Nursing Review The latest in heathcare news for nurses

A keen eye, good record-keeping and some preventative steps can help control malnutrition.  Nurses are often the first point of contact when it comes to managing patients who are malnourished, so it is important to stay well informed. The silent epidemic ...

  ED Nurses Day celebrates dedicated workers who save lives from immediate danger. Seeing the smiling face of a woman whose husband had been rushed into the emergency department with a life-threatening cardiac condition just days earlier reaffirmed to Flinders ...

Nurses in the operating room should be conduits for communication and teamwork to help prevent errors, educators say. Education providers, including the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) and universities throughout the nation, are putting greater focus on non-technical skills in curriculums ...

There are many opportunities for local professionals to find work or volunteer overseas.  For Abbey McDermott, the opportunity to work abroad was too good to miss. Despite enjoying working as an emergency nurse at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne after graduating from ...

Panel, survey say mums of infants are served heaping portions of misinformation on overfeeding.  Many Australian mothers hold perceptions that are unknowingly leading to the overfeeding of infants, a recent online survey by Luma Research for Aspen Nutritionals shows. The ...

  Graduates brought in to meet future shortages are struggling to find jobs at present.  Australia may be gearing up for a nursing shortage in 2025, but in the interim, nursing graduates around the country are struggling to find work. A ...

Inaccurate, insensitive depictions of organ donation can have a real impact on a family’s decision.  Over the last few weeks, a number of incidents in the public sphere have highlighted the problem of callous, inaccurate and insensitive representation of organ donation. ...

Even in a seemingly obvious case of negligence, the accuser must provide appropriate evidence in order to win.  Not every act of harm is negligent, just as not every negligent act is harmful. An assessment relies on the context, the ...

Survey finds heavy workloads, lack of respect driving people from profession.  Preliminary findings from a national survey have shown an increase of 8 percentage points in the number of nurses wanting to leave the profession over the next 12 months. Researchers ...

The first National Nursing Forum will explore the power of synergy.  Nurses from around the nation will descend upon the Australian capital from October 20–22 to attend the inaugural National Nursing Forum. Hosted by the Australian College of Nursing, the ...