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The corporate leader of an aged care centre in Sydney’s northwest has confessed she has no idea how many of its staff have been vaccinated against Covid-19. Summit Care Baulkham Hills chief operating officer Michelle Sloane told the media on ...

A nurse starts their career with a truckload of compassion. Over the years, that compassion does truck off somewhere. This is what it can sound like. I was on the morning shift taking over from a graduate nurse just finishing ...

A new report has revealed that 277 patients caught COVID-19 in Victorian hospitals last year. A Victorian department of health analysis looked at data from January 25 to 15 November 2020. A total of 2,492 people were hospitalised with COVID-19 ...

A Melbourne nurse who admitted aiding foreign fighters in Syria and bragged on social media about his exploits, posting photos of weapons, has been sentenced to more than six years imprisonment but is already eligible for parole. Adam Brookman pleaded guilty to ...

A Gold Coast nurse charged with trying to murder a man because she believed he had raped someone told police she would kill the man if they did not do something, a court has heard. The alleged threat issued by Kristy Lee ...

Vaccination against COVID-19 will now be mandatory for anyone working in residential aged care, the government has announced. In a late night press conference after a national cabinet meeting, PM Scott Morrison said state and territory leaders agreed that by ...

Peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) or cannula insertion is the one of the most common medical procedures in Australia, experienced by 7.7 million patients each year.1 While it is a well-practiced procedure, research reveals significant issues in the way that PIVCs ...

Nurses and paramedics will receive a 2.5 per cent annual wage increase as part of the NSW state budget announced on Tuesday. The new policy marks a reversal of last year’s controversial decision to cut pay for public sector employees. ...

A maternity ward in the NSW city of Wollongong is being deep cleaned after a doctor came into contact with a confirmed case of Covid-19 while in their private practice room. The doctor, who then visited the birthing ward at ...

The trend from hospital to home-based care, accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic, looks set to continue with the first evidence in Australia that regular blood transfusions can be safely performed by nurses in residential homes and aged care facilities. The ...