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Improving the health and wellbeing of older LGBTIQ people 18 October - Helping celebrate and connect older LGBTI people. COTA SA (Council on the Ageing SA)’s Rainbow Hub works to ensure the needs of South Australia’s estimated 70,000+ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) people aged 50+ Read more
Professional Boundaries in Nursing 18 October - Do you know your professional boundaries? All health practitioners are expected to maintain professional boundaries between themselves and patients they provide care to, especially registered and enrolled nurses who are registered healt Read more
Young Aussie of the Year’s global mission to end period poverty 18 October - Lack of access to menstrual products a major driver behind gender inequality. Young Australian of the Year Isobel Marshall vividly recalls the jubilation of Kenyan school girls when she and good friend Eloise Hall ventured into Africa. Read more
From teen in traction to top gun nurse 18 October - Janet Morris has left the building. It took being crunched by a car for a teenage Janet Morris to discover her true calling in life … nursing. Read more
Bringing a little ray of sunshine into the world is Sofia’s choice 15 October 2021 - A young graduate’s dream job leaves her in tears of awe Midwifery graduate Sofia Polisena recalls crying in her car after attending her first birthing delivery. Read more
New initiative aims to take the sting out of our skin cancer stats 15 October 2021 - World-first targeted pop-up screening program aims to empower nurses as ‘melanographers’. The sunburnt country isn’t always the lucky country. Skin cancer is known as Australia’s national cancer, with Aussies having the highest inc Read more
South Australia’s health system in need of acute care 15 October - Calling on our political leaders to commit to a better health care system. The chronic issues facing the South Australian health system have never been so dire and in such urgent need of redress as they are right now. Read more
Working on the drug and alcohol frontline 15 October 2021 - 'Alcohol withdrawal in its most severe form is a medical emergency’. More than five people a day lost their lives to drugs in Australia in 2019, research from the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre shows. Read more
Life can be a tub of blueberry yoghurt...and other mental health truths 26 August - For mental health nurse Brenton Westell, poking his head through the ceiling of the Flinders Medical Centre was just another day on the job. Read more
Paving new pathways for happier, healthier nurses 18 August - How Dr Rebecca Jarden went from culinary catering for Xena: Warrior Princess to a career focused on the wellbeing of nurses. Read more
Nurses can and should be global leaders on big picture issues 9 August - Ask International Council of Nurses CEO Howard Catton if 2020 was a tad exasperating given the gigantic and divisive presence of one Donald J Trump in the whole COVID debate and he "will and won't give you an answer". Read more
The heads-up on living with diabetes 12 July 2021 - Diabetes remains one of the health profession’s most pressing issues, responsible for thousands of deaths in Australia every year. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in working age adults, is a leading cause of kidney failur Read more

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