Soft collar for acute cervical spine injury immobilisation -patient experiences and outcomes: A single centre mixed methods study.

Background: Cervical collars are used as standard care for neck immobilisation after cervical spine injury. Although evidence for the most effective type of collar is lacking, there is evidence regarding adverse patient outcomes when managed in a semi or rigid collar. In response to the evidence of complications and adverse effects when using a hard collar, a large Australian adult trauma hospital that specializes in spinal care, changed its policy from hard to soft collars when managing acute cervical spine injury.

A Retrospective Observational Study of Presentations to an Australian Emergency Department for Injuries Sustained in Exercise Pursuits Over 14 Years.

Concurrent with the increase in the number of local gyms and the number of people engaged in fitness pursuits, exercise-related emergency department (ED) presentations have also increased. Identifying these injuries and the associated activities and equipment will help inform prevention strategies and potentially reduce the burden on the healthcare system. We reviewed the presentations to an Australian tertiary hospital ED resulting from running/jogging and gym-based exercise from 2005 to 2018.

Medical Scribes in the Emergency Department: The Scribes' Point of View.

Studies report the benefit of medical scribes in the emergency department on patient throughput, clinical documentation, patient outcomes, and provider and patient satisfaction. However, studies are silent on the benefits of being a scribe for premedical and medical students. The senior author interviewed 8 scribes who were applying for medical school and 9 medical students who had been scribes prior to medical school.

Applying the Ottawa subarachnoid haemorrhage rule on a cohort of emergency department patients with headache.

Objective: The Ottawa subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) rule suggests that alert patients older than 15 years with a severe nontraumatic headache reaching maximum intensity within 1 h and absence of high-risk variables effectively have a SAH ruled out. We aimed to determine the proportion of emergency department (ED) patients with any headache fulfilling the entry criteria for the Ottawa SAH rule.

Patients And Methods: The Ottawa SAH rule was applied retrospectively in a substudy of a prospective snapshot of 34 EDs in Queensland, Australia, carried out over 4 weeks in September 2014.

Acute Headache Presentations to the Emergency Department: A Statewide Cross-sectional Study.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to describe demographic and clinical characteristics including features that were consistent with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), use of diagnostic tests, emergency department (ED) discharge diagnoses, and disposition of adult patients presenting with an acute headache to EDs statewide across Queensland, Australia. In addition, potential variations in the presentation and diagnostic workup between principal-referral and city-regional hospitals were examined.

Methods: A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted over 4 weeks in September 2014.

Review article: Potential of medical scribes to allay the burden of documentation and enhance efficiency in Australian emergency departments.

The increasing burden of documentation experienced by doctors threatens the efficiency in EDs and increases the likelihood of documentation errors. Medical scribes afford the opportunity to allay this burden by removing a large component of the doctors' documentation task. Scribes have been embedded successfully in US EDs, and the effects have been mostly advantageous.

The top eight issues Queensland Australia's aged-care nurses and assistants-in-nursing worried about outside their workplace: a qualitative snapshot.

The attainment of a work-life balance is an important issue for recruitment, retention and workforce planning. This paper aims to report on the free text data provided by the aged-care sector nurses around perceptions of important work-life issues. Data were written responses of aged-care nurses to the open-ended request at the end of a survey, which asked them to list up to five political/social/environmental issues concerning them outside of their work.

Personality traits of Australian nurses and doctors: challenging stereotypes?

This study compared temperament and character traits of Australian registered nurses and general practitioners. A cross-sectional quantitative design used the Temperament and Character Inventory. Total sample size was 426.

'I love nursing, but..'- qualitative findings from Australian aged-care nurses about their intrinsic, extrinsic and social work values.

Aim.  The aim of this qualitative analysis - a component of a larger survey study, was to provide insights and understandings about intrinsic and extrinsic work values for nurses in aged-care. Background.

Workplace violence: differences in perceptions of nursing work between those exposed and those not exposed: a cross-sector analysis.

Nurses are at high risk of incurring workplace violence during their working life. This paper reports the findings on a cross-sectional, descriptive, self-report, postal survey in 2007. A stratified random sample of 3000 of the 29 789 members of the Queensland Nurses Union employed in the public, private and aged care sectors resulted in 1192 responses (39.

How do rural GPs manage their inactive and overweight patients?--A pilot study of rural GPs in Queensland.

Background: Overweight and obesity are major risk factors for chronic disease. Physical activity plays an important role in increasing wellbeing and reducing weight. General practitioners' advice and intervention can help patients increase their physical activity.

The value of a breast care nurse in supporting rural and remote cancer patients in Queensland.

The role of the breast care nurse (BCN) in the Queensland's Supporting Rural Women With Breast Cancer Project was evaluated by mixed methodology. Through questionnaire and interview, patients provided views about the nurse's role under the categories of awareness, access, coordination, information, and psychosocial, emotional, and practical support. Of the 51 participants, 37 resided in rural and remote areas.

Informing rural and remote students about careers in health: factors influencing career decisions.

Objective: Since 1994 a state-wide program has been operating in Queensland to provide non-metropolitan secondary school students with information about health careers. Determination of the factors influencing the career decisions of rural and remote students was one objective of the evaluation of that program.

Design: Telephone interviews.

Informing rural and remote students about careers in health: the effect of Health Careers Workshops on course selection.

Objective: Since 1994, as part of the Health Careers in the Bush program, Queensland Health has run residential workshops to provide secondary school students from rural and remote areas with information about health careers. This study reports on the influence of the program on tertiary course selection.

Design: Self-administered mail survey and telephone interviews.

Reproductive biology of Sykes and blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis).

Thirty-five live births were recorded over a 5-year period from three subspecies of the mitis (Sykes and blue) monkey (Cercopithecus mitis) maintained outdoors in single-male harem breeding groups. There was no indication of birth seasonality. Females of one subspecies, C.