	Nurses & Midwives Newsletter October, 2008

Welcome Back!!! As you would be aware, Survey 2 went live late in August and the response to date has been fantastic - welcome back and thanks to all our participants who have completed survey 2. If you havent yet completed it - we urge you to do so as soon as you can. That way we can provide meaningful information to the professions and policy makers. New publications from the e-Cohort Study We are very pleased to announce that Anthony Tuckett is first authour of two papers from the study are soon to be published in the Journal of Clinical Nursing Caring in residential aged-care. Qualitative findings from an e-cohort sub-study.(accepted for publication 08/10/08) Validation of CARE-Q in residential aged-care. Rating of importance of caring behaviours from an e-cohort sub-study. (accepted for publication 30/09/08) Both Anthony and Karen Hughes send a very heart-felt thanks to all the aged care nurses who joined the study and made these publications possible. Survey 1 (baseline) data Survey 1 (baseline) closed earlier this year and since then we have been busy cleaning the data, so what can we tell you at this point? Since it went live, 10,112 nurses and midwives have joined the study. When we asked in which country they received their first qualification, we found that:- 3825 first qualified in Australia 1045 in New Zealand 1659 in the United Kingdon 261 in another country 3295 kept it a secret! When we asked our participants in what speciality they currently practise in, we found that:- 880 specialise in ED/critical care/ICU 824 mixed medical/surgical 460 medical nursing 438 surgical nursing 428 perioperative nursing 782 mdiwifery 416 in aged care nursing 504 mental health 398 family and chlid health 541 community health 109 'other' 179 oncology/palliative care nursing 147 education/research 39 general practice nursing 8 are in graduate nurse programs 68 work in administration/management When asked our participants in what setting they currently practise in, we found that:- 3937 work in an acute hospital setting 399 aged care facility 102 commercial/industry /business 541 community health 52 day surgery 44 defence force facility 31 domicilary / community nursing 206 government deapartment 31 hospice 5 hostel 67 independent practice 269 inegratedhospital/ clinic/community 308 medical practice (specialist or general) 49 non-government organisation 103 outpatient clinic 47 primary/secondary school 226 tertiary education institution 20 tele-health information centre 193 other 15 work from home 61 non-nursing setting Of course there are many more findings, some of which will be posted in subsequent newsletters. Want to know more? Please contact the project manager, Lindy Humphreyes-Reid in the first instance. Calling all potential PhD students and external researchers!!!!!!! We welcoome the opportunity to collaborate with external researchers who wish to undertake a sub-study or perform analysis of existing data. At present our only limiting criterion for collaborators is that a Nurses & Midwives e-cohort Principal Investigator is involved. In this way we can ensure quality; track what data is being analysed and published. Please send your initial enquiries to our Research Manager and Biostatistician Ms Anne Russell. Thank you to e-cohort participant, Maureen, who submitted the following item for the newlsletter. Many of us will have seen this before but the message is still relevant to day.... When an old lady died in the geriatric ward of a small hospital near Dundee, Scotland, it wasÂ believed thatÂ she had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through her meagre possessions, they found this poem. Crabby Old Woman What do you see, nurses................What do you see? What are you thinking......When you're looking at me? A crabby old woman..........................Not very wise, Uncertain of habit,......................With faraway eyes? Who dribbles her food ............... And makes no reply. When you say in a loud voice.......'I do wish you'd try!' Who seems not to notice .........The things that you do, And forever is losing .....................A stocking or shoe? Who, resisting or not, ..............Lets you do as you will, With bathing and feeding, ..............The long day to fill? Is that what you're thinking?......... Is that what you see? Then open your eyes, nurse,.....You're not looking at me. I'll tell you who I am .......................As I sit here so ill, As I do at your bidding, ................... As I eat at your will. I'm a small child of ten..............With a father and mother, Brothers and sisters.......................Who love one another. A young girl of sixteen ...................With wings on her feet Dreaming that soon now ..................... A lover she'll meet. A bride soon at twenty, ................... My heart gives a leap, Remembering the vows ............... That I promised to keep. At twenty-five now,.....................I have young of my own, Who need me to guide ............... And a secure happy home. A woman of thirty,.................... My young now grown fast, Bound to each other.....................With ties that should last. At forty, my young sons..............Have grown and are gone, But my man's beside me.....................To see I don't mourn At fifty once more,...................Babies play round my knee, Again we know children,................... My loved one and me. Dark days are upon me,.......................My husband is dead, I look at the future,.............................I shudder with dread. For my young are all rearing .................Young of their own, And I think of the years.......... And the love that I've known. I'm now an old woman......................... And nature is cruel; Tis jest to make old age ...........................Look like a fool. The body, it crumbles,..................... Grace and vigor depart, There is now a stone....................Where I once had a heart. But inside this old carcass................ A young girl still dwells, And now and again,...................... My battered heart swells. I remember the joys,.......................... I remember the pain, And I'm loving and living..............................Life over again. I think of the years..................... All too few, gone too fast, And accept the stark fact.....................That nothing can last. So open your eyes, people,............................Open and see, Not a crabby old woman;.............Look closer.....see,.....ME!!	Quartely Quote It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ~ John Andrew Holmes ~ Keeping in touch! It's really important that we have current contact details for everyone in the e-cohort study. If you move house, change job, or get a new email address, please let us know by logging onto the study and updating your personal details. If you don't know how to do this, please email Barbara for more information. Participant Poem Thank you to e-cohort participant Colin Mee for the following poem. To our delight, Colin sends in a poem each year on this birthday. Old age is such a blast I'm taking pills now To help me remember the past Then there's potions To help things to pass Sleeping tablets And liquid for the gas Anti depressants and viagra They're pumping into me My gosh I'm a walking pharmacy ~ Colin ~ Who was Clara Barton? Clara Barton is best known for organizing the American Red Cross organization. Born in 1821, Barton was the ‘Angel of the Battlefield’ during the Civil War in the United States. Though she used to be a clerk in the U.S. Patent Office, Barton organized a supply line for the soldiers on the battlefield. She would also head to the battles herself, tending to wounded and dying soldiers. In 1870, Barton helped the International Red Cross during the Franco-Prussian War, eventually leading to the formation of the American Red Cross in the United States. source Conferences 28th Annual International Nursing and Midwifery Research Conference 25-26th February, 2009 Ireland conference website 5th World Congresses in Paediatric Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery (WCPCCS) Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns, Australia 21-26 June 2009 Cairns. Australia conference website Reflective Practice Conference ( COMHRA) University of Limerick, 24-26th June 2009 Ireland conference website The 10th International Congress on Nursing Informatics 28 June-1 July 2009 Helsinki, Finland Australasian Nurse Educators Conference 30 Sept -2 October 2009 Christchurch New Zealand conference website Protecting your privacy on the e-cohort study As we are stationed at the University of Queensland, all our research activities are governed by strict ethical guidelines. The Nurses & Midwives e-cohort study has been granted clearance by the University’s Behavioural and Social Science Ethics Review Committee. Ethical governance pertains to issues such as confidentiality, consent, privacy, data handling and storage. None of your confidential information is disclosed to others. Even when the data is analysed or passed from one analyst to another, it is de-identified first. Nonetheless, we do acknowledge that there are always risks associated with electronic data storage (just as there are with traditional methods) and accordingly we have secured our website with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) which is an encrypted protocol for transmitting private documents via the internet. Should you have any questions or concerns, you are invited to contact The University of Queensland’s Ethics Officer, Mr Michael Tse

