An artwork depicting nurses as superheroes by reclusive street artist Banksy has raised more than £16m for an NHS charity, as reported by the BBC. The piece, titled Game Changer, was sold by Christie's auction house and fetched a 'hammer ...
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Does the health department deserve a second chance to fix aged care?
Nearly a month on from the release of the final report from the aged care royal commission we are still largely in the dark on how the government might seek to change the sector going forward. Professor Jo Ibrahim, the ...
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Making aged care homes more liveable for older Aussies will be a key feature of any changes to the sector, and as over half of all aged care residents have a dementia diagnosis, thinking outside the box when it comes ...
More »What older Aussies need, deserve and expect should drive reform: LASA
It has been over a week since the federal government released the final report from the aged care royal commission and, with the government not set to announce its full response until the May budget, the sector has had time ...
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An American nurse involved in a 1.5 mile long car pile up crawled out of the wreckage of her car and went straight to her shift. Rebecca Benson described the scene that left six dead and 36 people injured as ...
More »The Coronavirus Podcast: ‘lungs like concrete’, treating the third wave of COVID-19
On the podcast this week, host Conor Burke is joined by Michelle Dowd, the nurse manager of intensive care services at Liverpool Hospital. Michelle has been intimately involved in the treatment of the sickest COVID-19 patients since the beginning of ...
More »WA COVID nurses return home from Victoria
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 ...
More »The Coronavirus Podcast: drive-through testing sites
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 ...
More »QLD nurse contracts coronavirus as 220 colleagues go into quarantine, NSW works to contain hospital outbreaks
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 ...
More »The Coronavirus Podcast: the history of pandemics
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 ...
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