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Violence and budget cuts are just some of the big issues that need to be addressed as we head into 2015 for nurses working in hospital emergency departments. The head of Australian College of Emergency Nursing (ACEN), Liz Cloughessy, said ...

A revamp puts staff at a Victorian-based provider in closer contact with the patients they serve. More than 1200 RDNS nurses and the 40,000 patients under their care annually will soon operate under a new localised and consumer-focused approach to ...

Amid confusion over the future of the proposed $7 GP co-payment, the head of Australia’s nursing union cautions the fight’s not over yet. “We are obviously pleased that the government is reportedly planning to shelve the GP fee for the ...

Study find early-career staff in rural settings must take on more responsibility and need more support.  A senior nursing lecturer at the University of New England has found rural graduates need more support when completing transition-to-practice programs. Although “workload, skills ...

Academic says improving security for healthcare workers will take more research and better design.  People in the healthcare professions are amongst the most exposed to workplace aggression, second only to that of protection and security services personnel. This was the ...

There are lessons for everyone inside the Australasian ED of the year. Being at the forefront of innovative service delivery is key for any emergency department – and that’s exactly what Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital’s ED is striving for. ...

Three sector stakeholders discuss the year’s biggest issues – and what’s still on the agenda for 2015.  The Australian public’s continuing confidence in nursing, advances in the nurse practitioner space and better career prospects are amongst the industry’s biggest successes ...

Nurses may realise early in the piece that patients are ready to move from life-prolonging treatment to palliative care but are unable to make that decision for them, a recent study has highlighted. University of Queensland School of Social Science associate ...

A Melbourne-based community nurse is about to embark on a study to investigate how to assist people who self-treat wounds. Suzanne Kapp, a PhD student at The University of Melbourne who has been working with people with chronic wounds for more ...

The links between mental and physical care must be acknowledged and understood to treat the whole patient.  Understanding the integral link between physical and mental health is the first step towards providing positive, holistic care to those in our community. ...