Nurses & Midwives Newsletter October, 2008

Welcome Back!!!

As you would be aware, Survey 2 went live late in August and the response to date has been fantastic - welcome back and thanks to all our participants who have completed survey 2. If you havent yet completed it - we urge you to do so as soon as you can. That way we can provide meaningful information to the professions and policy makers.

New publications from the

e-Cohort Study

We are very pleased to announce that Anthony Tuckett is first authour of two papers from the study are soon to be published in the Journal of Clinical Nursing

Caring in residential aged-care. Qualitative findings from an e-cohort sub-study.(accepted for publication 08/10/08)

Validation of CARE-Q in residential aged-care. Rating of importance of caring behaviours from an e-cohort sub-study. (accepted for publication 30/09/08)

Both Anthony and Karen Hughes send a very heart-felt thanks to all the aged care nurses who joined the study and made these publications possible.

Survey 1 (baseline) data

Survey 1 (baseline) closed earlier this year and since then we have been busy cleaning the data, so what can we tell you at this point?

Since it went live, 10,112 nurses and midwives have joined the study.

When we asked in which country they received their first qualification, we found that:-

3825 first qualified in Australia
1045 in New Zealand
1659 in the United Kingdon
261 in another country
3295 kept it a secret!

When we asked our participants in what speciality they currently practise in, we found that:-

880 specialise in ED/critical care/ICU
824 mixed medical/surgical
460 medical nursing
438 surgical nursing
428 perioperative nursing
782 mdiwifery
416 in aged care nursing
504 mental health
398 family and chlid health
541 community health
109 'other'
179 oncology/palliative care nursing
147 education/research
39 general practice nursing
8 are in graduate nurse programs
68 work in administration/management

When asked our participants in what setting they currently practise in, we found that:-

3937 work in an acute hospital setting
399 aged care facility
102 commercial/industry /business
541 community health
52 day surgery
44 defence force facility
31 domicilary / community nursing
206 government deapartment
31 hospice
5 hostel
67 independent practice
269 inegratedhospital/ clinic/community
308 medical practice (specialist or general)
49 non-government organisation
103 outpatient clinic
47 primary/secondary school
226 tertiary education institution
20 tele-health information centre
193 other
15 work from home
61 non-nursing setting

Of course there are many more findings, some of which will be posted in subsequent newsletters. Want to know more? Please contact the project manager, Lindy Humphreyes-Reid in the first instance.

Calling all potential PhD students and external researchers!!!!!!!

We welcoome the opportunity to collaborate with external researchers who wish to undertake a sub-study or perform analysis of existing data. At present our only limiting criterion for collaborators is that a Nurses & Midwives e-cohort Principal Investigator is involved. In this way we can ensure quality; track what data is being analysed and published. Please send your initial enquiries to our Research Manager and Biostatistician

Ms Anne Russell.

