Queensland public sector nurses and midwives are now able to access 10 days paid reproductive leave, with the state setting the bar for the rest of the country to follow. Announced on Labour Day in
The healthcare sector is experiencing unprecedented challenges. There is an increasing demand for healthcare services partially attributed to the global ageing population (1); however, healthcare services worldwide are grappling with nursing and midwifery shortages. Many
Sleep is essential for health and wellbeing. However, many nurses and midwives struggle to achieve good sleep and sometimes consider poor sleep an inevitable part of the professions. Researchers from the University of South Australia
The use of circadian-informed lighting, where artificial lighting is synchronised to the natural biological rhythms or a person’s ‘body-clock’, significantly improves quality of sleep and work performance for night shift workers, a new trial has
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