It’s never easy when someone we’re close to is dying but there are things we can learn from the professionals who deal with this every day.
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It’s not always easy to talk to someone who is dying. Conversations about future plans and wishes may appear insensitive and fuelled with great pain and distress when it’s somebody we love.
For some…
David Cameron meets nurses during an NHS tour but the government doesn’t want to introduce mandatory staffing levels.
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Senior nurses warned this week that the number of patients looked after by nurses has become dangerously high in some hospitals.
Quoting research from the University of Southampton, the Safe Staffing…
Nurses are providing many primary care services traditionally performed by doctors.
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With Australia’s population growing, living longer, and experiencing more disease and disability, there’s no doubt demand for health services will increase. But how are we going to pay for it?
With this…
Depression isn’t an inevitable part of ageing.
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As the baby boomers approach older age, the number of Australians aged over 65 is projected to rise from around 14% to 24% by 2056. Given that not even a massive influx of immigrants would reverse this…
We need to set the foundations now for a healthy future of aged care nursing.
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Life expectancy in Australia is at an all-time high: pre-school-aged girls can expect to live to 84 years, around five years longer than their healthy brothers. By 2041, the 65-plus age group is expected…
Victorian nurses have been clashing with the Victorian government for months.
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The dispute between the Australian Nursing Federation and Victoria’s Baillieu government is expected to be resolved today.
Nurses ceased industrial action two weeks ago. For the Victorian community it…
The frequently cited Netherlands study doesn’t show it’s safe to give birth at home in Australia.
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We’re fortunate to live in a society where robust evidence forms the basis of the information health-care professionals provide to patients – and home birth should be no exception. But the evidence about…
The strike in Victoria has drawn national attention to the working conditions of nurses across the country.
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Ongoing industrial action by Victoria’s nurses has focused public attention on acute health-care services, and provided an opportunity to examine the way those services should best be supported, funded…
An equal relationship between doctors and nurses working in general practice will mean comprehensive primary health care for patients.
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Doctors and nurses appear to work harmoniously together but this apparently serene state of affairs is actually hiding inequality. Instead of giving nurses the room to shine in their workplace, the traditional…
Home help is much more effective than written instructions from a doctor.
The new Victorian Health Plan 2012-22 offers a bleak prognosis: forever rising medical costs, doctors in the wrong places, hospitals overwhelmed.
To make matters worse, it claims that patients can’t be…
