Age-related prejudice and transport issues when meeting on-call commitments are just a couple of the challenges young midwifery students face while studying, but they soon develop strategies to build confidence and competence both at university and in the clinical environment. ...

Advance care planning (ACP) for people with dementia must focus on the individual with dementia and a new approach is needed to ensure their voice is heard. These were key points experts raised during a forum on the topic, held ...

Experts have warned women against using marijuana whilst pregnant, following research that has linked its use with pre-term pregnancy. The international research, led by the University of Adelaide, looked at data from more than 5500 pregnant women from Australia, New ...

Three years ago, a call went out for stomal therapy nurses from Australia to help implement a new training program in Kenya, and Trish Griffin was one of the people who answered. The call came from Elizabeth English, from the ...

The Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation’s Victorian branch has dismissed claims by the state’s opposition health spokesperson that the union got everything it wanted out of last week’s deal to resolve enterprise agreement negotiations. ANMF's Victorian branch recommended the state ...

Australia can put vascular access devices to better use, experts said. Academics from Griffith University’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland said best practice for IVs and other devices within medical settings would improve patient outcomes and provide cost savings. Professor Claire Rickard ...

The Stroke Foundation has warned Australian men and women they are putting themselves at serious risk of disability or death. The call comes after the group discovered more than 41 per cent of men had been urgently referred to their doctor after free ...

Peak bodies often use the term mixed bag when discussing how healthcare fares in each year’s federal Budget, and the 2016–17 showing is no different. Below, Nursing Review gets the lay of the land from some of the sector's leaders and ...

The interactions shared during meetings with corporate clients might be different from those on the pediatric wards, but RN Rebecca Muir, who is well-versed in both, says some skills transcend. Muir left her job as a senior account executive with ...

Hospital patients are more likely to die within 30 days of admission if they eat less than a quarter of the food they are offered or are already malnourished. This one of the key findings of recent research that looked ...