The interactions shared during meetings with corporate clients might be different from those on the pediatric wards, but RN Rebecca Muir, who is well-versed in both, says some skills transcend. Muir left her job as a senior account executive with ...

Hospital patients are more likely to die within 30 days of admission if they eat less than a quarter of the food they are offered or are already malnourished. This one of the key findings of recent research that looked ...

Low blood pressure and abnormally rapid breathing are two main indicators that a person presenting in an emergency department is at an elevated risk of deteriorating and dying in the short term. That is a central finding of a Deakin University ...

Advances in wireless connectivity are helping to deliver better care for patients and greater efficiency for clinicians and staff within hospitals. More medical devices and applications are being attached to hospital-wide Wi-Fi networks to automate updates of electronic health records ...

A participatory care model out of Tasmania was the focus of recent research that delved into job satisfaction of care workers and functional decline of older people. The study evaluated a program to prevent functional decline of older, community-dwelling people, ...

Australian researchers have developed a blood test that may soon be used to detect Parkinson’s disease, as well as a range of other neurodegenerative disorders. La Trobe professor of microbiology Paul Fisher said so far, the blood test has been ...

Telehealth will face great difficulties if the health sector fails to think outside of the current structures. This is what Paul Frijters, professor of health economics at the University of Queensland, told Nursing Review in the lead up to his ...

Two health groups have launched a cervical screening project aimed at women affected by female genital circumcision or cutting (FGC). It has been estimated that 130 million to 140 million people worldwide have experienced a form of FGC, PapScreen Victoria, the ...

A partnership spanning two continents is seeking to transform healthcare in one of Africa’s most populated cities. Known as the Global Health Alliance Western Australia (GHAWA), the partnership is underpinned by a program that, to date, has delivered professional development education ...

Australia is losing the war against alcohol and weight-related illnesses, public health experts have warned. They said Australia lacks a comprehensive approach to prevention. A report in the Medical Journal of Australia, (MJA) by experts from the University of Melbourne, ...