Some people go to great lengths to claim degrees and qualifications they’ve never had – and the penalties can be severe. Recently in Queensland, a person was employed as a nurse in a remote community, without having any relevant qualifications. ...

Nurses help develop best-practice for timely handling of chest pains and coronary syndromes. What do you do to expedite assessment of chest pain and thrombolysis when a patient presents in a rural hospital, knowing the nearest cardiac catheter laboratory is more ...

Chronic discomfort and nutrition have an impact on each other that radiates throughout every area of daily life. The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare identifies lower back pain and arthritis as the two most common reasons for loss of ...

An Australian pediatric nurse describes learning, sharing and working with Afghan women and their babies, surrounded by violence. As part of its broad operations in Afghanistan – a mission now in its 32nd year, having commenced in 1980 but closed ...

During the summer break, semester two and four students from the bachelor of nursing at The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle Campus, worked with the Fremantle Hospital and Health Service Accreditation Team to develop educational material for staff and ...

Take care to fill all the implicit obligations of the employment contract, or termination may well be justified. All employees, including nurses, have in their contract of employment a number of implied duties that are owed to their employer. Four ...

We saw a more intense focus in the latter part of 2015 on managing the health and wellbeing of people with chronic disease. The Primary Health Care Advisory Group considered how healthcare professionals and providers could better co-ordinate and integrate ...

The days and years ahead can be a time of great influence, when nurses’ knowledge and expertise become valued as never before. Imagine a future where the voice and visibility of nursing is in proportion to the importance and size ...

The burden of proof extends well beyond demonstrating a breach of duty by the defendant. In any negligence case, it is for the plaintiff to prove its case on the balance of probabilities. One of the elements of doing this ...

Intimate relationships with patients are never acceptable.  A cornerstone of nursing is the therapeutic relationship. It is a privileged relationship, which nurses should at all times protect and respect. The profession is conscious of this; hence any suspected transgressions are ...