Mortality and cost of severe acute pancreatitis keeps pressure on hospitals, study finds
Medical experts in Australasia have raised concern about the rising burden of severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) in intensive care units in light of no change in mortality rates in these critically ill patients in almost two decades. In the absence of a specific cure for acute pancreatitis, the Flinders University and Australian and New Zealand […]
Progress towards women’s equality but more to be done
Progress towards women’s equality but more to be done
New Nurse Practitioner Workforce Plan set to ease demands on health and aged care
A Nurse Practitioner Workforce Plan (Plan), which aims to expand the services of highly-trained Nurse Practitioners (NPs), will help address increasing demands for health and aged care and chronic workforce shortages across the country. The Plan, Supported by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, builds on a number of reforms for NPs announced in the […]
Clinical placements need rethink to optimise student learning, study finds
Nursing students rate spending time with patients, performing assessments and observing nurses as they work the most beneficial to their learning while on clinical placement, a new Australian study has found. Commitments that take them away from the patient, such as tutorials and meetings, were less valued. The study, commissioned by the Council of Deans […]