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Nursing schools are reducing the number of clinical placement hours offered to students to manage increasing demand on practical training. By Linda Belardi. Average nursing clinical placement hours have declined over time as universities try to ease placement and resourcing ...

Pregnant women sought for autism research Expectant mothers who already have an autistic child are being sought for a study by the Autism Research Team at Western Australia’s Telethon Institute of Child Health Research. Associate Professor Andrew Whitehouse at the ...

The QNU has welcomed the details of plans to break up Qld Health but doctors’ groups remain sceptical. By Mardi Chapman. The plan to restructure Queensland’s health and hospitals system by July is being received with cautious optimism by the ...

Nurses are leaving rural hospitals in alarming numbers as employers stray from core values of the profession, writes Susan Bragg. Worldwide, nursing is facing a significant challenge in recruiting people into the profession and then retaining them in the workforce. ...

Some timely research has helped shape New Zealand’s first national process for endorsing specialty standards, reports Fiona Cassie. What is a specialist nurse? People argue that our health service needs more of them, particularly to meet the growing burden of ...

Registered nurses need to be easily identified as the trained professionals they are, writes Peter Kieseker. This may involve a return to a uniform or some other sign of rank. Something seems badly wrong in the registered nursing profession. December’s ...

The rapid increase of fly-in fly-out workers in rural areas is posing a number of complex challenges for medical staff. Flynn Murphy reports. The resources bonanza has sparked one of Australia’s largest ever periods of uninterrupted economic growth, but the ...

The first participants in a national Emerging Nurse Leader Program talk to Linda Belardi about their ambitions, inspirations and the changes they would like to see. They are all smart, articulate and passionate about nursing - meet the future leaders ...

An education project has been designed to bridge the gap between primary and acute healthcare. By Linda Belardi. Rural acute care nurses will be targeted in an education program designed to help drive down avoidable readmissions in NSW hospitals. From ...

Improved nutrition has a major role to play in the prevention and treatment of pressure injuries, write Beryl Dawson, Susan Nelan, Katrina Pace and Lilliana Barone. Pressure injuries can range from small red areas of damage to deep, full tissue ...