Synergy: Nursing And Midwifery Research Centre

Professor Brenda Happell is ranked number 1 Nursing/Midwifery Professor in Australia for for citations for education focused publications and number 2 for non-education focused. Number 1 overall. Congratulations Brenda.

Professor Brendan McCormack from Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh is in Canberra! Prof McCormack delivered special guest lectures at University of Canberra and the Canberra Hospital on person centred care and practice development.

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners at the ACT Health Nursing and Midwifery Awards Night held yesterday!

It is International Nurses and Midwives Week! Check out the line up of events planned at the Canberra Hospital to celebrate our nurses and midwives here at ACT, from the Nurses & Midwives Remembrance & Thanksgiving Wreath Laying Ceremony tomorrow afternoon at the War Memorial to the Nursing & Midwifery Excellence Awards Dinner on Thursday night at the Hellenic Club! http://health.act.gov.au/…/act-nursing- and-midwifery-excell…

Today we celebrate the International Day of the Midwife! A big thank you to all our wonderful midwives around the world for their hard work, dedication and care! We hope you have a lovely day!

SYNERGY hosted a Post Graduate Nursing & Midwifery Expo with presentations by Nursing at the University of Canberra, Charles Sturt University - CSU and Australian College of Nursing. The Expo took place at the SYNERGY Forum on Wednesday 11th April at the Canberra Hospital Auditorium and was attended by many staff members across the hospital.

Don't miss the exciting Post Graduate Nursing & Midwifery Expo, on tomorrow at the Canberra Hospital Auditorium (2pm-3.30pm), with presentations by Nursing at the University of Canberra, Charles Sturt University & Australian College of Nursing. Find out all about Post Grad study options in Nursing & Midwifery. All are welcome!

Take a look at the latest publications, projects news and upcoming events on the SYNERGY Newsletter available online...

New publication by SYNERGY member Kasia Bail on the 'Feasibility of Integrating Residential Care Pharmacists into Aged Care Homes to Improve Quality Use of Medicines'

Read the latest on SYNERGY projects, publications, events and more on our March Newsletter now available online...

Read the latest publication by SYNERGY's Professor Brenda Happell & Julia Bocking and the team behind the international COMMUNE project - ‘To be treated as a human’: Using co-production to explore experts by experience involvement in mental health nursing education

Don't miss the SYNERGY Research & Practice Development Forum, on tomorrow, 2pm-3pm at the Canberra Hospital Auditorium!
Lined up for the day are two exciting presentations on nurse led practice development projects completed at the Canberra Hospital in 2016 and 2017
For more info: http://www.synergyresearch.edu.au/…/res earch-and-practice-…/

Congratulations to SYNERGY member, Assistant Professor Kasia Bail, on her recent publication on 'Predicting excess costs for older inpatients with clinical complexity'!