Medical experts have called for a quick response to curb monkeypox in Australia after the World Health Organization declared the virus a global emergency. Since the disease was first reported in Australia on May 20, there have been 44 cases ...

Australian nurses experiencing workplace violence are turning to their fellow nurses to cope due to a lack of support from their organisation, new research shows.  Researchers from Flinders University and the University of Queensland spoke with 23 nurses working in ...

Nurses in two major Sydney hospitals have walked off the job to highlight dangerously low staffing levels. As hospitals prepare for the predicted surge of new Covid cases before the August peak, nurses gathered outside Blacktown and Westmead Hospitals on Monday morning to ...

Photo: Supplied An expert says Australian abortion legislation is hindering people seeking access to those services, and suggests nurses and midwives should be more involved. CQUniversity academic Lydia Mainey, who specialises in abortion care and gender-based violence, says a change ...

Twenty-six-year-old nurse Hannah Kent always considered becoming an associate lecturer as her career goal. But when the job opportunity popped up, and she applied, she didn't expect to be offered the position straight away. "I was very shocked to hear ...

Australian hospitals have issued a plea for blood donations after back-to-back disasters have diminished supplies. Floods, road closures, the flu season and Covid-19 are all being blamed for reducing people’s ability to donate life-saving blood. With the impact of recent ...

A new animation starring Indigenous characters uses humour to destigmatise palliative care, grief and death for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The 'Indigenous Program of Experience in Palliative Approach’ (IPEPA), created by the Queensland University of Technology, will be ...

Nurses forced to flee their homeland have been given a new chance to use their skills in Australia's healthcare system thanks to a recently launched program.  The pilot 'Scholarship for Refugee Nurses' program, organised by Edith Cowan University (ECU), will ...

A new Flinders University study has shown how a protein called tau, a critical factor in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, turns from normal to a disease state. Researchers say the discovery could help to prevent the tau transformation process ...

A psychiatric nurse has been suspended after she formed a personal and intimate relationship with a “highly vulnerable” patient. Jaclyn Stratton was working in regional Victoria when she began a six-month relationship with a patient under her care. The relationship included regular ...