Volume 27 Number 1

Welcome to our first JARNA edition for 2025 and my thanks again for the hard work of our authors, reviewers and publishing team to bring it to fruition. The ARNA Editorial Board also thanks the editorial team for their time and effort to bring members this JARNA April edition. As always, we strive to present interesting and important rehabilitation nursing content and, in this edition, you will find work from authors reporting original research, quality improvement activities.

We are excited to showcase the first in what we hope will be a series of ARNA life member stories in JARNA, so ARNA’s rich and important history can be celebrated, shared and recorded moving forward. Being a ‘trail blazer’ can be tricky but you will see from his story that ARNA life member Terry Wells responded to our invitation to share his ARNA stories with his customary excellence, humor and good grace. Many thanks Terry for this and also for your many years of hard work in support of ARNA - it is much appreciated.

Also in this this edition we showcase the excellent work of a number of authors to explore research methods (see McKechnie & Fisher regarding research sampling methods); and a follow-up to an ARNA conference presentation (Potter & Baker) regarding Subacute in the home (SITH). With contemporary literature suggesting innovative community-based rehabilitation models, these authors showcase in their work a truly person-centered and innovative approach to ‘meet people wherever they are in their rehabilitation journey’.  We have in this edition also some more work from Ryan regarding nurses acting as catalysts for transformational change. An excellent rehabilitation nurse, you will see in this that he makes a ‘call to action for nurses to critically reflect on their ability to enhance their proficiency in cultivating successful nurse-patient relationships while upholding the necessary boundaries inherent in their professional roles’.

We hope there is much in this edition that you will find interesting and to inform your  practice going forward. Please be assured that our authors have a common aim to share their work with other rehabilitation nurses via JARNA to grow the body of rehabilitation nursing literature and raising the profile of rehabilitation nurses across Australasia.

Alison New
JARNA editor

Author(s)

Alison M New RN, BHSc (Nursing), MClin Rehab, MHSc (Clinical Education)
ARNA President
Email president@arna.com.au