

Abstract

Objective: Student retention at regional universities is important in addressing regional and remote workforce shortages. Students attending regional universities are more likely to work in regional areas. First year experience at university plays a key role in student retention. This study aimed to explore factors influencing the first year experience of occupational therapy students at a regional Australian university.

Design: Surveys were administered to 58 second year occupational therapy students in the first week of second year. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, inferential statistics (Pearson χ2; Spearman rho) and summarising descriptive responses.

Setting: An Australian regional university.

Participants: Second year undergraduate occupational therapy students.

Main outcome measures: Factors influencing students' decisions to study and continue studying occupational therapy; factors enhancing first year experience of university.

Results: Fifty-four students completed the survey (93.1%). A quarter (25.9%) of students considered leaving the course during the first year. The primary influence for continuing was the teaching and learning experience. Most valued supports were orientation week (36.7%) and the first year coordinator (36.7%).

Conclusion: The importance of the first year experience in retaining occupational therapy students is highlighted. Engagement with other students and staff and academic support are important factors in facilitating student retention. It is important to understand the unique factors influencing students' decisions, particularly those from regional and remote areas, to enter and continue in tertiary education to assist in implementing supports and strategies to improve student retention.

JCU is uniting with Red25 to achieve 25% of Australia's blood donations

JCU's Associate Professor Anthony Leicht, from CHS Sport and Exercise Science donates blood.

Shirley’s gaining of wisdom a personal triumph and an invaluable asset for Thursday Islanders

SHIRLEY Kusu is one of the first indigenous people to graduate from James Cook University’s Graduate Certificate of Diabetes Education.

Ms Kusu lives with type 1 diabetes.

The nurse, from Thursday Island, completed her studies remotely through JCU’s Thursday Island centre and plans to use her new knowledge of diabetes to help her community.

“My plan was to specialise in diabetes when I graduated as a nurse as I am living with type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes is very prevalent in the Torres Strait,” she said.

“Studying diabetes education was also a personal journey for me to find out how best to manage my own diabetes, which has been a struggle while living in a remote community.

“I thought I could be helpful for my people here.”

She said education was key for reducing the rates of diabetes in the Torres Strait and other remote regions.

“Fresh produce is expensive in remote areas and not as readily available, which makes it more difficult to eat the way you should,” she said.

Reproduced from The Cairns Post http://www.cairnspost.com.au/news/cairns/shirleys-gaining-of-wisdom-a-personal-triumph-and-an-invaluable-asset-for-thursday-islanders/news-story/28fb91e8d79117979385d030b92c627b

Publication: Comparison of psychometric properties between usual-week and past-week selfreported physical activity questionnaires: a systematic review

Doma, Kenji, Speyer, Renee, Leicht, Anthony S., and Cordier, Reinie (2017) Comparison of psychometric properties between usual-week and past-week selfreported physical activity questionnaires: a systematic review. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 14. pp. 1-28.

http://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/47687/

Abstract
The aim was to critically appraise the methodological quality of studies and determine the psychometric qualities of Past-week and Usual-week Physical Activity Questionnaires (PAQs). Data sources were obtained from Pubmed and Embase. The eligibility criteria for selecting studies included: 1) at least one psychometric property of PAQs was examined in adults; 2) the PAQs either had a recall period of usual 7-days (Usual-week PAQs) within the past 12 months or during the past 7-days (Past-week PAQs); and 3) PAQs were self-administered. Study quality was evaluated using the COSMIN taxonomy and the overall psychometric qualities evaluated using pre-established psychometric criteria. Overall, 45 studies were reviewed to assess the psychometric properties of 21 PAQs with the methodological quality of most studies showing good to excellent ratings. When the relationship between PAQs and other instruments (i.e., convergent validity) were compared between recall methods, Past-week PAQs appeared to have stronger correlations than Usual-week PAQs. For the overall psychometric quality, the Incidental and Planned Exercise Questionnaire for the Usual-week (IPEQ-WA) and for the Past-week (IPEQ-W) had the greatest number of positive ratings. For all included PAQs, very few psychometric properties were assessed with poor ratings for the majority of the overall qualities of psychometric properties indicating the limitation of current PAQs. More research that covers a greater spectrum of psychometric properties is required to gain a better understanding of the qualities of current PAQs.

