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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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Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation says English test creates workplace risks - Daily Telegraph

PATIENTS are at risk because some foreign nurses have poor English skills, the nurses' union warns.

Conflicting claims over nurse workload at Casino - ABC News

Casino nurses say they've waited long enough for the local health board to address staffing shortages at the hospital. Nurses say they are struggling to keep up with the emergency demands generated by cuts at Bonalbo and Coraki.

Casino nurses restrict activities in protest - The Northern Star

CASINO and District Memorial Hospital nurses from Monday will impose an administration ban and restrict their activities to patient care alone amid claims they are being run ragged by staff shortages.

Series of errors led to healthy patient's death - The Redland Times

A series of individual human errors compounded to cause a healthy Gold Coast man's death, a Brisbane Coroner has found, in a ruling which essentially points to the health care the man received as the reason for his death.

Toowoomba Hospital makes stand against union advertisement - The Chronicle

TOOWOOMBA Hospital has fired back against the Queensland Nurses Union in response to their public campaign about inadequate staffing arrangements.  A full-page advertisement in yesterday's Chronicle outlined the concerns held by the union over plans not to replace nurses or midwives taking leave.

Nurse choking sparks calls for guards - goldcoast.com.au

A VICIOUS assault on a Gold Coast Hospital nurse has sparked calls for security guards to be posted permanently in the emergency department. A female nurse was choked by a 51-year-old woman -- the mother of a patient -- after she became aggressive in a waiting room on Sunday.

Nurses set to strike for 20pc rise - The West

Nurses are demanding a 20 per cent pay rise over three years to make them the highest paid nurses in Australia. Secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation, Mark Olson, yesterday said the union was “unashamedly” pushing its pay demands before the next election, well ahead of the expiration of the current deal in June next year.

The virtual doctor who is always on call - ABC News

Emergency doctor Garth Herrington is 400 kms away but carefully examining Les Clulow, who has arrived at Wyalkatchem Hospital with serious chest pains.

Sick leave makes for tough July at LGH - The Examiner

THE Launceston General Hospital had nearly 50 full-time equivalent nursing staff off sick in July as it was faced with a record number of patients.

Labor Promises to Deliver Health Services - Crikey

Katy Gallagher has promised to deliver 500 additional nurses into the ACT nursing workforce over the next four years, reports student journalist Madeline Power.