A survey of NSW hospital patients has found that approximately 94 per cent describe their care as “very good” or “good”. The Bureau of Health Information (BHI) surveyed 17,000 people across NSW about their public hospital experiences for the year ...

Nursing specialities are increasingly being recognised with individual training programs and diplomas – one such field is forensic nursing. The word forensic brings to mind American procedurals like Law and Order or CSI, but the word forensic simply means ‘related to law’. The roots ...

The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has released its interim report, and although it did not make any recommendations – it is saving those for the final report due next year – it laid down the gauntlet ...

The Blue Knot Foundation, supported by Healthe Care Australia’s Belmont Private Hospital, has released its new Practice Guidelines for Clinical Treatment of Complex Trauma. The guidelines look to support informed trauma-specific responses to the growing trauma crisis and guide health ...

Shift workers are at greater risk of poor mental health and of crashing their car after their first shift of the week, two separate studies suggest. In the first, an international team of researchers examined the schedules and mental health ...

Perhaps the most damaging side effect of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety is that instead of dealing with the problems of the aged care system, we have a de facto policy of ‘wait and see’. Actions ...

There is an accelerating need for a skilled mental health workforce in Australia given the growing recognition of mental illness. However, developing an informed, flexible and skilled nursing workforce in hospital, community mental health and non-traditional settings is a challenge. ...

The Commonwealth appears to be missing in action. That was counsel assisting Peter Rozen's assertion as he discussed governance and leadership within the aged care sector while wrapping up a week of royal commission hearings centred around the aged care ...

Nurses often find themselves spending inordinate amounts of time on paperwork and data entry instead of doing what they trained to do: help patients. While they would rather spend time with patients doing clinical care, nurses are often held back ...

A quick chat with Ann Blackmore about life as a nurse and midwife. Which hospital do you work at and what do you do there? I work at Liverpool Hospital. I work on the postnatal ward as a registered nurse/midwife. What is ...