A Queensland RN has urged fellow nurses to not let respiratory rate checks fall by the wayside. CQUniversity doctoral researcher Tracy Flenady said that while abnormal respiratory rates are accurate, early indicators of clinical decline, previous studies indicate that this ...

When a patient in a remote community needs medical supplies from the closest major city, the path of least resistance might be use of a drone that can travel long distances. Researchers from Griffith University have explored the potential for ...

Are smartphones making our brains lazy? It’s a common concern about the devices and their handy memory tools but Australian researchers say these applications are more helpful than harmful. Writing in The Conversation, Dr Dana Wong, senior lecturer in clinical ...

As part of our Specialty Focus series, spotlighting the work of nurses across the country, Nursing Review sits down with Catherine Bellantonio, who has worked at IVF and fertility clinic Genea for the past seven years. In the interview, Bellantonio, ...

Nurses are often inadequately prepared for work in remote, isolated settings and stress levels can be high. To combat this, Australian researchers have developed a roadmap for occupational stress intervention that targets the key concerns of remote area nurses (RANs) ...

Intimate partner violence in older cohorts tends to fall between the cracks and its true frequency is unknown, as most research excludes older age groups. These concerns prompted the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District’s Aged Care Psychiatry Service to ...

Sex object. Battle axe. Doctor’s right-hand maiden. These are some of the historical stereotypes of nurses that researchers say must be challenged in order to encourage more school leavers to consider the profession. Published online in Nurse Education Today, a ...

A health and aged care provider is tackling Australia’s role in human trafficking head on. St Vincent’s Health Australia has joined forces with anti-human trafficking group Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH) to change the way hospitals treat ...

In casting a wider net to find clinical placements for nursing students, tertiary institutions have turned to prison health services to guide students on the job, but are undergraduates prepared for the experience? That's one of the questions researchers unpacked ...

Beth Wozniak is a nurse in the Maitland region of mid-northern New South Wales. She is the founder of Scrubit, a new app that modernises hospital procedures. “Since completing my nursing degree in Queensland, I’ve worked in many operating theatres ...