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Nurses can’t stay silent on medicinal cannabis: A call for safer, smarter practice
- July 21, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
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Frailty – supporting better outcomes
- August 21, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice, Sponsored Post
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Frailty is a common, yet often under-recognised, condition in older people. It is estimated that at least 11% of community dwelling older Australians, and up to 75% of residents in aged care homes are living with frailty. Frailty is an

Health professionals advised to stop prescribing SABA (blue puffer) to treat asthma
- September 16, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Asthma
Health professionals, including nurses, are being advised to stop prescribing or recommending as-needed short-acting beta2 agonists (SABA) alone to treat asthma in adolescents and adults, under updated guidelines in the National Asthma Council Australia’s (NAC)

New life-saving first aid app brings emergency help to rural families
- September 16, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
A ground-breaking first aid app set to transform emergency response for rural and remote families has been developed by a Victorian nurse and her sister. The All Hands Lifesaver app, launched in July, equips parents

Clinical pathways show early signs of progress in sepsis burden
- September 12, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Action, All Nurses And Midwives, Education
A decline in the proportion of sepsis-related deaths occurring in emergency departments suggests the growing impact of sepsis education and pathways, reveals a new report released ahead of World Sepsis Day tomorrow. The landmark report

Australian and PNG collaboration to help improve maternal outcomes
- September 11, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
A Buddy Program between Australian and Papua New Guinean midwives is seeing the transference of skills and knowledge to help improve maternal and neonatal outcomes in both countries. Papua New Guinea is one of Australia’s
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