Digital professionalism includes using artificial intelligence (AI) for safety and quality outcomes
How we perform our jobs and the choice of resources we use to inform our decisions are constantly changing. Graduates will now use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in their future careers, and it needs to be embedded into curricula and linked to student graduate attributes. Consequently, as educators, we need to model safety and quality […]
Positions vacant: The unintended adverse effects of ‘nurse influencers’ on nurse recruitment
School leavers have more career options available to them now than ever before. Female leavers who traditionally account for most of the student nurse cohort are actively being encouraged to consider careers in a wider range of fields. With predictions of a nursing shortfall of 85,000 in Australia by 2025 and 123,000 by 2030, how […]
Closing the gap for Indigenous health: CQU lecturer making it real
Proud Yaeg/Bundjalung woman and registered nurse Recheal Daley is on a mission of advocacy to help close the gap for Indigenous health. “I hope for all First Nations people to know that they will receive equal healthcare, free from judgement and to feel truly safe,” she said. Ms Daley is a teacher for Indigenous Primary […]
Five easy steps to budgeting
All roads to financial health start with a budget – but when your work shifts your income can vary week to week, making it harder to work out the numbers. Here are five things you can do now to take control of your spending and save for the goals that matter to you. Step 1. […]
Write and get published: New book for nurses, midwives and students
Best-selling academic author and retired Professor of Nursing Megan-Jane Johnstone has released a book aimed to help nurses, midwives and students to write and publish about their vital experiences so that others may learn. Whether writing letters to the editor, case studies, articles for professional journals and newsletters, blogs or social media, the opportunities to […]
Midwives go green in bid to reduce waste footprint
Midwives go green in bid to reduce waste footprint
NPs made to wait
After more than a decade of lobbying and advocacy, the May Federal Budget saw the introduction of funding for long-awaited reforms for NPs and for, most importantly, the people for whom they provide care. But the joy felt following the Budget announcement was short-lived, as NPs, yet again, have been made to wait. Health Minister […]
Psychosocial hazards in the spotlight
Work health and safety (WHS) laws are largely harmonised across Australia through a set of uniform laws (the model WHS laws). All states and territories other than Victoria have implemented the model WHS laws. Victoria has similar duties under its Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic). Under these WHS laws, a person conducting a business […]
Speaking up against injustice and unfairness
Speaking up against injustice and unfairness, even when others around me remain silent, is a value I hold close to my heart. My name is Justin Nixon, and I am a registered nurse and a whistleblower who raised concern over the unethical practices I witnessed firsthand while working in the cosmetic surgery industry. My experience […]
‘Look, feel, learn’: Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2023
Kerry Patford, Chief Nurse for the McGrath Foundation, has worked in breast care nursing for more than two decades. For as long as she can remember, breast cancer was “always part of the conversation” due to a strong family history. Then, while on maternity leave with her second child, a close friend was diagnosed with […]