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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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Police shooter Daniel Vansetten 'tried to get help' - Adelaide Now

AMBUSH gunman Daniel Vansetten was turned away by mental health nurses the night before he shot two policemen, The Advertiser can reveal.

Inaction led to more Hep C infections, court told - ABC News

A nurse has told the Melbourne Magistrates Court the Health Department did not respond quickly enough to an outbreak of hepatitis C at a Croydon day surgery.

Hospital bypass - Free Press Leader

NURSE strike action is being blamed for the rise in the ambulance bypass rate and the number of elective surgery postponements at the Angliss Hospital.

Aged care nurses rally for pay rise - Nursing Review

Union says an assistant caring for the elderly is paid less than a Coles retail assistant

Death sentence was x-ray blunder - Daily Mercury

HERVEY Bay's Graeme Johnson knows what it is like to stare death in the face.

Mother believes lessons learnt after teen's death - 7News

The mother of a 16-year-old boy who died just hours after being sent home from the Northam Hospital says coronial findings handed down yesterday prove she's was not being neurotic and was doing the right thing trying to get medical help for her son.

Dandenong Hospital: Mental health patients on outer - Greater Dandenong Weekly

MENTAL health patients are languishing for more than eight hours before being treated in Dandenong Hospital's emergency department, a recent state government report shows.

Mental health shuffle 'cost shifting' says MP Andrew Southcott - Adelaide Now

A FEDERAL Liberal MP has accused the State Government of cost-shifting on mental health beds.

Nurses to help lift baby jab rates - The West

An extra 100 child health nurses will raise WA's poor vaccination rate, which was the lowest in the country last year, and increase the low number of children who have recommended health checks, Health Minister Kim Hames said yesterday.

Country hospital nurses to be trained in triage - ABC News

The WA Country Health Service says regional hospitals across the state will have better access to medical services after the Deputy Coroner found a gravely ill teenage boy was deprived of proper medical care in Northam.