New Library Books March 2017

This is a list of new books which have recently been added to the JCU Library collection. Books may be borrowed from the displays in the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library and the Cairns Campus Library, unless they are in non-borrowable collections such as Reference. Click on the title links to see more details in Tropicat and to access eBooks online.

ONLINE	Distributed agency
ONLINE	Housing, citizenship, and communities for people with serious mental illness
ONLINE	Using think-aloud interviews and cognitive labs in educational research
ONLINE	Handbook of community-based participatory research
ONLINE	Narrative research in practice
ONLINE	Developing identity, strengths, and self-perception for young adults with autism spectrum disorder
ONLINE	Empowering parents of children with autism spectrum disorder
ONLINE	Person-centred practice in nursing and health care
611 MACK 2017	Human anatomy
ONLINE	Ethical competence in nursing practice
612 MACM 2017	McMinn's color atlas of head and neck anatomy

Water Sanitation in Fiji

Associate Professor Caryn West recently visited beautiful Fiji as part of a consortium of university partners, industry partners and Government to discuss a collaborative water sanitation project.

Set to start in the Yasawa Islands, the project to improve reef and human health outcome in remote island communities is the brain child of local resort owners Peter Farrell and Gareth Van Eyssen from the Barefoot Collection Kuata and Manta and Australian physician Dr Peter Wirth. With the aim to bring together a multidisciplinary team of university and industry experts to work with local land owners and communities  this project offers a truly unique collaborative approach to water sanitation and sustainability.

As the WHO CC for Nursing & Midwifery Education & Research Capacity Building in the Western Pacific we committed to the philosophy of ‘Inspiring Excellence in the Pacific.’  As such, it is an honour to work in collaboration with local partners such as the Barefoot Collection who are equally committed to safeguarding the local and cultural identity of their communities.

http://www.thebarefootcollection.com/

Reproduced from https://research.jcu.edu.au/who-collaborating-centres/nursing/news-and-events/news/water-sanitation-in-fiji

Publication: Improving infection prevention and control practices in a culturally, linguistically and spiritually diverse environment

Sparke, Vanessa L., MacLaren, David, Mills, Jane, Asugeni , Rowena, Moutoa , Kenny, and West, Caryn (2017) Improving infection prevention and control practices in a culturally, linguistically and spiritually diverse environment. Australian Nursing and Midwifery Journal, 24 (8). p. 42.

http://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/47698/

Abstract
[Extract] Atoifi Adventist Hospital (AAH) in the Solomon Islands serves a population of 80,000 people, many living in small remote villages. Atoifi is situated on the east side of the island of Malaita in the East Kwaio region. Kwaio is one of 12 language groups on Malaita and most people engage in the subsistence economy.

JCU hosting 12th Biennial Conference Global Network WHO Collaborating Centres, 17-20 July 2018, Cairns.

Save the date - 12th Biennial Conference Global Network WHO Collaborating Centres. 17-20 July 2018, JCU Cairns. #WHOCC2018

SP1 Census Date - Thurs 23 March

It's one week until Census Date. You have one week to decide whether or not the subjects you are currently studying are really what you want to be doing with the rest of your semester.

"Your enrolment is considered finalised on Census Date. If your fees aren't paid or deferred by this date your enrolment will be cancelled. If you withdraw from a subject after the Census Date you are financially liable for it."

After next Thursday, you'll have to pay for them (eventually), and you'll probably need a dang good excuse to pull out without "failing".

