This week climate change has been thrust to the forefront of national debate with catastrophic fires engulfing parts of the nation. Australian summers already have devastating health effects on the community each year and the health system comes under increasing ...
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Royal commission interim report: Sector reacts
The royal commission's interim report, titled simply Neglect, paints a grim picture of a sector devoid of caring and emotion and concerned only with the idea of itself as an “industry” that has “consumers” whose value is “defined by the amount of funding ...
More »NSW hospitals performing well: patient survey
A survey of NSW hospital patients has found that approximately 94 per cent describe their care as “very good” or “good”. The Bureau of Health Information (BHI) surveyed 17,000 people across NSW about their public hospital experiences for the year ...
More »What is forensic nursing?
Nursing specialities are increasingly being recognised with individual training programs and diplomas – one such field is forensic nursing. The word forensic brings to mind American procedurals like Law and Order or CSI, but the word forensic simply means ‘related to law’. The roots ...
More »A ‘cruel and harmful system’: The royal commission interim report
The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has released its interim report, and although it did not make any recommendations – it is saving those for the final report due next year – it laid down the gauntlet ...
More »New complex trauma guidelines for health practitioners released
The Blue Knot Foundation, supported by Healthe Care Australia’s Belmont Private Hospital, has released its new Practice Guidelines for Clinical Treatment of Complex Trauma. The guidelines look to support informed trauma-specific responses to the growing trauma crisis and guide health ...
More »Balance of power: the nurses representing you in Canberra
Few nurses have served in the Australian Federal Parliament in recent memory. There was Judith Adams, elected in 2004, who represented WA in the senate until her death from cancer in 2012. And until Ged Kearney came along in 2018, closely followed ...
More »Why healthcare facilities need to streamline workflows
Nurses often find themselves spending inordinate amounts of time on paperwork and data entry instead of doing what they trained to do: help patients. While they would rather spend time with patients doing clinical care, nurses are often held back ...
More »A quick chat with… a nurse and midwife on the postnatal ward
A quick chat with Ann Blackmore about life as a nurse and midwife. Which hospital do you work at and what do you do there? I work at Liverpool Hospital. I work on the postnatal ward as a registered nurse/midwife. What is ...
More »Better off working at Aldi? Royal commission witness talks aged care pay
Nurses working in aged care are paid so poorly that they are forced to stay on higher casual rates and work 52 weeks a year to attain a living wage, the royal commission has heard. Paul Gilbert from the ANMF’s ...
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