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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A participatory care model out of Tasmania was the focus of recent research that delved into job satisfaction of care workers and functional decline of older people. The study evaluated a program to prevent functional decline of older, community-dwelling people, ...

Australian researchers have developed a blood test that may soon be used to detect Parkinson’s disease, as well as a range of other neurodegenerative disorders. La Trobe professor of microbiology Paul Fisher said so far, the blood test has been ...

Telehealth will face great difficulties if the health sector fails to think outside of the current structures. This is what Paul Frijters, professor of health economics at the University of Queensland, told Nursing Review in the lead up to his ...