Nurses play a crucial role in detecting, preventing and helping those experiencing domestic violence (DV). DV involves complex patterns of physically and mentally abusive behaviour and is still shockingly common in our country. For instance, one in six women and ...
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RACGP president on the need to maintain COVID-19 vaccine donations to developing countries – podcast
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has pressed the federal government to step up its COVID-19 vaccine dose donation efforts as the existing $300 million Pacific support package is due to expire in June. During the pandemic, the ...
More »Pushing for greater Parkinson’s awareness
Every day, 35 people are diagnosed with Parkinson's in Australia, yet few people understand the disease well. Parkinson's unique expression of physical and cognitive symptoms can also pose challenges for nurses and carers alike. With April being Parkinson's Awareness Month, ...
More »What I wish I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer: opinion
I don’t think I heard a word after she said, ‘you have cancer’. As my husband and I sat across from my breast surgeon, I’m pretty sure I went straight into shock. The world continued to spin on its axis ...
More »From trauma nursing, reality TV to educator: Meet the 28-year-old who has done it all
It was a life-changing event at a local football club that led Maddy Bowers to pursue nursing. The former NSW state junior equestrian champion was just 17 when her father collapsed and had a massive heart attack during the game. ...
More »Flight attendant swaps blue skies for scrubs
While standing on a church roof with a group of schoolchildren in Papua New Guinea, Louise Dingle, a former flight attendant and trained psychotherapist, had an epiphany. The 59-year-old had spent decades exploring the world, seeing first-hand the impacts of the ...
More »Injured children: not pretty enough? – opinion
While Kasey Chambers was inspired to write the song entitled ‘Not Pretty Enough’ about her feeling that she did not fit in to the music industry, many injured children can relate to the sentiment of not being pretty enough: feeling ...
More »One in six women fired for having endometriosis in Australia
Recent research has told us that one in six women in Australia have lost their jobs due to endometriosis, with one in three being passed over for a promotion at work. A national survey of 389 women diagnosed with the ...
More »More than just bandaids: the role of school nurses during COVID-19
Before it had hit nine o’clock on a Monday morning, school nurse Lisa Chalmers had already been greeted with a raft of changes made to COVID-19 protocols and a student returning home from South Africa. "That involves then working through ...
More »How nurses can lead the fight to save our climate
If the Australian healthcare sector was a country, it would be the fifth-largest carbon emitter on the entire planet. Experts say that nurses, making up the largest group of healthcare workers, can use their trusted voice in the community to ...
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