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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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Nurse-patient ratios 'archaic' - The Australian

SWEEPING workplace reform in the health system to end "archaic" nurse-to-patient ratios and the "almost abusive" use of overtime in hospitals will be central to driving down crippling costs and creating efficiencies, according to one of the nation's leading health experts.

Cancer nurses on call after time change fail - Daily Advertiser

People don't just suffer from cancer between the hours of 9am and 5pm, but for almost half a year palliative care nurses in Wagga have been restricted to visiting terminally ill patients inside this timeframe.

Nurse fury at mainland raiders - The Mercury

DOZENS of Tasmanians hoping to become graduate nurses are shattered after discovering they have missed out on positions for next year while some interstate counterparts were successful.

New nurses 'devastated' by lack of jobs - 7 News

The Australian Nursing Federation fears graduate nurses will join dole queues or leave because budget cuts have resulted in fewer jobs.

It’s Health Services, Not Mining, That is Australia’s Top Employer - Internation Business Times

Australians are now looking for more jobs, and are getting hired, in health care and social services sector more than any sector in the country.

State of the art facilities for next generation of nurses - Daily Mercury

THE next generation of nurses and midwives is being delivered training at state-of-the-art university facilities in Mackay.  CQ University's School of Nursing and Midwifery marked two successful terms of teaching in new nursing and midwifery laboratories with an official opening yesterday.

Nurse Phillips plays a lone hand on the thin white line - The Australian

SHE'S the only nurse working in a town with no doctor.  For nine years, Dianne Phillips has tended to the sick and injured of Burketown, in Queensland's northwest.

Australia’s nursing and midwifery stats revealed - NCAH

There are almost 34,000 male nurses and midwives in Australia and six nurses who are aged 86 and over, according to new statistics from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.

Nurses to replace discharge doctors - News.com.au

PUBLIC hospital patients will be sent home earlier and discharged by nurses to help free up beds in the health system.

Jo nurses our aged care education - NCAH

Jo Neophyton has found her niche as a teacher in aged care.  After working as a nurse in paediatrics, radiology, a high dependency gastro intestinal unit, neurosurgery, day surgery, occupational health and safety, and plastic surgery and rehabilitation, the 44-year-old is now working as an aged care facilitator.