The COVID-19 pandemic and the Federal Government’s record budget boost to healthcare spending is opening up more management positions in the healthcare sector for nurses, and those with postgraduate degrees will be perfectly positioned to advance into leadership roles. The ...
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How the sustained physical, emotional and psychological demands of work in the nursing sector is literally destroying lives
Burnout is on the rise in our health sector. It is an occupational phenomenon resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed – and, in the health and social sectors, chronic stress is the rule, not the ...
More »COVID-19 could spread through toilet flushing, Medical Journal of Australia report says
There are concerns toilets could spread COVID-19 because flushing could generate aerosols that linger in the air. A report published in the Medical Journal of Australia highlighted several examples of how coronavirus was spreading via airborne transmission including by “faecal ...
More »Aged care worker sacked for refusing flu vaccine has unfair dismissal claim rejected
A NSW aged care worker has had her unfair dismissal claim rejected after she was sacked for refusing to have a flu jab, The Guardian reported. Jennifer Kimber, a receptionist with Imlay House in Pambula on the NSW south coast, refused to ...
More »Nurse opens up about daughter’s necrotising enterocolitis diagnosis
The South Australian mother of a 10-month-old baby has told of her daughter’s fight for life after being diagnosed with a disease that attacks the intestine of premature infants. Unlike her twin sister Luna, Nyiah Orsborn was diagnosed with necrotising ...
More »New study looks into vaccine knowledge in maternity care
Vaccination is a tricky topic of late. The global race to find a way to get our lives back to some semblance of normality has caused concern among some as to the efficacy and safety of the vaccine options available. ...
More »When too much is barely enough: opinion
‘When too much sport is barely enough’ is a much loved satirical credo made famous by the Australian sports comedians Roy Slaven and HG Nelson as they send up obsessed Australian sports fanatics. Something eerily similar seems applicable to the eight ...
More »Union, peaks ramp up calls for aged care overhaul ahead of Budget
In a fortnight, the government will reveal its Budget response to the royal commission’s final report, and worker and consumer representatives are this week ramping up their calls for government to act now. It’s not too much The Australian Nursing ...
More »‘Fix this mess’: PM slammed over hotel quarantine
Labor’s health spokesperson has slammed the Prime Minister over hotel quarantine, saying Scott Morrison has “done nothing” and urged him “to fix this mess”. It comes as health authorities in NSW and Western Australia investigate virus leaks in quarantine hotels ...
More »Using nurse experiences to improve prisoner healthcare
Correctional nursing is a tough beat. All nursing has its hard parts, but this is a speciality job, looking after a high-risk community in a residential style setting. Correctional nurse Donna-Marie Bloice has seen a lot in her time at ...
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