Author: Robert Fedele

Q&A: Wound Clinical Nurse Consultant Hayley Ryan on tackling a ‘hidden epidemic’

This year’s Wound Awareness Week (4-10 September) is ‘Let’s get wound care RIGHT! The RIGHT diagnosis and the RIGHT treatment at the RIGHT time’. It points to the fact that so many wounds can be healed with appropriate care, especially from experienced wound care nurses, and the value of wound-specific education from many other health […]

Study: What would help retention of early career nurses in regional and rural areas?

What would help improve the job satisfaction and retention of early career nurses working across regional and rural Australia? It’s a question often contemplated by Heidi Rose, a clinical nurse based at Mount Gambier, and University of South Australia academics Dr Gemma Skaczkowski and Associate Professor Kate Gunn. So, they asked them. The study aimed […]

‘Our time’: Prime Minister announces Voice to Parliament referendum date

Australians will cast their vote at a landmark referendum to decide whether to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament in the Constitution on Saturday, 14 October, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese officially confirmed this morning at a community rally in Adelaide. Launching the six-week campaign, the PM labelled the referendum a “once-in-a-generation […]

Scope of practice review set to ‘unleash’ nurses’ full potential

For too long, nurses and other health professionals haven’t been able to work to their full scope of practice. Now, the federal government wants to unlock their potential, with a new workforce review, launched last week, set to examine how to enable health practitioners to work to the full-extent of their skills and training, thus […]

NSW nurses protest against coal seam gas mine plans at Pilliga Forest

For several years, Gomeroi people in Coonabarabran and Narrabri have been fighting energy giant Santos’ proposed Narrabri Gas Project, which would see 850 coal seam gas (CSG) wells drilled in the iconic Pilliga Forest to extract gas. Known as fracking, the process involves drilling into the earth and directing a high-pressure mix of water, sand […]

What Scope and Standards of Practice should Cannabis Nurses follow?

The Australian Cannabis Nurses Association (ACNA) have unveiled new Cannabis Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice to support the growing role medicinal cannabis nurses are playing in providing safe and effective treatment products for patients. Launched at the 2023 United in Compassion Australian Medicinal Cannabis Symposium’s Nurses’ Conference, held last Friday in Brisbane, the document […]

Endocannabinoid system study must be embedded into undergraduate nursing curriculum

Education about the body’s endocannabinoid system (ECS), which regulates and controls many critical functions such as learning and memory, mood, and pain, must be embedded into undergraduate nursing curriculum across Australia, leading advocates have argued. Speaking at the 2023 United In Compassion Australian Medicinal Cannabis Symposium’s Nurses’ Conference in Brisbane last Friday, Victorian Nurse Practitioner […]