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Endometriosis and Diet: Top 3 Dietary Strategies to help Manage Endometriosis
What is endometriosis? Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the reproductive organs which affects over 10% of Australian women at some point in their life. The condition results in tissue, which is similar to the lining of the uterus, growing in other...
I went to an aged care facility – this is what I saw
I had been asked to see a single, elderly man who, following a fall at his home of over 30 years, had been, as they say, ‘placed’ in the facility, some one week before, by his energetic and attentive enduring attorneys. At first sight, he looked remarkably well. He...
Low doses of radiation promote cancer-capable cells!
Nurses are acutely aware of the value and the frequency in which CT scans are used to support diagnosis and the management of patients. 'Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge studied the effects of low doses of radiation in the...
Purple Urine Bag Syndrome
Have you ever seen purple urine in a catheterised Patient? I haven't and I believe it to be a rare occurrence, however, I was reading a few articles the other day and came across a picture of purple urine. At first, I thought it was a prank - a few Condy's Crystals in...
Influenza, 10 years on from the “Swine Flu” pandemic
The following is a very informative article published in the June 2019 edition of the Clinical Communique by Professor Allen Cheng MB BS, FRACP, MPH, MBiostat, PhD Director, Infection Prevention and Healthcare Epidemiology Unit, Alfred Health Professor of Infectious...
A Swine of a Diagnosis!
The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine has recently published an article including coroner findings regarding the deaths of two patients in 2009.The cases were heard as concurrent inquests into the deaths of two patients. The two patients were not known to...
Duct Tape and Wart Removal Part three
Which Type of Duct Tape Is Best for Wart Removal? If you have been following the previous two parts then this last and final part on the use of duct tape and wart removal will be of great interest to you. As Dr Gregor commences his presentation I was concerned. The...
Kissing a Patient!
Some time ago a colleague shared an article from nurse.com an American newsletter that reported “Does staff member’s kiss of resident violate CMS regulations?” This is the USA monitoring authority for aged care facilities. At first glance my immediate response to the...
Nurses in Crisis
Often after providing a lecture or webinar about bullying in nursing, employment contracts of Fair Work legislation, contact is made by a member who is experiencing the catastrophe of work injury, termination or ongoing unemployment attributed to previous injury or...
Criminal Health Carers
Sometimes it seems that there is a cascade of items, similar and worrying that catches attention in a short time. That was this week’s experience for me. The first news item that gave me pause was a story in Queensland about a 77 year old woman admitted to hospital...
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