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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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Protecting Skin Integrity in Continence Care
- October 15, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice, Sponsored Post
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
One in four people with incontinence do nothing to prevent skin issues, and one in three never seek medical care for dermatitis. Clinicians are therefore the critical touchpoint for prevention, education, and product selection (Dynata-Ontex, 2025) Maintaining skin integrity is
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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