If you're wondering if you should pull out, talk it over with someone. You have tutors, academic advisers, learning advisers and counsellors. Seek advice from people, and do your best to make an informed decision.

https://www.jcu.edu.au/accessability-services/academic-help

Reproduced from JCU Library Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/JCULibrary/posts/1463792570300258

Publication: The role of social anxiety, the behavioural inhibition system and depression in online gaming addiction in adults

Vanzoelen, Deborah, and Caltabiano, Marie L. (2016) The role of social anxiety, the behavioural inhibition system and depression in online gaming addiction in adults. Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, 8 (3). pp. 231-245.

http://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/47012/

Abstract
This study explored whether adults, who have symptoms of social anxiety or depression, or a temperamental tendency towards having a high behavioural inhibition system, will be more prone to developing online gaming addiction. Data were collected over a 2-month period with a total of 186 participants completing all the online questionnaires (147 university students and 39 “Second Life” (SL) users) of which 66 were male (M=34.6, SD = 14.15) and 120 were female (M= 33.32, SD = 12.8). Results of a hierarchical multiple linear regression analysis indicated that combined, social anxiety, a high behavioural inhibition system and depression explained a small amount of variability (9.9%) in gaming addiction, with social anxiety explaining the most variance in the model. Any effect of the behavioural inhibition system was mainly thorough its impact on social anxiety. Young adult (26-40 years) and middle adult (41-60 years) females represented a higher proportion of problematic gamers in this sample than males. Further research is required into risk factors for addictive gaming particularly in adult female players.

Close the Gap Day - Thursday 16 March

This Thursday, March 16 is Close the Gap Day.

Closing the gap is a strategy that aims to reduce Indigenous disadvantage with respect to life expectancy, child mortality, access to early childhood education, educational achievement, and employment outcomes.

Below is a link to a video by Oxfam. Please share the video to spread awareness of this important day.
https://www.oxfam.org.au/what-we-do/indigenous-australia/national-close-the-gap-day/

Below is the 2016 Close the Gap Video featuring JCU College of Healthcare Science’s Dr. Lynore K. Geia, Academic Lead – Aboriginal & Torres Strait Island Health and Dr Raymond Blackman (JCU Alumni) on Palm Island

Swallowing Awareness Day 2017 - Wed 15 March 2017

Like breathing, swallowing is essential to everyday life.

Did you know that we swallow around 900 times a day!  This includes around 3 times an hour during sleep, once per minute while awake and even more during meals. We take it for granted that we can perform this everyday function relatively easily and with little thought.  However around 1 million Australians have a swallowing difficulty (called dysphagia).

Swallowing problems can occur at any stage of life.  Speech pathologists assess, diagnose and treat swallowing difficulties.

If you, or someone you know experiences swallowing difficulties, please refer to a speech pathologist.

Publication: Classification of playing position in elite junior Australian football using technical skill indicators

Woods, Carl T., Veale, James, Fransen, Job, Robertson, Sam, and Collier, Neil French (2017) Classification of playing position in elite junior Australian football using technical skill indicators. Journal of Sports Sciences. pp. 1-7. (In Press)

http://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/46982/

Abstract
In team sport, classifying playing position based on a players' expressed skill sets can provide a guide to talent identification by enabling the recognition of performance attributes relative to playing position. Here, elite junior Australian football players were a priori classified into 1 of 4 common playing positions; forward, midfield, defence, and ruck. Three analysis approaches were used to assess the extent to which 12 in-game skill performance indicators could classify playing position. These were a linear discriminant analysis (LDA), random forest, and a PART decision list. The LDA produced classification accuracy of 56.8%, with class errors ranging from 19.6% (midfielders) to 75.0% (ruck). The random forest model performed at a slightly worse level (51.62%), with class errors ranging from 27.8% (midfielders) to 100% (ruck). The decision list revealed 6 rules capable of classifying playing position at accuracy of 70.1%, with class errors ranging from 14.4% (midfielders) to 100% (ruck). Although the PART decision list produced the greatest relative classification accuracy, the technical skill indicators reported were generally unable to accurately classify players according to their position using the 3 analysis approaches. This player homogeneity may complicate recruitment by constraining talent recruiter's ability to objectively recognise distinctive positional attributes.

CRANAplus Undergraduate Remote Placement Scholarships

Each year CRANAplus offers a number of scholarships. These scholarships provide financial assistance of up to $1000 per applicant, per remote placement. They can be applied to the cost of fares, accommodation and other incidental costs incurred by a student undertaking an undergraduate placement in a remote area of Australia and its external Territories.

