Wellbeing

Wellbeing essentials – Encouraging nurses, midwives and carers to self-care while providing for the health and wellness to their patients

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Physical activity could help combat shift worker fatigue, finds research

March 3, 2025

Category: Wellbeing
/ Tag: All Nurses And Midwives

The power of art making

August 5, 2022

Category: Wellbeing
/ Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Mental Health

Visual arts-based activities are powerful accomplishments in the context of mental healthcare. Through these activities, mental health consumers’ can explore and express their own ideas about health, illness, and personal recovery. Also, when the activities

Work-life balance

July 7, 2022

Category: Wellbeing
/ Tag: All Nurses And Midwives

Work-life balance. This has become a cliché in our society. But despite its frequent use, this concept is still genuinely relevant to the lives of nurses, midwives and care workers. Many of us are time-poor.

Nurse practitioner tickled pink with patient recognition

July 4, 2022

Category: Wellbeing
/ Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Paediatrics

Student Bone Marrow Nurse Practitioner Jill Shergold’s thoughtful act toward one of her patients has prompted her to be nominated in the Juiced TV’s latest Super Hero Awards. The awards are designed for patients to

Health intervention helps new grad nurses improve diet and exercise

June 20, 2022

Category: Grads & Students, Research, Wellbeing
/ Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Grads, Students

New graduate nurses who took part in a health promotion intervention program during their transition to practice programs (TTP) improved their health knowledge and some dietary behaviours, research has found. Dr Elizabeth Brogan, a lecturer