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 ...
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Nursing association joins push to decriminalise abortion in NSW
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 ...
More »Nurses on tour: USQ students head to Vietnam
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 ...
More »Angel of London Bridge gets nursing honour
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 ...
More »Nurses and their role in greening our hospitals
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 ...
More »Undergraded and undervalued: Pollaers talks aged care workforce
“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 ...
More »Royal commission Sydney hearing: final days
The last two days of the Sydney hearing kept up the theme of medical restraints in aged care. Josef Ibrahim spoke at length on psychotropic misuse and we also heard from Christina Bolger, executive director, regulatory policy and performance at ...
More »Fears of scurvy outbreaks not just media fluff: hospital study
Older hospital patients are not getting all their vitamins. Recent Flinders University research has found large numbers in the cohort have been found to have severe vitamin C deficiency. The findings give some credence to previous media reports of increased ...
More »Aged care worker recounts murder: royal commission
Two sisters took the stand at the aged care royal commission on Wednesday and told the room that they had held their sobbing mother’s hand as she had her teeth extracted due to neglect by an aged care facility. The ...
More »Drugged and restrained: Royal Commission Sydney hearing
Drugged without family consent and strapped to a chair for hours on end, Terrance Reeves spent a hellish 60 days in Garden View aged care facility, the Royal Commission has been told. The commission heard at times harrowing testimony from ...
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