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.....WHAT'S NEW.....

! MEDIA RELEASE !

The launch of the

National Standards for the Care of Children and Adolescents in Health Services

will take place during the
HEALTH CARE FOR KIDS
National Conference
Manly Pacific Hotel Sydney
4:30 PM - NOVEMBER 18 2008

ABC Radio National
'Life Matters'
will discuss the Standards with Professor David Bennett on Tuesday 18 November 2008
at 9:00 am

 

AWCH first president,
Her Excellency
Ms Quentin Bryce, AC
mentions AWCH in an exclusive interview with
Kerry O’Brien on the
7:30 Report


Watch the interview
or view the transcript at
:


www.abc.net.au/7.30/
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awch library

 

The AWCH Library is the Information and resource Centre of the Australian Association for the Wellbeing of Children in Healthcare. Established in 1975, the Library serves parents, medical and health professionals, community workers, students and all those interested in paediatric health care.

Please note that the library service is free to AWCH Members. Non-members are required to pay postage and handling fee for library resources requested or borrowed.

The Library's unique printed and audio-visual collection covers:

  • child development

  • paediatric nursing

  • play in hospital

  • pain management

  • psycho-social aspects of paediatric and adolescent health care, and

  • children with special needs.

The Library can provide you with videos, films, journal articles, pamphlets, lists of resources and contacts for support groups.

To view our latest additions in our Video and DVD collection, click here.

On-line Literature Search


The AWCH Library Catalogue which covers the psycho-social aspect of child health, illness and hospitalisation is now available online:

Journal index
http://www.chw.edu.au/parents/journal_articles/
Book catalogue
http://library.wsahs.nsw.gov.au/

For further assistance please send an email to Jillian Rattray, AWCH Librarian at
JillianR@chw.edu.au


Library Hours:

9:00am to 1:00pm Monday to Tuesday.

Phone: 02 9845 0681

Outside Library hours please contact:

AWCH National Office
Phone: 02 9817 2439
Fax: 02 9879 4346
E-mail:
awch@awch.com.au

 

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For more information visit our conference website at
www.kidsconference.org.au

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