An interesting situation regarding smoking and patient’s rights has developed in Tasmania this month, opening up a whole new world of questions on nurses obligations, rights and rules at work. The heart of the issue is that A wheelchair bound, tobacco addicted MS sufferer has had his smoking privileges canned, after nursing staff have been [...]

This week’s interesting video comes from Western Polytech Hospital in America, where hundreds of people recently lined up for flu vaccinations in a makeshift clinic. What’s interesting about it is that a news story on the clinic sparked some calls from nurse viewers, who were concerned about the injection techniques displayed & queried whether or [...]

credit: EMS_EMT Who should run our hospitals? Are our standards still comparatively high, or slipping further into embarrassing depths? Back in 2007 (before winning the poll, interestingly enough) PM Kevin Rudd vowed to fix the Australian health system by mid 2009, or else a move would be made to take control of public hospitals. In [...]

Congrats to Meggles from Western Australia, who took home $50 cash in our competition last month – well done! If you have something to say (doesn’t everyone?) and you want to make your voice heard – head over to the nursing stories pages & let loose!

credit: Kenny Hindgren People always ask me about what goes on behind closed doors in hospitals, so today I thought I’d give you a bit of an insiders view into emergency departments. Just to mix things up a bit, today’s article comes with a twist of lime – I’m turning the tables and commenting on [...]