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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 enabled to prescribe medical abortion pill
- July 12, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Nurse Practitioners, Women’s health
Women across Australia are set to have easier access to medical abortions under landmark changes that will remove restrictions on health professionals, including nurse practitioners, doctors, and pharmacists, prescribing, and dispensing, termination pills. The Therapeutic

‘I’m not here to get you high’: Meet Cannabis Nurse Deb Ranson
- July 12, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice, Career Role Models
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Looking on from afar, registered nurse Deb Ranson was always intrigued about medicinal cannabis and its potential to ease pain and symptoms triggered by a range of conditions and diseases. She recalls listening to countless

Reducing midwives risk of work-related injury
- July 10, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Maternal and Midwifery
Search for an image of a “midwife,” and you will see the internationally identified photo of our profession – a smiling midwife with their head turned, bent over a pregnant belly listening to a foetal

How Midwifery Group Practice is improving outcomes for women and babies
- July 1, 2023
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Maternal and Midwifery
Continuity of midwifery care is associated with better outcomes for mothers and babies, yet, it’s not available to everyone. While support for these models is growing in Australia, more needs to be done, writes Robert
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