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The latest review of mental healthcare will, fortunately, focus on the consumer; the voice of the care providers should be next.  Mental health has once again been pushed into the national spotlight. Time and again it has become evident that ...

Nerdy Nurse blogger found a dream career in clinical informatics. She tells Dallas Bastian about selling her peers on the value of technology. A nerd at heart, Brittney Wilson is combining her love of technology and healthcare in her career ...

Yvonne Brunetto talks to Amie Larter about the importance of establishing positive dynamics amongst co-workers. The quality of nurses’ workplace relationships is a key factor in predicting staff turnover, a leading academic says. “Workplace relationships affect how engaged nurses are ...

In order to combat the large and growing problem of power abuse, organisations must understand its many forms.  For more than 30 years, Melanie Stephens has worked as a nurse. She has moved around Australia working in different hospitals and ...

From workload to equipment problems, Australian nurses sound off in our survey on the largest obstacles to their success on the job.  Overworked, physically and verbally abused, and bullied. These words can be used to describe the nursing workforce throughout ...

The law around commenting on employers and workplaces via social media is evolving but it’s a safe bet it will always be a bad idea.  In the last column, we explored some real life examples of nurses/midwives misusing social media ...

Researcher attempts to measure and combat what happens to nurses who feel they are prevented from doing the right thing. Moral distress could be a significant hidden issue for the Australian aged-care workforce. “A number of years ago, I encountered ...

Health minister’s first policy speech calls for debate on controversial measure. Minister for health Peter Dutton has fuelled talks of the introduction of a GP co-payment, during a major speech on the Coalition’s healthcare agenda. In the first of several ...

Look after yourself and value your health as much as you value the health of others. A simple affirmation, wouldn’t you agree? Implicit in this statement, though, is a question. Can you see it? We must firstly be clear on ...

Developers are working on a way to assess the levels of distress for non-communicative patients using smartphones.  A new smartphone app developed by researchers at Curtin University could be the answer to detecting pain in dementia sufferers unable to communicate. ...