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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

Decades of advocacy for NPs
- September 17, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
In the late 80s, early in my grad year, I recall telling my mum I was puzzled that the most experienced nurses were the furthest from the bedside. Pathways to promotion led away from clinical

New online resource aims to increase antimicrobial resistance knowledge
- September 16, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has launched a new resource that provides evidence-based information to inform policy and action to reduce the impact of antimicrobial resistance on human, animal and environmental health. Now live, AMR

World Sepsis Day: Ask ‘Could it be sepsis?’
- September 13, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Infection Control
On a seemingly ordinary day in 2023, Laura Remy’s life took a dramatic turn. What started off as a mild cough and fever, quickly escalated into life-threatening sepsis. “I initially continued to work and dismissed

Breaking Barriers: Advancing women nurses in healthcare leadership
- August 22, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
In Australia, women make up the majority of the nursing profession, yet they are under-represented in healthcare leadership. ROBERT FEDELE talks with researcher Mihirika Pincha Baduge about efforts to break down barriers. The glaring under-representation
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