By Erica O’Donoghue MACN Build awareness around the condition and leading research hopeful towards a cure Last year, on 9 April 2019, the National Women’s Health Strategy 2020–2030 was launched with $52.2 million of funding allocated towards keys areas such as ovarian cancer ($20 million), endometriosis ($10 million) and Aboriginal service providers ($9 million) (Liotta).…
Nurses stand to gain a lot from health digitisation, if trained the right way By Jen Bichel-Findlay FACN After having worked in the health care sector for nearly 45 years, I can honestly say that the best time for nurses is now – as health finally becomes digitised. Digital initiatives in health have the potential…
AI has the potential to substantially improve quality of life for the elderly, but not without nurses’ intervention By Dana Dermody MACN The use of technology in aged care is increasing for many reasons. The most significant factor relates to giving older adults a choice on where and how they want to age, but also…
By Dr Ruth de Souza FACN The biggest opportunity that Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents is not the elimination of errors or the streamlining of workload, but paradoxically the return to caring in health (Topol, 2019). In removing the need for health professionals to be brilliant, as machines will be better at diagnosis and other aspects…
By Lexie Brans FACN Welcome back to the second edition of this new column. You will recall from the Winter edition of The Hive, that the intent of this column is to identify issues of concern to the profession (what ‘matters’) and to suggest ethical or philosophical ways of thinking about them. The aim is to…
It is a community health problem and nurses are often the first point of contact men have to talk about it By Helen Storer MACN In April 2019, the Australian Government Department of Health released the National Men’s Health Strategy 2020-2030 (NMHS). There have been some improvements in men’s health over the past 10 years.…
Why workplace health programs work better than clinic visits for men By Stuart Willder MACN As a men’s health and urology nurse practitioner for 25 years, I’ve realised that men’s health is a constantly evolving area of work. I was endorsed as a nurse practitioner in 2009 and developed the role within the rural setting.…
Nurses can play a crucial role in providing care to girls and women who are victims of FGM By Marie Jones MACN My interest in the area was sparked over 20 years ago when I began caring for women affected by Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). I have worked as a nurse/midwife at The Royal Women’s…
Our bodies are trying to communicate with us, but are we listening? By Ariel Yokota MACN Women’s health is a vast subject, and yet something that women themselves pay little attention to. Our bodies, right from the time we’re born, are constantly undergoing major changes. Puberty, pregnancy, childbirth, menopause and so on. These changes don’t…
By Lydia Mainey MACN A few months ago, Queensland added itself to the list of other Australian states (barring NSW) that decriminalised abortion. The historic law reform put into the spotlight a topic usually engulfed by stigma and politics – both for nurses who work in abortion care and the women receiving it. One in…