I have majority of my nursing career working in a children's hospital both at Randwick and Westmead and one thing that has always impressed me is the amount of people that volunteer. Now we probably imagine that the majority of these people are old, retired and mostly females who have spare time More...

22 February 1971 Starlog:  that was the date I entered this space ship, trying to pick up pieces of damaged personalities across the cosmos. My mother was a nurse in Vienna ( as was my aunt) and came to Sydney in 1960 when I was eight years old. I lived in a tin can in Villawood migrant More...

Not even in my wildest dreams had I thought I'd be a nurse 3 years down the track. Although I respected the work nurses provided to the community, the stigma of being a male nurse was always at the back of my mind. I was happy pursuing the career and dreams that I day-dreamed of when I first flew More...

Working in a children's hospital you learn to develop an understanding of family centered care and how this can be applied to practice. Family centerd care (FCC) encourages and enables family members to be involved in the planning, delivery and evaluation of their child’s carefamily More...

I remember being a student nurse, I studied nursing at the University of Sydney and we had a number of clinical placements in a wide range of health care facilities. I was always so scared before my placements, I’m not sure why, I would prepare my self by researching practice as much as I More...