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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.

While the saying goes that only sticks and stones may break your bones, the truth is that words and language can have a truly detrimental impact on people’s wellbeing. In regard to mental health, the stigma that those words can have on someone can have a far-reaching impact.

To kick-start Emergency Nurses Week, today we’re hearing from Clinical Nurse Consultant Brett Sellars from Robina Hospital on the Gold Coast.

Recent health policies have recommended keeping older people out of hospital wherever possible – but given our ageing population, is this actually feasible? That’s the question we’re asking ahead of Ageism Awareness Day today – 7 October.

If you’ve never been to theatre – as a patient or clinician - you mightn’t know much about what goes on behind those closed doors. The reality is, there’s a lot going on, and for Perioperative Nurses Week – which this year takes place from 2-8 October – we’re turning the surgical lights to shine on perioperative nurses!