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Researchers have shone light on the medical reasons for illicit cannabis use among Australians. The team from the University of Sydney's Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics surveyed around 1700 individuals in a 12-month period who self-reported cannabis use for therapeutic ...

Nurses in Sydney’s west have this week joined to demand employer Allity Aged Care put forward an updated enterprise agreement that meets their expectations. The provider’s aged care nurses met in their own time outside Allity’s Beechwood Aged Care facility ...

What if hospital waste could be broken down and used in agriculture or water treatment? That’s the idea Australian researchers are working to make reality. A team from Charles Sturt University, James Cook University (JCU) and the University of Queensland (UQ) ...

Complaints about cosmetic health services are being aired out in the media and through a parliamentary inquiry – and governing bodies need to know that nurses can help restore public trust. That’s the message the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) has ...

Peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) failure is unacceptably common and change is urgently needed, an academic from the Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research has argued. Professor Claire Rickard, from the Griffith University’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland-based group, said optimal ...

Shed old fashioned views that nurses can only provide care under supervision and ensure nurse practitioners are compensated through the Medicare Benefits Schedule. These are the calls the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) made at a recent presentation to the ...

The sentiments left in nursing notes are good indicators of whether ICU patients will survive, a UK study has found. Researchers at the University of Waterloo looked at the notes from over 27,000 ICU patients and examined how sentiments related ...

There is an obvious employer expectation and condition of employment that when nurses are at work they are awake and not sleeping. After all, the employer is paying for the time that the nurse is at work. This rule does ...

Male partners are not always included at all phases of the process. They are sometimes treated like a support person instead of a father-to-be. Often there is an assumption that men aren’t informed and therefore can’t be part of the ...

Victorians will get hundreds more nurses and midwives if changes to nurse-to-patient ratios are voted through parliament. The Labor Government announced plans to make amendments to the Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) that will ...