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. ...

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is bringing nursing students together with people who have lived experience of mental illness to build rapport and empathy. In a collaboration with fellow UTS academics and healthcare consumers, health academic Fiona Orr developed ...

Findings that just under a third of nurses, including those working in aged care, reported they were considering leaving the profession have sparked concern over retention of skilled workers. A survey revealed a quarter of nurses and midwives felt they ...