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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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Bathurst nurses plea for more staff - ABC Central West NSW

Bathurst nurses say they are struggling to cope with rising patient numbers in the city's emergency department.

Service cuts prompt public meeting - ABC Western Plains

Concerns about a lack of investment and cutbacks to services in Cobar are set to come to a head today.  The Cobar Shire Council says it is being exploited by the state government, which is stripping back health care despite collecting millions of dollars from the community in mining royalties.

Concerns hospital beds are being closed - ABC News

The Nurses Association says it has concerns that beds are being closed at the Manning Base Hospital.

NSW nurses apologise for forced adoptions - Nursing Review

The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association has issued an apology for the part played by the profession in the forced removal of children for adoption during the 1950s to the 1970s.

Nurses pepper politicians - ABC News

ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher has told a health election forum she deeply regrets the reputational damage the Canberra Hospital emergency department has suffered as a result of the data doctoring scandal.

Unpaid overtime makes a sick joke of minister's plan - Sydney Morning Herald

The NSW Health Minister, Jillian Skinner, wants to make cuts to a system that is already so stressed that patients spend up to a week in a ''transit'' unit (''Skinner takes axe to locums, overtime, but nurses exempt'', September 24). Hospitals are already under enormous amounts of pressure to reach performance targets or face funding cuts with no appreciable improvements in patient care at the coal face.

Nurses lodge dispute over hospital staffing - 7 News

Nurses and midwives are worried about patient care at Naracoorte Hospital, in the south-east of South Australia. Nursing and Midwifery Federation official Elizabeth Dabars says Country Health SA is under-staffing the hospital, which is putting patients at risk.

Budding nurses head to Hanoi - Start

KELLIE McWilliam has always been passionate about nursing. Now, the Victoria University student is heading to Vietnam to share those skills with the local community.

Locums lose overtime pay - 6minutes

Overtime payments will be slashed for locum doctors and agency nurses as NSW hospitals attempt to save $89 million this year.

Skinner takes axe to locums, overtime, but nurses exempt - Stock Journal

OVERTIME payments for health workers and contract staff, such as locum doctors and agency nurses, will be slashed to help achieve an $89 million cut in the budget for NSW hospitals this year.