The healthcare industry has been faced with a flood of challenges over the past several years. These challenges run the gamut of cost reduction, regulatory and legislative mandates, security attacks, and process changes resulting from new technology. Several of these ...
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Ambulance figures show rise in calls due to alcohol
In 2016, an average of 14 ambulances per day were called for alcohol intoxication in Western Australia. This figure is up from the year before and represents an 11 per cent increase since 2014. The statewide ambulance call-out figures, released ...
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 »Obese special care lowers stillbirth risk
Obese pregnant women should be offered special care to reduce the risk of stillbirth, experts say. A new study has found obese expectant mothers who went to specialist antenatal clinics were eight times less likely to have a stillbirth. Such clinics ...
More »Laughter not the best medicine for bladder leakage
Australian women are willing to tell others about their bladder leakage but the majority simply laugh off the health issue, a new survey has found. The Continence Foundation of Australia survey of 1000 women aged 30 years or older found ...
More »Nurses back recommendations from elder abuse report
Key nursing bodies have backed recommendations to explore the staffing and skills mix in residential aged care to combat abuse of elderly Australians. The Australian Law Reform Commission on Wednesday 14 June 2017 released its report, Elder Abuse – A ...
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 ...
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