Australian research will look into the different ways mental health professionals can diagnose and treat depression. Professor Christopher Sharpley, from the University of New England’s Brain-Behavior Research Group, said a person can qualify for a diagnosis of major depressive disorder ...

Australia's healthcare system is not making best use of available funding when deciding on allocating money to different services, a researcher has argued. Further, the Queensland University of Technology's Elizabeth Martin, who wrote the brief Rationing in Healthcare for the ...

Parents shouldn’t buy into the idea that good babies rest through the night. It’s not long before new parents get asked the loaded cultural question, “Is she a good baby?” Which all new parents understand as code for is the ...

The controversy over this long-standing practice comes from mistaking the tools for the context. Ever since the telephone connected rural hospitals with the community, rural people have been calling their local nurses seeking care – and the nurses have been ...

Recent cases in this rapidly evolving realm involve nursing, bullying, privacy, defamation and employment. This article follows two previous ones concerning bullying and the use of social media within the nursing profession; both of which generated great interest. Workplace bullying ...

Depression affects up to 15 per cent of women after birth and a predictive model could be used help prevent the health issue, according to a medical researcher and statistician. Dr Fenglian Xu, who will be undertaking research into developing a ...

The standard for successfully showing workplace behaviour is unreasonable is challenging.  Bullying in the workplace is a serious issue within the nursing profession. Anecdotally, any nurse can recount an experience either personally or in relation to a colleague. On January ...

Australia may well be in trouble without a co-ordinated approach to adequate staffing; a professor puts into focus the importance of looking past the short term on costs, and developing a national strategy.  A leading WA nursing professor is calling ...

Some guidelines are leading users away from best practice for the use of inhalers.  From the very start of their careers nurses are taught to search credible sources of information to find reliable researched practice guidelines upon which to base ...

Study shows healthcare workers' perceptions and challenges related to end-of-life care and choices.  Despite a plethora of local, state-based, national and international guidelines and resources, it is clear professionals providing palliative care face considerable challenges, many specific to their area ...