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Five participants in a national nursing leadership program speak to Linda Belardi about their first year as trainee leaders The profession faces a significant loss of leadership and experience in the next decade as 40 per cent of the nursing ...

The role of males in the profession has been understated but significant, writes Thomas Harding Men played a significant role in caring for the sick in colonial Australia but their contribution has received little attention. What emerges from the fleeting ...

Nurses experienced in one form of care can gain a lot by a brief secondment to a different area. Linda Belardi reports Aged care nurses in Toowoomba have hit the wards of a busy private acute care hospital as part ...

The adoption of video-conferencing technology for patient consultations in Australia is at a tipping point. For the first time, national standards and clinical guidelines for the use of telehealth by nurses and midwives will be available from next year; a ...

New models of care will save hospitals money but will also benefit the elderly, says Terry Clout chief executive of the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District. To save $2.2 billion over the next four years, as well as deal ...

The routine replacement of IV drips every three days in hospital wards is costly and clinically unnecessary, new data has found. Research published in The Lancet last month has the potential to save the Australian economy millions of dollars each year ...

A commonly used cancer drug may do more harm than good, researchers at Flinders University have found. The team in the Palliative Care Clinical Studies Collaborative (PaCCSC) discovered that the drug, which has been used for decades to treat cancer-related ...

Spiritual care has a long tradition in nursing dating back to the Middle Ages but contemporary nurses often feel ill-prepared to provide this form of care in their daily practice, writes Katherine Cooper. Registered nurses are required to provide spiritual ...

Every day 12 women in Australia are diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer, but survival prospects are improving, says a report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare released today. Gynaecological cancers accounted for 9 per cent of all cancer ...

A registered nurse working as the sole health practitioner in the small coastal town of Coral Bay has been named Western Australia's 2012 Nurse of the Year. Kristy Cooper, who also won the rural and remote category, was awarded the ...