Deakin University has announced a new Institute for Health Transformation with the aim to “guide a transformation of the way Australian health and care is promoted, designed and delivered”. The institute will bring together more than 200 academics and researchers ...

Muslim nursing and midwifery students at Western Sydney University now have the option to wear its first branded hijab for clinical practice. Dr Rakime Elmir, co-creator of the program and WSU deputy director of clinical education, said the hijab – which ...

MP and nurse Ged Kearney has been added to opposition leader Anthony Albanese’s aged care team. The former union leader, who won the federal seat of Batman for Labor, was named Shadow Assistant Minister on Sunday. Speaking to Nursing Review ...

Nurses at Fairfield Hospital in Sydney have trialled the use of an app that can help cut the number of clinical appointments needed for pregnant women with gestational diabetes (GDM). Jenny Wright, diabetes clinical nurse consultant at Fairfield Hospital, found that ...

In the five-year period between 2011–12 and 2015–16 there was a nearly 30 per cent growth in palliative care hospitalisation. Add to this the 160,00 Australians who die each year – 70 per cent due to expected causes – a ...

A peak NSW nursing body has thrown its support behind a campaign to decriminalise abortion in the state. NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) is one of 70 signatories of the NSW Pro-Choice Alliance, a campaign launched by the Women’s ...

The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) recently welcomed home a group of nine nursing students from a placement in northern Vietnam. The students had placements in hospitals in Hanoi and Mai Chau as well mobile clinics in rural areas. The ...

Kirsty Boden, known as the Angel of London Bridge after the 2017 terror attack at the British landmark, has been recognised for the selfless act that cost the Australian nurse her life. Boden, one of four Australian nurses to receive the ...

As a student nurse, you can’t help but become acutely aware of the unnecessary environmental waste that is involved in providing hospital healthcare. In fact, it has been estimated that the Victorian public health services will be generating as much ...

“Neither party has taken it particularly seriously,” John Pollaers tells the crowd. Speaking prior to the election at the Informa National Dementia Conference, Pollaers laments the state of politics and, more broadly, community engagement in the aged care sector. "It’s ...