Research by academics at Western Sydney University has found that nursing undergrads who work in aged care while completing their studies are learning valuable skills and enter the profession ahead of their graduate peers. The research surveyed new graduate nurses ...

In an Australian first, a new app has been developed to help people adjust to life with a cochlear implant. The game-based Hearoes app is a collaboration between audiologists at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) and Brisbane-based app creator ...

Australia is a country that likes a drink. Recently deceased former prime minister Bob Hawke was lauded for his larrikin persona and prowess at the bar. And, like many other countries, our national holidays often centre around getting on the ...

New data shows that pharmaceutical companies are increasingly targeting non-prescribing health professionals, such as nurses, with financial gifts. Payments to doctors by pharmaceutical companies is commonplace and widely accepted, and there is currently no governmental regulation surrounding these types of ...

Michelle Roach is a radiation oncology clinical nurse consultant, the first NSW has ever had. And she is passionate about 'rad-onc'. She is passionate about, it seems, everything. “I’m a pain in the arse,” is how she describes it. I ...

Deakin University has announced a new Institute for Health Transformation with the aim to “guide a transformation of the way Australian health and care is promoted, designed and delivered”. The institute will bring together more than 200 academics and researchers ...

In the five-year period between 2011–12 and 2015–16 there was a nearly 30 per cent growth in palliative care hospitalisation. Add to this the 160,00 Australians who die each year – 70 per cent due to expected causes – a ...

The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) recently welcomed home a group of nine nursing students from a placement in northern Vietnam. The students had placements in hospitals in Hanoi and Mai Chau as well mobile clinics in rural areas. The ...

“We felt that we deal with anxious upset patients on a daily basis. And we felt that our nurse peers didn’t understand the magnitude of the work that we do. We probably felt a bit undervalued,” says Dr Pamela Ellem. ...

Rural nurse practitioners are facing a number of hurdles when it comes to being able to deliver the best care possible. This is the opinion of a new study looking into extended scopes of practice in rural settings, carried out ...