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When nurses breach public trust: The importance of cultivating confidence and care in a conspirative world
- March 5, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
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Supporting deprescribing with the AMH Aged Care Companion
- June 2, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice, Sponsored Post
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Optimising medicine use in older people is a complex balance between disease management and avoiding medicine-related problems As a person ages (particularly after the age of 70) they are more likely to have multiple chronic conditions, leading to the use

Monovalent vs Bivalent Vaccines for COVID-19
- December 8, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, COVID-19
The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has advised the Australian Government regarding the use of new monovalent Omicron XBB.1.5 vaccines for eligible recipients. The new monovalent vaccines will be available from 11 December 2023,

‘It’s the old people’: Why enrolled nurses (ENs) belong in aged care
- December 8, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice, Justice & Action
- / Tag: Aged Care
Last year (2022), just two weeks out from Christmas, Tasmanian enrolled nurse Julie Wicks and dozens of her colleagues working across Southern Cross Care’s aged care facilities were asked to front up to a Monday

The Importance of Enrolled Nurses in Aged Care: Results of a National Aged Care Survey
- December 7, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice, Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
According to the latest workforce census, there were around 17,000 Enrolled nurses (ENs) working across Australia’s aged care sector in 2020.1 Enrolled nurses are fundamental members of aged care teams and their work contributes valuably

Have your say on the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Clinical Care Standard
- December 4, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care is seeking feedback on the draft Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Clinical Care Standard. The Commission developed the draft clinical care standard in collaboration with
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