Valuing and Recognising the Significance of Enrolled Nurses within Health Care

Valuing and Recognising the Significance of Enrolled Nurses within Health Care

This session outlines the importance of the nursing profession to society.  It acknowledges the rich and valued history of nurses past and present. The importance of the Enrolled Nurse in maintaining the health of Australians today is also discussed. The future of the ‘Nursing Profession’ is explored in terms of looking at best nursing practice outcomes and nursing education. The concept of the “…thinking nurse for the future utilising their untapped capacity…” concludes this inspiring and informative presentation.

The main concepts explored in this session are:

• Role and importance of enrolled nurses
• Nurse history
• The nursing profession: past, present and future
• Nurses role and their importance to society
• Nurse education

Speaker: Cheryl Burns

Cheryl Burns has been a nurse for over thirty years and held various positions in clinical nursing education. Cheryl currently works in Queensland Health in Clinical Education as Director of Nursing and Midwifery Education. Cheryl has a strong commitment to the profession and has been on many state and national committees. She values the many and varied roles of the nurse and is a strong and eloquent advocate for nurses.

Speaker name: Cheryl Burns
Recorded: 23 Feb 2010
Listening time: 26
Conference: Enrolled Nurses
Session in Conference: Valuing and recognising the significance of enrolled nurses to the health care
State: Brisbane, Australia

Professional Reviews:

Tried to listen but couldn't hear anything for background noise. Very poor quality.

Hi Millewski, thank you for your comment regarding the audio quality of this lecture. I have alerted one of our nurse educators and we will shortly be placing this through our review process.   Thanks again,  Will @ Ausmed

I tried to listen to this audio session and there is to much background noise and vibration that it is difficult to hear