The aim of this paper is to highlight the ways nurses understand and utilise the Australian
National Competency Standards for Registered Nurses, which have been used for over two …

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore how competency standards came to be the
preferred technology for classifying and nursing performance in Australia at the end of the …

The aim of this study was to uncover and critically examine hidden assumptions that
underpin the findings of nurses' unethical conduct arising from inquiries conducted by the …

Background Assessment technologies are often used to classify student and newly qualified
nurse performance as 'pass' or 'fail', with little attention to how these decisions are achieved …

Ballantyne A, Cheek J, O'Brien B, Pincombe J. International Journal of Nursing Practice
1998; 4: 156–165 Nursing competencies: Ground work in aged and extended care …

Controversy surrounds the way in which the ANMC Competency Standards for Registered
Nurses (the Standards) are understood and applied in the assessment of nurses' …

Tom, a newly qualified registered nurse recently graduated from the Nursing Faculty of
Kosiosko University, is working in the orthopaedic unit in Buller Hospital (names of people …

Clinical teachers’ experiences Page 1 Clinical teachers’ experiences of nursing and
teaching Submitted by Helen Forbes BAppSci(AdvNsg), MEdStudies A thesis submitted in …

By the end of the 20th century, hospital-based nurse training was replaced by nursing
university programs with a greater focus on theoretically informed practice. This move …

This study into the role of the community health nurse in Australia provides an explanation
about the nature of the community health nursing role, its philosophical bases, purpose, a …