From conducting forensic medical exams to appearing in court as an expert witness, forensic nursing is a unique and emerging specialty. Linda Belardi talks to one nurse working in the field. It was in the years spent working in accident ...

Aged care providers hope a boost in government funding will be an opportunity for nurse practitioners to showcase their value. Darragh O Keeffe reports. Nieves Murray is pretty excited about her next staff appointment. Her organisation, IRT, was one of ...

A community-controlled Aboriginal health service is changing the experience of end-stage renal failure for many in outback Australia. By Linda Belardi. Setting off from Uluru to Warburton on its maiden journey, a mobile dialysis truck is rolling into some of ...

Innovative approaches are needed to stop the reliance on midwives to fill general nursing gaps in rural and remote areas, new research finds. By Linda Belardi. Rural midwives forced to work in a dual role fear they will lose their ...

There is much Australia can learn from other post-colonial societies when it comes to ‘closing the gap’ in indigenous health, writes Dominic O’Sullivan. While post-colonial societies like Canada and New Zealand have significantly ‘closed the gap’ in indigenous health, in ...

A trial of prostate cancer nurses may lead to a national roll-out of the support carers, writes Julie Sykes. For men and their families, a diagnosis of prostate cancer can lead to great uncertainty. Men not only face the prospect ...

Delivering inclusive, culturally sensitive cancer support services for ethnic communities is a pressing challenge for health teams, writes Cannas Kwok. Breast cancer is a growing but often unacknowledged health problem among women in Sydney’s Chinese-Australian community. Although the rate of ...

The role of the family and child health nurse in Tasmania is fast eroding, Flynn Murphy reports. A push to have mainstream health services play a greater role in family and children’s health in Tasmania has raised concerns that general ...

Final results of a nation-wide survey on nurses’ attitudes to their workplace have been released. By Linda Belardi. Nurses are significantly more dissatisfied with their workplace than the average Australian worker national comparative data has shown. Despite being more skilled ...

Universities have held back student growth in the new demand-driven system, Annabel McGilvray reports. Despite strong demand and new uncapped enrolments, many of Australia’s nursing and midwifery schools have limited their 2012 student intakes due to continuing clinical placement uncertainty. ...