The Royal Hospital for Women in Randwick, NSW, is offering a homebirth option for low-risk pregnancies. One of only 14 public hospitals across the country currently doing so, the new scheme provides the support of two experienced midwives at no ...
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Relieving job stress: the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation
As of 2016, the national mental health commission found that the cost of mental ill-health is approximately $4000 dollars to each tax-paying Australian and more than $60 billion to the nation as a whole. Couple this with the statistic that ...
More »To boldly go where no nurse has gone before
Academics at New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing are pushing the boundaries with their latest innovation in nurse training. As part of their Star Trek-inspired Holodeck project, Associate Professor Winslow Burleson and his team are using state of the ...
More »Avoiding the “lure of the cure”: a new approach to cancer theory
It is time to think of cancer as a chronic disease and use cancer treatment as something that manages the disease, rather than eradicate it all together. These ideas are part of a new theory put forward by Professor Paul ...
More »Job security, increased opportunities behind one man’s mid-career shift to nursing
Being open to changing tack mid-career is something we’re told we need to get used to, and that’s exactly what Jason Honnery from the mid-north coast of NSW is about to do. Currently a patient transport officer at Macksville hospital, the ...
More »Calling it out: the role of the whistleblower in aged care
Blowing the whistle or 'dobbing in' a manager or work colleague for illegal or unethical behaviour might seem at odds with Australian culture, but that’s the service a Melbourne-based company is providing for a range of businesses. In the current ...
More »Nurses brush up on role in voluntary assisted dying
Victoria will see voluntary assisted dying become law in June next year and nurses are still working through what the change in legislation means for their practice. And that's exactly what the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) unpacked at a ...
More »The bolshie bunch: the history of nursing in Australia
There are nearly 400,000 nurses registered here in Australia and all of them can trace their nursing lineage back to Florence Nightingale. That is one of the fascinating tales from the new book Nurses of Australia: The Illustrated Story by ...
More »Seminar to tackle gaps in workers’ advance care planning knowledge
Advance Care Planning Australia (ACPA) has joined forces with Queensland Health and QUT to educate health professionals about palliative care. The team will host a seminar covering topics like advance care planning across sectors, legal considerations and implementation. ACPA manager of communications Rebecca ...
More »My Health Record: dispelling the privacy myths
Would you benefit from having a My Health Record (MHR)? That’s the question many are faced with due to the government’s decision to provide everyone with an online account by the end of the year. Sydney North Primary Health Network ...
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