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Hospitals in Australia to Provide Doctors, Nurses & Security Personnel with Body Armor 01-01-2019

West Australian hospital patients and visitors have increasingly become more aggressive and even violent. For their safety, the doctors and nurses as well as security personnel will soon be issued body armor.

The Australian Health Department has placed an order for 250 custom body armor vests, claiming the protective armor was needed “to enhance the safety of employees most at risk of being injured by the increase in aggression and violence in hospital settings.” 

Robotic Nurse Assistant (RONA) Current And Future Market Size 01-01-2019

Robotic nurse assistant or robotic nursing also known as ‘Carebots’ is the use of autonomous mobile robots which are  designed and programmed to perform tasks related to assist (but not replace) nurses in hospitals, care facilities or even homes for treatment and medical care of people especially elderly and physically disabled ones. Robot nurses are also used for performing several routine tasks such as collecting blood sugar and pressure levels.

The Dangerous Allure of Breech Birth at Home – and a Problematic New Paper 31-12-2018

At first glance, I thought I’d misunderstood it. I just didn’t expect to see a paper with so much spin about high-risk home birth in a mainstream specialist journal. This one claimed that, in essence, all you need is the right practitioner for breech birth to be safe at home. And it was amplified by the authors on the journal’s blog, too. Why do I think this was dangerous and misleading, and what does the case show about the editorial process of the journal that published and promoted it?

Ipswich nurse's tale of the high seas 03-08-2018

AN IPSWICH nurse navigator has returned from a global aid mission around the world. West Moreton Health Nurse Navigator Gail Rogers took the transition in her stride when she swapped the familiar wards of Ipswich Hospital for a 1000-bed hospital on the high seas during a recent seven-week deployment with the Navy.

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NurseCentral / Handover / 2 Dec 2005


Handover Newsletter 2 Dec 2005

Volume 1 / Number 2

Welcome to the second edition of Handover. Handover is being distributed to make it easy for members to stay up to date with news, events, forums, polls and other things from NurseCentral.

I would also be very happy to hear from you if you would like to see different things included in Handover. Please feel free to post in the Suggestion Forum if you have ideas. I hope you enjoy this edition of Handover.

Recent Happenings

The first edition of Handover was well received and I received a number

Best Forum Topic

Congratulations to nursemorgan on the topic " aboriginal womens business and male midwives" while it hasn't received much of a response yet, it was the most interesting new topic. A Lanyard is on the way.

of positive comments. Over the next few editions I will be trying some new things, so please let me know what you think.

I would like to introduce a section in the newsletter and probably on the website for contributions from members. If you have something you would like to let other nurses see such as poetry, article, action research results, short story, artwork or something else, please send them to me and I will include the best in future editions.

I have started a Forum Topic on the Handover format , so please tell me what email program you use, how the Handover email looks for you and if there are any particular problems. If it's possible, we might be able to tweak further to cover as many email clients as possible.

Recent Forum Topics

HELP - Quality improvement project 1st year grad program

EN? RN?

aboriginal womens business and male midwives

All Enrolled Nurses

 

Have you got your NurseCentral Lanyard yet?

 

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Should Australia be recruiting nurses from 3rd World Countries?

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Yes - good for the nurse – 12%
Undecided – 15%
No - bad for their country – 42%
No - not trained well enough anyway – 31%

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