There are challenging times ahead for the nursing workforce due to the increasing global nursing shortage and the continued marked attrition rate of newly graduated registered nurses. A recent study on the lived experience of nine male West Australian GRNs ...

The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) has joined a host of leading health organisations calling on the Australian Government to make marriage equality a reality. AHHA let its stance be known via a recently released Position Statement on Marriage ...

Malnutrition in cancer patients is often associated with loss of lean body mass and can be caused by a combination of factors such as inadequate food intake, decreased physical activity and metabolic derangements, often referred to as cancer cachexia. These ...

The healthcare sector will soon have access to a national membership-based program that will provide partners with year-round support, training and guidance in LGBTI inclusive service delivery. ACON, Australia’s largest non-profit LGBTI health and HIV/AIDS organisation, will launch Pride in ...

Following the global financial crisis (GFC), it was expected that countries would tighten their purse strings, including within the welfare state, but is this austerity making patients sicker? Researchers, led by emeritus professor Eileen Willis from Flinders University, unpacked this ...

Since ketamine was first synthesized in 1962 it’s had various medical and recreational uses. Normally used as an anaesthetic, it has particular value in veterinary science due to its ability to sedate animals without suppressing respiration nor cardiovascular functions. Now researchers at the ...

Australian researchers are gearing up to conduct a healthcare associated infection (HAI) point prevalence survey of Australian hospitals. They say it will be the first the country has seen in 30 years. Project lead Dr Philip Russo, from Deakin University’s ...

The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute has published the first ever study into the outcomes for children following an arterial ischaemic stroke, more commonly known as a stroke caused by a blood clot. Despite being more commonly associated with older people ...

A Queensland RN has urged fellow nurses to not let respiratory rate checks fall by the wayside. CQUniversity doctoral researcher Tracy Flenady said that while abnormal respiratory rates are accurate, early indicators of clinical decline, previous studies indicate that this ...

An Australian not-for-profit health and aged care organisation has reaffirmed its willingness to provide medical support and healthcare to asylum seekers currently held in offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru. St Vincent’s Health Australia (SVHA) has lent its ...