Featured Books & eBooks
Available to Nursing students through Clinicalkey
- Understanding the Australian health care system, Eileen Willis, 2016
- Contexts of nursing, John Daly 2017
- Concepts for Nursing Practice, Jean Foret Giddens, 2016
- Transitions in nursing: preparing for professional practice, Esther Chang, 2015
- Applying the Roper-Logan-Tierney Model in Practice. Holland, 2008
Clinicalkey titles also available in the Library
- Understanding the Australian health care system, Eileen Willis, 2016
- Contexts of nursing, John Daly 2017 - other editions also available
- Transitions in nursing: preparing for professional practice, Esther Chang, 2015
Some other relevant Library titles
- The Australian health care system, Stephen Duckett, 2015
- Nursing theorists and their work, Alligood, 2018
AIHW - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The AIHW provides a comprehensive biannual report on the health of Australia and our health care system. More specific reports and data are also available covering everything from Government expenditure to specific diseases.
- Australia’s health 2020: data insights - AIHWAustralia’s health 2020 is the 17th biennial health report of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. It examines a wide range of contemporary topics in a series of analytical feature articles and short statistical snapshots. The report also summarises the performance of the health system against an agreed set of indicators." From the website
PHIDU - Public Health Information Development Unit
"Offers free online access to a comprehensive range of current (and some historical) data* at national, jurisdictional, regional and small area levels for Australia. Socioeconomic and geographical variations in health are highlighted in interactive atlases and graphs, and supported by data tables and metadata. Where available, data are analysed by age, sex and Indigenous status." From the website
Australian Bureau of Statistics - ABS
Nursing History
- History of Nursing - eBookExamines the history of nursing throughout the ages, a part of human existence since the appearance of the earliest human societies, and explains the role of caregiver to the sick, injured, poor, and helpless.
- Nursing history : foundations of a profession - BookConsiders 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.
Nurses in wartime