As of 2016, the national mental health commission found that the cost of mental ill-health is approximately $4000 dollars to each tax-paying Australian and more than $60 billion to the nation as a whole. Couple this with the statistic that ...
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To boldly go where no nurse has gone before
Academics at New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing are pushing the boundaries with their latest innovation in nurse training. As part of their Star Trek-inspired Holodeck project, Associate Professor Winslow Burleson and his team are using state of the ...
More »The heat is on: heatwave puts pressure on health services
This summer Australia has endured record breaking temperatures and the hottest December on record, with the 27th of December becoming the hottest nationally recorded mean maximum at 40.19C. At the time of writing, the temperature across all of South Australia ...
More »ANMF joins calls for pill testing
As we head into the Australia day long weekend, the AMNF has followed the lead of the AMA and many prominent politicians and clinical experts to call for pill testing at Australian music festivals. Federal secretary Annie Butler said: “Supported ...
More »Avoiding the “lure of the cure”: a new approach to cancer theory
It is time to think of cancer as a chronic disease and use cancer treatment as something that manages the disease, rather than eradicate it all together. These ideas are part of a new theory put forward by Professor Paul ...
More »The bolshie bunch: the history of nursing in Australia
There are nearly 400,000 nurses registered here in Australia and all of them can trace their nursing lineage back to Florence Nightingale. That is one of the fascinating tales from the new book Nurses of Australia: The Illustrated Story by ...
More »Government-funded program offers support for leave when casual staff are in short supply
Leave requests and unexpected absences in health facilities are often difficult to cover when the casual pool of staff are in short supply. This scenario is all too real for rural and remote health services around Australia and the weight ...
More »Have you seen the latest National Immunisation Program (NIP) changes for toddlers?
From 1 July, the NIP Schedule at 12 months of age has changed 1-4 To ensure the NIP Schedule is aligned with changes in disease patterns, an update has been made to the recommendations on the use of pneumococcal and meningococcal ...
More »Safe as houses? Mitigating the risks for children living on a rural property
In the emergency department, the ‘bat phone’ is reserved for urgent referrals of incoming patients. One busy afternoon, the bat phone rang to advise that a four-year-old boy had fallen off a motorbike.* He'd ridden over a river bank and ...
More »A quick chat with… a nurse navigator
What is your name, where are you based? My name is Nikia Goldsmith from Metro North Hospital and Health Service in Brisbane’s north. What hospital do you work at and what do you do there? I work at Caboolture Hospital, ...
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