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June 2006 Issue
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Boost for nursing

 Nursing

Professor Alan Pearson, an internationally acclaimed champion of evidence-based health care, has taken up the role of Professor of Nursing at the University of ÑÇÖÞ²ÊÆ±¹ÙÍø.

He will also continue his work as executive director of the Joanna Briggs Institute. Professor Pearson was Head of the University's when he launched the in 1996 as a joint venture between the university and Royal ÑÇÖÞ²ÊÆ±¹ÙÍø Hospital.

The Joanna Briggs Institute is an international research and development unit, which seeks to promote the translation and utilisation of the "best available" evidence from a diverse range of sources into contemporary health care practice.

Professor Pearson will lead the Discipline of Nursing's research with the establishment of a Joanna Briggs Research Unit within the School of Population Health and Clinical Practice.

Meanwhile the University's new Bachelor of Nursing degree is off to a good start with 50 students in its first year.

ÑÇÖÞ²ÊÆ±¹ÙÍøan caught up with the nurse students during a practical class at the Royal ÑÇÖÞ²ÊÆ±¹ÙÍø Hospital just before the cohort went three separate ways to continue their studies within the hospital environment at the Royal ÑÇÖÞ²ÊÆ±¹ÙÍø, Queen Elizabeth and the Lyell McEwin Hospitals.

Story by Robyn Mills

Nurse student Terry Devine makes a bed around ‘patient’ and fellow student, Carley Manhire
Photo by Robyn Mills

Nurse student Terry Devine makes a bed around 'patient' and fellow student, Carley Manhire
Photo by Robyn Mills

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