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What is a climate-friendly hospital?

Hospitals are responding to climate change, but many nurses still don't understand the issue. By Teresa Lewis In response to Dr Liz Hanna's article Dealing with climate change (Nursing Review, page 16, February), I wholeheartedly agree with the need to ...

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‘Virtual visit’ project wins ICT award

A 'virtual visit' telehealth project has won the Outstanding ICT Innovation award in the Asia Pacific Eldercare Innovation Awards 2013. The Royal District Nursing Service bagged the award for their broadband-enabled project Healthy, Happy and at Home during the 4th Ageing ...

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Rickets high in refugee children: study

The incidence of rickets in Sudanese patients is estimated to be 350 times greater than the national population, new research has found. Refugee children in Australia, particularly those of African descent, are more likely to suffer from a debilitating bone ...

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Poor mental health linked to pregnancy complications

Pregnant women with serious mental illnesses are more likely to experience antenatal and birth complications, researchers have found. Women with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other serious mental illnesses had higher-risk pregnancies, more complicated deliveries and their babies were more likely ...

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Calls to review kidney transplant policy

Australian dialysis patients are not signing up for kidney transplants and the waiting list has shrunk, despite a rise in kidney disease, new research shows. Kidney waiting list guidelines need to be overhauled to address the low number of Australian ...

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QLD nurses to vote on draft pay deal

New agreement provides a three per cent annual pay rise and improvements to allowances and working conditions. Queensland nurses and midwives are to vote on a new workplace agreement after a draft deal was reached with the new LNP government ...

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Five wise men and a hardworking nurse

Amanda S. Gossman provides tips on keeping documentation up-to-date. Nurses are talented and intelligent professionals, and our clinical skills, education and personal attributes are admired by many. These attributes need to be demonstrated at all times by our documentation principles. ...

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Inspiring change

Associate professor Roianne West, of James Cook University, is the first full-time Aboriginal academic in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition. She spoke to Aileen Macalintal. We understand how gruelling doing a PhD is. How did you brave the ...

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Sandy’s story

Sandy Anderson is a women's health nurse and practice nurse at the Baarlinjan Medical Clinic at Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative. Last year, Sandy was awarded the ASHM/NSW STIPU/GPV Best Practice Nurse Award for Sexual Health for her work in ...

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