Following its release last night, health and aged care peak bodies and industry experts have sorted through the Turnbull Government’s 2017-18 Federal Budget with a fine-tooth comb. Here, Nursing Review shares what they believe are the biggest wins for the ...
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Screen for abnormal heart rhythm in older people to reduce stroke risk: white paper
Widespread screening for atrial fibrillation (AF), an irregular heart rhythm that can cause blood clots to form in the heart and travel to the brain, in people aged 65 years and over could reduce the risk of strokes and premature ...
More »Selfridges, Sydney Opera House and a convent: nurse tells of colourful career in new book
Registered nurse Maggie Groff has worn many hats throughout her career, including staff nurse, island nurse and industrial nurse. She now wears another: award-winning author. Groff has penned a new book called Not Your Average Nurse, which explores the true story ...
More »Antibiotic resistance fight is in healthcare workers’ hands: WHO
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (the Commission) has lent its voice to a World Health Organization (WHO) campaign to fight antibiotic resistance through good hand hygiene practices. Dr Trent Yarwood, from the Commission, said when ...
More »Prepare patients for an asthma emergency: council
The National Asthma Council Australia is calling on health professionals to check whether patients and carers know what to do in an asthma emergency. The call coincides with World Asthma Day and comes off the heels of the final report ...
More »Phone calls between patients, RNs reduce readmission rates: study
Patients who receive a phone call from a nurse following discharge are less likely to end up back in hospital within 28 days than those who don’t. This was one of the key findings of research, conducted by not-for-profit health ...
More »Hospital trials facial-recognition technology to ID patients
Facial recognition technology might be something you would expect to see while watching a blockbuster movie or crime show, but for staff at Epworth Freemasons in Melbourne, it was part of the patient-identification process. Epworth HealthCare trialed the use of ...
More »Vaccination rates higher among infants than their grandparents: report
Despite media and political noise surrounding vaccine-hesitant parents, non-immunised children form a very small proportion of under-vaccinated Australians, and a shift of perspective is urgently required. This is the call from Dr Rob Menzies, senior Lecturer at the University of ...
More »Acute stroke care at a button press: system links clinicians, neurologists
The experts behind a Victorian telemedicine program that delivers acute stroke care to regional Victoria want the intervention to go national. Professor Christopher Bladin, program lead of the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine (VST) project at The Florey Institute of Neuroscience & ...
More »Levelling up healthcare and rehabilitation with video games
Video games are often in the news for negative reasons but one academic has urged health professionals to be open to the potential improvements the technology can make to the lives of people in their care. Stuart Smith, former USC ...
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