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Aged care offers training answers

Providing clinical placements for students is essential and there is a shortage of places around Australia. One sector is underused in this area and wants to help. Linda Belardi reports. In 2009 aged care delivered 4 per cent of all ...

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Giving a voice to the voiceless

Helping people from war-torn lands, refugee health is a dynamic mix of advocacy, care co-ordination and social support. Linda Belardi talks to one nurse in the field. There’s nothing Ambi Kaur enjoys more than having a spirited argument with her ...

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Generation Y clash with management hierarchy

Generation Y nurses (those born 1980-94) see themselves as mobile professionals and are more willing to change employers in search of better opportunities, according to new research. Professor Yvonne Brunetto from Southern Cross University’s Business School, said their study found ...

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A need to be specific about general practice

With practice nurses doing a wider range of work in general practice their duties and responsibilities have to be clearly defined. By Eamon Merrick, Christine Duffield, Richard Baldwin and Margaret Fry. Nursing features prominently in the future of Australia's primary ...

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Difficult birth for power sharing

There is meant to be collaboration between doctors and nurses in maternity care but this is being hindered by unequal and disrespectful cultures and practices, writes Karen Lane. English is a funny language. Apparently it challenges newcomers because of the ...

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Killing stress

With work-related mental health issues on the rise, it seems a fitting time to address workplace stress prevention. By Amie Larter In a perfect world, we would all have a job that is without stress of any kind - we ...

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Gap narrows, but more work needed

There are still many obstacles facing the 2030 aim of health equality for indigenous Australians. By Amie Larter Although it appears Australia is starting to minimise the disparity between quality of life for indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, there is still ...

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Mid Staffordshire: heeding the lessons

An inquiry into a UK health service scandal has released its findings. Could such a tragedy happen here?  The Report of the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, recently released in the UK, examines how hundreds of people died due ...

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Cancer drug may beat HIV

Victorian researchers have made a significant step in understanding how the virus works. By Amie Larter. A team of researchers from Melbourne's Alfred Hospital, Monash University and the Burnett Institute have made a key discovery in the fight against HIV, ...

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Record number support safer staffing levels

Nurses and midwives are committed to better staff-patient ratios. By Aileen Macalintal A record number of NSW nurses and midwives are backing pay and staff ratio demands, according to the NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association. The NSWNMA wants guaranteed safer ...

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