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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
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…
Aged Care
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…
General
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…
Midwifery
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…
27 days ago
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…
Emergency
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…
Today
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…
Drug and Alcohol
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