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The South Australian branch of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation has called for the state government to introduce nurse practitioner-led walk-in centres to ease the pressure on the state’s emergency departments. Similar clinics have been set up in the ...

An Australian lecturer has helped design an east African nation’s first bachelor of midwifery curriculum. Anna Bosco, from Curtin University, was the only international representative during the two-week midwifery curriculum meeting held in Tanzania’s capital, Dodoma. Bosco was invited by ...

Australia’s health ministers should support the introduction of physician assistants (PAs) as a safe and cost-effective workforce strategy, a national review has found. The Health Workforce Australia (HWA) report said medically trained PAs would help fill rural medical shortages and ...

It’s not just the outcome of a health procedure now, patients are being asked what they think of the cost and the method of delivery. By Linda Belardi Researchers are increasingly turning to the patient for clues about how health ...

Vocational education and training health students in regional Western Australia are among the first in the country to trial a “remote learning” classroom via the national broadband network. During the five-month pilot program, clinical simulations have been captured in Perth ...

Australia’s chief nurses should call for history to be introduced into all nursing curricula, a leading historian on World War I nursing has said. Dr Kirsty Harris, from the school of historical studies at the University of Melbourne, said the ...

Social media is transforming the way we communicate our wishes, such as organ donation, writes Holly Northam Facebook has introduced a tool allowing users in Australia to display their organ donation status to their friends, following the introduction of the ...

Nursing is rapidly evolving due to advances in technology and extended scopes of practice. Linda Belardi talks to some chief nurses who reflect on the changing face of the profession. From growing roles in private practice and business to Australia’s ...

Hyperbaric medicine is a growing and highly specialised field of nursing. Linda Belardi reports on the world’s most advanced facility. As the home to the world’s largest and most advanced hyperbaric chamber, Australia is fast becoming a global leader in ...

A joint study between an outback missionary and the famous nurse in the 1860s showed an advanced and caring attitude towards Aboriginal people. By Tiffany Shellam Today the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians in health, education and social wellbeing ...