“You don’t know.” Jac Mathieson, the chief nursing officer at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, found herself saying this a lot when talking about the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act, soon to be law in Victoria. In this instance she was asked, ...
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Euthanasia reforms to reach across Australia in coming years: experts
When it comes to changing the law to permit voluntary assisted dying Australia-wide, it’s a case of when, not if, say Queensland law experts. QUT’s Professor Lindy Willmott and Professor Ben White detailed the growing international trend to permit voluntary ...
More »Nurse naps: what are the consequences of sleeping on the job?
There is an obvious employer expectation and condition of employment that when nurses are at work they are awake and not sleeping. After all, the employer is paying for the time that the nurse is at work. This rule does ...
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