Nurse practitioners are calling on the federal government to stop ignoring them and make use of a valuable resource to help fight the pandemic. As the vaccine rollout continues to become unbearably complicated, the Australian College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) ...
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Bondi outbreak under control: Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer
The COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney shows no signs of slowing down as the delta strain continues to spread through the community, with Premier Gladys Berejiklian extending lockdown measures for another fortnight. The number of people infected has blown out to ...
More »‘It’s sad’: nurses abused at vaccine hubs
People who oppose the Covid-19 jab have abused and spat on nurses in disturbing incidents at Victorian vaccination hubs, authorities have revealed. Health Minister Martin Foley revealed shocking details about an incident at Cranbourne vaccine hub where an “anti-vaxxer” made “completely inappropriate ...
More »Pregnant women can be offered the coronavirus vaccine at any point of pregnancy
Pregnant women don’t have to wait until they give birth before getting the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, according to new advice from medical experts. The updated advice means pregnant women should be offered the Pfizer vaccine against coronavirus at any stage ...
More »Gov says 100 per cent of aged care facilities have now had first vaccine doses, 94 per cent have had second
More than five million Australians have received the Covid-19 vaccine as the federal government announced GPs will be able to administer doses for people with disabilities and the elderly at their homes. Health and Aged Care Minister Greg Hunt said 5.9 ...
More »New data reveals one-quarter of Australia’s available COVID-19 vaccines going unused
Almost a quarter of all available COVID-19 vaccine doses are not being used in Australia, the federal health department has revealed. According to the latest commonwealth vaccine data, the Northern Territory has the worst rate of vaccine utilisation, closely followed by Queensland. ...
More »New study looks into vaccine knowledge in maternity care
Vaccination is a tricky topic of late. The global race to find a way to get our lives back to some semblance of normality has caused concern among some as to the efficacy and safety of the vaccine options available. ...
More »Aussie vaccine technology ‘promising’ but risks to COVID-19 strategy were too great: study
Australia’s homegrown COVID-19 vaccine candidate had potential but the false positives on HIV tests were too great a hurdle to move it into further trials, a study published this week has confirmed. The University of Queensland vaccine was abandoned last ...
More »Nurse recounts life inside Israel’s rapid COVID-vaccine rollout
As Australia's COVID-19 vaccination rollout gets off to a sluggish start, other nations have made great strides in vaccinating their population. Israel is one of those nations, and since the start of its vaccination drive in December 2020, about 57 ...
More »Health workers could be punished for anti-vax messages, European vaccine rollout under a cloud
As the COVID-19 vaccine is rolled out across aged care homes nationwide there have been encouraging signs from overseas as to the various vaccines' ability to reduce infection. In the US, as of February, 1,315,000 people had been infected across ...
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