Advances in Contemporary Aged Care: Retirement to End of Life

Special Issue of Contemporary Nurse

Volume 26 Issue 2 October 2007

ii+94 pages ISBN 978-0-9757710-1-3

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Editors:

Margaret McMillan and Isabel Higgins
Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, NSW

 

In Australia, as in much of the rest of the Western world, a number of political, social and technical factors have resulted in a need for the aged care sector and the nursing profession more broadly to modify their skill mix in order to better respond to changes in the needs of older Australians.

In particular, Residential Aged Care Facilities (RACFs) in Australia face a number of significant issues including:

  • the need to respond to policy changes emphasising efficiency in RACFs
  • the nature of the needs of residents with increasing acuity
  • the impact of decreasing numbers of Registered Nurses working in the RAC environment
  • the aging of the workforce
  • the changing composition of the residential care team and changing roles within that team

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The aged care sector will continue to be instrumental in differentiating the scope of practice for those in the health care workforce and in delineating expectations of health workers, including nurses, educated to a range of qualifications. Perhaps now, more than 20 years after the transfer of registered nurse education to the university sector in Australia, the profession's aspirations for enacting the capacity to lead and reform practice promised by degree qualifications for RNs will come to fruition.

Jane Conway, Contemporary Nurse vol. 26(2), pp 221-224

 

 

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