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

Nurses and midwives urged to self care amidst Covid-19 pandemic

March 18, 2020

Category: News, Wellbeing
/ Tag: All Nurses And Midwives, Health Management For Nurses, Stress Relief

A senior spokesperson from Nurse & Midwife Support (NM Support) has urged nurses and midwives to allow themselves space for self care amidst the uncertainty created by the global Covid-19 pandemic.

Why I became an NMHPV Champion

February 10, 2020

Category: Wellbeing
/ Tag: All Nurses & Midwives, Mental Health, Resilience

Victorian nurse Melissa Dickinson stumbled across an advertisement for the Nursing and Midwifery Health Program Victoria’s (NMHPV) NMHPV Champion Program in 2016 while working at Geelong Private Hospital. She recalls being immediately inspired to take

Understanding vicarious trauma

January 21, 2020

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

Nursing and midwifery are professions that involve giving part of ourselves at work. By default, we are attracted to the profession because we are natural empaths. In our day-to-day caring, we engage emotionally with our

6 ways to rejuvenate after a rough shift

November 12, 2019

Category: Wellbeing
/ Tag: Health, Resilience, Stress Relief, Wellbeing

It’s been a shocker of a shift. Right now you just want to go home, slip under your doona and shut out the world. But what are some perhaps more helpful ways to deal with