Nurses can play a crucial role in providing care to girls and women who are victims of FGM By Marie Jones MACN My interest in the area was sparked over 20 years ago when I began caring for women affected by Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). I have worked as a nurse/midwife at The Royal Women’s…
Our bodies are trying to communicate with us, but are we listening? By Ariel Yokota MACN Women’s health is a vast subject, and yet something that women themselves pay little attention to. Our bodies, right from the time we’re born, are constantly undergoing major changes. Puberty, pregnancy, childbirth, menopause and so on. These changes don’t…
By Lydia Mainey MACN A few months ago, Queensland added itself to the list of other Australian states (barring NSW) that decriminalised abortion. The historic law reform put into the spotlight a topic usually engulfed by stigma and politics – both for nurses who work in abortion care and the women receiving it. One in…