ABC Radio National ‘Ockham’s Razor’ 18 Jan 2009
Audio and transcript and podcast feed (well worth listening to if you’re interested in ideas, stories, philosophies or opinions related to science)
Professor Linda Shields from Curtin University of Technology in Perth has written, together with Professor Roger Watson from the University of Sheffield in the UK, about the state of nursing in Australia and the UK.
She talks about the international nursing shortage which threatens the health of Australians, the nursing recruitment drive and the difference in education of Australian and British nurses, and about the treatment of nurses by health authorities in both countries.