Australia remains a long way from providing everyone with access to quality end-of-life care, the nation’s peak palliative care group states. “We remain a very long way from achieving our goals,” Palliative Care Australia chief executive Liz Callaghan said. The ...
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Don’t just get used to devices, develop your own
Nurses need to prepare continually for emerging technologies and more nurses should be developing new information systems and devices. This is the key point Dr Ian McGrath, senior lecturer at RMIT University, raised speaking with Nursing Review in the lead ...
More »Lisa Nissen on prescribing errors and training
Queensland University of Technology will be developing implementation tools for prescribing competencies. Project lead professor Lisa Nissen, head of the school of clinical sciences at QUT, spoke with health editor Dallas Bastian about the issue of health professionals lacking prescribing ...
More »Tracey McDonald: gerontological nurses face politics, bias
“Many of the impediments to education and practice in gerontology fields are driven by policy frameworks that are exposed to political influence and competition – and we have to engage with it constructively.” This is one of the key points ...
More »Philip Darbyshire: get serious about entrepreneurialism
“The time to get serious about entrepreneurial thinking, practice and possibilities is now.” These are the words of Flinders University and Monash University professor Philip Darbyshire. “Health funding is in a perpetual crisis. Technology is moving too fast for many ...
More »Sue Lawrence on what’s holding gerontic nursing back
In the latest installment of Aged Care Insite's series on the challenges and issues facing gerontological nurses, Dr Sue Lawrence, a lecturer in nursing at the University of Tasmania, discusses the barriers to the development of gerontic nursing as a recognised speciality. ...
More »Anne Wilson on what to look for when it comes to online learning
Online learning is absolutely essential in a fast-paced world, according to an academic and registered nurse and midwife, but she added it's important to choose the right elearning. "It’s about the type of program that you’re looking at [and] the ...
More »Clare Heal: clean, boxed gloves as safe as sterile ones
Dr Clare Heal, associate professor in general practice and rural medicine at James Cook University, spoke to Nursing Review about her research that revealed clean, boxed gloves are just as effective as sterile ones at reducing the risk of wound ...
More »Chris Del Mar: patients’ unrealistic expectations harmful
Health editor Dallas Bastian spoke with professor Chris Del Mar from the centre for research in evidence-based practice at Bond University about his recent research into the public’s expectations of medical tests and treatments. A study by Del Mar and ...
More »Wendy Moyle: ageing population, curriculum key issues for gerontological nurses
In the first installment of a podcast series, professor Wendy Moyle shared her thoughts on the key challenges and issues facing gerontological nurses. Moyle, who is a registered nurse and the director of the centre for health practice innovation at ...
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