One of the hardest nursing jobs for non-nurses to get their head around is palliative care. Those outside the healthcare industry often ask “how can you do it?! I could never watch someone die.” But we know that good palliative care is one of the greatest gifts we can give a patient.

The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) released new standards for practice for Enrolled Nurses. These are a framework of core practice standards for assessing EN practice.

In 2013 we made the decision to move the hosting of our online Learning Management System, online programs and nursing education on to ‘the cloud’.

By now you will have seen this video doing the online rounds. In the talent section of the Miss America pageant this month, Miss Colorado eschewed the usual baton twirling and fire eating, and instead performed an original monologue about her experience of being “just a nurse”.

The other day a friend contacted me about her daughter’s application to university to train as a nurse. This caused be to reflect on the many paths this girl could take.

The provision of online mandatory education, or doing online continuing professional development, is an established part of most nursing environments in 2015.

As my years of MBA study are drawing to close, I am interested to note how much I have learnt about management – despite having managed this business for 12 years!

Hey Nurses! The May 31 deadline is looming again! As an Australian registered nurse, a record of your CPD is a legal requirement to maintaining your registration with AHPRA.

Do you subscribe to either the Clinical Communiqué or the Residential Aged Care Communiqué?

We have run this nursing education business for 12 years, providing nurse education, onsite and online, as well as health education consultancy.