A Queensland nursing project focused on providing quicker and more personalised treatment to older patients has received a state award. The Geriatric Emergency Department Intervention (GEDI) won the customer focus category at the 2016 Queensland Premier’s Awards for Excellence. The ...
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The future of healthcare communications and tech products
Jeremy Paton is team engagement solutions lead at Avaya Australia and New Zealand, the local office of the California-based technology firm. After more than a century in the telephonic hardware industry, Avaya is transitioning into a software-led communications enabler. Healthcare is one industry ...
More »Older Australians living with HIV worry about future support
One of the greatest concerns Australians living with HIV have for the future surrounds the availability of ongoing assistance. This was a key finding from research by RDNS’s Melbourne-based HIV team, which supports 220 clients. The findings, published in the ...
More »Overworked Australians don’t have time to look after their health: study
A population health expert has called for limiting working hours so people can look after their health following the release of research that revealed 20 per cent of Australians don't have time to exercise and eat healthy food. The longitudinal study of ...
More »Study sheds new light on healthcare workers’ drug-related deaths
Between 2003 and 2013, nearly five deaths per 1000 employed Australian healthcare professionals were caused by drugs, new research has revealed. The Monash University study aimed to identify the best approaches to healthcare professionals’ drug use and their mental healthcare ...
More »When choosing between curative or palliative treatment, even autonomy isn’t absolute
Courts strongly favour the right of competent individuals to refuse treatment but the particulars of each individual case can lead to exceptions. As previously canvassed in this column, there exists a fundamental right for a competent adult to refuse treatment, ...
More »Training offered to help nurses discuss death and dying
Nurses in general practices across Australia will soon have access to training to help older people and those who are chronically ill discuss advance care planning (ACP) and palliative care. Through a federally funded program, called Advance, nurses will have ...
More »Australian students compare treatments with US counterparts
Nursing students from New South Wales gained insights into US approaches to opioid dependency after linking up with 900 University at Buffalo students via videoconferencing. Professor Cynthia Stuhlmiller from the School of Health at UB, said exercises such as the video link up help ...
More »Nurse-on-nurse bullying topic of coming study
Nurse-on-nurse bullying is a problem and one research project aims to find out how nurses think it should be tackled. Study lead Peter Hartin, from James Cook University, said: “The idea that bullying is a problem in nursing probably shocks ...
More »When it comes to pop diets, separate fact, fat and fad
Gimmicky diets often result in weight loss at first, before leaving a person less healthy – and heavier – down the road; learn how to spot shonky programs. If the magazine covers in your waiting room are anything to go ...
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