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Queensland Labor is reluctant to say whether it has inherited a good health system from the previous Liberal National Party (LNP) government. It comes after former Health Minister Lawrence Springborg, now Opposition Leader, said the new government was being left ...

The controversy over this long-standing practice comes from mistaking the tools for the context. Ever since the telephone connected rural hospitals with the community, rural people have been calling their local nurses seeking care – and the nurses have been ...

Brisbane-based woman founds organisation to keep the innovation and vitality of younger staff in the fold.  Out of frustration over the lack of support for young staff, a Brisbane-based woman has established the Young Nurses Association. Nurse Emmy-Lou Hamley founded ...

The standard for successfully showing workplace behaviour is unreasonable is challenging.  Bullying in the workplace is a serious issue within the nursing profession. Anecdotally, any nurse can recount an experience either personally or in relation to a colleague. On January ...

Australia may well be in trouble without a co-ordinated approach to adequate staffing; a professor puts into focus the importance of looking past the short term on costs, and developing a national strategy.  A leading WA nursing professor is calling ...

In the 1980s, a passionate Melbourne emergency nurse co-authored an educational book on urinary incontinence. After never hearing back from publishers, she decided to take matters into her own hands. The result was not only a bestseller but the founding ...

RN Dallis Fellows shares her story of setting up the first operating recovery ward in Thimphu, Bhutan. Fellows, an operating theatre recovery nurse, completed a one-year stint in Bhutan in March 2014 – one of the first Australian nurses ever to work ...

An international dementia expert appointed by the G7 group of nations touched down in Australia to meet with government and other relevant departments, agencies and representatives. The world dementia envoy, Dr Dennis Gillings – whom UK Prime Minister David Cameron appointed in ...

Some guidelines are leading users away from best practice for the use of inhalers.  From the very start of their careers nurses are taught to search credible sources of information to find reliable researched practice guidelines upon which to base ...

Study shows healthcare workers' perceptions and challenges related to end-of-life care and choices.  Despite a plethora of local, state-based, national and international guidelines and resources, it is clear professionals providing palliative care face considerable challenges, many specific to their area ...