Nursing Review The latest in heathcare news for nurses

An online presence is becoming an essential career enhancement tool.  Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter – are you on board? Recent statistics reveal more than 13 million Australians are on Facebook, 3.5 million have a LinkedIn profile and 2.5 million tweet on Twitter ...

Project will combine monitoring with RN support. HCF, Telstra and Healthways have formed a partnership to deliver the largest telehealth service of its kind in Australia. The project, which will involve bio-metric monitoring combined with telephone-based health support from RNs, ...

Achieving equality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous healthcare outcomes will require collaboration, communication and the full deployment of nursing skills.  Since the Australian Government apologised to the Indigenous people of Australia in February 2008, there has been a greater focus from ...

A study collects opinions and beliefs from staff in RACFs.  Researchers at the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre: Carers and Consumers, hosted at Queensland University of Technology, are involved in Australia’s first large-scale systematic study of the quality of life of ...

Distress from ethical quandaries takes its toll on workers. A lecturer in nursing from the University of the Sunshine Coast is on a mission to shine the spotlight on moral distress in healthcare, particularly from the perspective of nurses. Janice ...

Chronically ill, parents of young children face highest increases in cost of care, study shows. By Amie Larter. New research puts the real price tag on co-payments. The elderly, families and those with chronic conditions will all be hit harder ...

Three different types of palliative care specialists discuss their roles and how to serve patients better. By Dallas Bastian. The growing demand for end-of-life care is making the role of the specialist palliative care nurse increasingly important, those within the ...

Salaries and conditions vary greatly by state; as budget conditions look set to get worse, some stakeholders call for more unified bargaining.  When Jane-Marie Smith decided to become a nurse, she knew she wouldn’t be living a life of luxury ...

Third-year student’s perspective on cultural competence in midwifery lands her in journal.  Koby Elliott, a third-year midwifery student at the University of Technology, Sydney, has been published in the journal Contemporary Nurse. Her paper, Providing Culturally Competent Learning Experiences for ...

Cancer nurses’ research searches for innovative strategies in the management of treatment-related toxicities.  Cancer care treatment has advanced tremendously over the past decades; however, each novel treatment is often associated with debilitating toxicities. For example, dermatological toxicities are associated with ...