There are now 2 rounds of Undergraduate Scholarships:

• Round One for placements from 1 January - 30 June each year- Applications open 1 March and close 31 May.
• Round Two for placements 1 July - 31 December. Applications open 1 July and Close 30 October.

https://crana.org.au/membership/scholarships

RHINO Multidisciplinary Clinical Skills Night - 23 March (TSV)

JCUMSA, SANTE and RHINO are delighted to present to you the Multidisciplinary Combined Clinical Skills Night 2017! This is an event aimed primarily at pre-clinical (Years 1-3) students who'd love to try their hand at new clinical skills and improve their existing skills prior to entering more intensive hospital and community placements in their clinical years.

Date and time: 23rd of March - 5:00 pm sharp!
Dress: Clinical
Venue: Quad rooms - building 46

The stations this year are:
1) Suturing
2) Resuscitation in Emergency simulation
3) Critical care in a rural setting: Paramedics and Ultrasound therapy
4) Global Health + Radiology Case Study

So, if you are someone who enjoys a challenge, and would like to pick up some new skills for a smooth transition into clinical practice, then Clinical Skills Night is an event for you! Limited spots are available for the night, so if you’d like to be one of the lucky students to participate, get in quick. Food will also be provided at the end of the night!

Exclusive places have been reserved for CQU and JCU Nursing and Allied Health students who are members of Club RHINO!

Tickets only $5, on sale Wednesday 8th March!

https://jcumsa-store.myshopify.com/collections/tickets/products/clinical-skills-night-ticket

Nursing research on workplace bullying and nurses' use of social media

Read all about @JCUCHS Nursing PhD student and academic Peter Hartin's research on bullying - "Workplace bullying" (pp. 22-23); and Dr Scott Trueman's piece on nurses' use of social media - "Blurred line between private and professional" (pp. 24-25), in the Jan/Feb edition of Nursing Review.

https://www.joomag.com/magazine/nursing-review-issue-1-jan-feb-2017/0653378001486332937?short

J K O'Brien Scholarship for Health Sciences - closing 24 March

Available to undergraduate first year students, studying Human health (includes all disciplines under the College of Healthcare Sciences).

Value: $10,000

This scholarship was established in 2016 in memory of the late Mr O’Brien and donated by his widow.  The scholarship is to support a student who is active within the community and would benefit from financial assistance to continue their involvement.

Eligibility:

• Are domestic students, i.e. Australian citizens, New Zealand citizens and holders of a permanent visa;
• In their first year of study in an undergraduate course at Townsville campus; (this would include mid-year starting 2016)
• Who are enrolled in an undergraduate degree in the area of human health (this includes all disciplines under the College of Healthcare Sciences and College of Public Health, Medical & Veterinary Sciences, but excludes any non‐human sciences like Vet).
• And whose primary residence for 3 out of the last 5 years has been in a remote or rural area of Queensland or Northern Territory as defined by the ASCG category (RA4 – RA5)

https://www.jcu.edu.au/scholarships-@-jcu/search/j-k-obrien-scholarship-for-health-sciences

Publication: Clinical assessment of factors associated with subacromial shoulder impingement: a systematic review

Land, Helen, and Gordon, Susan (2017) Clinical assessment of factors associated with subacromial shoulder impingement: a systematic review. Physical Therapy Reviews, 21 (3-6). pp. 192-206.

http://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/47433/

Abstract

Background: Physiotherapists commonly use orthopaedic special tests to reproduce subacromial shoulder impingement (SIS) pain by increasing compression or tension within the subacromial space. However, these tests do not differentiate between purported extrinsic and intrinsic mechanisms associated with SIS.

Objective: To identify, and determine the reliability and validity of clinical tests used to assess extrinsic factors associated with SIS.

Method: A scoping review identified tests for extrinsic SIS. A systematic approach was then used to search six electronic databases in July 2016 to identify clinical tests used to measure (1) posterior shoulder range (2) cervical and/or thoracic posture (3) 2D scapula movement (4) rotator cuff strength. The 14 articles included in the review were assessed using a modified Downs and Black quality assessment tool.

Results: Moderate quality studies investigated 2D scapula measurements (N=2), resting pectoralis minor length (N=2) and rotator cuff strength (N=5). High quality studies measured forward head position and/or thoracic posture (N=2) and rotator cuff strength (N=1).

