Smoking may slightly increase the risk of breast cancer, writes Liz Szabo. In addition to causing lung cancer, heart attacks and strokes, smoking may slightly increase the risk of breast cancer, a new study suggests. Scientists have known for decades ...

A number of nurses received special honours during the Australia Day 2011 celebrations. Member of the Order of Australia (AM) Professor Jill White, Dean of the Sydney Nursing School, The University of Sydney, for service to nursing and midwifery through ...

Support, not punishment, is the key to tackling substance abuse and addiction among nurses, study suggests. As many as 10 to 20 per cent of nurses and nursing students may have substance abuse and addiction problems, but the key to ...

In the past decades greater value has been placed upon intellectual focus and skill acquisition in nursing education. But has it been to the detriment of caring? Although empathy is widely accepted and expected to be a central component of ...

Australian Medical Sheepskin could reduce the risk of sacral pressure ulcers in hospital and nursing home patients, recent research has found. Greta Marsh reports Pressure ulcers are highly prevalent, painful and in many cases preventable. They are also very costly. ...

Native plants may hold the key to healing wounds. Common plants such as marigold could hold the key to dealing with chronic wounds, which affect almost half a million Australians and cost around $2.6 billion to the health system annually. ...

Stephen Ratcliffe on the important link between nutrition and wound care and healing. For many clients and their carers, the link between nutrition and wound care is not easily understood. But in the context of food as the building block ...

Nurses are being encouraged to embrace nutrition screening and to undertake research studies in this field, writes Annie May. It is well recognised that malnourished patients recover more slowly from illness and experience more complications. Yet, despite this, routine screening ...

ANF says draft inquiry report doesn’t go far enough on workforce issues The Australian Nursing Federation has called on the federal government to urgently review the Productivity Commission's draft report in to the aged care sector. ANF federal secretary, Lee ...

Government says nurses given fair offer, nurses disagree. NSW nurses fear their voices are still not being heard, even as they continue negotiations with the state government over nurse-patient ratios. The NSW Nurses' Association (NSWNA) began holding rallies on Monday ...