At 12.51pm local time on February 22, Christchurch was rocked by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake. The city was devastated, many were dead, more were injured and medical teams faced a situation "as bad as it could get". Fiona Cassie reports. ...

Preceptors could benefit from having a structured way of thinking about their students skills, writes Peter Kieseker. Stephanie Fox-Young, RCNA president recently wrote in an editorial how graduates needed to be supported as they start their practice and that access ...

Club motivates and empowers patients to take ownership of their care. Garden clubs, book clubs, travel clubs and even Star Wars clubs - for as long as time people have been getting together with others who have similar interests. More ...

Latest university research is showing a connection between the design of rooms where mothers give birth, their stress levels and the potential risk of such stress to newborns. How the features of a birthplace including design, objects, materials and colours ...

Increasing the amount of clinical placements is the aim of a new Queensland partnership. A new joint project between USQ and Toowoomba Hospital to increase the quality and quantity of nursing student clinical placements has the potential to address an ...

The federal government is being called upon to make last minute changes to the legislative framework of the National Health Performance Authority. A lack of consultation by the federal government over the establishment of the proposed new hospitals watchdog is ...

Local health professionals and consumers urged to engage with a potential Medicare Local. If they haven't already done so, it's time for all relevant interests to get involved with the first 15 Medicare Locals to be established from 1 July ...

More nurses, an increase in hospital beds and hospital upgrades are among the election promises that led the Coalition to a landslide victory in NSW. A triumphant Barry O'Farrell has claimed a mandate for change after the coalition demolished Labor ...

Protest outside Productivity Commission offices over aged care nurses wages. Nurses in the aged care industry yesterday demonstrated in Melbourne demanding better wages and more care for older Australians. The nurses, who marched on the Productivity Commission offices where hearings ...

New research from the Cancer Council shows one in five cases of bowel cancer are diagnosed at an advanced stage, due to a lack of screening. Australia's incidence of bowel cancer is predicted to surge by 50 per cent over ...