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Certificate III in Aged Care Work

The list below is of website you will find useful when doing research about Aged Care in Australia and includes some international references also. We hope you will benefit and most particularly if you are undertaking training in Certificate III in Aged Care Work.

www.health.gov.au
Department of Health and Ageing- Also the Commonwealth Carer of Resource Centre- 1800 242636
www.health.gov.au/sop/content/confidentiality_quiz.asp
Confidentiality quiz
www.pearsoned.co.uk
Educational Publishers; UK.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
A service of the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health- Abstracts containing information crucial to nurse-patient relationship, confidentiality, communication and compliance.
www.nobelprize.org
health education site
www.anmc.org.au/docs
Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council- Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
www.agedcare.org.au
Aged and Community Services Australia (ACSA). This includes CALD Policy (Cultural and Linguistic Diversity) and also includes Medication Management National policy
www.nmb.nsw.gov.au
Nurses Registration Board NSW
www.qnc.qld.gov.au
Queensland Nursing Council
www.nbv.org.au
Nurses Board of Victoria
www.abs.gov.au
Australian Bureau of Statistics- Census data, demographics and ageing population projections.
www.aihw.gov.au
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
www.questia.com/library/history-of-nursing.jsp
A selection of the best books and articles on the history of nursing by Questia Librarians.
www.bu.edu/archives/holdings/historical/nursing.html
Howard GotliebArchivalResearchCenter
www.health.qld.gov.au/northside/html/rudus.asp
Dementia Assessment
www.u3aonline.org.au/
on-line courses for older people
www.hreoc.gov.au/human_rights
Australian Rights Commission- Rights (human & disability), Discrimination (age, race & sex), and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice.

Human Rights Act 2004 

Human Rights Amendment Act 2008 (ACT)

www.workcover.nsw.gov.au
NSW OH&S
www.deir.qld.gov.au/workplace
Department of Employment and Industrial Relations- QLD WH&S
www.workcover.vic.gov.au
Worksafe- Vic OH&S
http://library.curtin.edu.au/referencing/harvard.htm
www.lib.flinders.edu.au/resources
also includes history of nursing, and death and dying links, and other relevant topics
www.intute.ac.uk/healthlifesciences
Browse a large resource centre for nursing, midwifery and allied health medicine and a range of other health and science departments
www.helpguide.org/mental/grief_loss.htm
www.grief.org.au
Victoria based – Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
www.nalag.org.au
National Association of Loss and Grief 
www.lifeline.org.au
Lifeline- Includes 24hrs phone counseling on 131114
www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au
Better Channel Health- includes grief support services 
www.community.gov.au
www.privacy.gov.au
www.med.nyu.edu/nursing
www.books.google.com.au/books
Review this book on line- Expanding the Role of the Nurse- The Scope of Professional Practice- Edited by Geoffrey Hunt and Paul Wainwright

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Student Feedback from an Aged Care Course May 2009

"My educator made me feel relaxed and confident. I enjoyed the course immensely, well done."

"The educators have been fantastic on this course. I am so pleased to have been part of their knowledge."