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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

Further evidence on benefits of delayed cord clamping
- November 29, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice, Research
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
New research lends further weight to the benefits of delayed cord clamping, finding waiting for at least two minutes to clamp the umbilical cord of premature babies at birth could decrease a child’s risk of

Western Health Breast Care Nurse Scholarship program helps nurses gain the skills and knowledge needed to be specialist breast care nurses
- November 17, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Breast care nurses are registered nurses who have specialist skills and knowledge about breast care nursing. Western Health, a large public health service in metropolitan Melbourne, provides care for an increasing number of breast cancer

An Australian Cancer Nursing and Navigation Program set to transform services
- November 17, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice, News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
A first-of-its-kind Australian Cancer Nursing and Navigation Program is set to receive $166 million of Government funding. The program will improve equitable access to high-quality, multidisciplinary and integrated cancer services for all people with cancer,

Nurse Practitioner opens transgender and gender diverse clinic to provide ‘inclusive healthcare’
- November 16, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
In February, South Australian nurse practitioner and academic Toni Slotnes-O’Brien discovered that a person close to her was transgender and, sadly, the challenges they faced accessing basic healthcare. “They went away from GP consults feeling
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