Nurse practitioners skills aren't being used to full potential. The potential role nurse practitioners could have in reducing hospital admissions for older Australian's is to be explored. Researchers will lead 25 pilots, to be mostly located in aged care residential ...

Tasmania has opened its first nurse-led "memory clinic". Addressing the rapidly rising demand for dementia specialist services and increase the early dementia diagnosis rate within the community, Tasmania has opened its first nurse-led "memory clinic". Launched by Menzies Research Institute ...

There is little research into how people with cognitive impairment are assessed, treated or supported during their visit to the ED More needs to be done to improve the care that older adults with cognitive impairment, including dementia and delirium ...

A woman who accidentally smothered her newborn baby says health authorities aren't doing enough to warn exhausted new mothers about the risks of breastfeeding infants in bed. Bela Heidrich was about two hours old when she died at Rockhampton hospital ...

Mark Butler asks DoHA to investigate the rise in reportable assaults following coverage by television news. Linda Belardi reports. The minister for ageing, Mark Butler has directed his department to compile a detailed report on the incidence of assaults within ...

Nurses and midwives drug, alcohol and mental health program outlines a vision for a national program. Nursing and Midwifery Health Program, Victoria (NMHPV) Chief Executive Officer Glenn Taylor has called for nurses and midwives and nursing and midwifery students in ...

With bad nursing stories becoming too regular a feature in the UK media, Philip Darbyshire writes that Australia should take note. Criticising nurses was once like kicking Bambi. Bolstered by consistent reports that we are among the top 'trusted professionals', ...

Rather than resenting having to teach students nurses should embrace it, writes Leonard Cox. I  am hospital trained and have accrued letters and pieces of paper on the way through. I was taught by rote and had to work out ...

The health outcomes of women and their babies can be greatly improved if health professionals get screening practices right. Across Australia, confusion persists around antenatal screening of the three major blood-borne viruses: hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV) and human ...

Australian nurse educators are working to embed palliative care training firmly in undergraduate nurse programs, putting us ahead of some other countries. Megan Stoyles reports. The growth in the ageing population in developed countries and their growing numbers in acute ...