“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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Beyond COVID-19: How can we prepare the nursing workforce for the new reality?
As a former nurse, it breaks my heart to know that more than 600 nurses have lost their lives fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past month, as part of the Future of Healthcare webinar series, I have spoken to ...
More »Games tech to help health professionals identify suicidal ideation
Curtin University is utilising games technology to create web-based video simulations aimed at helping mental health experts identify and better communicate with people contemplating suicide. As the World Health Organization points out, suicide is the second leading cause of death ...
More »Nurses criticised for messages spread on TikTok
Nurses have made headlines in the US for using social media platform TikTok to spread health information some believe is unhelpful. One such nurse was spotlighted for her video claiming that the best way to prevent STIs was to wait ...
More »Meet ‘Angry Stan’, the new VR tool helping students resolve conflict
A new “world first” virtual reality simulator is aiming to equip student nurses at the University of Newcastle with conflict resolution skills. The VR program replicates a real-world emergency room and asks students to respond to a high-pressure mock scenario. The program, ...
More »What do nursing and baseball have in common? More than you think
Data. Big data. Using data. Gathering data. Protecting data. Modern life is data obsessed; data surrounds us and rules our lives in ways we mostly don’t see. Facebook and Google track what we engage with on the internet and target ...
More »We could be Hearoes with new app
In an Australian first, a new app has been developed to help people adjust to life with a cochlear implant. The game-based Hearoes app is a collaboration between audiologists at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) and Brisbane-based app creator ...
More »New app ‘game changer’ in fight against flu outbreaks
As of June this year there has been a recorded 75 flu outbreaks in NSW aged care facilities, with 86 residents requiring hospitalisation and 18 recorded deaths. And this week, an aged care facility in NSW was put into lockdown after ...
More »New gestational diabetes trial reduces the need for clinic appointments
Nurses at Fairfield Hospital in Sydney have trialled the use of an app that can help cut the number of clinical appointments needed for pregnant women with gestational diabetes (GDM). Jenny Wright, diabetes clinical nurse consultant at Fairfield Hospital, found that ...
More »MOOC shows promise to improve dementia knowledge globally
A massive open online course (MOOC) promises to improve understanding of dementia on a global scale. In a paper published last month in Science of Learning, a partner journal of Nature, a research team from the University of Tasmania assessed ...
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