Cloth masks must be washed at high temperatures after use in order to provide protection against the transmission of COVID-19, say researchers at UNSW. The research – an analysis of unpublished data from a randomised controlled trial the researchers published in ...
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New Black Dog e-hub aims to help nurses facing mental health issues
The next wave of the pandemic may be a wave of mental health disorders that will arise throughout Australia. Preliminary data taken in the height of lockdowns showed that people are already reporting psychological distress during the pandemic. One preliminary ...
More »Why hospitals need to replace pagers with smart devices
Hospitals have been using paging technology to communicate with healthcare staff members for many years. Pagers are low-maintenance and reliable, they have a long battery life, and have proved to be extremely reliable.As modern solutions have emerged, pagers have become ...
More »Royal commission puts government on notice, wants action on aged care, now
The aged care royal commission has handed down its COVID-19 report and the message to Scott Morrison and his government is clear: act fast, act now. The report, Aged Care and COVID-19: a special report, outlines four areas that need immediate ...
More »A lack of registered nurses is the next aged care crisis, but will anyone listen?
Maree Bernoth is angry. It doesn’t appear straight away; she’s affable on the phone and the kind of interviewee you enjoy chatting to on a Friday. She’s open and likes a yarn. I ask her if I can record our ...
More »WA COVID nurses return home from Victoria
A West Australian nurse who tested positive to COVID-19 while volunteering in Victoria has returned home with her six colleagues after making a full recovery. Renee Freeman contracted the virus earlier this month after working in an aged care home ...
More »Mandatory mask ‘fit-testing’ announced for hospitals
Nurses and other healthcare workers will get properly 'fit-tested' N95 masks to protect them from COVID-19, the Victorian government has announced. As reported by The Age, all coronavirus hospital wards in the state will now employ fit-testing to ensure a ...
More »The Coronavirus Podcast: drive-through testing sites
On the podcast this week Vishnugar Arunasalam, a nurse from Western Sydney LHD, joins host Conor Burke to discuss the role pop up drive-through testing sites play in the battle against COVID-19. NursingReview · Episode 22 || Vishnugar Arunasalam, pop ...
More »Dear diary, today I faced COVID-19
“I guess there’s a lot of pressure, pressure on us, and its, its very tiring and challenging to get breaks in and so on,” she says into her phone to no one in particular. “We’ve had, you know, young people that have had ...
More »‘It’s a wild diease’: Long COVID the next pandemic challenge
COVID-19 is about nine months old, we think, and with each passing month we learn more about what this new coronavirus does to the body. Long COVID is a term being used for one set of symptoms researchers are observing ...
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