As part of our Specialty Focus series, spotlighting the work of nurses across the country, Nursing Review sits down with Catherine Bellantonio, who has worked at IVF and fertility clinic Genea for the past seven years. In the interview, Bellantonio, ...
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RANs sound off on ways to reduce occupational stress
Nurses are often inadequately prepared for work in remote, isolated settings and stress levels can be high. To combat this, Australian researchers have developed a roadmap for occupational stress intervention that targets the key concerns of remote area nurses (RANs) ...
More »Domestic violence doesn’t end with old age: forum
Intimate partner violence in older cohorts tends to fall between the cracks and its true frequency is unknown, as most research excludes older age groups. These concerns prompted the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District’s Aged Care Psychiatry Service to ...
More »Smash stereotypes to attract school leavers to nursing
Sex object. Battle axe. Doctor’s right-hand maiden. These are some of the historical stereotypes of nurses that researchers say must be challenged in order to encourage more school leavers to consider the profession. Published online in Nurse Education Today, a ...
More »Human trafficking: what can healthcare organisations do?
A health and aged care provider is tackling Australia’s role in human trafficking head on. St Vincent’s Health Australia has joined forces with anti-human trafficking group Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH) to change the way hospitals treat ...
More »Students not always prepared for nursing behind bars: study
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 ...
More »Nurse developed app Scrubit modernises surgical procedures
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 ...
More »Carked it, passed away, died: talking straight about death
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. ...
More »Nursing the planet: theatre staff champion sustainability program
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 ...
More »Nurse tells of healthcare plight during Syria’s civil war
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 ...
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