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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

Changing the conversation: Nurses, midwives, and addiction
- June 29, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
The nursing and midwifery professions are currently in a vulnerable position. The workforce is facing critical staff shortages, with a projected national deficit of approximately 85,000 nurses and midwives by 2025 and increasing to 123,000

Sustainability Champion in healthcare
- June 26, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice, Career Role Models
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Sarah Almeroth’s love of the environment has led her on a journey to become a sustainability champion in healthcare. Sarah, who works as the Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) Sustainability Environmental Project Officer, became

A step towards smartwatches supporting chronic disease prevention in healthcare
- June 23, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice, Digital Health
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
University of Queensland researchers have developed a roadmap for the potential integration of smartwatches into Australian healthcare – but concede there are still several challenges to overcome. According to Dr Graeme Mattison, from UQ’s Faculty

Heavy burden of clinical placements needs review
- June 8, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice, Grads & Students
- / Tag: Students
Lengthy, unpaid placements in higher education causing stress and financial instability for students have prompted calls for greater flexibility and sustainability in undergraduate clinical learning. Charles Darwin University (CDU) Head of Social Work, Associate Professor
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