Federal Labor has taken the government to task over reports Medicare, pharmaceutical and aged-care benefits could be delivered by the private sector. The $50 billion-plus outsourcing would be the first time the private sector has delivered a national service subsidised ...
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In-home sensors can detect movement and watch for changes in behaviour
Discreet monitors keep tabs on people around the house and watch for alarming changes in behaviour patterns. An Australian research team is working on a non-intrusive home monitoring device that sends alerts to carers when loved ones are inactive for ...
More »The implied duties, and dangers, of employment contracts
Take care to fill all the implicit obligations of the employment contract, or termination may well be justified. All employees, including nurses, have in their contract of employment a number of implied duties that are owed to their employer. Four ...
More »Primary healthcare nurses must expand their already vital roles
We saw a more intense focus in the latter part of 2015 on managing the health and wellbeing of people with chronic disease. The Primary Health Care Advisory Group considered how healthcare professionals and providers could better co-ordinate and integrate ...
More »Nurses need to focus on the complexity and specialised nature of role: ICN
The days and years ahead can be a time of great influence, when nurses’ knowledge and expertise become valued as never before. Imagine a future where the voice and visibility of nursing is in proportion to the importance and size ...
More »Hairy times: Leukaemia Foundation promotes World’s Greatest Shave
One of our #WorldsGreatestShave hair spray stations set up around the ground tonight! Go blue to show your support! pic.twitter.com/PR8Hp3KCYy — Adelaide Strikers (@StrikersBBL) January 13, 2016 During the 2015–16 Big Bash League, the Adelaide Strikers raised money for the ...
More »Union, providers split on 24/7 RN coverage
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation has revealed it is lobbying for regulations that would require at least one (RN) onsite and available at all times at nursing homes. This is one of the major components of the ANMF's submission to the Senate Inquiry into the ...
More »Subsidy cap hits nurses, shift workers hard: Family Day Care
Nurses, paramedics, doctors and other healthcare professionals engaged in shift or part-time work are likely to be hardest hit by the $10.70 cap on the Child Care Subsidy in the Federal Government's Jobs for Families package. That's the message from Family Day ...
More »ANMF calls on members to submit to aged-care Senate inquiry
The Australian Senate is accepting submissions for an upcoming inquiry into the future of Australia’s aged-care workforce. This inquiry and subsequent report will look at the current composition of the workforce, challenges in attracting and retaining aged-care workers and how government ...
More »Stress environment over morality to treat addiction: clinic chief
The treatment director at a Thai-based rehabilitation clinic popular with Westerners has stressed the need to view addiction as an ecological problem, as opposed to a moral dilemma, in an as yet unpublished paper about gambling addiction. Dr Phil Townshend ...
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