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What is a ‘model of care’? Enhancing understandings of contemporary nursing practice
- February 25, 2025
- Category: Research
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives

Nurses’ cognitive mental workload: Staff welfare, patient safety and quality care at peril
- June 30, 2025
- Category: Research
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Globally, there are risks of unintentional harm to patients due to inadvertent clinical errors, nurses’ burnout contributing to high turnover, and rises in healthcare costs, all threatening already overstretched systems. One crucial but largely overlooked

Undergraduate nurse training essential for Australian women’s sexual and reproductive health
- June 24, 2025
- Category: Research
- / Tag: Women’s health
Minimal early training opportunities for nurses and midwives in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) are limiting care options for Australian women, according to new studies. A SPHERE (Centre of Research Excellence in Sexual and Reproductive

Greater inclusion for gender and sexually diverse people in Australian blood donation rules
- June 23, 2025
- Category: Research
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Australia’s blood supply and demand exists in a fragile balance, with critical shortages especially of certain blood types, being common. Australia’s blood supply is reliant on the kindness of strangers to give up their time

Nurses and midwives foster parental trust for improving childhood vaccination
- May 30, 2025
- Category: Research
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Research
New data from the Australian National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance on vaccination coverage reveals a continuing decline in vaccination rates among Australian children and adolescents since the onset COVID-19 pandemic.1 The drop spans
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