Inquiry: privatisation damaging nursing profession
31 October, 2017An inquiry into privatisation reveals deep concerns for the healthcare community.
E-book celebrates vital work of nurses
21 September, 2017Featuring stories from, and about, Community and Primary Health Care Nurses and their vital work.
Nurses back measures to safeguard elderly against flu
08 September, 2017Health workers, visitors and aged-care residents should be vaccinated against the flu.
Sexuality, intimacy and palliative care
01 September, 2017A new program is addressing the taboo subject of sexuality and dying.
Nurses burnt out and fatigued by grief and loss
30 August, 2017Nursing, health and aged-care staff are overwhelmingly impacted by grief and loss in the workplace
Rheumatoid arthritis risk for some occupations
21 August, 2017Assistant nursing, and other occupations, may have increased risk of contracting rheumatoid arthritis.
Communications gap between doctors and home-care nurses creating issues
31 July, 2017Patients discharged from hospital, particularly the elderly, are becoming caught in a web of poor communication.
Debunking nursing clichés will attract school leavers
14 June, 2017 | Supplied by: The University of QueenslandStereotypes portraying nurses as sexual objects or merely doctors' helpers must be combatted to encourage school leavers to join the profession.
Supporting aged-care communication challenges
09 June, 2017 | Supplied by: University of South AustraliaIt is increasingly challenging for aged-care workers, many of whom come from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, to support clients with a range of complex behaviours or unmet needs such as those associated with dementia.
Could the Australian Synchrotron help to find a superbug supercure?
06 June, 2017Professor Alice Vrielink is using the Australian Synchrotron to unlock the secrets of multidrug-resistant bacteria.
Improving quality of life for cardiac arrest survivors
02 June, 2017Gunilla Haydon has led Australia's first qualitative study into the experiences of people who have survived a cardiac arrest.
ANMF hit back at the Budget on International Nurses Day
15 May, 2017On International Nurses Day, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation spoke out against the negative impacts of the Budget on nurses.
Duress alarms offer protection to staff
14 May, 2017Advances in mobile duress alarms provide security for greater numbers of staff at risk in the healthcare environment.
Injection of funds for new stroke research
09 May, 2017$205,000 will be shared by eight Australian researchers, underpinning new research projects and supporting future leaders in stroke.
Registered nurses to stay on-site 24/7 in NSW aged care
08 May, 2017"We've been lobbying on this issue since it first arose in 2014 because we know removing registered nurses from high-care nursing homes will erode the safety measures that protect staff and residents."
