Transition from country nursing to telehealth: A Western Australian perspective
Interested in telehealth nursing? WA Country Health Service (WACHS) Command Centre Coordinator of Nursing and Midwifery Mel Goode shares her journey to telehealth with the ANMJ. Emergency department (ED) nurse of 25 years, Mel Goode was UK-trained and working at the Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth when her husband, a police officer was deployed to […]
Embracing rural placements
Rural placements have the capacity to transform students professionally and personally as well as create unexpected opportunities and lifelong memories. Placement coordinators, placement supervisors along with students with rural placement experience recently shared what’s involved in undertaking a rural placement. Alongside the benefits and the challenges, students learnt how best to prepare including managing their […]
Bridging the evidence to practice research gap
Research interventions need to be trialled in the clinical setting rather than academic institutions to improve the evidence to practice research gap. Currently only 14% of evidence-based research is implemented in the clinical setting and it takes as long as 17 years. The figures were presented by Behavioural and Implementation Scientist Professor Luke Wolfenden, Director […]
Call for Australia to end exploitative marketing of commercial milk formula at home and abroad
Breastfeeding advocates have reiterated calls for an end to exploitative strategies of infant formula marketing and for stronger regulation of the industry in Australia and abroad. The calls come ahead of the joint Australian National University and Deakin University Australasia and Pacific virtual launch of the 2023 Lancet Series on Breastfeeding on Tuesday 14 February. […]
Epilepsy register helps for safer pregnancies
An Australian register set up to help pregnant women with epilepsy has helped reduce the number of stillbirths and birth defects such as spina bifida, research shows. One of only a few of its kind globally, the voluntary nationwide Australian Pregnancy Register (APR) collects information from pregnant women or those who have recently given birth, […]
The dilemma: International recruitment of nurses and midwives amid a global workforce shortage
Historic chronic underinvestment of nursing and midwifery, compounded by a global pandemic, has left a perilous shortage of the world’s largest health workforce. The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the already fragile state of the global nursing workforce, with the estimated global shortage of nurses and midwives at 30.6 million. “Essentially the demand for nurses has […]
Australia’s first Senior Midwifery Advisor will elevate midwifery profile
Australia’s first Senior Midwifery Advisor will elevate midwifery profile
NSW paediatric nurse awarded for inspirational care during pandemic
A NSW paediatric nurse has been recognised for her inspirational care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Western NSW Local Health District’s (LHD) Dominique Spork was named Regional Winner of the NSW 2022 Michelle Beets Award for Inspirational Paediatric Care announced on Monday by the Humpty Dumpty Foundation. Paediatric Clinical Nurse Consultant (CNC) and Nurse Manager, Dominique […]
Time for constitutional change: A First Nations voice to Parliament
One of the Labor Government’s key election promises was to give a voice to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Parliament. Now in power, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed a draft set of words to be added to the constitution to enshrine an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. But for the planned constitutional change […]
‘Live life to the end’: Palliative care pioneer named NSW Senior Australian of the Year
‘Live life to the end’: Palliative care pioneer named NSW Senior Australian of the Year