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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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- 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

Donation Specialist Nurse calls on Australians to consider giving someone a lifeline
- July 23, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice, News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
“For most Australians, who are otherwise fit and well, they just don’t ever think that they’ll be in that situation,” says Georgina Callaghan, Donation Specialist Nurse Coordinator at The Alfred, on the challenges of raising

Strengthening Health systems with the utilisation of advanced practice nurses- a global perspective
- July 22, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice, News
- / Tag: Academic/Research, All Nurses And Midwives
Researchers, who conducted the first-ever study on advanced practice certification programs worldwide, held a policy forum at the recent International council of Nurses’ Congress in Montreal, Canada, to discuss the need to develop and strengthen

Let’s talk about weed: Informing practice
- July 20, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Medicinal cannabis, Opiods
Opioid misuse has increased over the last two decades, accompanied by an increasing number of deaths associated with overdose from opioids. In fact, problems related to the therapeutic (prescription misuse) and non-therapeutic (illicit use) of

Nursing care for people with intellectual disability
- July 19, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
With the inception of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) nurses will increasingly need to be competent in the care and support of people with intellectual disability (ID). Nurse academic and disability advocate Virginia Howie
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