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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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Nurses take protest for equality to the square - Daily Examiner

THE passion Grafton shows for its hospital was on display yesterday for the launch of the latest campaign to achieve better nurse/patient ratios. About 100 people gathered in Market Square to show their support for regional hospital nurses battling to achieve parity with their colleagues in the major metropolitan hospitals.

Qld govt to review pro-union policies - Adelaide Now

ACCUSATIONS that Queensland Health managers are being used to recruit union members have been rejected by the nurses union.

Albury nurses win pay increase battle - Border Mail

NSW Nurses and Midwives Association organiser James Figallo is happy with the new agreement secured for local nurses, which will see them paid in line with the rest of the state.

Nurses fume as 32 jobs at health clinic axed - Brisbane Times

Unions say the Newman Government is effectively closing Brisbane's only free sexual health clinic by axing 32 jobs from the Brisbane Sexual Health Clinic at Biala House in Roma Street.

Nursing students are not spoon fed - The Australian

Phillip Coyte’s reported comments about nursing degrees show a lack of understanding about the rigors of the discipline, “Leading research unis ‘lower the bar’ on teaching satisfaction” (HES, March 20). His assumptions about low level learning requirements and spoon feeding are particularly wide of the mark.

Wide Bay hospital jobs set to face the axe - News Mail

A STORM is brewing across hospitals in the Wide Bay region as nurses say at least 15 jobs could be cut under proposed changes. The alarm has been raised by the Queensland Nurses Union, which says the clinical governance structure is set to be altered and set back hospitals by 10 years.

New prescribing roles mooted for New Zealand nurses - NCAH

More registered nurses in New Zealand will be able to prescribe medication such as antibiotics, contraceptives, insulin and inhalers under two new proposals.

'No shortage of nurses' wanting to work in rural Qld - ABC News

Queensland Health says more support is being given to rural and remote health services to employ graduate nurses.

Bad nurse washed up - patient was fed detergent - Courier Mail

AN Indian nurse who fed an elderly patient dishwashing liquid instead of medication could have been confused about what was in the bottle because of his bad English.

Nurse choked irritating patient - 6 minutes

A Darwin nurse with an unblemished career spanning 30 years has been suspended after she allegedly choked an annoying patient during an argument involving a hospital bed remote control.