Workplace violence and aggression: What can we actually change?
Health and maternity care systems across Australia are facing challenges in ensuring the health, safety, and wellbeing of the nursing and midwifery workforce.
Honeybee silk could pave way for ‘smart’ wound dressings
Biodegradable films made from engineered honeybee silk could form the basis of a new generation of ‘smart’ wound dressings, according to CSIRO and Adelaide University researchers. Recombinant honeybee silk can be bioengineered in a lab, allowing researchers to modify the protein sequence and potentially introduce new features into the materials – such as infection-sensing signals […]
This Mental Health Month, check in with yourself
Asking patients and colleagues how they’re really doing is part of the job, every single day. This Mental Health Month, it’s worth asking yourself the same question. Nurses and midwives aren’t immune to mental health challenges – the pace, the responsibility and the unpredictability of the work can wear on anyone. The same instincts that […]
Living with chronic pain? Why new goals can make a difference
People living with chronic pain can protect their mental wellbeing by focusing on new, meaningful goals, rather than simply trying to let go of old ones, recent research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) found. Chronic pain affects around one in five adults worldwide and can disrupt work, relationships and daily life. The study, led by PhD candidate Paria Eshraghi, involved 190 Australian adults […]