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Expanding the Phenotypic Spectrum of TXNDC15‐Related Ciliopathies to Include Joubert Syndrome

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biallelic loss‐of‐function variants in TXNDC15 are a known cause of the perinatally lethal ciliopathy Meckel syndrome (MKS). TXNDC15 encodes an endoplasmic reticulum (ER)‐resident thioredoxin‐domain protein required for ciliary transition zone integrity.
Zachary T. Sentell   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Hurry Up and Get Me out of Here’: The Experience of People Under 65 Years (Still) Stuck in Aged Care

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, the Australian Government set a target for no‐one under 65 years of age to be living in residential aged care (RAC) by 2025. The numbers of young people in residential aged care (YPIRAC) have significantly declined since the start of the targets.
Elroy Dearn   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Owning Home, Finding Belonging: Relational Meanings of Homeownership for Migrant Healthcare Workers in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
wiley   +1 more source

The Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Workforce in Early Childhood Education: Findings From a National Survey of Australian Centre‐Based Services

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Culturally responsive early childhood education (ECE) environments can increase child and family participation, enhance service quality, and improve developmental outcomes for children. Educators from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds contribute to inclusive ECE and are crucial for addressing workforce shortages.
Sene Gide   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of the specialist in community nursing: perceptions of specialist and district nurses

International Journal of Nursing Studies, 1992
We investigated the management of specialist nurses and how district and specialist nurses perceived themselves and each other, in terms of responsibility, autonomy, skills and training, communication, role conflicts and job satisfaction. All locality and neighbourhood nurse managers, all specialist nurses, and all district and community staff nurses ...
F H, Haste, L D, MacDonald
openaire   +2 more sources

The case for specialist nurses

Evidence Based Nursing, 2012
Along with the obvious challenges presented by the restructuring of the NHS1 and the £20 billion productivity gain (the Nicholson Challenge), the NHS also faces a number of other issues. Demographic changes towards an ageing population mean that people are living longer, and more people are living with long-term conditions.
openaire   +2 more sources

Defining specialist nursing

British Journal of Nursing, 1995
It is difficult to pinpoint the date when specialisation in British nursing practice began. Ever since the Nightingale era, nursing has been divided into certain categories, e.g. mental illness, subnormality and infectious diseases. In the early 1980s, I carried out research to identify clinical nurse specialists in England and Wales, as defined by ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Trauma Nurse Specialist

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1973
gency care. Nurses in many special care units, particularly coronary care units, have proved their ability to function at higher levels than were expected in the past. With adequate clinical and didactic education beyond that offered in three-year or four-year nursing schools, nurses can effectively fulfill responsibilities long restricted to ...
openaire   +2 more sources

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