Evaluating the preceptor role for pre-registration nursing and midwifery student clinical education.

Aim: The aim of this research is to evaluate the perceptions of the Registered Nurse (RN), Registered Midwife (RM) and Enrolled Nurse (EN) about their experience of preceptoring an undergraduate student within a large Local Health District in New South Wales (NSW) Australia.

Background: In the current Health Workforce Australia (HWA) literature, the term 'Clinical Supervisor' has subsumed the role of mentor, preceptor, buddy and facilitator of clinical practice. Preceptor in this paper describes the supervisory, facilitating and teaching role of the registered nurse in the clinical practice undergraduate nursing and midwifery educational pairing.

The negative attitudes of nurses towards older patients in the acute hospital setting: a qualitative descriptive study.

Aim: This paper reports the findings of a sub-sample of interviews from a larger study designed to explore the attitudes of health care workers towards older people in that acute care setting. The discussion in this paper focuses only on interviews with nurses and their negative attitudes towards older people in their care.

Background: As Australia's ageing population continues to grow exponentially, their demand for hospital care also increases.

Person-centredness: a concept analysis.

Person-centred care is a term that has been used frequently in literature since the mid-1990s. This type of care requires health care staff to use person-centredness as a focus for developing relationships and plans of care. In an attempt to define person-centredness, a literature review was undertaken as a means of developing a concept analysis.