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Health professionals advised to stop prescribing SABA (blue puffer) to treat asthma
- September 16, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Asthma
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Frailty – supporting better outcomes
- August 21, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice, Sponsored Post
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Frailty is a common, yet often under-recognised, condition in older people. It is estimated that at least 11% of community dwelling older Australians, and up to 75% of residents in aged care homes are living with frailty. Frailty is an

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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