Aromatherapy for Palliative Care – VIDEO

Australia’s largest nurses union has launched a campaign using mobile billboards in the Prime Minister, Treasurer and Health Minister’s electorates urging the government to mandate staff ratios – and implement other “urgently needed” aged care reforms – in the upcoming May budget. Read More

When an aged care worker exhaled heavily into a reporter’s face during Melbourne lockdown protests, the act was slammed as “sickening” and “disgusting”. Now her employer has said her actions were “unacceptable” and “out of step with ... the expectations of the community”. Read More

Patients admitted to hospital are often surprised when their doctors ask: “If your heart were to stop beating, would you want CPR or not?” But in every code blue doctors need answers to the same two questions. First, whether the clinical team considers CPR would be an effective treatment; and second, whether the patient wants CPR. Read More