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Drug and Alcohol

Lyn Gardner Scholarship Award

August 18, 2022
In recognition of the commitment and lifetime service of Lyn Gardner, The Centre for Alcohol and Other Drugs is awarding scholarships for fifteen registered nurses and midwives to undertake the Graduate Certificate in Drug and Alcohol Nursing through the Australian…
Today
Aged Care

Could ‘virtual nurses’ be the answer to aged care s...

Former Health Department Chief Martin Bowles has reportedly proposed “virtual nurses” could help address the…
General

Burned-out heroes: why bedside nurses should not have t...

In 2020, we saw windows pasted with rainbows, hospitals flooded with donations and health workers…
Aged Care

Albanese government supports case for aged care pay ris...

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) says the Federal…
Aged Care

Private profit at root of global aged care crisis: PSI

The disaster wreaked upon aged care by COVID-19 is a…
Aged Care

No accountability in Australia’s aged care system

The PSI reports found Australia has a “systemic” aged care…

Mental Health

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Mental Health

10 per cent of healthcare workforce considered suicide...

April 7, 2022
New research shows Australia’s healthcare workforce has been in severe distress during COVID. A new study has found that one in ten healthcare workers in Australia had thoughts of suicide…
11 days ago
Mental Health

COVID-19 weighs heavily on psychiatric nurses

December 2, 2021
Cumberland mental health nurses knew COVID-19 would eventually reach their understaffed and ill-prepared hospital, but their warnings went unheeded. When the Delta outbreak took the…
Mental Health

3 out of 4 kids with mental health disorders aren’t a...

Mental Health

For refugees in Australia, life during COVID lockdowns...

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Aged Care

Could ‘virtual nurses’ be the answer to aged care s...

August 17, 2022
Former Health Department Chief Martin Bowles has reportedly proposed “virtual nurses” could help address the shortage of nurses in aged care. This might involve remote, possibly artificial intelligence-assisted, virtual care,…
Yesterday
Aged Care

Albanese government supports case for aged care pay ris...

August 9, 2022
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) says the Federal Government’s Submission supporting a pay rise for aged care nurses and care workers will finally…
Aged Care

Private profit at root of global aged care crisis: PSI

Aged Care

No accountability in Australia’s aged care system

General

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General

Burned-out heroes: why bedside nurses should not have t...

August 17, 2022
In 2020, we saw windows pasted with rainbows, hospitals flooded with donations and health workers regularly described as heroes. While linked to heightened risks faced by health workers during the…
Yesterday
General

Labor’s ambitious health agenda

June 1, 2022
Easier patient access to GPs and reduced pressure on hospital emergency departments are among a host of healthcare improvements promised under the incoming Labor federal…
General

Brighter outlook for wages, job security

General

Monkeypox in Australia: what is it and how can we preve...

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Midwifery

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Midwifery

Kangaroo care with dads helps with critically-ill babie...

July 22, 2022
New research out of the University of South Australia (UniSA) examining how fathers’ bond with their premature babies in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) has confirmed the benefits of skin-to-skin…
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Midwifery

Midwives matter, alongside mothers and babies in their...

May 5, 2022
As midwives, nurses and other health professionals pause to recognise International Day of the Midwife, many midwives across NSW are grappling with the challenges they…
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Midwives are delivering above and beyond

Emergency

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Emergency

Understaffed EDs prompt walk out by Western Sydney nurs...

July 18, 2022
After weeks of battling rising patient presentations and no reprieve from chronic short staffing, a group of emergency department nurses staged a walk out, in their own time, from Blacktown…
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Emergency

Government risking lives the longer it delays staffing...

June 15, 2022
Further evidence of the unsustainable strain on public hospital emergency departments (ED) has prompted angry calls for the NSW government to stop risking patients’ lives…
Emergency

Poor ED staffing continues to impact patient care

Emergency

“Disappointed”: College of Emergency Medicine pans...

Drug and Alcohol

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Drug and Alcohol

Lyn Gardner Scholarship Award

August 18, 2022
In recognition of the commitment and lifetime service of Lyn Gardner, The Centre for Alcohol and Other Drugs is awarding scholarships for fifteen registered nurses and midwives to undertake the…
Today
Drug and Alcohol

Overdose deaths cost US $1 trillion annually

June 1, 2022
More than 100,000 people died of overdoses in the past year, a bipartisan US Congress report has found. “Whether measured in lives or in dollars,…
Drug and Alcohol

Working From Home When Home Isn’t Safe

Drug and Alcohol

COVID changed the way we use drugs and alcohol — now...

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