Nursing education under review
2019-01-22T11:17:50+00:00January 18th, 2019|
The federal government has announced a review of nursing education will start this year. The last independent review of nurse education was in 2002. Minister [...]
Nurses help build capacity in the Pacific
2019-01-09T08:18:12+00:00December 18th, 2018|
Prior to undertaking advanced emergency training, nurses working in a small island nation in the Pacific called Kiribati had limited knowledge and were easily overwhelmed. [...]
Surviving your first day of clinical placement
2019-01-09T08:17:58+00:00December 18th, 2018|
A Placement Educator at Flinders University’s College of Nursing & Health Sciences in Adelaide, Registered Nurse Deb Hastings helps student nurses navigate their way through [...]
Australians granted power to permanently delete My Health Record
2018-12-05T09:22:17+00:00November 29th, 2018|
Australians can now opt in or opt out of My Health Record at any time and permanently delete their records following the passing of new [...]
Supporting graduate nurses in aged care
2018-11-21T16:30:47+00:00November 18th, 2018|
When her father developed dementia in his mid-to-late 50s Dawn Ogden wanted to do everything in her power to help. It led her to a [...]
Virtual reality in nursing and midwifery
2018-10-24T13:15:33+00:00October 22nd, 2018|
University of Newcastle researchers are leading the world in ground-breaking virtual reality (VR) technology in the nursing and midwifery curriculum. The world-first technology was presented [...]
Best evidence changes lives
2018-10-17T09:30:43+00:00October 17th, 2018|
The best evidence available should be accessible to all and is key to tackling poor practice that can do more harm than good, according to [...]
New standard of care for VTE
2018-10-17T09:31:42+00:00October 11th, 2018|
The first national standard of care for venous thromboembolism (VTE) has been released ahead of World Thrombosis Day on Saturday 13 October. The Venous Thromboembolism [...]
A nurse’s journey back to study
2018-10-03T15:01:03+00:00September 24th, 2018|
Perioperative nurse Karen Neaton contemplated returning to study for several years but always found the prospect ‘too daunting’. Once her children finished school and moved [...]