The final report from The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety was released today, and after two years it looks like this could only be the halfway point on the way to transforming the sector. Titled Care, Dignity ...
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The aged care system is broken: we need proper, hard reform – Ged Kearney
The Aged Care Royal Commission has handed its final report to the government. And fellow nurses, haven’t we been waiting for this for a long time. For decades, we’ve been raising our voices, telling anyone who would listen that the ...
More »Should the COVID-19 vaccine be mandatory for healthcare workers?
With phase 1a of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout underway this week, questions still stand about the public's appetite to get vaccinated. Recent data from the Melbourne Institute’s fortnightly Taking the Pulse of the Nation (TTPN) survey found that willingness to ...
More »Aussie CEO makes WHO list of nurse and midwife leaders
Four Australians have made the 2020 List of 100+ Outstanding Nursing and Midwifery leaders around the world. The list was announced to mark last year's International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife and is a joint venture from the World Health Organization ...
More »Nurses set new mums on the right path through the [email protected] program
New research has found that mothers from disadvantaged backgrounds show improved mental and physical wellbeing when given regular visits from maternal and child health nurses during pregnancy, and up until the child is two years old. Maternal mental health is ...
More »Nurse crawls from car wreck, still makes her shift
An American nurse involved in a 1.5 mile long car pile up crawled out of the wreckage of her car and went straight to her shift. Rebecca Benson described the scene that left six dead and 36 people injured as ...
More »Mental health system under strain and facing a nurse shortage
The mental health system is failing to provide treatment to the people who most need it. That was the opinion of last year's report on mental health by the productivity commission which found that, among other things, mental health is ...
More »Nurses have ‘key role’ in COVID vaccine rollout
Nurses are set to play a key role in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout that will see 50 million doses available across hospital hubs and up to 2,000 GP clinics nationwide. Nurses and other frontline healthcare workers will be among the ...
More »World’s nurses face mass trauma: ICN
The world's nursing profession is reporting signs of "mass trauma" which experts believe will impact the profession for generations. In the wake of continually rising COVID-19 figures across most of the world, nurses are facing high levels of infections, increased ...
More »Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine questions arise with aged care deaths in Norway
The Australian government is following up on reports that the Pfizer-Biotech COVID-19 vaccine has caused side effects among several people who have been administered the vaccine in Norway. Norwegian authorities have confirmed at least 29 elderly aged care recipients of ...
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