Nursing Midwifery News

A program that is already showing unprecedented success in improving the health and employment outcomes of First Nations families has been awarded $2.5 million in funding through the National Health and Medical Research Council.

For the one-in-three women who experience severe back pain during labour and birth, a safe, simple and effective treatment to ease the pain is here, thanks to a recent study, lead by CDU’s Professor Sue Kildea.

The lessons of COVID-19 have been broad, says Nursing Lecturer Dr Margaret Yen, who joined CDU five months ago.

First-year undergraduate and mother of four, Bronwyn Chenery, has won a Rural and Regional Enterprise Scholarship, valued at $18,000.

It was an act of chance that lead to Adjunct Professor Sue Hawes to a career in nursing.

Charles Darwin University and the NT Health Department have joined forces in the appointment of a highly credentialled primary health care academic to a newly minted strategic leadership role in Alice Springs.

This year, as the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps through the globe, health professionals continue to step up and show up, to help fight the crisis and support their communities, despite the health risks to themselves.

As a nurse and an academic, CDU Lecturer in Nursing, Nicole Norman, recognised the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic relatively quickly.

When South Australian nursing student Melissa Boyd first became aware of the Coronavirus pandemic making its way through Australia, her first though was: ‘what can I do to help?’.