‘Insider knowledge’ helps midwives get the maternity care and birth outcomes they want
Midwives’ professional experience, insider knowledge and ability to draw on colleagues and friends for support and care can help them get the maternity care and birth outcomes they want, a new Australian study has found. Exploring midwives’ childbirth preferences and outcomes when giving birth to their first child, after qualifying as a midwife, the national […]
Nurse practitioners continue to grow in force and numbers
Nurse practitioners continue to grow in force and numbers
Making aged care nursing ‘sexy’: Special interest group for gerontological nurses launched
A special interest group aiming to raise the profile of gerontological nursing as a challenging and rewarding speciality that makes a vital contribution to the health and wellbeing of older Australians has been launched. The Gerontological Alliance of Nurses Australia (GANA) brings together a community of specialist nurses and assistants who work across aged care. […]
Nursing and the law: In conversation with Linda Starr
Nurse academic Linda Starr has always been intrigued by crime. She likens her longstanding research into nursing and the law to reading a good thriller where you sit back and wait to see how the story unfolds. Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Flinders University in South Australia, Linda says nursing […]
In safe hands: How Health and Safety Reps are keeping workplaces safe
Registered nurse Nick Howson describes COVID-19 as “the giant monster at the door” for the past two-and-a-half years. His job on an acute adult mental health admissions unit with 34 inpatient beds at western Sydney’s Cumberland hospital has been impacted by a range of issues such as understaffing, role overload and inadequate workplace health and […]
Health and Safety Representatives – keeping workplaces safe
Health and Safety Representatives – keeping workplaces safe
In conversation with an MS Nurse
In 2003, registered nurse Susan Agland found herself in the right place at the right time. Having worked in neurosurgery for the previous decade, Susan stumbled into the field of Neuroimmunology after taking up an opportunity to work on an MS study exploring levels of vitamin D in patients living with the chronic neurological condition, […]
Australian nurses drank more alcohol during COVID-19 to cope with workplace stress
Australian nurses drank more alcohol during COVID-19 to cope with workplace stress
Key takeaways from the Jobs and Skills Summit
When former Prime Minister Bob Hawke held his economic summit in 1983, of the 97 participants, just one was a woman. Nearly four decades on, in an illustration of how far things have come, half of the delegates at last week’s Jobs and Skills Summit at Parliament House in Canberra were female. Led by Prime […]
Australia’s first Aboriginal Nurse Practitioner honoured
Australia’s first Aboriginal Nurse Practitioner honoured