There’s a good chance that nurses at the Royal Melbourne Hospital who encountered a threatening patient in the emergency department were dealing with someone who had taken methamphetamine. Researchers from the University of Melbourne and Melbourne Health tested saliva from patients ...
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Super fund invests in affordable housing for health workers
Australia’s major cities are becoming increasingly expensive to live in, with many people priced out of living in city centres entirely. Figures show that in Sydney less than one per cent of rental housing is deemed affordable housing and researchers ...
More »Sleeping on the job: NHS rolls out sleep pods for staff
Sleep pods are being installed in a number of hospitals across the NHS in the UK to help combat fatigue among health workers. The pods were first trialled by the Royal Wolverhampton NHS trust in June 2018 and a number ...
More »Researchers issue cancer overdiagnosis warning
Australian researchers have renewed concerns that people are increasingly being diagnosed with cancers that will do them no harm if left undetected or untreated, following new research into five cancer types. Lead author Professor Paul Glasziou, from Bond University, looked at data ...
More »Fifth case of coronavirus in Australia confirmed, but what is it?
Authorities have identified five cases of the Wuhan coronavirus in Australia – four from NSW and one from Victoria. Globally there have been 2014 confirmed cases: 1985 in China and the rest in the Western Pacific Region, South East Asia, ...
More »Quit smoking for better outcomes after surgery: WHO
Nurses and other health professionals are being urged to encourage patients to give up tobacco before undergoing surgery. The call comes with a new World Health Organization Tobacco Knowledge Summary, led by the University of Newcastle (UNE) and the World ...
More »Aged care wait times rise: level 4 home care wait now nearly three years
The latest data released by the Productivity Commission shows that wait times for those needing to enter residential aged care have increased almost 50 per cent since 2016–2017. The report released this week also shows that those Australians waiting for the ...
More »Nurse turns to creative writing to help young people in chronic pain
A nurse who cares for patients with chronic pain is working on a novel that tackles its impact on young people’s lives. Julianne Mead wants more young people with chronic pain to see themselves in fiction, so she enrolled in ...
More »From the punch-card operator’s room to the boardroom: Fundraising nurse looks back on her career
Associate Professor Leanne (Lulu) Zalapa has forged an extraordinary career. Leaving school before year 10, Lulu found herself working in a punch-card operator’s room, but harboured ambitions of becoming a nurse ever since first setting foot in a hospital to ...
More »RN praised for efforts to save Yellow Wiggle’s life
A concertgoing nurse has been labelled a hero for her work treating Wiggles performer Greg Page after he suffered cardiac arrest at a bushfire fundraiser late last week. Off duty-nurse Grace Jones was in the audience of the Wiggles concert ...
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