One-on-one training is improving aged care staff’s confidence and knowledge of medicines. Darragh O Keeffe reports. Residential aged care homes in South Australia and Victoria are involved in a new project to promote the most effective use of “when required” ...

New technology is making the lives of incontinence sufferers and carers easier. The effective and discreet management of continence is an important issue for many residents of aged care homes. Incontinence impacts on an individual’s health, independence and dignity with ...

Joining the dots between mental health and triage. For the past year, Tim Wand has been running a pilot mental health nurse practitioner outpatient service in the emergency department of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. “It’s a clinical orientated role,” ...

Blood glucose levels need to be more stringently controlled Blood glucose levels should be more stringently controlled and patient education should be accessible and delivered by a multidisciplinary team, according to new type 2 diabetes treatment guidelines. Rural and remote ...

Further study opens new doors for nurses. Nursing education has rapidly progressed in recent years, with masters study available in a diverse range of areas including clinical nursing, and speciality fields such as diabetes and midwifery. The best balance for ...

Postgraduate study is being looked at to combat the skills shortage. If current predictions are to become a reality, the desperate shortage of nurses in Australia is likely to worsen as the population grows and ages. The government has put ...

An award winning UK invention that brought women back out of hiding has now arrived in Australia. At 50 years young, Britain’s Carole Kendall felt, for the first time, free to enjoy life. However, this turned out to be fleeting ...

Improving the quality of life for residents with catheters. By Andrea Lord. Mr Brown is a frail elderly 87 year old man, residing in your facility. He has a catheter in place to drain his bladder, because his enlarged prostate ...

A new safety checklist similar to those used by pilots promises to cut surgery rates and complications in Australia’s operating theatres. Every operation performed at every hospital involves some risk. This is a fact of life. However many complications are ...

Surgery can be traumatic for children – and their parents. Surgery can be traumatic for children – and their parents. But it doesn’t have to be, with research released on how hospitals and the perioperative team can minimise the anxiety ...