New laws are needed to prevent information shared in open disclosure from being used in legal proceedings. Fears over legal consequences will stop health professionals from admitting to mistakes, a new survey has found. Researchers asked a group of 51 ...

New research says Australia is ignoring evidence that improvements in nurse staffing is a cost-effective investment for the health system. Annie May reports. The push for mandated staffing levels in all Australian hospitals has been further backed by new research ...

A question for many international students is whether they plan to return home. But as one masters student discovered, for one group, they may not have a home to return to. Mardi Chapman reports. While climate change remains a largely ...

Qualified nurses will be in even greater demand in the coming years, writes Greta Marsh. Australia needs more nurses. Now. The skills shortage that is being experienced not just in Australia, but across the world, is only going to get ...

There are a number of private and government scholarships on offer. Finances – or lack-there-of – weighs heavily on whether people will choose to further their education. This is why scholarships are so appealing. There are a number of private ...

The practice nurse role is developing rapidly, writes Greta Marsh. With practice nurses set to become the “must have” worker for general practices in the coming years, new opportunities are opening up for those in the profession. In the past ...

Further study may seem costly, but reports show it will pay off. Annie May reports. As the majority of surveys show, most nurses are in the profession for the love of it rather than financial reward. They want to care ...

Structured support systems will assist nurses to pursue further study, writes Annie May. Fostering further study among nurse employees is an important recruitment and retention strategy for hospitals. However, the support to do this isn’t always there, according to new ...

A new evaluation warns to think twice before using silver dressing. Megan Stoyles reports. Despite the commercial hype, costly silver dressings should not be routinely used on wounds until there is better evidence to support their use, say UK researchers ...

Involving patients in their own care has been shown to improve wound management, writes Megan Stoyles. Victoria’s Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) has successfully trialled and implemented a leg ulcer prevention program for home-based clients, which is centred on client ...