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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

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

National midwifery update
- July 3, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
“I didn’t know there was a midwife at the ANMF.” At a national conference in 2023, I was excited to run into a midwifery professor I had learned from during my Bachelor of Midwifery. We

Primary Care Nursing and Midwifery Scholarships now open
- June 27, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Primary care
Interested in advancing your career in primary care? Then check out the Primary Care Nursing and Midwifery Scholarship Program, recently launched to support registered nurses and midwives to complete postgraduate study to work across the
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