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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

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

A big heart
- August 7, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
This article discusses reflections from staff and family (who consented and contributed to this article); and provides an insight into clinical collaboration to assist a person accessing voluntary assisted dying (VAD) to become an organ

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
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