Can nurses get a good night’s sleep?
Is healthy sleep achievable for nurses who work rotating shift work? It’s a thought-provoking question posed by Dr Lisa Matricciani, a sleep researcher and lecturer in Nursing at the University of South Australia, and fellow authors in a recent guest editorial in the December 2022 – February 2023 issue of the Australian Journal of Advanced […]
How Midwifery Group Practice is improving outcomes for women and babies
Continuity of midwifery care is associated with better outcomes for mothers and babies, yet, it’s not available to everyone. While support for these models is growing in Australia, more needs to be done, writes Robert Fedele. In 2020, Castlemaine Health, a rural health service in central Victoria, resolved to suspend its maternity service and commission […]
Enrolled Nurse minutes a key pillar of funding for aged care reforms
Enrolled Nurses are a key part of increased funding provided by the Australian Government to ensure all nursing homes have an appropriate mix of RNs, ENs and PCWs/AINs as they meet minimum care minute responsibilities, in line with recommendations made by the landmark Aged Care Royal Commission. But it’s not what some aged care providers […]
Refugee Week 2023: Nurses making a difference
As a Refugee Health Nurse, Maria Loupetis provides a range of healthcare services for newly arrived people from refugee backgrounds, including some who have been here for longer but fallen through the healthcare cracks, as well as people seeking asylum, living across Melbourne’s Eastern suburbs. The nurse-led refugee clinic, run by EACH, provides the cohort […]
‘We need action’: ICN CEO Howard Catton confident 2023 Congress can help advance profession
‘We need action’: ICN CEO Howard Catton confident 2023 Congress can help advance profession
Aged Care Minister outlines ambition to bring sector ‘back from the brink’
“How our nation provides for the final years of a citizen’s life is worthy not only of dedication and dollars but of ambition,” declared Aged Care Minister Anika Wells, in laying out her vision for a better system for older Australians during a National Press Club address in Canberra on Wednesday. Delivering the first ever […]
‘I had to get out’: Enrolled Nurse opens up on leaving aged care sector
After her elderly mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Sue Hewson undertook a care worker course so that she could remain living at home, and to help her father. It included a placement in aged care, a sector she immediately enjoyed and appreciated. So much so, that she quit her job as a bookkeeper to focus […]
‘Nothing about us without us’: Why the First Nations Voice to Parliament is nurses’ business
‘Nothing about us without us’: Why the First Nations Voice to Parliament is nurses’ business
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 […]
‘Red tape’: Collaborative arrangements for Nurse Practitioners scrapped
NSW Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner Jo Perks needed the tick of approval from a doctor to provide care to women, many from disadvantaged backgrounds, at a health centre in south-west Sydney. Since 2010, legislation has required NPs and eligible midwives across Australia to establish collaborative arrangements with doctors in order to practice in a range […]