Surgeons and perioperative nurses from across Eastern Australia will descend on Brisbane later this month at the first inter-jurisdictional Surgical Quality Improvement Program Collaborative meeting.
It is well known that Queensland has a growing and ageing population. According to statistics, by 2036 people aged 65 years and older will account for 20 per cent of the population.
As we see out Telehealth Awareness Week for 2022, today we showcase the excellent work of Central Queensland’s Specialist Palliative Care in Aged Care (CQ SPACE) and their use of telehealth to further their reach.
Queensland’s very own Siona Hardy has been granted a prestigious 2022 The Leslie J Fleming Churchill Fellowship!
Dizziness and vertigo can be caused by extremely serious conditions or benign issues of the inner ear.
The Queensland Cardiac Quality and Informatics Program (QCQuIP) featured prominently on the national stage recently at the Australian Cardiac Rehabilitation Association (ACRA) Scientific Conference and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) Scientific Meeting.
When your nurse-to-nurse educator ratio is 170:1, your approach to education needs to be pretty novel. Thankfully for the emergency nurses in Wide Bay, Nurse Educator Samantha Hoole has it covered. As part of our continued celebration of Emergency Nurses Week, we heard from Samantha what working in a regional hospital is like.
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day is observed worldwide on 15 October to remember any kind of pregnancy loss or neonatal death. It’s a time for bereaved parents and their friends and family to acknowledge and honour the death of their child.
After the daunting and at times terrifying ordeal of working in emergency nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s little wonder some nurses are taking time out.
As we continue our celebration of Emergency Nurses Week, today we hear from Emma Warburton, currently acting in a Clinical Nurse Consultant role at the Cairns Hospital Emergency Department.
