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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

Q&A: A day in the life of an Organ Donation Specialist Nurse
- July 18, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Samantha Stones is a Donation Specialist Nurse at Western Health. She chatted to the ANMJ about her role in the lead up to annual DonateLife Week. What inspired you to become a Donation Specialist Nurse?

The crisis of gendered occupational violence and aggression
- July 17, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
The global crisis of gender-based violence is inseparable from occupational violence and aggression (OVA) experienced by the healthcare workforce. As most of the healthcare workforce are nurses, midwives, and care workers, the majority of whom

Moral distress tool for midwifery practice
- July 12, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Midwives, Students
Moral distress occurs when individuals experience a compromise to their moral beliefs. While validated tools exist to assess moral distress in various health professions, none are specifically tailored for midwifery in the Australian healthcare system.

Placing mum in Residential Aged Care – thoughts of a nurse/daughter
- July 11, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
This article is offered as a personal reflection on my lived experience of placing my nonagenarian mother into residential aged care Of course, my personal lived experience is also inextricably intertwined with me being a
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