Obese pregnant women should be offered special care to reduce the risk of stillbirth, experts say. A new study has found obese expectant mothers who went to specialist antenatal clinics were eight times less likely to have a stillbirth. Such clinics ...

Australian women are willing to tell others about their bladder leakage but the majority simply laugh off the health issue, a new survey has found. The Continence Foundation of Australia survey of 1000 women aged 30 years or older found ...

Key nursing bodies have backed recommendations to explore the staffing and skills mix in residential aged care to combat abuse of elderly Australians. The Australian Law Reform Commission on Wednesday 14 June 2017 released its report, Elder Abuse – A ...

Sex object. Battle axe. Doctor’s right-hand maiden. These are some of the historical stereotypes of nurses that researchers say must be challenged in order to encourage more school leavers to consider the profession. Published online in Nurse Education Today, a ...

A health and aged care provider is tackling Australia’s role in human trafficking head on. St Vincent’s Health Australia has joined forces with anti-human trafficking group Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH) to change the way hospitals treat ...

In casting a wider net to find clinical placements for nursing students, tertiary institutions have turned to prison health services to guide students on the job, but are undergraduates prepared for the experience? That's one of the questions researchers unpacked ...

Beth Wozniak is a nurse in the Maitland region of mid-northern New South Wales. She is the founder of Scrubit, a new app that modernises hospital procedures. “Since completing my nursing degree in Queensland, I’ve worked in many operating theatres ...

Telling someone that their loved one is gone or has passed might seem like a gentle way to break news of a death but sometimes using such euphemisms can lead to misunderstanding and confusion, a palliative care expert has cautioned. ...

What if a computer could tell you when you will die? The concept sounds like an elevator pitch for a science fiction novel but University of Adelaide researchers are working to bring the idea to life. Recent research, published in ...

Nurses at Epworth Richmond are leading a hospital-wide effort to divert an estimated 12 tonnes of hospital waste from landfill each year. Theatre nurse Rebecca Pascoe has been heading a team of staff that drives the recycling of aluminium and ...