ACEN - the Australian College Of Emergency Nursing provides trauma and paediatric training courses for nurses

acen
Media news

This collection of current media news is not necessarily the views of The Australian College of Emergency Nursing ACEN. This is a collection of current news articles has been collected from websites from the world’s media outlets. It has been designed to stimulate discussion and assist in educational projects.

Jan 10click to open-close

SA Child Abuse on the rise - Jan 21 2010
Qld War on Waste in Health - Jan 21 2010
DOCS Reporting System Problems Wood Enquiry - Jan 21 2010
Haiti Crisis Medical Report Video - Jan 20 2010
Vic Hospitals Create Virtual Wards - Jan 20 2010
Haiti Medical Workers Emotional after Disaster - Jan 20 2010
USA Mobile Phones Distract Pedestrians - Jan 16 2010
UK Bid to Cut Ed attendances - Jan 15 2010
UK ED Staff Praise for Work in Great Freeze - Jan 15 2010
Morphine Reduces Post Traumatic Stress - Jan 13 2010
UK Hospitals Struggle in Big Freeze - Jan 8 2010
UK Anthrax Found in Heroin in Scotland - Jan 6 2010

Dec 09open-close

Drunks Should Pay for Healthcare - Dec 31 2009
Swine Flu H1N1 may Take a Year to Cure - Dec 29 2009
Health Cuts with Little Effect - Dec 29 2009
New Year Kills Drunk Pedestrians - Dec 28 2009
UK Hospitals Creating Virtual Wards - Dec 23 2009
Health Learns from Aviation - Dec 21 2009
Difficulties of Admitting a Specialist Patient - Dec 18 2009
UK Increase in Assaults on Staff - Dec 17 2009
Costs of ED Misuse - Dec 11 2009
Progress on National Registration - Dec 9 2009
Body Mass Predicts Heart Disease - Dec 7 2009
NSW Emergency Department Complaints and Thanks - Dec 7 2009
WA Emergency Nurses Extended Powers - Dec 5 2009

Nov 09open-close

UK Pub ban for Patients that Assault Hospital Staff - Nov 28 2009
NZ Emergency Department Gridlock - Nov 24 2009
Computer Predicts ED attendances - Nov 23 2009
Electronic Records No Saving - Nov 20 2009
UK ED’s Meet Admission Time Benchmarks Just - Nov 18 2009
Hospitals Ban Flowers - MNov 16 2009
Hangovers block ED’s - Nov 12 2009
50% Increase in ETOH Problems - Nov 11 2009
Deaths rate up when New Doctors Start - Nov 10 2009
Nurses Should be Driven to Work - Nov 8 2009
UK Patients Asked Not to Misuse ED’s - Nov 4 2009
NZ Middlemore Reaches Admissions targets - Nov 4 2009

Oct 09open-close

Patient Locked in Ambulance - Oct 31 2009
Interview of Nurse Assaulted at Work - Oct 29 2009
UK Trauma Network Planned for the Midlands - Oct 27 2009
UK ED Waiting Times Falsified - Oct 14 2009
February Kills more Patient in Hospitals - Oct 14 2009
South Australian Emergency Department Squeeze - Oct 10 2009
Samoan Doctors and nurses Head Home to Help - Oct 7 2009

Sep 09open-close

Staff at Qld Hospitals receive Swine Flu Vaccination - Sept 26 2009
Garling report Implementation Mixed Gender Hot Line not used - Sept 25 2009
NSW Voluntary Hospital Redundancies - Sept 25 2009
Sydney’s Hornsby Hospital Budget Undercut Again - Sept 17 2009
Mask do not Prevent the H1N1 Flu - Sept 16 2009
NSW Hospital’s not Paying Their Bills 2 - Sept 15 2009
NSW Hospital’s not Paying Their Bills 1 - Sept 14 2009
Miscarriage to be Investigated - Sept 14 2009
NSW New Minister for Revolving Door of Health - Sept 13 2009
Multiple Patient’s to Sydney Hospitals after Bus Crash - Sept 11 2009
2 Dead in School Bus Crash - Sept 11 2009
NSW Emergency Departments Fail to Meet Benchmarks - Sept 10 2009
Qld Swine Flu Death Toll to 39 - Sept 9 2009
States Pay for Swine Flu - Sept 9 2009
NSW Emergency Departments Understaffed - Sept 9 2009
Swine Flu Vaccination Ready - Sept 4 2009
New Breed of Hospital’s that Makes you Feel Better - Sept 3 2009
a UK – Prisoners get fed Better than Patients - Sept 1 2009

