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We might not be able to see it, but whenever we speak or cough or hiccup, we expel a kind of ‘mouth rain’ – a shower of tiny droplets that is thought to travel at least 1.5 metres. It is ...

Around the world, nurses are in the thick of inconceivable conditions. Their workplaces have become warzones against a mysterious disease that has rampaged nations and ravaged lives. Daily, healthcare workers witness horrific scenes of suffering and death.  So why are ...

“There is no patient emergency more important than the safety of our healthcare workforce.” This is the first principle of a new, 88-page set of guidelines for emergency clinicians on the COVID-19 pandemic frontlines, released by the Australasian College for ...

Last year marked a decade that the Australian Nurse-Family Partnership Program (ANFPP) was launched on the lands of the Arrernte people. A health initiative of the Australian government funded as part of the Closing the Gap Strategy, it aims to empower ...

Increasingly, healthcare employers are using biometric and electronic databases and surveillance cameras to monitor their employees, who need to be vigilant about protecting their rights and personal information. This case dealt with an unfair dismissal claim in a non-healthcare workplace, ...

A day after attending the G20 Summit in Osaka, at which world leaders pledged to strengthen health systems, the director-general of the World Health Organization made a surprise visit to a peak nursing conference to express his support for nurses worldwide. ...

In the last decade, over 2.6 billion people worldwide have been affected by natural phenomena, from the 2013 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, to the 2017 mudslides in Sierra Leone, to the 2009 Black Saturday bush fires in Victoria. ...

A peak NSW nursing body has thrown its support behind a campaign to decriminalise abortion in the state. NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) is one of 70 signatories of the NSW Pro-Choice Alliance, a campaign launched by the Women’s ...

A massive open online course (MOOC) promises to improve understanding of dementia on a global scale. In a paper published last month in Science of Learning, a partner journal of Nature, a research team from the University of Tasmania assessed ...