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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

Nurse Practitioners and gender affirming primary care clinics for transgender and gender diverse people
- July 18, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice
Transgender (sometimes abbreviated as ‘trans’) is a term for people whose gender identity is different to the sex assigned to them at birth. Gender identity refers to a persons’ internal and personal concept of themselves

Clinical Documentation Improvement- a nursing role?
- July 17, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice, Career Role Models
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
If I had been told 20 years ago that my future nursing role would be reading inpatient notes to look for missing diagnoses of comorbidities and complications that clinicians were actively treating, I would have

Q&A: Cancer Nurse
- July 14, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice, Career Role Models
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Career
Meredith Cummins has been a cancer nurse for nearly 40 years, with the speciality allowing her to take up a variety of roles in the public sector across major metropolitan and regional hospitals, and community

Is medicinal cannabis the answer to endometriosis pain?
- July 13, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice, News
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
The potential use of medicinal cannabis for pain management in people with endometriosis is being explored by Victorian and NSW researchers in two separate studies. The upcoming Australian Medicinal Nursing Symposium being held 11 August
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