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The 1960s and 70s were testing times for Australian pharmacy schools and were characterised by poor resources and infrastructure, and political and academic intransigence, which varied in intensity across the country. The South Australian and Victorian stories were the most complicated, followed by Tasmania and Western Australia. In New South Wales, the pharmacy school was in the university while in Queensland, the upgrading and transfer of the course from a technical college to the University of Queensland was at the university's behest. This paper chronicles the events leading up to the granting of pharmacy degrees in Australia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study we explored the hassles and uplifts (i.e. negative and positive emotional events) experienced by registered nurses, nursing assistants and personal carers working with people with cognitive impairment in community and residential healthcare settings in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The primary aim of the research was to explore what aspects of caring for cognitively impaired clients hassles nurses, what helps to relieve these hassles, what aspects of this work nurses find rewarding and what detracts from those rewards, as well as the intensity with which each of these aspects were felt. A questionnaire developed to explore hassles and uplifts at work was administered and 57 responses obtained. Results indicated that caring for the cognitively impaired client provides many uplifts for nurses and few hassles. However, the hassles that occurred were of high importance. This paper will be of interest to managers, nurses and carers in settings where there are people with cognitive impairment as well as scholars, who may find that assessing emotional hassles and uplifts provides additional insights into other areas of nursing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fellows of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and members of the Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine are invited to forward to the journal, details of their publications which have appeared in journals other than Emergency Medicine during the period September–October 2003. Commentary on these papers will appear in the April 2004 issue of the journal. Copies of the papers are to be forwarded by mail or fax to journal headquarters (17 Grattan Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia; fax: +61 3 9663 8013) by 15 November 2003. The next call will be for papers published in the period November–December 2003. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about head and neck oncology discussed at the 9th annual scientific meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Head and Neck Society in Brisbane, Queensland in July 2007 is presented. The meeting was attended by multidisciplinary organization for surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, and nursing, and allied health professionals. Papers from all the specialties and from nursing and allied health personnel were presented during the meeting.