CONTENTS
04
19
REGULARS
02 DIRECTORY 03 EDITORIAL 04 NEWS 13 WORLD 14 RESEARCH 15 INDUSTRIAL
Sliding into poverty on the minimum wage
18 ISSUES
26
AGENTS OF CHANGE
The broad value of professional indemnity insurance
19 AGED CARE
Forgotten members of society deserve better
20 AGED CARE CAMPAIGN
Ratios for Aged Care campaign launch
22 ISSUES Cultural safety and implications for building staff capacity: snapshot of findings from a study with Nurse Academics
23 REFLECTIONS
My story as a nurse, and as a mother and carer of someone with CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome)
24 EDUCATION
Women’s Health
26 FEATURE
Agents of change: Nurses and midwives tackle climate change head on
32 REFLECTIONS NURSES AND MIDWIVES TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE HEAD ON
Retirement from nursing: knowing when the time has come
34 BOOKS
56
36 CLINICAL UPDATE
Assessment of breathlessness: A critical dimension of identifying cardiovascular disease
40 FOCUS Sexual Health
54 CALENDAR 55 MAIL 56 Introducing ANMF’s National Policy Research Advisor: Micah
40 anmf.org.au
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