Amanda McClelland, Australian senior emergency health adviser with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, worked in Sierra Leone from July to September. McClelland, who has recently returned to West Africa, gave Nursing Review a rundown on ...

Laurie Bickhoff, RN and founder and editor of the Defining Nursing blog, is completing a transition-to-cardiology nursing program after last year finishing a transition to practice with Hunter New England Local Health District. In 2012, she was one of five ...

Heads of nursing schools grapple with big issues all the time; here’s what’s front of mind for three such leaders now. The reforms of the education minister, Christopher Pyne, have been a hot-button topic over the last few months – ...

Reflective practice should be a tool for building resilience against racism in nursing and midwifery, attendees at the recent CATSINaM conference were told. Griffith University professor of first peoples health Roianne West delivered the presentation, following recent membership forums at ...

A sloppy, poorly constructed application can doom a deregistered worker’s hopes. The process of applying for reinstatement to the nurse’s register, having been suspended, is not to be taken in a cavalier fashion. The neatness or sloppiness of the application ...

Woman’s new musical show weaves together the joy, pain, compassion and humour of the profession. A Victorian nurse is touring her one-woman musical comedy act – a show born from a desire to promote the nursing profession. Zuleika Khan, who ...

The role of the nurse has probably never been more important in society than today. An ageing population combined with record hospital admissions and cuts to health budgets around the country, topped with pressure to discharge patients as soon as ...

An Australian nursing student will provide care for people in developing countries by heading over to remote communities in Laos. Second-year Griffith University bachelor of nursing student Elizabeth Eastwell will head to Laos in January next year to provide primary ...

Every patient is different; whenever one presents a particularly troublesome problem, meeting it with the specified precautions is critical.  The way patients who present special difficulties are managed needs to be individualised, even with all the competing demands on nurses’ time, ...

Employees are getting older and living longer, making retirement strategies more important than ever.  An ageing workforce, changes to the age pension and longer retirement mean older workers need to plan ahead, experts say. Such news affects an increasingly larger ...