Conclusion: A good level of assessment reliability and significantly less range and strength was identified in those with SIS for: posterior shoulder range (passive shoulder adduction and internal rotation and passive internal rotation in supine); isokinetic peak torque values for internal and external shoulder rotation (isokinetic testing); forward head position (lateral photograph) and; thoracic range of motion (tape measure or ultrasound tomography). Good to excellent reliability was reported for lateral scapular slide test positions and resting pectoralis minor muscle length. These clinical tests should be considered for use in SIS assessment.

Win a HESTA Scholarship to Cairns Rural Health Conference

HESTA is giving 10 Rural Health Club members the chance to rub shoulders with leaders in Australian rural and remote health through a new scholarship in partnership with Rural Health Workforce Australia.

The scholarship winners will be funded to attend the 14th National Rural Health Conference in Cairns, Far North Queensland, from 26-29 April 2017 - including return airfares, four nights' accommodation and conference registrations.

Scholarship applications open on Wednesday 8 March 2017 and close at 5pm AEDT on Monday 20 March 2017.

http://www.rhwa.org.au/hestascholarship

#IWD: NMN Staff and Students Celebrating Advances in Nursing Education in Qld

Staff and Students from JCU Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition celebrated International Womens Day 2017 #IWD2017.

For more pics visit https://www.facebook.com/JCUCHS/posts/738255999681713

#IWD: Celebrating Women in Sport

We just had a very well-attended inaugural IWD women in sport event at the Cairns Institute. It was hosted by Terry Engelberg and Kelly Sinclair (SES) and attended by undergraduate male and female students. We talked about the progress women have made in all spheres of sport but we also talked about the challenges still to overcome.

Highlights: we had a Skype chat with Selina Goodman, SES/JCU graduate who now plays Professional AFL for the Brisbane Lions on the Gold Coast and works full time as a HPE teacher; and we had a third year student telling us about her experiences as an intern in the Northern Pride Club, a very male-dominated environment.

For more pics see https://www.facebook.com/JCUCHS/posts/738236583016988

Publication: Exploring the contemporary stage and scripts for the enactment of dying roles: a narrative review of literature

Lowrie, Daniel, Ray, Robin, Plummer, David, and Yau, Matthew (2017) Exploring the contemporary stage and scripts for the enactment of dying roles: a narrative review of literature. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. pp. 1-23. (In Press)

http://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/46447/

Abstract
This narrative review explores the literature regarding the drama of dying from several academic perspectives. Three key themes were identified including ‘‘The impact of blurred boundaries on roles and transitions,’’ ‘‘The orchestration of death and dying through time,’’ and ‘‘Contemporary dying and new machinery of control.’’ This review reveals the manner in which tightly scripted dying roles serve the needs of the living to a greater extent than those of the dying, by ensuring the depiction of both dying and death as phenomena which have been brought under the control of the living, thereby countering death anxiety. An incongruence between the actual experience of dying and contemporary dying scripts is also highlighted. The authors argue that this incongruence is hidden from the broader societal audience through the maintenance of a dying role that demands serenity and acceptance, thus downplaying or even hiding the actual end-of-life experiences of the dying themselves.

What are your views about displaced people? A JCU researcher wants to know

A JCU PhD researcher, Anna Bajema, is looking into the controversial issue of human displacement and how Australians view various groups of displaced people.

She is currently recruiting, and would greatly appreciate your views on this topic.

Participation is through an online survey and will only take approximately 15 minutes to complete.

To find out more about this study and if you are interested in participating, please follow this link https://jcuchs.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8JtbBoscp1wAMfj

Reproduced from https://www.jcu.edu.au/@jcu/what-are-your-views-about-displaced-people-a-jcu-researcher-wants-to-know

Publication: How should science be taught to nurses? Preferences of registered nurses and science teaching academics

Ralph, Nicholas, Birks, Melanie, Cant, Robyn, Chun Tie, Ylona, and Hillman, Elspeth (2017) How should science be taught to nurses? Preferences of registered nurses and science teaching academics. Collegian. (In Press)

http://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/47423/

Abstract

Aims and objectives: To identify how science should be taught to nursing students, and by whom.

