Current Issue February 2012, Vol. 25, No. 1

Issue Highlights

  • Chest X-ray quiz (Question)
    February 2012(Vol. 25 | No. 1 | Pages 3)

  • End-of-life care in the intensive care setting: A descriptive exploratory qualitative study of nurses’ beliefs and practices
    February 2012(Vol. 25 | No. 1 | Pages 4-12)

    Kristen Ranse, Patsy Yates, Fiona Coyer

  • Understanding the work of intensive care nurses: A time and motion study
    February 2012(Vol. 25 | No. 1 | Pages 13-22)

    M. Abbey, W. Chaboyer, M. Mitchell

  • A national survey of Australian Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Liaison Nurse (LN) services
    07 May 2012

    Suzanne Eliott, Wendy Chaboyer, David Ernest, Andrea Doric, Ruth Endacott

  • Measuring paediatric intensive care nursing knowledge in Australia and New Zealand: How the Basic Knowledge Assessment Tool for pediatric critical care nurses (PEDS-BKAT4) performs
    20 April 2012

    Debbie Long, Jeanine Young, Claire M. Rickard, Marion L. Mitchell

  • Nurse staffing levels and the incidence of mortality and morbidity in the adult intensive care unit: A literature review
    20 April 2012

    Matthew McGahan, Geraldine Kucharski, Fiona Coyer

  • Is the evidence for the use of subglottic drainage to prevent ventilated-associated pneumonia sufficient to change practice?
    09 April 2012

    Teresa A. Williams

  • Why don’t intensive care nurses perform routine delirium assessment? A discussion of the literature
    06 April 2012

    Louise.G. Wells

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ACCCN represents over 2,500 critical care nurses working across the critical care clinical spectrum emergency, coronary care, high dependency, cardiothoracic and general intensive care units, and academic and educational settings. ACCCN activities focus on the care of both adult and paediatric critically ill patients, and includes many clinical sub-specialities (Special Interest Groups) and professional issues (Advisory Panels). The College has strong professional relationships with other national peak nursing bodies and government agencies and individuals, including the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society. ACCCN is a foundation member of the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses and a member association to the World Federation of Societies of Intensive Care and Critical Care Medicine and maintains a representative on Council of both these international bodies.

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Australian Critical Care is published by Elsevier for the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN).



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Australian Critical Care is a peer-reviewed journal, providing clinically relevant research, reviews and articles of interest to our members. Australian Critical Care is published quarterly. Original contributions relevant to critical care nursing are invited. The editor welcomes manuscripts reporting original research or innovative practices and technologies, continuing education articles, descriptions of instructive case studies and editorials and book reviews sought by the editor. Authors may also contribute unsolicited editorials and book reviews by arrangement with the editor.

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