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“Neither party has taken it particularly seriously,” John Pollaers tells the crowd. Speaking prior to the election at the Informa National Dementia Conference, Pollaers laments the state of politics and, more broadly, community engagement in the aged care sector. "It’s ...

The last two days of the Sydney hearing kept up the theme of medical restraints in aged care. Josef Ibrahim spoke at length on psychotropic misuse and we also heard from Christina Bolger, executive director, regulatory policy and performance at ...

Two sisters took the stand at the aged care royal commission on Wednesday and told the room that they had held their sobbing mother’s hand as she had her teeth extracted due to neglect by an aged care facility. The ...

Drugged without family consent and strapped to a chair for hours on end, Terrance Reeves spent a hellish 60 days in Garden View aged care facility, the Royal Commission has been told. The commission heard at times harrowing testimony from ...

Over the span of seven days we have been celebrating our nurses and midwives with the International Day of the Midwife (5 May) and International Nurses Day (12 May). The International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) has announced this year's theme ...

Volunteering and specialising are two things Vicki Evans thinks are important for a nurse’s development. Evans is a clinical nurse consultant and the vice-president of the World Federation of Neuroscience Nurses. “Some of my proudest moments have been helping nurses ...

A new report released today shows that overall use of antibiotics in the community fell between 2015 and 2017 – the first decline in 20 years. However, the Third Australian report on antimicrobial use and resistance in human health, revealed ...

“We felt that we deal with anxious upset patients on a daily basis. And we felt that our nurse peers didn’t understand the magnitude of the work that we do. We probably felt a bit undervalued,” says Dr Pamela Ellem. ...

Rural nurse practitioners are facing a number of hurdles when it comes to being able to deliver the best care possible. This is the opinion of a new study looking into extended scopes of practice in rural settings, carried out ...

Patricia Davidson is a "proud Aussie nurse". She has been an RN since 1980 and has clinical, teaching and practice expertise in cardiovascular science and the care of vulnerable populations. Starting her career at Wollongong hospital, Davidson is now flying ...