Boost for nursing

Nursing

Professor Alan Pearson, an internationally acclaimed champion of evidence-based health care, has taken up the role of Professor of Nursing at the University of Adelaide.

He will also continue his work as executive director of the Joanna Briggs Institute. Professor Pearson was Head of the University's Department of Clinical Nursing when he launched the Joanna Briggs Institute in 1996 as a joint venture between the university and Royal Adelaide Hospital.

The Joanna Briggs Institute is an international research and development unit, which seeks to promote the translation and utilisation of the "best available" evidence from a diverse range of sources into contemporary health care practice.

Professor Pearson will lead the Discipline of Nursing's research with the establishment of a Joanna Briggs Research Unit within the School of Population Health and Clinical Practice.

Meanwhile the University's new Bachelor of Nursing degree is off to a good start with 50 students in its first year.

Adelaidean caught up with the nurse students during a practical class at the Royal Adelaide Hospital just before the cohort went three separate ways to continue their studies within the hospital environment at the Royal Adelaide, Queen Elizabeth and the Lyell McEwin Hospitals.

Story by Robyn Mills