The Commission of Audit (CoA) has put forward reforms to keep Australia’s healthcare system “efficient and competitive”. Acknowledging the current health system is not well equipped to face future challenges, including an ageing population and rising health services costs, the ...

Nurses say consultants’ idea to shuffle workforce roles isn’t the answer for overworked staff.  Public hospitals could save up to $430 million a year by making better matches between workers and their work, a new report states. Co-authors Grattan Institute ...

Centre helps students prepare for situations in the community.  A multimedia space that simulates non-institutional settings is being used to prepare university students for community-based care. Federation University Australia’s Immersive Domestic Nursing Laboratory simulates out-of-hospital situations where health services may ...

RDNS has signed a major joint venture agreement with China’s Zhongshan College to develop and operate an aged-care facility in Jiangsu Province, north of Shanghai. The Chair of the RDNS Board Paul Montgomery and the President of Zhongshan College Chen ...

Australia’s voice joins group set on crafting an international agenda for nursing. By Amie Larter. John Daly, dean of the faculty of health at the University of Technology, Sydney, has been named the Australian representative on a new international nursing ...

Report suggests lifestyle factors can have a substantial impact on prevalence.  New evidence suggests prevalence rates for dementia may not be set in stone. “There is evidence from recent studies in Europe that the age-specific rates of dementia may be ...

Students find new career goals, enhanced perspective on four-week placement.  Nursing and midwifery students recently travelled to Cambodia to apply concepts and skills in an unfamiliar environment. The four-week placement to Siem Reap was open to second- and third-year students ...

Upgrades improve access for non-English speakers, allow better communication with doctors. Imagine trying to talk about incontinence with someone who doesn’t speak your language. That’s the reality for many people from non-English speaking backgrounds. The Continence Foundation of Australia has ...

From workload to equipment problems, Australian nurses sound off in our survey on the largest obstacles to their success on the job.  Overworked, physically and verbally abused, and bullied. These words can be used to describe the nursing workforce throughout ...

Researcher attempts to measure and combat what happens to nurses who feel they are prevented from doing the right thing. Moral distress could be a significant hidden issue for the Australian aged-care workforce. “A number of years ago, I encountered ...