National Rural and Remote Nursing Generalist Framework unveiled
National Rural and Remote Nursing Generalist Framework unveiled
Shift workers at risk of higher blood pressure, study finds
Shift workers may be at increased risk of higher blood pressure as a result of irregular sleep patterns and changes to sleep duration. Flinders University research has found the chances of higher blood pressure increases exponentially with every hour of sleep lost or change to regular night time routine. The study, published in American Heart […]
Nursing ethics: Lessons from a global pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a time of moral reckoning, says independent scholar and nurse ethicist Dr Megan-Jane Johnstone AO. “Primarily because it has called into question the taken-for-granted values, norms and role expectations of society and the adequacy of accepted professional ethical frameworks for guiding just (fair) decision-making and behaviours during a pandemic.” In […]