Two hours per week in nature will make you healthier, says a recent scientific study. A survey of over 19,000 participants in the UK with a healthy range of “very bad”, to “very good” has shown that spending 2 hours…
Unfortunately, not everyone will have a chance to experience Palliative Care. But for those lucky enough to engage in the service there’s very rarely any regret, from those who are dying or the loved ones who are sharing the moment.…
Artificial Intelligence(AI) Augmented Reality (AR) and remote technology are on the rise in all industries. It’s not like we are going to be completely taken over by robots like some sort of seventies sci-fi horror, but it’s becoming more present.…
According to the Journal of Nursing, 64.9% of nurses and midwives in Australia experience at least one chronic disease, which included depression, hypertension and asthma. The most commonly reported health issues included bodily pain, severe tiredness, stiff joints and sleep…
You’d imagine living in residential aged care, surrounded by hundreds of other people, staff and visitors in and out all the time, a hub of activity at your fingertips, would ward off any chance of loneliness. But it’s quite the…
We’ve come a long way, politically, in the past few years to support trans-gender diverse and non-binary Australians, but the truth is many still face daily discrimination––socially, economically and unfortunately, in accessing basic human services. Without a doubt, the most…
After a series of horrific accounts of bad care, day five in the third series of hearings in the Royal Commission into Aged Care finally heard some unusually positive stories of Australian Aged Care. And, according to the day five…
Health care workers are not sleeping properly. And it’s not just exhausting, it’s dangerous, according to a recent inquiry into sleep health. On 13 September 2018 a report from the Minister for Health, Aged Care and Sport, The Hon Greg…
In human services, toxic cultures affect much more than a product, or a customer. A toxic culture can have an extreme trickle-down effect, that in a worst-case scenario, leads to death and the best case might mean emotional or physical…
“While nurses are healthcare professionals, and patients are health care consumers, both are people first, and share as part of their common humanity, experiences of vulnerability, suffering, and healing.” Registered Nurse and Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing, Jason…