After a punishing nursing shift, resist the call of junk food and sweet snacks. By Amie Larter Research for many years has suggested that shiftwork can have negative effects on your relationship, your children and in particular your health. Patients' ...
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Approval ‘too slow’
A nurse practitioner - who prefers to remain anonymous - rails against endorsement delays. The endorsement process by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) for nurse practitioners needs to be reviewed. There was a call for a review in ...
More »Cleaning without chemicals
Southern Health has trialled microfibre and steam cleaning to replace conventional detergents and disinfectants. By Elizabeth Gillespie Microfibre cloth technology has been used for a number of years in Europe but there are few reports of its adoption by health ...
More »Sweet then sharp
Sugar may be as effective as anaesthetic creams for babies receiving injections. By Aileen Macalintal In the first 18 months of their lives, babies may receive as many as 15 injections, but sugar may offer a simple and effective way ...
More »Milk sharing: the expert verdict
The benefits of feeding your baby donated breast milk generally outweigh the risks. By Amie Larter The age-old tradition of wet nursing is once again in the spotlight, as the growing demand for human breast milk rises. Human Milk 4 ...
More »Trained up & nowhere to go
We need to find graduate positions for new nurses to prevent a future staffing crisis. By Penny Paliadelis More than a decade ago, the National Review of Nursing Education report, Our Duty of Care, found that not all nursing graduates ...
More »Victory for Victorian health
“A victory for commonsense” is how the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) described the federal government’s decision to restore more than $100 million taken out of the Victorian public hospitals budget. “We acknowledge the redirection of funding for Victoria as a ...
More »Don’t forget the care in healthcare
Scientific advancements have revolutionised healthcare in Australia; people are living longer than ever before and treatment that once required hours of hands-on intervention can now be administered at the touch of button. The benefits of an efficient healthcare system are ...
More »Aged care divide wrong
Some nurses consider working with the elderly is not 'real' nursing but nothing could be further from the truth, writes Peter Kieseker. The implicit - and often explicit - message received during my study was: "Aged care - it's not ...
More »Cycle of change
Bruno Cordier, a Perth-based palliative care nurse, has completed a 4097km bike ride across Australia, all in the name of charity. Cordier set off on his adventure from Sydney on January 11, reaching Perth on February 14. He rode unassisted ...
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