Tenure, mobility and retention of nurses in Queensland, Australia: 2001 and 2004

[Abstract]: Aim: Data were collected on tenure, mobility and retention of the nursing workforce in Queensland to aid strategic planning by the Queensland Nurses’ Union. Background: Shortages of nurses negatively affect the health outcomes of patients. Population rise is increasing the demand for nurses in Queensland. The supply of nurses is affected by recruitment of new and returning nurses, retention of the existing workforce and mobility within institutions. Methods: A self-reporting, postal survey was undertaken of Queensland Nurses Union members from the major employment sectors of aged care, public acute and community health and private acute and community health. Results: Only 60% of nurses had been with their current employer more than five years. In contrast 90% had been nursing for five years or more and most (80%) expected to remain in nursing for at least another five years. Breaks from nursing were common and part-time positions in the private and aged care sectors offered flexibility. Conclusion: The study demonstrated a mobile nursing workforce in Queensland although data on tenure and future time in nursing suggested that retention in the industry was high. Concern is expressed for replacement of an aging nursing population

Mapping the visibility of smokers across a large capital city

BACKGROUND: Smoking visibility may affect smoking norms with implications for tobacco initiation, particularly amongst youths. Understanding how smoking is distributed across urban environments would contribute to the design and implementation of tobacco control policies. Our objective is to estimate the visibility of smokers in a large urban area using a novel GIS-based methodological approach. METHODS: We used systematic social observation to gather information about the presence of smokers in the environment within a representative sample of census tracts in Madrid city in 2016. We designed a GIS-based methodology to estimate the visibility of smokers throughout the whole city using the data collected in the fieldwork. Last, we validated our results in a sample of 40 locations distributed across the city through direct observation. RESULTS: We mapped estimates of smokers’ visibility across the entire city. The visibility was higher in the central districts and in streets with a high density of hospitality venues, public transportation stops, and retail shops. Peripheral districts, with larger green areas and residential or industrial land uses, showed lower visibility of smokers. Validation analyses found high agreement between the estimated and observed values of smokers’ visibility (R=0.845, p=<0.001). DISCUSSION: GIS-based methods enable the development of novel tools to study the distribution of smokers and their visibility in urban environments. We found differences in the visibility by population density and leisure, retail shops and business activities. The findings can support the development of policies to protect people from smoking

Natural law, non-voluntary euthanasia, and public policy

© 2019 by Emerald Publishing Limited. Natural Law philosophy asserts that there are universally binding and universally evident principles that can be determined to guide the actions of persons. Moreover, many of these principles have been enshrined in both statute and common law, thus ensuring their saliency for staff and institutions charged with palliative care. The authors examine the often emotive and politicized matter of (non-voluntary) euthanasia – acts or omissions made with the intent of causing or hastening death – with reference to Natural Law philosophy. This leads us to propose a number of important public policy remedies to ensure dignity in dying for the patient, and their associates

Members travel entitlement in New South Wales

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Correspondence relating to cultivation of silk.

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Data sharing (Government sector) bill 2015

This data sharing bill was approved by the NSW Parliament on 18 November 2015, and will enable data sharing across government agencies and support the functioning of the NSW Data Analytics Centre. Long title: An Act with respect to the sharing of government sector data with a government data analytics centre and between other government sector agencies and to the privacy and other safeguards that apply to the sharing of that data. Overview of Bill The objects of this Bill are: (a) to enable government sector agencies to agree to share government sector data with the Data Analytics Centre (the DAC) in the Department of Finance, Services and Innovation (the Department) or other government sector agencies for certain purposes, and (b) to enable the Minister to give directions in certain circumstances to require government sector agencies to share government sector data with the DAC, and (c) to enable the Minister to obtain information for the DAC from government sector agencies about the kinds of data sets that they control, and (d) to specify safeguards (including in relation to the collection, use, disclosure, protection, keeping, retention or disposal of health information or personal information of individuals) to be complied with by the DAC and other government sector agencies in connection with data sharing under the proposed Act

Diagram plan Culcairn to Corowa railway. Plan IV [cartographic material].

Sketch map of the route of the proposed railway between Culcairn to Corowa, N.S.W., showing also the original trial survey through Quat Quatta. Relief shown by hachures.; "(Sig.580-)"; From: N.S.W. Legislative Assembly. Votes and Proceedings, 1889., Second Session, 2, 115, fp.476.; Collins, D. and J. McQuilton. Guide to maps in the New South Wales Parliamentary Papers 1836-1912, 581.; Also available in an electronic version via the internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm905-3