For a number of reasons, not everyone who needs good end-of-life care is able to receive it, writes Yvonne Luxford Perhaps it is because it is such a young discipline that palliative care engages in a lot of self-analysis. Unlike ...

It is commonly assumed that single hospital rooms ensure a good death. Think again, writes Melissa Bloomer Over recent decades, we have seen a growing tendency for including more single rooms in hospital ward design. Single rooms are often favoured ...

Top YouTube ‘nursing’ videos slammed for demeaning nurses. Irish researchers have called for legislative changes to protect the reputation of the nursing profession following recent studies that show YouTube’s most popular depictions of nurses are “negative” and “demeaning”. The top-10 ...

Traditional health roles will be challenged by the shift to teamwork, says a chief nurse. Linda Belardi reports Graduates will need to be prepared to work in transdisciplinary environments as health professionals start to work together more says South Australia’s ...

The heads of some of Australia’s nursing schools have dismissed as ineffective a proposal to introduce mandatory enrolment targets for rural students. Professor Karen Francis from Charles Sturt University said increasing the rural student intake would have little impact on ...

Australian researchers are leading the development of a 20-minute test to identify the early stages of dementia in Parkinson’s disease patients. The test to be administered by health professionals will be able to accurately diagnose pre-clinical dementia in the about ...

The growth of nurse practitioners in Australia has been patchy and largely driven by individuals instead of legislative reform. Dr Clare Harvey from the school of nursing and midwifery at Flinders University is midway through a five-year longitudinal study on ...

New research has highlighted how ‘care pathways’ can help GPs and aged care staff work together to plan ‘end of life’ care with residents and their families. The La Trobe University study of 14 aged care homes in two states ...

Parental consent for HPV vaccine should not be waived: US poll Most Americans support laws that allow teens to get medical care for sexually transmitted infections without parental consent. But when asked about the vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV), ...

Flinders University school of nursing and Johns Hopkins University in the US have teamed up to deliver an internationally recognised course in forensic healthcare. Johns Hopkins’ Associate Professor Dan Sheridan said the online introductory course was the first to be ...