Australia is using surgical solutions for social problems in its efforts to tackle escalating rates of rheumatic heart disease, (RHD)according to paediatric cardiologist Dr Bo [...]
People with mental illness experience a range of health disparities and face a gap in life expectancy of about 20 years in a plight classed [...]
The Queensland Government has pledged to legislate nurse-to-resident ratios across its 16 state-owned public aged care homes to ensure elderly residents receive the full care [...]
It would be impossible for aged care homes who spend just $7 a day on food for each resident to be able to provide a [...]
Stress is largely to blame for an emerging rise in hazardous drinking among Australian women in their 40s and 50s as the gender gap when [...]
NSW nursing and midwifery delegates have been urged to take belief from the success of Victoria and Queensland in legislating public hospital nurse-to-patient ratios as [...]
Registered nurse Hugo Chatwin-Smith was drawn to the diversity of Custodial Nursing and opportunity to deliver healthcare to Victorians experiencing the lowest point in their [...]
Hundreds of NSW nursing and midwifery delegates stood up in unison to send a message about the growing prevalence of workplace violence and urgent need [...]
It is hard to imagine nowadays but when Pamela Butler trained as a nurse in the 1950s part of her education involved scaling, cleaning and [...]
