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Perioperative nurse surgeon assistants are a dynamic group of advanced-practice nurses redefining traditional roles. Linda Belardi reports With historical origins tracing back to the Crimean war, nurses have long acted as first assistants to surgeons, opening and closing wounds and ...

A dedicated and inspiring group of nurses walk the streets of Melbourne providing care to an overlooked segment of society, writes Flynn Murphy For a time, Kim Williams would meet a woman in the public toilets of Melbourne’s CBD in ...

More males over the age of 85 years are reported to commit suicide than in any other age group in Australia, and at more than five times the rate of females in the same age group. And up to 83 ...

The Northern Territory Department of Health has appointed Karen Parish (left) as its new chief nursing adviser in a revamped role. The chief nursing and midwifery officer will now report directly to the department’s chief executive. The officer, together with ...

Australia is witnessing a shift in public attitudes to possibly support euthanasia for people with dementia, says a leading expert on healthcare ethics. Chair in nursing at Deakin University, Professor Megan-Jane Johnstone, said alarmist and negative framing of Alzheimer’s disease ...

Amid the furore surrounding pending health cuts is the revelation that the Queensland government is paying $1.2 million dollars a year for care for a middle-aged woman at The Park mental health facility at Wacol, Queensland. Returned to the facility ...

Complex surgery for rare cancers should be consolidated into specialised units to improve survival rates, says the NSW peak cancer control agency. Data from the Cancer Institute NSW has demonstrated an association between hospitals conducting very small numbers of procedures ...

Adults with autism could become the hidden face of the disorder due to a lack of adult-specific diagnostic tools, a researcher has warned. Flinders University PhD candidate Clare Holmes (right) is beginning a four-year study to develop tools to improve ...

Queensland nurse Barbara McMaster has recently returned from a six-month stint in war-torn Yemen. She talks to Linda Belardi about working in a conflict zone From the wars in Afghanistan and South Sudan to the aftermath of floods in Pakistan, ...

The role of the occupational nurse has moved from mainly clinical duties to involve more on-the-job training and risk management. By Mardi Chapman Occupational health nurses might have to wear high-visibility vests on the job but their size and prominence ...