Security guards won't protect paramedics and community nurses from violent patients. And in hospital, some security guards can unwittingly escalate violence, unless they're specially trained.
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Ever more Americans are using digital cameras to keep an eye on elderly relatives who live in nursing homes. This surveillance may violate patients' privacy and demoralize their caretakers.
The president should use his penchant for shaking up the status quo to tackle the genuine crisis in health care.
Well resourced and empowered nurses could help to quickly spread universal health care.
Taking the HIV self-test gave nurses valuable insights into what their patients go through.
New analysis from the Migration Observatory suggests skilled visa could still be refused in the future despite recent moves to exempt doctors and nurses from the cap.
Scrapping nurses' bursaries was met with almost universal condemnation. But could it be a good thing?
New medical staff start in January and may not be as skilled or adept as their predecessors, meaning more things go wrong.
People working in caring professions are not superhuman.
The myth of compassion fatigue suggests that compassion is a finite resource. The reality is that health-care providers are over-worked and need better institutional support.
Drug companies funded more than 116,000 educational events for doctors over four years. Now you can find out exactly which companies footed the bills and how much they paid.
Doctors and other health professionals are too focused on rehab and not enough on secondary prevention.
We asked two academics to check Jeremy Hunt's figures.
Nurses have taken on a surprising number of tasks that were once the preserve of doctors. And they do them exceptionally well.
Some good news for UK government policy.
Throughout the medical profession, there is a culture of fear surrounding mental illness.
Five thousand Australian nurses served during World War Two. One of them, Dorothy Campbell endured air raids and tended wounded men in freezing tents - but the war opened her eyes to a more adventurous world.
In Australia, estimates suggest undesired harmful effects from medication or other intervention such as surgery occur in around 17% of hospital admissions. But blaming the doctors won't help.
Just because they can't prescribe medications that does not mean nurses have no influence on important decisions for patient care.
Instead of scouring the developing world for healthcare staff, we should be doing more to help doctors and nurses arriving here as refugees to join in.
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Professor of Nursing, University of Hull
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Assistant Professor, Bond University
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Stephen Duckett is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
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Chair of Health Services Research, University of Southampton
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Reader in Nursing Ethics, University of Surrey
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Senior Lecturer, UNSW
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Professor, Psychology of Healthcare, University of Leeds
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Senior Clinical University Teacher & Consultant in Communicable Disease Control, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Family Violence Prevention, Royal Women's Hospital and the Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne
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Professor, Faculty of Health, University of Technology, Sydney and Professor, School of Health Sciences, Queen Margaret University
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Director, Migration Observatory, University of Oxford
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Professor of nursing, University of Southampton
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Principal research fellow, University of Southampton
