Uganda has announced two more cases of Ebola - confirmation of the first spread of a deadly outbreak beyond the borders of Democratic Republic of Congo. The Ugandan cases showed the epidemic was entering a "truly frightening" phase and was ...
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Wait times grow in NSW emergency wards
A record number of people are presenting to NSW emergency departments and many are waiting longer for treatment - a situation doctors say is unsustainable. The latest official data, released on Wednesday, shows there were more than 756,000 attendances at ...
More »Four blasts in two days: medal winners talk Red Cross nursing
Denise Moyle's journal entry 18.4.2010 Another day that after 13 hours of work I don’t have the energy to write, however a significantly profound day. I am exhausted. 30 patients in 24 hours. Mass relocation of hospital patients. So, the ...
More »Deakin University launches new Institute for Health Transformation
Deakin University has announced a new Institute for Health Transformation with the aim to “guide a transformation of the way Australian health and care is promoted, designed and delivered”. The institute will bring together more than 200 academics and researchers ...
More »New gestational diabetes trial reduces the need for clinic appointments
Nurses at Fairfield Hospital in Sydney have trialled the use of an app that can help cut the number of clinical appointments needed for pregnant women with gestational diabetes (GDM). Jenny Wright, diabetes clinical nurse consultant at Fairfield Hospital, found that ...
More »Nurses should lead the way in palliative care: ACN
In the five-year period between 2011–12 and 2015–16 there was a nearly 30 per cent growth in palliative care hospitalisation. Add to this the 160,00 Australians who die each year – 70 per cent due to expected causes – a ...
More »Nurses on tour: USQ students head to Vietnam
The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) recently welcomed home a group of nine nursing students from a placement in northern Vietnam. The students had placements in hospitals in Hanoi and Mai Chau as well mobile clinics in rural areas. The ...
More »Angel of London Bridge gets nursing honour
Kirsty Boden, known as the Angel of London Bridge after the 2017 terror attack at the British landmark, has been recognised for the selfless act that cost the Australian nurse her life. Boden, one of four Australian nurses to receive the ...
More »Undergraded and undervalued: Pollaers talks aged care workforce
“Neither party has taken it particularly seriously,” John Pollaers tells the crowd. Speaking prior to the election at the Informa National Dementia Conference, Pollaers laments the state of politics and, more broadly, community engagement in the aged care sector. "It’s ...
More »Royal commission Sydney hearing: final days
The last two days of the Sydney hearing kept up the theme of medical restraints in aged care. Josef Ibrahim spoke at length on psychotropic misuse and we also heard from Christina Bolger, executive director, regulatory policy and performance at ...
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