Hospital safety under the spotlight
New evidence showing wide variation in complication rates across Australian hospitals has called for a collective lift in safety performance and informing patients about the best and worst performing hospitals so they can make decisions about where they are treated. The Grattan Institute report – All complications should count: Using our data to make hospitals […]
Experience of a lifetime
“Everyone is different and everyone will have a different experience. You cannot comprehend it until you’re here,” says Queensland emergency nurse Bambi Reichman who has been working in Saudi Arabia for the past ten months. Bambi says she came to Saudi Arabia at a time in her life when she felt the need for a […]
Matters of the heart
It is a scenario that is played out in emergency departments across Australia every day – a woman comes in with symptoms that don’t fit with the archetypal heart attack. She is not complaining of severe chest pain or clutching her chest. Her symptoms of extreme fatigue and shortness of breath have been happening on […]