Kirsty Boden, known as the Angel of London Bridge after the 2017 terror attack at the British landmark, has been recognised for the selfless act that cost the Australian nurse her life. Boden, one of four Australian nurses to receive the ...

As a student nurse, you can’t help but become acutely aware of the unnecessary environmental waste that is involved in providing hospital healthcare. In fact, it has been estimated that the Victorian public health services will be generating as much ...

“Neither party has taken it particularly seriously,” John Pollaers tells the crowd. Speaking prior to the election at the Informa National Dementia Conference, Pollaers laments the state of politics and, more broadly, community engagement in the aged care sector. "It’s ...

The last two days of the Sydney hearing kept up the theme of medical restraints in aged care. Josef Ibrahim spoke at length on psychotropic misuse and we also heard from Christina Bolger, executive director, regulatory policy and performance at ...

Older hospital patients are not getting all their vitamins. Recent Flinders University research has found large numbers in the cohort have been found to have severe vitamin C deficiency. The findings give some credence to previous media reports of increased ...

Two sisters took the stand at the aged care royal commission on Wednesday and told the room that they had held their sobbing mother’s hand as she had her teeth extracted due to neglect by an aged care facility. The ...

Drugged without family consent and strapped to a chair for hours on end, Terrance Reeves spent a hellish 60 days in Garden View aged care facility, the Royal Commission has been told. The commission heard at times harrowing testimony from ...

Over the span of seven days we have been celebrating our nurses and midwives with the International Day of the Midwife (5 May) and International Nurses Day (12 May). The International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) has announced this year's theme ...

Volunteering and specialising are two things Vicki Evans thinks are important for a nurse’s development. Evans is a clinical nurse consultant and the vice-president of the World Federation of Neuroscience Nurses. “Some of my proudest moments have been helping nurses ...

A new report released today shows that overall use of antibiotics in the community fell between 2015 and 2017 – the first decline in 20 years. However, the Third Australian report on antimicrobial use and resistance in human health, revealed ...