Experiencing cancer from both sides of the bed, one nurse knows how treatment is provided is just as important as the treatment itself. By Annie May. Melissa Oostenbroek's sisters don't know how she can be a cancer nurse. For them ...

It's been three years since Jane McGrath's passing and her dream is taking flight, with the 67th McGrath Breast Care Nurse position literally taking to the skies. In a first for Australia, a fulltime breast cancer nurse will be joining ...

A new study is one of the few to examine pain in non communicative residents with dementia, writes Megan Stoyles. Enrolled nurses and personal care attendants in aged care facilities are better at recognising pain in non verbal residents with ...

After decades of painstaking research in the field, is the scientific community any closer to finding a cure for dementia? Linda Belardi reports. In the past decade progress in the clinical development of disease modifying treatments for dementia has been ...

More focus needed to be placed on teaching new parents practical, evidence-based strategies to deal with unsettled behaviour, say researchers. Mothers trying to cope with babies who cry persistently and wake frequently during the night are turning to hospital emergency ...

Moves to increase university nursing enrolments is being questioned due to a shortage of clinical placements. The looming retirement of 'baby boomer' nurses will place unprecedented pressure on Australia's health workforce over the coming years, but contention surrounds how best ...

Unless work-life issues are addressed, nurses will continue to feel increasingly burnt out. Gaps between policy and practice in ensuring a good work-life balance and the resulting "struggle to juggle" is resulting in nurses withdrawing and disengaging from the workforce, ...

Nurses to do a risk assessment before allowing mothers to breastfeed lying down, says coroner. Nurses must ensure new mums are alert enough before letting them breastfeed in bed, an inquest into the smothering death of a baby has found. ...

The nations' future nurses are in good hands if this year's Australian Learning and Teaching awards are anything to judge by, with 13 awards going to teachers in the field of nursing and midwifery. For the last time the Australian ...

Flexible methods of study are attracting a wider pool of future nurses. Natasha Egan reports. The future of university nursing programs will give students the flexibility to study online, fast-track their way to registration and get involved in research early ...