When looking for a change of job, more nurses are discovering careers beyond hospital walls. Linda Belardi speaks to one nurse whose degree found her behind bars. The most rewarding aspect of Kerry Irwin’s job as a prison nurse is ...

Through the RCNA Advisory Council, RCNA has undertaken a comprehensive review of the recommendations contained in the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s (NHHRC) final report. A Healthier Future for All Australians (the Report), released in June 2009. RCNA expert ...

Academia and clinical practice unite at a newly launched institute that will allow nurses to take the lead in research. The name may not easily roll of the tongue, but the St Vincent’s and Mater Health Sydney and Australian Catholic ...

The need for more aged care nurses is growing more urgent every year, but providers can act to minimise the recruitment challenge, writes Darragh O Keeffe. Providing positive and meaningful placements to trainee nurses and high school students will help ...

The use of arts as a therapeutic tool in dementia care is growing. Darragh O Keeffe reports on the new movement in Australia. Ten years ago Dr Dalia Gottlieb-Tanaka knew next to nothing about dementia. But an unlikely friendship with ...

By Professor Glenn Gardner FRCNA, Clinical Chair, Queensland University of Technology These are interesting times for nurse practitioners, health service researchers, and legislators. For nurse practitioners there is at last some movement to align state and federal legislation that will ...

A small group of nurses and media staff from RCNA and the Australian Nursing Federation have been meeting by teleconference intermittently over the last three years to discuss issues relating to the planning and management of an influenza pandemic. The ...

Nurses are at the forefront when it comes to wound management in older people, writes Michael Woodward. The Australian population is ageing. Already 13 per cent of Australians are over age 65 and this is rapidly increasing to 25 per ...

Home visits by nurses has the potential to save money and patients. An intervention program that includes home visits by nurses has the potential to not only reduce the risk of emergency readmissions among the elderly, but also save hospitals ...

Computer games in aged care have a more important role than merely recreational, writes Linda Belardi. Use of the Nintendo Wii as a therapeutic tool in aged care facilities can have positive effects on the physical and psychological symptoms of ...