In casting a wider net to find clinical placements for nursing students, tertiary institutions have turned to prison health services to guide students on the job, but are undergraduates prepared for the experience? That's one of the questions researchers unpacked ...

Beth Wozniak is a nurse in the Maitland region of mid-northern New South Wales. She is the founder of Scrubit, a new app that modernises hospital procedures. “Since completing my nursing degree in Queensland, I’ve worked in many operating theatres ...

Telling someone that their loved one is gone or has passed might seem like a gentle way to break news of a death but sometimes using such euphemisms can lead to misunderstanding and confusion, a palliative care expert has cautioned. ...

Nurses at Epworth Richmond are leading a hospital-wide effort to divert an estimated 12 tonnes of hospital waste from landfill each year. Theatre nurse Rebecca Pascoe has been heading a team of staff that drives the recycling of aluminium and ...

Registered nurse Vanessa Cramond knows well the toll of war on the health of a country’s people. After starting her career working with people living with HIV, Cramond took on increasingly senior roles within Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and eventually led ...

Brain stimulation during exercise might look like something straight out of science fiction but the combination could one day be used to help older Australians and people who have had a stroke, new research suggests. Researchers from the University of ...

A nurse from the Northern Territory has taken out one of the top gongs at the HESTA Australian Nursing & Midwifery Awards for her work in delivering on-country dialysis services to Aboriginal people experiencing kidney disease. Sarah Brown, chief executive ...

Following its release last night, health and aged care peak bodies and industry experts have sorted through the Turnbull Government’s 2017-18 Federal Budget with a fine-tooth comb. Here, Nursing Review shares what they believe are the biggest wins for the ...

Registered nurse Maggie Groff has worn many hats throughout her career, including staff nurse, island nurse and industrial nurse. She now wears another: award-winning author. Groff has penned a new book called Not Your Average Nurse, which explores the true story ...

Facial recognition technology might be something you would expect to see while watching a blockbuster movie or crime show, but for staff at Epworth Freemasons in Melbourne, it was part of the patient-identification process. Epworth HealthCare trialed the use of ...