Background: An understanding of foundational science and its role in supporting safe and effective nursing practice is an important part of student learning. The well documented challenges in teaching this content are compounded by a lack of evidence regarding educational strategies that lead to improved educational outcomes.

Design: The study employed a cross-sectional design using online surveys.

Methods: Two surveys were conducted in Australia involving (i) academics who teach science in undergraduate nursing programs and (ii) registered nurses (RNs). Participants were asked to respond to a range of questions around how science should be taught to nurses. There were n = 30 and n = 1808 respondents respectively.

Results: Findings indicated a need to better integrate science content throughout nursing curricula. Participants were supportive of a discrete science subject in the foundation year and the integration of science content throughout the remainder of the curriculum. Participants across both surveys were ambivalent about whether the depth of science teaching was adequate for nursing practice. Most nurse academics and RNs thought that nurses should teach science, while non-nursing science teachers were less certain.

Conclusions: Existing consensus clearly values the delivery of science content as an initial and ongoing priority of learning throughout the undergraduate nursing program.
Relevance to practice: Improving the ways in which students learn sciences will impact on nursing practice, with the potential to improve patient care.

New Library books - February 2017

This is a list of new books which have recently been added to the JCU Library collection. Books may be borrowed from the displays in the Eddie Koiki Mabo Library and the Cairns Campus Library, unless they are in non-borrowable collections such as Reference. Click on the title links to see more details in Tropicat and to access eBooks online.

153 GAZ 2014	Cognitive neuroscience
158 BEK 2012	Applied psychology
300.727 GRA 2017	Statistics for the behavioral sciences
302 GIL 2016	Social psychology
362.29088796 MOS	Detecting doping in sport
610.7 RES 2017	Research methods in health.
612 GAN 2016	Ganong's review of medical physiology
616.1203 GUI 2013	Guidelines for cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention programs
616.8552 PAP 2017	Aphasia and related neurogenic communication disorders
618.92 MIA 2016	Paediatrics at a glance
614.4 WEB 2017	Essential epidemiology
615.1 GAL 2017	Fundamentals of pharmacology
615.1401513 STO 2017	Pharmaceutical calculations
615.824 ACS 2018	ACSM's guidelines for exercise testing and prescription
616.1207 PAT 2016	Pathophysiology of heart disease

First Aid Training - JCU Townsville

First Aid/CPR refresher courses are being held at the JCU Townsville campus - book now to ensure you meet your PPR requirements.


1) MR PARAMEDIC CPR/FIRST AID REFRESHER COURSES

NEED A CPR REFRESHER COURSE? Yet another fantastic opportunity provided by YOUR rural health club. Club RHINO is proud to present first aid and CPR courses run by Mr Paramedic, to be held at the medical school at 46-007.

Who: Mr Paramedic – locally owned company run by paramedics

Two types of courses will be running:

CPR refresher
- $50 per person
- Thursday 9th March, 6pm – 9pm
- Friday 10th March, 6pm – 9pm

First Aid + CPR
- $99 per person
- Saturday 11th March 10.30am-5.30pm
- Saturday 18th March 10.30-5.30pm
- Sunday 19th March 10.30-5.30pm

* These are incredibly discounted rates for students!!!! And the courses are at the med school, so all you have to do is turn up,

Certificates will be emailed to each student within 1 week of completing the course.

If you are interested in the course, please click on the link to the googledrive document.

Click on the date and type of course you want to join, and then write in your name, email address and DOB. Then you will be contacted by Mr Paramedic.

http://mrparamedic.com.au/

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8QAd9MBudNOLXRjZm5fTElGeXc


2) JCU SPORT FIRST-AID COURSES

Brought to you by JCU Student Association.

Fit College - Provide First AID (HLTAID003)
Fit College - Provide CPR (HLTAID001)

Course dates:
18th, 25th, 26th February
3rd, 4th, 5th, 11th, 12th March

Course costs (Special student rate):
CPR $50
PFA $100

Email sport@jcu.edu.au
Phone (07) 4781 5932