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 ...

Australia is set to launch its first professional association for forensic nurses. Foundation president Associate Professor Linda Starr said the new association would strengthen the policy voice and representation of this developing specialty at a national level. Starr told Nursing ...

A Victorian coroner’s recommendation that health authorities should warn all parents against the dangers of co-sleeping with their baby risks some mothers rejecting all health messages, says a leading midwifery researcher. Following an inquiry into the SIDS related deaths of ...

South Australian public sector nurses could be offered a financial incentive to retire early under a plan currently under consideration by SA Health. The proposal canvassed in the state’s graduate nursing employment strategy report released last month would replicate a ...

A new survey has confirmed respite is an essential service for many carers, but there is much room for improvement, reports Darragh O Keeffe Almost two out of three carers of people living with dementia have no informal support and ...

Nursing student off to a flying start Deakin University nursing student Ella Bouman has been announced as the winner of the inaugural ‘Give them wings’ scholarship from the Royal Flying Doctor Service Victoria and Rural Health Workforce. Bouman, who hails ...

Helping to improve the health of nurses to cut absenteeism and providing people with more self-care options are among strategies proposed to relieve pressures in the ACT health workforce, a government report has found. The ACT Government Health Directorate discussion ...