University of Canberra/Critical Care Nursing

Welcome

This is a teaching and learning project to support critical care nurses and colleagues in providing contemporary evidence based care and information for patients and their families.

We welcome all health professionals who care for patients within the scope of critical illness (ED, ICU, CCU, OT, outreach, retrieval etc) who wish to create a clinical education resource site. Please don't hesitate to contact Holly if you would like more information at holly.northam@canberra.edu.au or +61 412 289 295

News

Holly Northam hosted a wiki workshop to develop this Wikiversity page. Keith Lyons facilitated the workshop. The workshop was held in the Teaching Commons' Hothouse Studio (Room 1C49a) on the afternoon of 24 May 2012. We had the opportunity to discuss creative ideas about how to manage the continuous stream of emerging information that is available to inform 'better' practice. Amongst some of the useful ideas discussed were the importance of building the community of practice. Keep the evening of 28th June free, and come to a casual dinner with critical care nurses across the ACT and region and meet with the new ACCCN President Paul Fulbrook [1] It will be a chance to look towards how we can strengthen support for nurses in our area, and build on the great work being done. For more information, please contact Holly as above.

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  Workshop participants

Two new users joined the group Criticalcarenurse and Salogue Its' great to welcome colleagues who can build the vision.

Blog post about starting this page.

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• Resources

Here are some useful professional sites that underpin our practice.

Nursing and Midwifery registration is now due through APHRA. The Australian College of Critical Care Nurses and College of Emergency Nurses Australasia are the professional organisations that strongly contribute to the growth and development of critical care nursing in Australia.

Have you got some other professional bodies we should include?Holly Northam (talk) 13:06, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Are you aware of how many elements contribute to poor outcomes in the work environment? [2] provides some great pointers to 6 factors that contribute to errors 6 factors that contribute to errors. How many of these apply to where you work? Have you found solutions?