Nursing Review The latest in heathcare news for nurses

Artificial intelligence could be used to explore how the Covid-19 virus might evolve, according to a team of international researchers. William Kelton, from the University of Waikato in New Zealand, has been involved in the ETH Zurich research, aimed at preparing for ...

From once being bedside support to the doctor, to evolving into fearless decision makers, leaders andadvocates for patient outcomes, the role of a nurse has changed exponentially, with education andtechnology representing the largest difference between past and present. Advances in ...

Deaths in residential aged care settings occur frequently enough to be core business. It is sometimes difficult to assess when an individual might be dying, and sometimes an acute event means that they may be transferred to hospital and die ...

Sepsis is a life-threatening and time-critical medical emergency with long-ranging consequences for patients that survive. This is the message set out in the Sepsis Clinical Care Standard (the Standard), recently released by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in ...

Domestic and Family Violence Awareness Month, held annually in May, raises community awareness of the social, economic, and personal impacts of domestic and family violence, and the support available to those affected. Everyone has the right to feel safe and ...

After the challenges of funding significant spending on COVID-19, 2021’s $17.7bn aged care reform package and the additional $2.1bn for mental health, it was not unreasonable to expect that 2022’s pre-election budget would be less exciting for health than previous ...

Thousands of midwives and nurses are expected to walk off the job for 24 hours after voting in favour of a strike. It comes less than six weeks after health workers took to the streets in a historic action to demand ...

Scrubs are day-in, day-out uniforms for nurses and other healthcare providers. From the outside looking in, it may seem like the uniform is just a singular part of the job that we don’t think about much, but the truth is ...

Paramedics have launched industrial action amid a desperate call to the NSW government to improve staffing levels, while nurses are considering walking off the job for the second time this year. NSW paramedics launched the 24-hour industrial work bans on Monday, ...

NSW has recorded its fourth case of Japanese encephalitis as the disease spreads across the state. The mosquito-borne virus had never been detected in the state before this year. The latest person to be infected was a woman in her ...