A West Australian nurse who tested positive to COVID-19 while volunteering in Victoria has returned home with her six colleagues after making a full recovery. Renee Freeman contracted the virus earlier this month after working in an aged care home ...

On the podcast this week Vishnugar Arunasalam, a nurse from Western Sydney LHD, joins host Conor Burke to discuss the role pop up drive-through testing sites play in the battle against COVID-19. NursingReview · Episode 22 || Vishnugar Arunasalam, pop ...

A 32-year-old nurse at Ipswich hospital in Queensland has tested positive for COVID-19 as 220 staff at the hospital have gone into precautionary quarantine.  The nurse is one of two new positive cases in the state announced on Sunday, and Ipswich hospital has moved all appointments elsewhere whilst only the emergency department remains open.  Both new cases are linked to the youth detention cluster ...

COVID-19 is not the first time that a pandemic has ravaged a society and starting with the first recorded pandemic in Athens, during the Peloponnesian War, nearly every generation has had to deal with a deadly disease. Professor Peter Curson ...

A senior nurse who recently returned from coronavirus-hit Victoria has become South Australia's latest positive case, as the state mulls a "soft border" with Queensland. The woman, among a group of nurses sent to Victoria to assist in the embattled ...

Senator Richard Colbeck faced intense questioning at the Senate Select Committee hearing on Australia’s response to COVID-19 on Friday, and was criticised for appearing not to know how many people in aged care have died from COVID-19 since the beginning ...

Over the last 8 months we have all become experts on COVID-19 and other coronaviruses, but how much do we know about other viruses that are lurking in our community. The emergence of COVID-19 is a timely reminder that diseases ...

This week, host Conor Burke is Joined by Jenny Wallace, NUM on the respiratory/COVID ward at Liverpool hospital in Sydney. Wallace has been working on the respiratory ward for 11 years and talks to us about how treating COVID-19 positive ...

The aged care royal commission has heard evidence that the government had no COVID-19 plan for the aged care sector, leading to one of the highest aged care death rates in the world. In his opening remarks on Monday, counsel ...

Nurse Andrew Ingersoll is the inaugural Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) for South Western Sydney Local Health District and one of only a few to hold this role nationwide. CNIOs advocate on behalf of the nursing and midwifery workforce as ...