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Staff at a Brisbane hospital have been instructed to turn away patients presenting after 10pm, with management guidelines suggesting nursing staff offer sick patients a “blanket and pillow”. Nurses and other health professionals at Wynnum Health Services, formerly Wynnum Hospital, ...

Nursing staff have to be aware that a patient's sexual partners must be considered in ongoing treatment. A recent court decision in NSW highlights that health professionals, including nursing and administrative staff, have a duty of care which can extend ...

Amie Larter speaks to the head of the school of nursing and midwifery at Edith Cowan University, Professor Di Twigg What first prompted your choice for a career in nursing? I spent a weekend with a high school friend. Her ...

Graduate Isabel Dykes gives an insight into the practical advantages of rural graduate placements. Despite completing my nursing degree at UTS and attending placements at Sydney's metropolitan hospitals it was my rural placements in Bellingen and McLean that I loved ...

Nurses are the very important 'glue' that holds together the delivery of services using telehealth. By David Allen With rapid growth in the use of technology and communication systems including the internet, the application of that to healthcare is inevitable. ...