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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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Tunstall releases tracking app for mobile nurse safety - PulseIT

Tunstall Healthcare has developed a new smartphone app linked to a 24-hour monitoring system that is designed to provide security to lone workers such as community nurses.

Take My Hand: Canberran Kerryn Ernst is inspiring McGrath Foundation nurse - SMH

Nurse Kerryn Ernst is there not only for patients with secondary breast cancer, but she's there for the families as well.

Big changes for home nursing service - SMH

Home healthcare has come a long way since the service's early days, writes Josh Jennings. Nurse Daisie Reid says her most recent client, an elderly lady with early onset dementia, was having her breakfast when Reid arrived at her home.

Nurses call on Broken Hill hospital to respond to bullying accusations - ABC News

Former nurses at Broken Hill hospital in far west NSW are calling on the local health district to release details of an investigation into allegations of systemic bullying.

This is the best career option if you don't want a robot to take your job - Business Insider

A 2013 Oxford study estimates that artificial intelligence (AI) will swallow up about 47% of all employment in the United States in the next 20 years. But there are a few safe bastions left for humans - one of them is nursing.

Systemic 'bullying' at Broken Hill Hospital, nurses claim - SMH

Former and current healthcare workers have levelled serious allegations of bullying and harassment against members of management at a NSW hospital. As many as 50 former staff have left the Broken Hill Base Hospital as a result of a toxic culture of bullying.

Nurse-to-patient ratios to become law - PS News

The ratios of nurses and midwives to patients in Victorian hospitals set out in the nurses' Public Sector Enterprise Agreement are to become law under new moves announced by the Premier

Calls mount for more dementia content in undergraduate nursing degrees - Australian Ageing Agenda

Consumers and student nurses have backed the calls of a leading aged care provider for a greater emphasis on dementia care in undergraduate nursing degrees, but deans say undergraduate courses can’t look at individual diseases at a specialist level.

McGrath Foundation uses 10th anniversary to highlight growing demand for breast cancer services - ABC News

With breast cancer diagnosis rates increasing, as well as better survival rates and an aging population, experts are scrambling to find ways to cope with growing demands around patient care.

Do Something New - AnneMarie White at the Nurses's Museum - 612 ABC

This museum is a living tribute to the Florence Nightingales of yesteryear and today. It is quirky, historic- as museums should be.. [+audio]