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Hospitals in Australia to Provide Doctors, Nurses & Security Personnel with Body Armor 01-01-2019

West Australian hospital patients and visitors have increasingly become more aggressive and even violent. For their safety, the doctors and nurses as well as security personnel will soon be issued body armor.

The Australian Health Department has placed an order for 250 custom body armor vests, claiming the protective armor was needed “to enhance the safety of employees most at risk of being injured by the increase in aggression and violence in hospital settings.” 

Robotic Nurse Assistant (RONA) Current And Future Market Size 01-01-2019

Robotic nurse assistant or robotic nursing also known as ‘Carebots’ is the use of autonomous mobile robots which are  designed and programmed to perform tasks related to assist (but not replace) nurses in hospitals, care facilities or even homes for treatment and medical care of people especially elderly and physically disabled ones. Robot nurses are also used for performing several routine tasks such as collecting blood sugar and pressure levels.

The Dangerous Allure of Breech Birth at Home – and a Problematic New Paper 31-12-2018

At first glance, I thought I’d misunderstood it. I just didn’t expect to see a paper with so much spin about high-risk home birth in a mainstream specialist journal. This one claimed that, in essence, all you need is the right practitioner for breech birth to be safe at home. And it was amplified by the authors on the journal’s blog, too. Why do I think this was dangerous and misleading, and what does the case show about the editorial process of the journal that published and promoted it?

Ipswich nurse's tale of the high seas 03-08-2018

AN IPSWICH nurse navigator has returned from a global aid mission around the world. West Moreton Health Nurse Navigator Gail Rogers took the transition in her stride when she swapped the familiar wards of Ipswich Hospital for a 1000-bed hospital on the high seas during a recent seven-week deployment with the Navy.

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Aged care nurses can drive e-health - Australian Ageing Agenda

Aged care’s first certified e-health nurse in Australia is calling on her counterparts to get the skills they need to provide care in the digital age.

New job cuts shock nurses - Western Advocate

THE Western NSW Local Health District (WLHD) cut 57 nursing and midwifery positions in the last financial year, the NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association has claimed.

War nurse a trooper - Bay Post

“She said to me, ‘I must tell you, you are wearing your medals on the wrong side’,” Mrs Bryce, of Batehaven, recalled. “Oh, no, I said. I have earned these.”

Anzac nurses honoured in new show - SMH

Anzac nurse Olive Haynes’ diary has a delicately simple title:We Are Here Too. “It’s taken directly from a letter Olive wrote home,” actress Anna McGahan elaborates. “She was sent an Australian news article which detailed how the men arrived, and the horses arrived, with no mention of the nurses whatsoever, so she wrote back, ‘Well, you might like to mention that we are here too’.”

Tasmanian nurses say industrial action over wage freeze won't affect patients - 7 News

The union representing Tasmania's nurses and midwives says planned industrial action will put pressure on the system without affecting patient care.

Nurses sue hospitals for injuries from moving patients - Herald Sun

A GRADUATE nurse who says she injured her back moving an obese patient is suing the hospital amid a raft of similar complaints.

Study probes overuse of antibiotics in aged care - Australian Ageing Agenda

Pressure from families and nursing staff to prescribe antibiotics is fuelling their inappropriate use in aged care, the authors of a new study claim.

Tas Treasurer urges local government to adopt wage freeze - ABC News

Tasmania's Treasurer wants local government to follow a state public sector wage freeze. Cabinet has a plan to freeze wages for 12 months, as well as limit pay increases by 2 per cent each year after that.

ITAC: hands-free nursing through voice-activated documentation - Pulse IT

Aged care software vendor HealthMetrics had released a voice-activated, hands-free communication system that allows nurses to document care processes at the bedside by speaking into a lightweight headset, with the notes then integrated into HealthMetrics' eCase clinical software.

NZNO launches petition for graduate nurses - NCAH

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation has launched a petition calling for the government to fund a one-year nurse entry to practice program for all new graduate nurses.