Federal Health minister Mark Butler has announced that the government will fork out an additional $1.4 billion over the upcoming three months to prevent Covid outbreaks in hospitals and aged care homes.  The Covid package, due to expire by the ...

Artificial intelligence could be used to explore how the Covid-19 virus might evolve, according to a team of international researchers. William Kelton, from the University of Waikato in New Zealand, has been involved in the ETH Zurich research, aimed at preparing for ...

From once being bedside support to the doctor, to evolving into fearless decision makers, leaders andadvocates for patient outcomes, the role of a nurse has changed exponentially, with education andtechnology representing the largest difference between past and present. Advances in ...

The Victorian branch of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, in their submission to a federal parliament Senate committee, has called for a one-day reduction in the working week, or for a 32 hour week rather than 38. The ANMF told the Select ...

As Australia's festival season fast approaches, an expert has warned the public and the nation's healthcare staff to be wary of the consumption of illegal drugs. There's been a rapid increase in illicit drug-related fatalities across the country - the ...

A '90s cartoon inspired nurse Claire Lane to set up a for-purpose organisation that collects usable medical supplies from hospitals and ships them to developing countries and war-torn areas like Ukraine.  Brisbane-based charity 'Save our Supplies' furnishes hospitals with a ...

In an attempt to plug staffing gaps, the Victorian government has started offering free degree places in nursing, but experts say this solution ignores the elephant in the room. According to Dr Lesley Andrew from Edith Cowan University, nursing has ...

Deaths in residential aged care settings occur frequently enough to be core business. It is sometimes difficult to assess when an individual might be dying, and sometimes an acute event means that they may be transferred to hospital and die ...

An exhausted nurse finishing a 12-hour shift for the third time in a row is no longer an uncommon scenario since Covid has made its mark on the world's healthcare systems. Over 75 per cent of Australia's front-line workers are burned ...

Sepsis is a life-threatening and time-critical medical emergency with long-ranging consequences for patients that survive. This is the message set out in the Sepsis Clinical Care Standard (the Standard), recently released by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in ...