Why ordinary people become heroes
You’ve just witnessed a horrific car crash. Your heart is pounding, you’re in shock. And the decision you make in the next thirty seconds could be the difference between life and death.
You’ve just witnessed a horrific car crash. Your heart is pounding, you’re in shock. And the decision you make in the next thirty seconds could be the difference between life and death.
Event organisers must learn from previous failures and feats when preparing for future mass gatherings, international disaster expert Dr Maurizio Barbeschi says.
Flinders University Nursing student Ahmad Hasyim, an Indonesian who says the fear of needles is particularly strong back home, is fighting back against that fear.
Jing Wang – the first-ever graduate of a Flinders cotutelle PhD – says the experience of living and learning abroad will boost her career opportunities.
“Giving was just one of those things that I assumed everyone did.”
The highly prestigious Endeavour Awards will take Flinders law student Jordan Gifford-Moore (pictured) to China and nursing academic Associate Professor Alison Hutton to the US in 2014.
Empowering graduate nurses with self-coping strategies to help them adjust to the workforce is the focus of a new Flinders University research project.
The work of nurses and other health professionals dealing with victims of crime will be helped by an online forensic healthcare course developed with the Johns Hopkins University in the US.
A prominent US public health educator and practitioner with a special interest in disaster response has come to Flinders as a Professorial Fellow.