Thank you to e-cohort participant, Maureen, who submitted the following item for the newlsletter.

Many of us will have seen this before but the message is still relevant to day....

When an old lady died in the geriatric ward of a small hospital near Dundee, Scotland, it wasÂ believed thatÂ she had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through her meagre possessions, they found this poem.

Crabby Old Woman

What do you see, nurses................What do you see?
What are you thinking......When you're looking at me?
A crabby old woman..........................Not very wise,
Uncertain of habit,......................With faraway eyes?
Who dribbles her food ............... And makes no reply.
When you say in a loud voice.......'I do wish you'd try!'
Who seems not to notice .........The things that you do,
And forever is losing .....................A stocking or shoe?
Who, resisting or not, ..............Lets you do as you will,
With bathing and feeding, ..............The long day to fill?
Is that what you're thinking?......... Is that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse,.....You're not looking at me.
I'll tell you who I am .......................As I sit here so ill,
As I do at your bidding, ................... As I eat at your will.
I'm a small child of ten..............With a father and mother,
Brothers and sisters.......................Who love one another.

A young girl of sixteen ...................With wings on her feet
Dreaming that soon now ..................... A lover she'll meet.
A bride soon at twenty, ................... My heart gives a leap,
Remembering the vows ............... That I promised to keep.
At twenty-five now,.....................I have young of my own,
Who need me to guide ............... And a secure happy home.
A woman of thirty,.................... My young now grown fast,
Bound to each other.....................With ties that should last.
At forty, my young sons..............Have grown and are gone,
But my man's beside me.....................To see I don't mourn
At fifty once more,...................Babies play round my knee,
Again we know children,................... My loved one and me.
Dark days are upon me,.......................My husband is dead,
I look at the future,.............................I shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing .................Young of their own,
And I think of the years.......... And the love that I've known.
I'm now an old woman......................... And nature is cruel;
Tis jest to make old age ...........................Look like a fool.
The body, it crumbles,..................... Grace and vigor depart,
There is now a stone....................Where I once had a heart.
But inside this old carcass................ A young girl still dwells,
And now and again,...................... My battered heart swells.
I remember the joys,.......................... I remember the pain,
And I'm loving and living..............................Life over again.
I think of the years..................... All too few, gone too fast,
And accept the stark fact.....................That nothing can last.
So open your eyes, people,............................Open and see,
Not a crabby old woman;.............Look closer.....see,.....ME!!

Quartely Quote

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

~ John Andrew Holmes ~

Keeping in touch!

It's really important that we have current contact details for everyone in the e-cohort study. If you move house, change job, or get a new email address, please let us know by logging onto the study and updating your personal details. If you don't know how to do this, please email Barbara for more information.

Participant Poem

Thank you to e-cohort participant Colin Mee for the following poem. To our delight, Colin sends in a poem each year on this birthday.

Old age is such a blast

I'm taking pills now

To help me remember the past

Then there's potions

To help things to pass

Sleeping tablets

And liquid for the gas

Anti depressants and viagra

They're pumping into me

My gosh

I'm a walking pharmacy

~ Colin ~

Who was Clara Barton?

Clara Barton is best known for organizing the American Red Cross organization. Born in 1821, Barton was the ‘Angel of the Battlefield’ during the Civil War in the United States. Though she used to be a clerk in the U.S. Patent Office, Barton organized a supply line for the soldiers on the battlefield. She would also head to the battles herself, tending to wounded and dying soldiers.

In 1870, Barton helped the International Red Cross during the Franco-Prussian War, eventually leading to the formation of the American Red Cross in the United States.

source

Conferences

28th Annual International Nursing and Midwifery Research Conference

25-26th February, 2009

Ireland

conference website

5th World Congresses in Paediatric Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery

(WCPCCS)

Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns, Australia

21-26 June 2009

Cairns. Australia

conference website

Reflective Practice Conference ( COMHRA)

University of Limerick,

24-26th June 2009

Ireland

conference website

The 10th International Congress on Nursing Informatics

28 June-1 July 2009

Helsinki, Finland

Australasian Nurse Educators Conference
30 Sept -2 October 2009
Christchurch

New Zealand

conference website

Protecting your privacy on the

e-cohort study

As we are stationed at the University of Queensland, all our research activities are governed by strict ethical guidelines. The Nurses & Midwives e-cohort study has been granted clearance by the University’s Behavioural and Social Science Ethics Review Committee.

Ethical governance pertains to issues such as confidentiality, consent, privacy, data handling and storage. None of your confidential information is disclosed to others. Even when the data is analysed or passed from one analyst to another, it is de-identified first.

Nonetheless, we do acknowledge that there are always risks associated with electronic data storage (just as there are with traditional methods) and accordingly we have secured our website with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) which is an encrypted protocol for transmitting private documents via the internet.

Should you have any questions or concerns, you are invited to contact The University of Queensland’s Ethics Officer, Mr Michael Tse