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Nurses setting out on door-knocks and days-long boat rides to remote islands have helped Tuvalu achieve the remarkable.
From kraken-like robots to EDM-playing surgeons, there’s plenty that happens during your ‘standard’ nursing shift.
Nurses outside of hospitals say they are not being used to their full capacity, with one group blaming Medicare rules for holding them back.
Nearly 5000 New Zealand nurses have registered to work in Australia since August.
Katie Duke became Instagram famous during the pandemic. Her nursing career may never recover.
Mental health nurse Tessa Moriarty explains how the brisk release of sea-swimming helps her manage symptoms of grief post-pandemic burnout.
Nursing cannot cure us, our human condition, this messy magic of being human. But here’s the thing, nursing doesn’t seek to cure. Nurses can remind us who we are, or who we are meant to be. It is nurses who can save us.
Check out this list of TED Talks for nurses for helpful tips and inspiration that will change the way you think about healthcare.
Caring for seriously ill patients needing round-the-clock attention during the pandemic has added layers of commitment.
A year after being widowed, Laura Horn began volunteering in a hospice, sitting with people who were about to die. She soon realised she could do more for them …
When Oona was born, she wasn't breathing, and spent a month in intensive care. Now, she's a nurse at the very same hospital where she was born, caring for babies going through the same thing.
The Andrews’ government announcement that it will fund university degrees for new nursing and midwifery students struck a chord with many nurses – but not in a good way.
Nursing bodies say increasing the role of nurses – not the Medicare rebate – is the solution to Australia’s bulk-billing crisis
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There are fears an exodus of health workers is on the horizon with a new advertising campaign trying to lure more Kiwis across the ditch , amid a backdro
Nurses say violence is treated as ‘part of the job’ or believe patients can’t be held accountable for their assaults if they are intoxicated or distressed.
Susie Cone was one of a group of nurses who cared for Australian soldiers struck down by the deadly Spanish Flu in 1918. Her digitised diary provides a rare glimpse inside one quarantine station.
With doctors twice as likely to die of suicide than the population average, three key changes are urgently needed
Children’s author who spent 48 days in hospital with virus calls NHS ‘a brilliant and wonderful invention’
Nurses represent the front line of health care -- from first breaths to last moments, and everything in between. But there's a vital place nurses are missing in action, says Ben Gran. He makes a compelling case for integrating their invaluable insights and experience into health tech innovation to help make care (and the process of providing it) better for generations to come.
Ever since Florence Nightingale revolutionized healthcare during the Crimean War by pointing out that infection was killing as many soldiers as bullets, nurses have pushed the envelope of medical practice. But why, asks nurse entrepreneur Rebecca Love, are they rarely involved in the design of healthcare products and workflows? In this passionate talk, she shows why the collective wisdom of nurses, the frontline of medical practice, needs to be incorporated into every stage of healthcare design.
Improving the health and welfare of Aboriginal people has always been front and centre for nurse practitioner Lesley Salem.
A fly-in fly-out remote area nurse, Lesley currently works as a generalist and chronic disease NP in Doomadgee, a remote Aboriginal community in far north-west Queensland, as well as nearby Mornington Island.
Her scope of care includes assessing clients, performing diagnostic examinations and tests, and treating and managing them. She also runs a skin clinic at the local school, care at the aged care facility, daily clinics, and care at health promotion days.
In June, she was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for significant service to nursing and to Indigenous health.
Rebecca Chau MACN shares her experience working as a Registered Undergraduate Student of Nursing (RUSON) and how it helps her as a graduate.
Understated performances are deployed to devastating effect in Danish director Tobias Lindholm’s English-language debut
A retired nurse came to the aid of a baby who had stopped breathing on a Spirit Airlines flight last week from Pittsburgh to Orlando.
"I really don't want to leave New Zealand because I really love this country."
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