A new factual reality series has ushered audiences behind the frontlines of Australia's busiest hospitals, from the eyes of the nurses who work inside. Nurses premiered on Channel 7 last week, beating The Bachelor to attract almost 900,000 viewers nationwide. ...
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Reading with your senses: the blind artist bringing science to life
Melbourne-based artist and researcher Dr Erica Tandori has enabled people with low-vision or blindness to touch, feel and experience the world of infection, immunity and nutrition in a new exhibition. As part of Science Week 2021, Monash University’s Rossjohn lab ...
More »CBT better than meds for new mums with insomnia
Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is more effective than medication in treating insomnia among women during pregnancy and after birth, according to a new study. Sleep disturbances and symptoms of insomnia affect one in three Australian women after giving birth, ...
More »Medicinal cannabis trial opens a new window for cancer sufferers
An Australian first medicinal cannabis trial has offered new treatment pathways for advanced cancer patients. Mater researchers observed the efficacy in cannabidiol (CBD) oil to provide symptom relief in more than 150 participants, who they say showed vast improvement in ...
More »A dolphin, a penguin and an orca walk into a bar, a nurse makes a joke about it
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria, or to the performance of ...
More »‘Please do the same for me should I die in your care, just in case the afterlife is a thing’: Off The Charts by Georgie Carroll
A nurse starts their career with a truckload of compassion. Over the years, that compassion does truck off somewhere. This is what it can sound like. I was on the morning shift taking over from a graduate nurse just finishing ...
More »How ex-nurse Jennie took control of her ageing through study
Jennie Cox has always jumped on any chance to learn. At 81, she’s just completed a degree at Murdoch University and has already enrolled for a postgraduate course. A former nurse from Perth, Cox studied for a nursing degree as ...
More »Nurse opens up about daughter’s necrotising enterocolitis diagnosis
The South Australian mother of a 10-month-old baby has told of her daughter’s fight for life after being diagnosed with a disease that attacks the intestine of premature infants. Unlike her twin sister Luna, Nyiah Orsborn was diagnosed with necrotising ...
More »Using nurse experiences to improve prisoner healthcare
Correctional nursing is a tough beat. All nursing has its hard parts, but this is a speciality job, looking after a high-risk community in a residential style setting. Correctional nurse Donna-Marie Bloice has seen a lot in her time at ...
More »Nurse-led book charts COVID lockdown experience of children worldwide
An international network of children’s nursing experts has spent time during the last year creating a unique e-book, featuring the self penned COVID-19 experiences of children around the world. 'Our COVID-19 Artwork' contains drawings, pictures, poems and narrative from young ...
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