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Primary Care Scholarship program boosts future nurse practitioners
- July 3, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Nurse Practitioner, Primary care
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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

Nurse-led clinics are a valuable service that should be promoted, finds study
- December 5, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Advanced Practice, All Nurses And Midwives, Nurse Practitioner
Advanced practice nurses running nurse-led clinics across Australia need greater support from all levels to overcome barriers such as overwhelming workloads, new research has revealed. Published in the latest edition of the Australian Journal of

Let’s talk about HIV (Stigma) – new video and learning resource for healthcare workers
- November 25, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
With timely diagnosis and access to effective treatment, HIV is now a chronic, manageable condition with normal life expectancy. However, HIV stigma is widely recognised as being a major determinant of HIV health because it

Developmental screening tools in adolescent period in relation to mental health and alcohol and other drug (AOD) use
- November 25, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Adolescents between 10 and 19 years of age, are at a pivotal stage of health development marked by curiosity, experimentation, self-discovery; this period of development is often when many young individuals have their initial experiences

New fully-funded Graduate Diploma in Perinatal Mental Health aims to address clinician shortage
- November 21, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Mental Health
Perinatal mental health organisation Gidget Foundation has partnered with Federation University to launch a fully-funded Graduate Diploma in Perinatal Mental Health in a bid to address a nationwide shortage of specialist clinicians working in the
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