Australia is set to become a leader in palliative care research, thanks to a $60 million grand for end-of-life care projects. South Australia will particularly benefit, as Flinders University received $8 million for its palliative care related research. College of ...

In 2004, chief executive Kim Macgowan was chatting with The District Nurses team and came across a student nurse who was sobbing. The nurse felt she had just made the last visit to one of the service’s clients. The man ...

Nurses in general practices across Australia will soon have access to training to help older people and those who are chronically ill discuss advance care planning (ACP) and palliative care. Through a federally funded program, called Advance, nurses will have ...

Peak body calls for comment to help shape new, streamlined set of guidelines for best practice.  Australia’s peak organisation for palliative care is calling for interested parties to provide feedback on the revised national draft standards. Palliative Care Australia, which ...

Internationally recognised palliative care nurse Molly Carlile spoke to Amie Larter about her career, recent awards and thoughts on the future of nursing. When did you realise you wanted to have a career in nursing? I fell into nursing through circumstance ...

The shortage of palliative care nurses is being felt across the nation, with Queensland and remote areas having the least staff. By Yvonne Luxford Nurses are the main carers for people who are dying and their "critical role" in caring ...

An ageing population means palliative care is no longer a specialised field – but training is lagging. By Amie Larter In 2011, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 14 per cent of the Australian population was aged 65 years ...

Acute care nurses need support to introduce spiritual care in their daily work, according to new research. Older more experienced nurses working in palliative care are more likely to include spiritual care in their day-to-day work than their younger counterparts, ...

Dying is not an easy topic for discussion but the conversation needs to take place. Palliative care needs to be embedded in undergraduate training of health professionals to improve the quality of care when dying, says an expert. Dying is ...