Aug 09open-close

Swine Flu not at Peak - Aug 26 2009
NSW – Flu numbers fall - Aug 20 2009
Sydney’s Hornsby Hospital Falling Apart - Aug 19 2009
PM Criticised for Non action on Health - Aug 14 2009
First Super GP Clinic to Open in Brisbane - Aug 13 2009
WA Swine Flu Toll 12 - Aug 13 2009
Trauma Diagnosis Appalling - Aug 10 2009
WA Hospitals at Capacity - Aug 4 2009
Qld – No bed for Swine Flu patient - Aug 2 2009

Jul 09open-close

Australian States ED’s hit heard by funding model - July 28 2009
Turnbull Urges Rudd to Take Control of Hospitals - July 27 2009
Hospital Errors Cause 4550 Deaths Each Year - July 27 2009
Rudd – Fed Takeover a option - July 26 2009
NSW Nurses offered Redundancies - July 26 2009
Hospital Brace for New Wave of Doctors to Deal With - July 25 2009
NSW – Flu Patients hit Emergency Departments - July 24 2009
ALP Didn’t Pledge to Takeover Hospitals - July 24 2009
AMA - Federal not to Takeover State Health - July 22 2009
Critical Bed Shortage Not Improved ACEM - July 21 2009
Qld – Emergency Departments Exposed to Violence Trauma - July 20 2009
Vic - Hospital Fail to Cope - July 17 2009
NSW – Swine Flu Cases Increase - July 15 2009
NSW – Swine Flu Death Increase - July 14 2009
Swine Flu Unstoppable - July 14 2009
UK - 100.000 New Swine Flu Cases each Day - July 3 2009
USA - 18% Survival in CPR - July 2 2009

Jun 09open-close

WHO - Swine flu tops 70.000 Worldwide - June 30 2009
UK - Stafford Hospital Crisis will Repeat - June 30 2009
UK – ETOH behind 1 in 30 Scottish Deaths - June 30 2009
USA Swine Flu Tracked through Air Travel - June 29 2009
USA -1 Million have Swine Flu - June 26 2009
WHO - Swine Flu Tops 60.000 - June 26 2009
Stun Guns to be Used on Angry Patients - June 25 2009
WHO – Swine Flu Tops 52.000 - June 23 2009
USA company wins race to make first Swine Flu vaccination - June 24 2009
Major ED Access Block in NSW - June 16 2009
Australia Leads Race in Quest for Swine Flu vaccination - June 12 2009
WHO - Declared Swine Flu a Pandemic - June 12 2009

May 09open-close

Man dies in Emergency Department Chaos - May 26 2009
Australian Swine Flu Tally to 29 - May 26 2009
Swine Flu Claims Japanese Students - May 18 2009
WHO Swine Flu Spreading - May 16 2009
Cold sets in Swine Flu May Hot Up - May 16 2009
NSW Monitors 19 for Swine Flu - May 14 2009
Australia’s First Swine Flu Victim Flies In - May 11 2009
Swine Flu – No Cause for Alarm - May 11 2009
New Zealand – Not Enough Winter Beds - May 11 2009
New Zealand – Hospital Overcrowding - May 11 2009
UK – DVT kill thousands - May 11 2009
Flu Swine Tolls Tops 50 - May 10 2009
Canada – Nurse Practitioners Ease the Burden - May 9 2009
USA – Second Strain of Swine Flu - May 6 2009
Jamaica – No Swine Flu Here - May 5 2009
Night Duty Warning and Pay Dispute - May 5 2009
USA – Mexico has Helped Contain Swine Flu - May 4 2009
Canada – Swine Flu Numbers Dwindle - May 2 2009
Swine Flu Map 1st May 2009 - May 2 2009
USA Swine Flu Shows No Sign of Spreading - May 2 2009

