Nursing students often opt out of aged care after their work placement. No amount of downstream reform will undo that first impression of an under-resourced sector.
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Even skilled nurses can make mistakes when systems are badly designed. Human factors training could help nurses recognise and reduce these risks.
A single dot on a growth chart doesn’t mean much in isolation. Here’s what your nurse is looking for when checking your baby’s growth – and how they’ll support you.
Our study found a way to shorten hospital stays in mental health units by multiple days.
Sometimes you can’t wait wait until 9am or Monday morning to see a doctor or access health care. Here are your options.
New research shows ‘cultural intelligence’ has both beneficial and unintended effects, challenging common assumptions about its role in healthcare.
The status change may result in students avoiding degrees in nursing and social work.
Australia has more nurses per person than many countries. Allowing nurses in general practice to use all their skills could help meet the growing demand for care.
Silver economy: an in-home help service provider in the Netherlands is revolutionising care delivery for the elderly with a streamlined, patient-centred approach that trusts community nurses and caregivers.
You don’t need any special hacks – but taking a few simple precautions can save you from pain or an infection.
The 2025 tax and spending law lowers the federal loan borrowing limits for nursing students, raising the up-front costs of nursing school.
Ageism influences how people’s health concerns are interpreted. Symptoms can be dismissed as normal ageing, and older people don’t receive the treatment they need.
A contested component of the new system is that older Australians will pay for more of their non-clinical care, such as showering, cleaning and meal delivery.
After completing studies in prescribing, registered nurses will be able to prescribe a range of medicines – in collaboration with a doctor or nurse practitioner.
Laura Elvery’s novel, Nightingale, invites us to see the legendary nurse not as a symbol, but as a person shaped by illness, desire, pain and time.
Nurses face alarming rates of violence at work. These attacks too often go unreported, and they are fueling burnout and rampant turnover across the profession.
New Zealand’s proportion of domestically-trained nurses has fallen to just over half, making it a global outlier. We urgently need a proper workforce strategy like Australia has now introduced.
Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Walt Whitman nonetheless realized ‘the simple matter of personal presence, and emanating ordinary cheer and magnetism’ could go a long way.
Long before the pandemic, health care workers were experiencing high levels of stress, burnout and compassion fatigue, all of which contribute to reduced quality of care for patients.
Nurse practitioners can write prescriptions and help people with chronic conditions. As New Zealand struggles with GP shortages, these highly skilled nurses could step into the gap.
Top contributors
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Chair of Health Services Research, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor of Nursing, University of South Florida
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Director of the Translational Research and Social Innovation group, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Nursing and Health Services Management, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney
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Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer in Nursing , University of Waikato
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Professor of Nursing Workforce Policy, University of Southampton
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Lecturer in Nursing, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Nursing Policy, King's College London
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Professor of Nursing, University of Hull
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Professor of Public Health, Bournemouth University
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Associate Professor, Director of the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Practice, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Academic Convenor, MAEVe ( Melbourne Alliance to End Violence against women and their children, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Older Persons' Health Care, School of Nursing & Midwifery, Curtin University
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Practice Education Facilitator, Swansea University