An advocacy group has released a manual for healthcare workers to help reduce the impact of ageism on older people. The guide from EveryAGE Counts hopes to assist workers in preventing and addressing ageist attitudes affecting older people through language. Ageism is ...

Widespread understaffing in Australian hospitals could be significantly reduced if high rates of psychological injuries among nurses are addressed, a new study said. Researchers from Australia's three leading universities, Monash, Curtin Uni, and Sydney, examined nine years of psychological injury ...

An Australian-first standard has been released to educate healthcare workers, including nurses and midwives, about the prevention of stillbirths and care for families. Each day, six babies are stillborn across the country. For 30 per cent of these cases, the medical ...

A chronic shortage of midwives in public hospitals is causing women to be discharged without proper postnatal care, midwives have said. Earlier this year, NSW hospitals had over 500 vacancies for full-time midwifery positions, resulting in women leaving hospital within two days ...

A fourth wave of Covid-19 is well and truly under way in the eastern states as a dramatic spike in cases brings fresh warnings from health authorities. A mix of Omicron subvariants – BA. 5, BA. 2.75, XBB and BQ. ...

One of Australia’s leading academic journals on nursing has welcomed a new editor-in-chief. Professor Lisa Whitehead, who'll take up position of ACN's research journal by January next, has thirty years of experience in studying and providing work on nursing, rehabilitation ...

A long-time fertility nurse says IVF and other reproductive treatments have come a long way from when she started her career back in the nineties. Nursing Review spoke with Jan Mackenzie, who works at Monash IVF as a nurse manager,​ in ...

Less than a month out from the Victorian state election, the Liberal opposition has made another massive funding announcement, this time promising $800 million in new and upgraded hospitals in Melbourne’s outer suburbs. On Wednesday, a day after the writs ...

News of a 15 per cent interim wage increase for Australia's aged care workforce has been welcomed by peak nursing groups who say more needs to be done to retain and recruit staff into the hardened sector. The Australian Nurses ...

The appearance of the two latest Covid subvariants may warrant the end of the global pandemic, an epidemiology expert has said. Sydney University's professor Robert Booy, who specialises in infectious diseases, said the latest strains BQ.1.1 and XBB are not ...