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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

Expansion of mental health safe spaces in communities
- December 12, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
There is a growing momentum for the creation of community-based safe spaces for people experiencing emotional distress or suicidal crises, as an alternative to visiting hospitals and emergency departments. In Australia, some safe spaces have

Monovalent vs Bivalent Vaccines for COVID-19
- December 8, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, COVID-19
The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has advised the Australian Government regarding the use of new monovalent Omicron XBB.1.5 vaccines for eligible recipients. The new monovalent vaccines will be available from 11 December 2023,

‘It’s the old people’: Why enrolled nurses (ENs) belong in aged care
- December 8, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice, Justice & Action
- / Tag: Aged Care
Last year (2022), just two weeks out from Christmas, Tasmanian enrolled nurse Julie Wicks and dozens of her colleagues working across Southern Cross Care’s aged care facilities were asked to front up to a Monday

The Importance of Enrolled Nurses in Aged Care: Results of a National Aged Care Survey
- December 7, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice, Justice & Action
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
According to the latest workforce census, there were around 17,000 Enrolled nurses (ENs) working across Australia’s aged care sector in 2020.1 Enrolled nurses are fundamental members of aged care teams and their work contributes valuably
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