Emergency department nurses across New South Wales are set to benefit from a new virtual reality (VR) training program about stroke care. Developed by the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation and the Centre for Advanced Training Systems at the University ...
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VR helping midwives in rural Qld deliver babies
Virtual reality (VR) is helping to create safer birthing experiences for Queensland mothers and their babies in remote towns. Nurses in the remote and predominantly Indigenous towns of north-west Queensland are learning how to prepare mothers for childbirth with the ...
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A new project will allow student nurses to learn how to negotiate verbal and physical abuse without being put in harm's way. IVADE is an immersive computer simulation program by Edith Cowan University (ECU), made to help nurses and nursing ...
More »SA uni rolls out new medical record system
The University of Adelaide has incorporated a new medical record system into practical exams for fifth-year students. The move aims to provide a more authentic learning experience and better prepare students for real-world clinical practice. Professor Adam Montagu, Director of ...
More »ChatGPT: potential to enhance nurse-patient communication
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming integral to Australia's healthcare, an engineering professor has said chatbots could similarly start to gain ground in clinical settings. ChatGPT, a chatbot that makes predictions based on a vast dataset of words and natural ...
More »What tech in hospitals could look like in 2053
Academics have offered a sneak peek into how artificial intelligence (AI) could revolutionise hospitals in 30 years. Professor of Economics David Orsmond and artificial intelligence expert Dr Hamid Alinejad-Rokny said a machine that provides nurses with patient-specific data could be ...
More »Healthcare digitisation leading to more data-induced harm
Professor Enrico Coiera says his prediction that digitisation in healthcare over the past decade would lead to increased data-driven patient harm has come true. Ten years ago the director of the Centre for Health Informatics at Macquarie University warned in ...
More »Training next-gen nurses for a digital future: Q&A
Nursing Review spoke with the course director of Nursing at Swinburne University, professor Karen-Leigh Edward, about the role of digital technologies like interactive dummies to prepare future nurses for their profession. Professor Edward said there is a high demand for tech-savvy ...
More »Why hospitals need to replace pagers with smart devices
Hospitals have been using paging technology to communicate with healthcare staff members for many years. Pagers are low-maintenance and reliable, they have a long battery life, and have proved to be extremely reliable.As modern solutions have emerged, pagers have become ...
More »Dear diary, today I faced COVID-19
“I guess there’s a lot of pressure, pressure on us, and its, its very tiring and challenging to get breaks in and so on,” she says into her phone to no one in particular. “We’ve had, you know, young people that have had ...
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