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Unsafe nurse conditions and violence prompt ACT state inquiry
After nurses reported escalating rates of workplace assault, a state inquiry has been launched into the working conditions inside a…
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Aged care workers vow nationwide action
Aged care workers across QLD, WA and SA have backed taking industrial action over “chronic understaffing” and low pay, as the union…
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Virtual tour gives nursing student unique insight into Indonesia’s healthcare system
Third-year nursing student Shamsiya Hassam Mooradun recently attended a virtual Public Health Study Tour (PHST) program about Indonesia’s public health…
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Labor pledges support for nurses under ‘relentless’ pressure
Federal Labor has promised to launch a national health and wellbeing service for nurses and midwives to help ease “relentless”…
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New smart plaster a ‘turning point’ in orthopaedic care
With 170,000 Australians breaking a bone annually, University of Southern Queensland PhD student Janitha Jeewantha thought it was time to…
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‘Third world’: furious health workers strike
NSW health care workers took to the streets on Thursday to increase pressure on the state government over pay rises…
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Sydney nurse charged with sexual assault granted bail
A male nurse charged by NSW police after allegedly sexually assaulting three women at hospitals in Sydney’s northwest was released on…
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New findings may change how blood transfusions are performed
A decrease in negative blood types in Australia may change how emergency blood transfusions are performed in the future, experts…
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St Vincent’s hospital CEO felt ‘uncomfortable’ as a gay patient
St Vincent’s Hospital chief executive Anthony Schembri has shared his eye-opening experience of feeling out of place in the healthcare system.…
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Teenager given ‘shut-up pill’ before death
A teenage girl was given Panadol by a remote north-west Queensland hospital and sent home on multiple occasions before succumbing…
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