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"The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) is the independent accrediting authority for nursing and midwifery under the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme. It sets standards for accreditation and accredits nursing and midwifery courses and providers. The ANMAC is also an authorised assessing authority for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) and undertakes skills assessments of internationally qualified nurses and midwives seeking permanent migration in Australia."

Can others suggest better tags for this site? So we can have better search topics.

With Professional Development facilities, Education / Online Learning, Nursing Equipment and Supplies, Jobs / Course & Event listings we are here to make new nurses become great and help great nurses become even better."

this was mentioned in the Mon/Wed group text chat.

"Here are the 160 free online nursing quizzes (11,140 questions) that we have developed for the Learning Nurse's Test and Quiz Center. Click on the Quiz Name to open it. (Adobe Flash needs to be installed on your computer, otherwise you will get a blank page.) Read the instructions and then proceed to do the quiz. Immediate feedback is provided for each question as well as a review and summary of how well you did. For quizzes that have a pool of items, different questions are selected each time, and the questions and answers are also randomized. So everytime you take a quiz, it will be different even if it is on the same topic"

Leisa Tully shared this website "This a site i found for quizzes on nursing.I have been doing them and found them helpful"

Link to the Questions for the Nursing Calculations pretest. We did this during live sessions 6th & 7th June. You are welcome to try again.

"The Essentials of Care Program is a framework to support the development and ongoing evaluation of nursing and midwifery practice and patient care. It is underpinned by the principles of transformational practice development. This approach to practice requires that all stakeholders - patients, carers, staff and families - have opportunities to participate and are included in decisions about effective care using approaches that respect individual and collective values."

This is the response page to a nursing maths pre test that we did in live lessons during 6th - 7th June. You need to link it to the questions

Clinical Transfusion Practice aims to develop your knowledge of blood transfusion and donation practise, to promote safe transfusion practice and the appropriate use of blood components. It is relevant for medical staff who prescribe transfusions, nurses and midwives who administer the transfusion and laboratory workers who want to gain an appreciation of the clinical aspects of blood transfusion. Content covers the basic facts about blood transfusion and blood donation. This includes the risks and benefits of transfusions, how to label blood specimens, collecting and transporting blood, administering a transfusion and patient monitoring. Course content is based on national recommendations and guidelines and has been developed in collaboration with leading transfusion medicine experts from around Australia.

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This page in our Nursing maths wikispace focuses on calculating drug dosages. There are samples of test questions, copies of presentations that you can print and Voicethreads with demonstrations and audio explanations of working through formula that you can play and progress through gradually at your own pace.

For those who tried to join the Tuesday evening (my humble apologies as a fierce storm prevented me from logging online... the 2nd voicethread on this page delivers my whole lesson. I would appreciate feedback if you watch these voicethreads... are they of use working through at your own pace? Quicker or slower, skip bits or replay it is up to you.

A variety of quizzes to help with the Nursing maths exam. Post a comment here in Diigo or on the Blog to give us and others feedback as to whether they are useful to you and your revision.

Viv is exploring a new way to create a quiz... PLEASE NOTE: Log in using a fake email (try nursing@hotmail.com and just your first name. Use try it out to help you revise for your upcoming exam. Let us know what you think.

This is great Viv

Hi Nursing Team - I have highlighted the great tips from the MW team using the highlight tool in Diigo. This will hopefully reduce your reading time - by just tuning into the highlighted sections. Some excellent and varied strategies for Time management - thanks everyone for sharing your ideas.

I have highlighted hints from the team - so you can hone into the strategies. I hope this helps. (A great feature of Diigo)

This link was mentioned by Tabitha in the Mon/Wed chat

An online newspaper that collects together the week's news relating to health education.Read and subscribe free at: http://paper.li/f-1327779598

On our Nursing Maths wikispace page on Measurement is growing. See how to convert L to mL, and mL to L.

An interactive matching of parts of the kidney and their functions. Practice until you get full marks. :-)

More of the same would be great to prepare us for the exam

This True / False quiz gives you a score and will help you revise your session on Epithilial tissues

Only 2 questions in this one about the Coronal Plane (Viv hasn't worked out how to watch the animation BUT you can use your notes from the Tissues/organs Powerpoint or your text book.

I couldn't work the animation but I using the slides on notes from our class powerpoint "Tissues/organs/systems"

This 3 question quiz... I am curious to see what you think regarding Q 1 in this quiz as I believe they have an incorrect answer. Reply to discuss :-) Viv