Rather than pursuing traditional education methods, three nursing homes in rural Victoria have taken part in workshops that focus on valuing the participants’ knowledge, facilitating them to share their reflections with each other, as part of a study into action ...

Most palliative care professionals agree that self-care is very important, however, a considerable proportion rarely engage with relevant strategies, a new study has found. The research, led by Jason Mills, a lecturer at Queensland University of Technology’s School of Nursing, ...

The phenomenon of inattentional blindness helps explain how healthcare workers can overlook what appears to be obvious, sometimes with disastrous results. You may have seen the popular YouTube video that challenges viewers to count the number of times a group ...

Providers need to be creative to fund the expansions necessary to meet an aging population’s increasing demand for services. In light of growing demand for services, NAB Health has released its Aged Care Insights Paper, looking at how providers can ...

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation has set out recommendations for minimum staffing levels and skills mixes in a new report. The union’s South Australian Branch produced the report in conjunction with researchers from Flinders University and the University of South Australia. ...

Can mature men solve the aged care skills crisis? Health and aged care will be one of the biggest drivers of job creation in Australia this century – or so we are told. Economists, ministers and HR experts have all ...

Between 2003 and 2013, nearly five deaths per 1000 employed Australian healthcare professionals were caused by drugs, new research has revealed. The Monash University study aimed to identify the best approaches to healthcare professionals’ drug use and their mental healthcare ...

The public must have confidence in nurses’ ability and willingness to practise proper medication management. Those who violate that trust rarely get off lightly. Nurses are entrusted with significant responsibility in relation to the handling, dispensing and giving of medications. ...