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The latest research and innovation in nursing, midwifery and healthcare from across the nation and worldwide
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Enhanced role for midwives in postnatal contraceptive care
- November 10, 2025
- Category: Research
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Coffee during pregnancy may be safe, research shows
- October 11, 2024
- Category: Research
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Health and wellbeing, Women’s health
New research has failed to find strong links between drinking coffee during pregnancy and neurodevelopmental difficulties in children. However, researchers are advising expectant mothers to follow current medical guidelines on caffeine consumption. University of Queensland
The importance of supporting older nurses and midwives in the workplace
- October 1, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice, Research
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
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
Nurses and midwives invited to take part in sleep study
- October 1, 2024
- Category: Grads & Students, Research
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
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
Light at the end of the tunnel for night shift workers
- October 1, 2024
- Category: Research
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
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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