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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 2019/20 Australian Bureau of Statistics found that almost 80 per cent of workers in aged care were female, with over 40 per cent of CEO positions being occupied by women – the highest workforce percentage in Australia. Nationally, the ...

Four Australians have made the 2020 List of 100+ Outstanding Nursing and Midwifery leaders around the world. The list was announced to mark last year's International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife and is a joint venture from the World Health Organization ...