The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) has called for additional support for people going through end-of-life care and their health care workers during the challenge of COVID-19, with the pandemic highlighting flaws in how we deliver support during people’s final days. The call came with the launch of ACN’s position paper, Optimising Person- and Family-Centred…
All Australians have the right to be treated with dignity and best practice care during their final days, weeks and months of life and this will require significant evolution of the health care system to enable nurses to lead the delivery of palliative care. Launching the Australian College of Nursing’s (ACN) Achieving Quality Palliative Care…
At the 2019 Policy Summit in March, we caught up with each of the Policy Chapter Chairs to get a brief overview of the work conducted in 2018 as well as the upcoming priorities for 2019. Distinguished Professor Patsy Yates FACN is the Chair of the End of Life Care Policy Chapter and the Deputy…
By Trisha Dunning AM FACN, P. Martin, N. Orford and L. Orellana. Diabetes reduces life expectancy. One person with diabetes dies every 6 seconds somewhere in the world.1 Diabetes is linked to 3.7 million deaths per year, globally 2 and it is the underlying or associated cause of deaths due to cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke…