Episode 46 - University Open Day Resource
This DVD is a compile of some of the stories that have appeared on Nurse TV over the years. It is designed specifically as a marketing tool and can be shown at university open days and at nursing Expos. The stories on this DVD cover a broad range of topics and show where a career in nursing can take you.
Nursing Makes A Difference
A ten minute film exclusively designed for open days. The wonderful world of nursing is promoted in this high energy, fast paced film. This episode showcases the possibilities of a career in nursing.
Duration: Approx 10 mins
Location: Australia wide
Leaps and Bounds
When Luke, an emergency nurse, decided to try and become a nurse practitioner, his hospital got right behind him… and their support has paid off enormously in terms of patient care.
Duration: Approx 8 mins
Location: Lyell McEwin Hospital, SA
Remote and Loving It!
Pat, a RAN from Central Australia, talks about the challenge of being responsible for the healthcare of an entire community… and having a camel as a neighbour.
Duration: Approx 10 minutes
Location: Mt Liebig Community, NT
Critical Babies
Sarah is a nurse in a busy Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. She looks after the tiniest, sickest little babies and provides much needed support for their parents.
Duration: Approx 9 mins
Location: Royal Women’s Hospital, VIC
Out and About with the RDNS
We spend a day out in the community with the Royal District Nursing Service in Melbourne.
Duration: Approx 8 mins
Location: Melbourne, VIC
The Young, the Old, and the Beautiful
Have you ever heard saying, “aged care is for aged nurses”? Well Mark, a 24 year-old nurse from South Australia, has set out to prove it wrong.
Duration: Approx 7 mins
Location: Helping Hand, SA
Nursing in Paradise
It’s a tough job working at one of Australia’s leading tourist destinations… but hey, someone has to do it! We meet a nurse who thinks he has the best job in the world.
Duration: Approx 7 mins
Location: Rottnest Island, WA
Lights, Camera, Nursing!
His job is to make sure that TV producers depict the nursing profession accurately and get the details right. We meet the Nurse Consultant on the set of All Saints.
Duration: Approx 8 mins
Location: Sydney, NSW
Flying Nurses We visit the Flying Doctor base at Broken Hill and chat to one of the Flight Nurses about his experiences and the qualifications needed to join the RFDS.
Duration: Approx 9 mins
Location: RFDS Broken Hill, NSW
Complex Families
We meet a maternal and child health nurse whose job takes her into Melbourne’s high rise commission flats. Her clients have complex problems including poverty, alcoholism, gambling and drug addictions.
Duration: Approx 12 mins
Location: Melbourne, VIC
15 Minutes
They were ordinary nurses who were catapulted into the spotlight. We meet the poster gals from the DHS Victorian media campaign.
Duration: Approx 10 mins
Location: Alfred Hospital & the Mercy Hospital for Women, VIC
Back of Bourke
For a nurse, two years out of university, going bush was a wonderful career opportunity. We discuss the opportunities available in bush nursing and the challenges of being a Sexual Health Nurse in Bourke.
Duration: 8 minutes
Location: Bourke NSW
Families in Crisis
Every day, the ICU nurses at Monash Medical Centre deal with families at a crisis point in their lives. The remarkable nurses from this unit talk about how they cope and what they can do to make things a bit easier for their patients’ loved ones.
Duration: Approx 13 mins
Location: Monash Medical Centre, VIC
Desert Tykes
Paediatric nurses from Alice Springs talk about the joy and tribulations of nursing the sickest children in Central Australia.
Duration: Approx 7 mins
Location: Alice Springs Hospital, NT
Nursing A Career For You
A promotional film about nursing comprised of five vignettes about nurses working in very different fields.
Duration: Approx 15 mins
Location: Australia wide
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