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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 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.
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?
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 / 21 Dec 2005
Volume 1 / Number 3
Welcome to the third 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.
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News items that concern or are of interest to Australian nurses.
THE NSW Health Minister, John Hatzistergos, is backing a push for radical change in hospitals that would include nurses and other health workers taking on some roles performed by doctors. Read more...
PEOPLE living with advanced dementia will be able to stay at home and receive high-level nursing under a scheme to free up places at aged-care facilities. Read more...
Hospitals could save hundreds of thousands of dollars, improve patient care and allocate fairer nursing workloads if they rostered nurses according to patients' needs instead of by ratios, a Monash researcher has found. Read more...
NURSES at the Mercy Hospital for Women yesterday suspended their threat to take rolling strike action after management agreed to negotiate the future of four mothercraft nurses declared redundant last week. Read more...
A Melbourne hospital has applied to the Australian Industrial Relations Commission for an order preventing further industrial action by nurses over the forced redundancy of four mothercraft nurses. Read more...
A YEAR after his untimely death in a cycling accident, Murray Bridge clinical nurse Anthony Teunnissen's legacy has been forged in local health circles. Read more...