Managing your own health while navigating the health system can be hard enough for most of us, but imagine having to do it with the added burden of being homeless. That’s the scenario facing clients of Erin Longbottom, nurse ...
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From the operating theatre to the flight deck: video
Making the transition from nurse to commercial pilot might seem an unusual career trajectory, but that’s the path Geoff Hay took after training as a nurse at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital in the 1980s and working in operating theatres ...
More »Job security, increased opportunities behind one man’s mid-career shift to nursing
Being open to changing tack mid-career is something we’re told we need to get used to, and that’s exactly what Jason Honnery from the mid-north coast of NSW is about to do. Currently a patient transport officer at Macksville hospital, the ...
More »Mother’s plea as NSW teen dies from meningococcal
A devastated mother has pleaded for people to be wary of meningococcal after it claimed the life of her teenage daughter on the NSW Central Coast. Health authorities on Monday confirmed 19-year-old Mischelle Rhodes died from the disease at Gosford ...
More »Stroke inquest: hospital roster error may have contributed to deaths
The South Australian coroner is set to take further evidence from a stroke specialist after it was revealed a roster bungle – which may have contributed to the deaths of two patients – had been repeated. State Coroner Mark Johns ...
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