“It’s really important our stories are told by our people. So much of Australia’s history is told through a non-Indigenous lens.” Janine Mohamed, chief executive of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM), shared this ...

Health professionals consistently list bullying, discrimination and harassment as key issues within the workplace. Now, Australia’s largest not-for-profit health and aged care provider plans to tackle the problem head-on. St Vincent’s Health Australia is partnering with the Australian Institute of ...

Alzheimer’s Australia recently put out a call for people passionate about fighting dementia to walk the Kokoda Trail in aid of research and support. Registered nurse Sarah Pettenon answered. Pettenon, manager of person directed care at Lifeview Residential Care, joined ...

When Captain Jan Becker’s not delivering babies here in Australia or in Tanzania, she’s piloting one of her company’s 18 Bell 206 turbine helicopters. Becker, a registered nurse and midwife, runs the largest helicopter flight academy in the Southern Hemisphere. ...

"Nursing academics are often viewed as being out of touch with clinical practice and preoccupied with research, while clinical nurses are viewed as too busy to educate or research.” To tackle this concern, noted by the authors of an article ...

Student groups at the University of Notre Dame Australia are putting the mental health of young people studying medicine and nursing front and centre by hosting an on-campus event for R U OKAY? Day. Medical Association of Notre Dame University ...

A study comparing the effectiveness of surgical masks with respirators has challenged long-held beliefs about infection control. A UNSW research team drew from the data of two randomised controlled trials involving 3591 Chinese participants to test the efficacy of hospital ...

It's not abnormal to feel grief when a client or patient dies. Marie-Anne Schull, from palliative care provider Karuna, offered this reassurance in an interview with Nursing Review. Her comments followed Karuna’s survey of 100 nurses that revealed nearly 70 ...

To Sweden where researchers have been looking at occupations with a possible elevated risk of rheumatoid arthritis... The findings published in Arthritis Care & Research show certain work-related factors, such as airborne agents may contribute to an increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis. ...

There are challenging times ahead for the nursing workforce due to the increasing global nursing shortage and the continued marked attrition rate of newly graduated registered nurses. A recent study on the lived experience of nine male West Australian GRNs ...