Some timely research has helped shape New Zealand’s first national process for endorsing specialty standards, reports Fiona Cassie. What is a specialist nurse? People argue that our health service needs more of them, particularly to meet the growing burden of ...

Registered nurses need to be easily identified as the trained professionals they are, writes Peter Kieseker. This may involve a return to a uniform or some other sign of rank. Something seems badly wrong in the registered nursing profession. December’s ...

The rapid increase of fly-in fly-out workers in rural areas is posing a number of complex challenges for medical staff. Flynn Murphy reports. The resources bonanza has sparked one of Australia’s largest ever periods of uninterrupted economic growth, but the ...

The first participants in a national Emerging Nurse Leader Program talk to Linda Belardi about their ambitions, inspirations and the changes they would like to see. They are all smart, articulate and passionate about nursing - meet the future leaders ...

An education project has been designed to bridge the gap between primary and acute healthcare. By Linda Belardi. Rural acute care nurses will be targeted in an education program designed to help drive down avoidable readmissions in NSW hospitals. From ...

Improved nutrition has a major role to play in the prevention and treatment of pressure injuries, write Beryl Dawson, Susan Nelan, Katrina Pace and Lilliana Barone. Pressure injuries can range from small red areas of damage to deep, full tissue ...

Queensland health groups have initiated a joint health campaign to emphasise the link between obesity and chronic disease. A network of Queensland’s leading non-government health organisations has joined forces to help combat the state’s obesity epidemic. Diabetes Queensland, the Heart ...

Consuming a high GI diet may increase the risk of breast cancer by 8 per cent, according to a leading nutrition researcher. Professor Jennie Brand-Miller from the University of Sydney’s medical school has said a scientific review of 10 studies ...

To attract and keep more nurses the healthcare sector will have to concentrate on training, recognition of skills and workplace conditions. By Peter Fairchild and Sarah Mott. Ever wondered why your feet and legs ache at the end of another ...

Domestic violence is directly linked with widespread productivity issues at thousands of Australian workplaces, a national workplace study has found. Nearly a third of employees included in the 2011 study – many of them nurses - identified themselves as victims ...