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Patients presenting to Victorian emergency departments may expect greater delays due to the growing number of bed closures. Dr Anthony Cross, president of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM), believes that the closure of over 340 beds across the ...

By 2030, cases of incontinence are expected to rise to 6.5 million Australians—with women being more likely to be incontinent than men. In light of this, the Continence Foundation of Australia developed the Australian Continence Exchange, a confidential online chat ...

A Sydney private hospital hopes more institutions will follow its lead in offering cadetships to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. By Jeremy Gowing and Thelma De Lisser-Howarth Working within their Reconciliation Action Plan, St Vincent's Private Hospital has created an ...

A surgical liaison nurse can help families and friends cope with a very worrying time and assist with the smooth running of a hospital. By Michelle Stubbs A push to lure staff to this area of nursing has been hit ...

With a predicted shortfall of about 100,000 nurses by 2025, many people say one of the main problems is the shortage of graduate positions in the nation's hospitals. By Flynn Murphy In the last issue of Nursing Review we reported ...

Staff at a Brisbane hospital have been instructed to turn away patients presenting after 10pm, with management guidelines suggesting nursing staff offer sick patients a “blanket and pillow”. Nurses and other health professionals at Wynnum Health Services, formerly Wynnum Hospital, ...

Nursing staff have to be aware that a patient's sexual partners must be considered in ongoing treatment. A recent court decision in NSW highlights that health professionals, including nursing and administrative staff, have a duty of care which can extend ...

Amie Larter speaks to the head of the school of nursing and midwifery at Edith Cowan University, Professor Di Twigg What first prompted your choice for a career in nursing? I spent a weekend with a high school friend. Her ...

Graduate Isabel Dykes gives an insight into the practical advantages of rural graduate placements. Despite completing my nursing degree at UTS and attending placements at Sydney's metropolitan hospitals it was my rural placements in Bellingen and McLean that I loved ...

Nurses are the very important 'glue' that holds together the delivery of services using telehealth. By David Allen With rapid growth in the use of technology and communication systems including the internet, the application of that to healthcare is inevitable. ...