The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has today released the most detailed look into the quality of residential aged care homes published in Australia. Using data acquired under the legal authority of the commission, and not previously ...
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Budget to add 100 nurses to NSW schools
As the NSW government looks to hand down its 2020-21 budget, treasurer Dominic Perrottet has given people a taste of things to come in his pre-budget announcements on Sunday. The budget will be squarely aimed at post-COVID-19 recovery, stimulating the economy ...
More »COVID-19 vaccine 90 per cent effective, says Pfizer
Phramaceutical brand Pfzier says its COVID-19 vaccine is 90 per cent effective in protecting people from the virus. The news has been welcomed worldwide and one leading scientist says life might be back to normal by the spring. "I am ...
More »Aussie nurse featured in Brisbane Portrait Prize
Helen Zahos is stumped. It’s early on a Monday and we’re both a bit slow to start. Helen has been up late the night before on Zoom meetings with people in Europe and I have no good excuse other than, ...
More »NSW nurses face wage freeze in upcoming budget
NSW treasurer Dominic Perrottet has announced that the Berejiklian Government will cap annual public sector wages growth at 1.5 per cent in the upcoming NSW Budget, to reportedly save an extra $1.8 billion over three years. The union representing nurses ...
More »Nurse death toll from COVID-19 as high as World War I nurse casualties: ICN figures
The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has released figures showing that as many nurses have died form COVID-19 worldwide as died during World War I. The latest numbers show that 1,500 nurses have died since the pandemic began, the same ...
More »The Coronavirus Podcast: treating COVID-19 in the community
Most of the 27-odd thousand cases of COVID-19 in Australia have been treated at home, by a team of nurses dedicated to keeping them healthy and the community safe. One of those nurses is Tony Hecimovic. Tony is a nurse ...
More »Briggs takes aim: aged care commissioner calls recommendations ‘radical’, commissioners disagree on direction of aged care
In a surprising interaction at Thursday’s final hearing into the aged care royal commission, Commissioner Lynelle Briggs appeared to attack the recommendations of the counsels assisting midway through the hearing. The first morning of the two-day hearing saw Counsel assisting ...
More »The Coronavirus Podcast: ‘lungs like concrete’, treating the third wave of COVID-19
On the podcast this week, host Conor Burke is joined by Michelle Dowd, the nurse manager of intensive care services at Liverpool Hospital. Michelle has been intimately involved in the treatment of the sickest COVID-19 patients since the beginning of ...
More »New e-training aims to avoid anaphylaxis in hospitals
National Allergy Strategy is launching the first free food allergy e-training for Australian hospital staff to combat unnecessary allergic reactions in hospitals. Allergic diseases currently affect more than four million Australians and the prevalence of such diseases is on the rise. ...
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