Clinical Practice

New e-training aims to avoid anaphylaxis in hospitals

National Allergy Strategy is launching the first free food allergy e-training for Australian hospital staff to combat unnecessary allergic reactions in…

COVID-19 has shone a light on the ‘pandemic of human rights abuses’ that pregnant women face

Pregnant women have faced significant obstacles over the last eight months. On top of the challenges expectant mothers usually experience…

Check twice, click once: The legal implications of incorrectly sending patient information via email

Nurses are required to maintain patient confidentially due to their legal, moral, ethical, employment and professional duties as they are…

Trauma informed care in a modern hospital setting

This article explores the relationship between physical trauma, psychological trauma and the integration of trauma informed care in a modern…

Pandemic highlights need for planning and protection: opinion

The global COVID-19 pandemic has widespread and insidious consequences that in many instances go beyond personal health and the ramifications…

National approach to sepsis needed: researchers

Academics are calling for a national approach to sepsis detection, after new research discovered that an internationally recommended early detection…

Opioid prescriptions double over the last 24 years

New research has found that opioid prescriptions for non-cancer related pain have doubled over the last 24 years. Academics from the…

Chronic pain can change your brain and personality: researcher

A new Australian study has found that people who live with chronic pain experience changes to their brain which can cause negative…

How would you respond to a patient who wants to die?

It has been six months since the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act was passed into law in Victoria and the idea…

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…

GP nurses could lead the way on anxiety diagnosis

The discussion about the mental health of our older population is slowly coming to prominence yet the scale of the issue…

Doing ‘everything’ near the end of life may be inappropriate for seniors in ICU

No-one wants to be a patient in an intensive care unit (ICU). But if you ever do require intensive care,…

Needle and the damage done: moment of carelessness lands nurse in court

In any action alleging negligence by a nurse, it is for the plaintiff to prove a number of ‘ingredients’. One…

Do nurses really understand pain?

Research has found that pain care for hospitalised patients over 65 years old is assessment driven and lacks sufficient patient…

Improving maternal outcomes in rural and remote communities

The health gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people starts at birth. The target to halve the gap in child mortality…

Nurses should lead the way in palliative care: ACN

In the five-year period between 2011–12 and 2015–16 there was a nearly 30 per cent growth in palliative care hospitalisation.…

Antimicrobial resistance still on the rise: new report

A new report released today shows that overall use of antibiotics in the community fell between 2015 and 2017 –…

Gut Microbiota Development: the Importance of Prebiotics & Probiotics in Early Life

What is the Gut Microbiota? The human body is inhabited by trillions of microbes, mostly bacteria but also viruses and…

Palliative care nurse blazing a trail to awards

The inaugural Health Minister’s award for nursing trailblazers has been awarded to a Canberra nurse for her work in improving…

Predictable and preventable: pressure injuries need to stop

Pressure injuries are expensive for our health system, hugely distressing for patients and, most of all, preventable and predictable. That…

Complex questions: thinking about compassionate care

For Dr Anne O’Callaghan it started 10 or 15 years ago when complications occurred after her cancer surgery. “I couldn't…

Spick and span: new cleaning framework reduces hospital infections

A trial of new cleaning guidelines used in Australian hospitals has significantly reduced major healthcare-associated infections. Trialled over 11 hospitals,…

Should we move to single occupancy hospital rooms?

Quiet and private, or isolated and hard to manage. These are the flipsides in the increasing argument for and against…

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…

Reablement of the best aged care policy no one ever heard of

Sometimes the best ideas are so obvious no one seems to pay attention to them. Reablement is such a clever…