Fewer nursing home residents are needing to return to hospital after discharge under a program that involves regular specialist follow up. The intervention, called Regular Early Assessment Post-Discharge (REAP), was developed by a team from St George Hospital, Calvary Health ...

While nurses and midwives receive training to understand and respect cultural needs, Aboriginal women are still facing culturally unsafe care during their maternity journey. That’s one of the key findings of The Birthing on Noongar Boodjar Project, led by Murdoch ...

When quality of residential aged care is called into question, two paths to improvement seem to form: improved funding and mandated staffing ratios. The peak body for all providers of age services, Leading Age Services Australia (LASA), is helping forge ...

It might look like the nurses at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital (WCH) in Adelaide are gearing up for the new Steven Spielberg movie, Ready Player One, but there’s a good reason they’re equipping young patients with virtual reality glasses. ...

Training up community care workers in falls prevention may help curb the declining number of clients taking part in preventive exercise programs, new research suggests. Study lead Dr Elissa Burton, from the School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science at Curtin ...

GPs and practice nurses now have access to a tailored dementia care training program that aims to reduce stigma and help empower people with dementia, their families and carers. Through the Dementia Care Training and Education Program – pioneered by ...

A group of immunisation experts has again lent its weight to the push for mandatory healthcare worker vaccination. The Immunisation Coalition, which advocates for whole-of-life immunisation, said flu shots should be mandatory for all care, allied health and ancillary staff ...

Allah yerhamu – “God have mercy on him”. This is one of the first lines of Arabic I needed to learn after arriving in Tal Abyad Hospital in northern Syria. They are the only words of comfort to offer when ...

Workplace issues like stress and bullying and physical and mental health worries are the key concerns for nurses, midwives and students who are ringing a dedicated helpline. Nurse & Midwife Support (NM Support) data from its first year of operation ...

Providing access to palliative care sooner could see fewer hospital admissions at the end of life and lower healthcare costs, research has found. Study lead Cameron Wright, from the School of Public Health at Curtin University, said the findings were ...