There are lessons for everyone inside the Australasian ED of the year. Being at the forefront of innovative service delivery is key for any emergency department – and that’s exactly what Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital’s ED is striving for. ...

A mentor and trainer abroad confirms the value of personal growth and mutual respect. The conditions RNs are accustomed to working within at an Australian hospital are a far cry from the challenging and often resource-poor environments available in Tibar, ...

United Nations experts have declared the current Ebola outbreak like nothing the world has ever seen – something morphing from a local to an international crisis. The World Health Organization has confirmed that more than 4000 people have died in ...

'What’s special about mental health nursing?’ This question launched a three-year study into the nature, scope and consequences of nurses’ work in the mental health sector. “The question [was] posed in the context of what constitutes distinctive practice and how ...

As the number of Australians affected by Parkinson’s and other movement disorders continues to mount, so too does the need for specialist nurses. In Australia, there are just over 30 nurses who work specifically with Parkinson’s and movement disorders – ...

Nurse practitioners have a role to play in evaluation and research into best practice, attendees at a recent conference were told. Professor Sandy Middleton, director of the Nursing Research Institute – a joint initiative between St Vincent’s Health Australia (Sydney) ...

A less-refined workforce is being asked to do more and more in aged care; experts see a bad mix.  A report revealing the disease mix aged-care workers must treat has experts concerned that issues already bubbling around the nursing workforce ...

Primary healthcare nursing’s peak body takes over multifaceted approach to expanding and improving the workforce and its impact.  APNA has been tasked by the government with implementing the full Commonwealth-funded Nursing in General Practice program. The project was previously contracted ...

Operating room nurses celebrate success and the importance of collaboration.  Teamwork is being put into the spotlight in the surgical wards. The Australian College of Operating Room Nurses (ACORN) is encouraging perioperative staff to celebrate the work they do and ...

Australia adopts new specialist area to meet a growing need.  The demand for bowel cancer screening has led to an emerging specialisation, as nurses in Victoria and Queensland have begun undertaking training to be nurse endoscopists. Victoria statistics show a steady rise ...