The latest data released by the Productivity Commission shows that wait times for those needing to enter residential aged care have increased almost 50 per cent since 2016–2017. The report released this week also shows that those Australians waiting for the ...
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Nurse turns to creative writing to help young people in chronic pain
A nurse who cares for patients with chronic pain is working on a novel that tackles its impact on young people’s lives. Julianne Mead wants more young people with chronic pain to see themselves in fiction, so she enrolled in ...
More »From the punch-card operator’s room to the boardroom: Fundraising nurse looks back on her career
Associate Professor Leanne (Lulu) Zalapa has forged an extraordinary career. Leaving school before year 10, Lulu found herself working in a punch-card operator’s room, but harboured ambitions of becoming a nurse ever since first setting foot in a hospital to ...
More »RN praised for efforts to save Yellow Wiggle’s life
A concertgoing nurse has been labelled a hero for her work treating Wiggles performer Greg Page after he suffered cardiac arrest at a bushfire fundraiser late last week. Off duty-nurse Grace Jones was in the audience of the Wiggles concert ...
More »Chronic pain can change your brain and personality: researcher
A new Australian study has found that people who live with chronic pain experience changes to their brain which can cause negative personality changes. The world first discovery found that people with chronic pain have smaller amounts of glutamate – the brain’s ...
More »Researchers explore how confidence can affect performance for CALD nurses
Communication is the bedrock of nursing and for nurses from CALD backgrounds – one-third of nurses in Australia were born overseas – this can be sometimes challenging. Researchers at the University of South Australia’s School of Nursing and Midwifery believe ...
More »2020: Year of the nurse and midwife
In May, it will have been 200 years since the birth of Florence Nightingale and the World Health Organization (WHO) is marking the date by declaring 2020 as the first ever Year of the Nurse and Midwife. Early last year, ...
More »There’s a hole in the aged care funding bucket
The royal commission’s interim report, ominously titled Neglect, was released on 31 October. A great early Christmas present for all Australians, chosen especially with the government in mind. In response, Prime Minister Scott Morrison joined Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck, ...
More »Protecting healthcare workers from violent attacks
According to the World Health Organization, between eight and 38 per cent of healthcare workers suffer physical violence at some point in their careers and many more are threatened or exposed to verbal aggression.1 An Australian study of 9,951 doctors ...
More »Face value: cosmetics court case a warning to nurses
Many nurses are engaging in cosmetic and beauty practices for commercial benefit, either as an employee or sole practitioner. While a recent case involved the negligent actions of a person without nursing registration and training, it contains many salient legal ...
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