Meet the Remote Area Nurse of the Year

“It highlights to the rest of Australia that remote area nursing is very much a speciality,” says Terrie Ivanhoe, of taking out the Aurora Award, the highest accolade for the remote and isolated health profession, at last week’s 2021 CRANAplus Awards. “We are not nurses that go out there [to rural and remote Australia] unprepared […]

Study: Reflection as a learning strategy for the training of nurses in clinical settings

Interventions, tools, approaches and the measurement of nurses’ reflection in clinical settings are highly varied, a new paper has found. Reflection is a formal process that can help nurses and nursing students develop crucial skills and competencies when undertaking training in clinical practice settings. The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia’s (NMBA) Registered nurse standards […]

Fatigue and burnout on the rise among SA nurses and midwives

South Australia’s nurses and midwives are experiencing record levels of fatigue and burnout due to widespread workforce shortages and the mounting challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey from the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (SA Branch) has revealed. More than 3,000 members took part in the six-week survey, conducted during May and […]

Nursing Now – Where to next?

Nursing Now, the landmark three-year campaign that aimed to raise the profile and status of nursing worldwide, may have concluded, yet, its legacy remains very much alive. One of the campaign’s most important actions, the Nightingale Challenge, called on health employers worldwide to provide leadership and development training to young nurses. The goal was to […]

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