Social media makes guarding privacy critical for patients and you.  Patient privacy is essential in healthcare. However, we are seeing increasing breaches on social media. From status updates containing patient information to photos of patients, x-rays or wounds, private data ...

Finding success throughout each working day means knowing what you want and having a plan to get it.  How do we decide what to wear each day? According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, psychologist and author of the seminal 1990 book Flow: The ...

A keen eye, good record-keeping and some preventative steps can help control malnutrition.  Nurses are often the first point of contact when it comes to managing patients who are malnourished, so it is important to stay well informed. The silent epidemic ...

Inaccurate, insensitive depictions of organ donation can have a real impact on a family’s decision.  Over the last few weeks, a number of incidents in the public sphere have highlighted the problem of callous, inaccurate and insensitive representation of organ donation. ...

Even in a seemingly obvious case of negligence, the accuser must provide appropriate evidence in order to win.  Not every act of harm is negligent, just as not every negligent act is harmful. An assessment relies on the context, the ...

Sue Denham, an emergency nurse practitioner, shares her experience implementing the practitioner role into the ED of a regional public hospital, despite many initial objections. It’s hard to believe I’m writing this and even harder to believe that only a ...

A recent abortion case in Scotland raises questions on just how involved midwives are in procedures to which they may object.  Recently a Scottish appellate court upheld the right of two midwives to “conscientiously object” to undertaking employment duties in a ...

The lower life expectancy of those with a mental illness is an issue nurses continue to address.  Australians with a mental illness are more likely to struggle with poor physical health and have a shorter life expectancy than the general ...

An intriguing conflict of interest case went before a recent tribunal, and managed to raise more questions than answers.  A recent Nursing and Midwifery Professional Standards Committee Determination delivered in NSW raises some interesting issues concerning conflicts of interest involving ...

Social media has a big role to play in the nursing industry, but first nurses must be educated on how to best use it and avoid the pitfalls that come with it.  How can you perform multifaceted communication with the ...