Apr 09open-close

Pandemic Swine Flu Imminent - Apr 30 2009
Swine Flu Photo - Apr 30 2009
Swine Flu Map - Apr 27 2009
UK World Prepared for Swine Virus - Apr 27 2009
Tassie act on Swine Flu - Apr 27 2009
USA can not contain Outbreak of Swine Flu - Apr 27 2009
SE Queensland cleared of Swine Flu - Apr 27 2009
What is Swine Flu - Apr 27 2009
NSW test for Swine Flu - Apr 27 2009
Deadly Swine Flu in Queensland - Apr 27 2009
Swine Flu 2 Admitted in Queensland - Apr 27 2009
USA Declare Swine Flu State of Emergency - Apr 26 2009
Swine Flu Strain Spreads - Apr 26 2009
000 Workers need more Training - Apr 24 2009
Royal Darwin Hospital on the Australia’s Front Line - Apr 21 2009
Asylum Burns Patients- Develop Secondary Infections - Apr 19 2009
Asylum Burns Patients- Good chance of Survival - Apr 18 2009
WA Hospital treats Asylum Burns Patients - Apr 18 2009
Asylum Burns Patients- Bali Experience Helps Hospital Emergency Plans - Apr 17 2009
UK Whistle Blowing Nurse Struck Off Register - Apr 17 2009
USA Gunman kills 2 at Long Beach Emergency Department - Apr 17 2009
Italian Hospital Collapses in Earthquake - Apr 17 2009
Darwin Nurse aids Asylum Burns Patients - Apr 16 2009
USA Report Increase in Child Abuse with Economic Downturn - Apr 16 2009
UK Nurse Whistle Blows Emergency Department - Apr 16 2009
Accidents Claim Children’s Lives - Apr 14 2009
Money in Bra saves Patients Life - Apr 14 2009
New Zealand Emergency Department Cuts Opening Hours - Apr 14 2009
Pressure on Feds to take over State Hospital Funding - Apr 13 2009
Victorian Hospitals Financial Crisis - Apr 11 2009
GBH Drug Overdose Dance Party - Apr 11 2009
Superbug causes lock down of Adelaide Hospital - Apr 11 2009
Baby born and died in ED toilet - Apr 4 2009
Last episode of ER shot - Apr 3 2009
Hospitals Fudge ED Figures - Apr 3 2009
New Zealand Concern re Senior Medical Coverage in Emergency Departments - Apr 2 2009
New Zealand Auckland’s North Shore Emergency Department Upgrade - Apr 2 2009
Hobart Private Emergency Department to Close - Apr 2 2009
Garling Report - Doctors lose Faith in System - Apr 1 2009

Mar 09open-close

Tassie Roads the Most Dangerous - Mar 30 2009
Garling Report NSW Health – Virtual Wards and Bullying - Mar 28 2009
Garling Report NSW Health – More Emergency nurses - Mar 27 2009
UK Stafford Hospital 1200 Deaths Suspected - Mar 18 2009
Management Crisis at Westmead Hospital - Mar 18 2009
Crisis Qld Hospitals 101% Full - Mar 17 2009
UK A&E Department linked to 400 Deaths - Mar 17 2009
UK Stafford Hospital. What went wrong - Mar 17 2009
Westmead Hospital under Further Crisis - Mar 16 2009
Financial crisis at Westmead Hospital Sydney - Mar 13 2009
Sydney’s Westmead Hospital Slash bed numbers - Mar 6 2009
Drinkers warned that 2 Drinks a Day is Unhealthy - Mar 6 2009
Mobile Phones Carry Hospital Infections - Mar 6 2009
NZ Staff assaulted in Emergency Department - Mar 2 2009

Feb 09open-close

Royal London Trauma Unit - Feb 24 2009
Health Care Reform in Australia - Feb 21 2009
Nurses Care for Burns Patients Post Fires - Feb 20 2009
New Paediatric Emergency Department in Perth causes controversy - Feb 20 2009
Do it yourself Emergency Department for the Unisured in the USA - Feb 18 2009
Prime Minister told to take control of the health system - Feb 16 2009
New vein viewer offer hope to improved cannulation - Feb 15 2009
Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital Manages the Crisis of Bushfire Victims - Feb 14 2009
Sensors and community nurses help patients stay out of USA emergency departments - Feb 12 2009
NHS Information Technology proves too difficult and expensive to implement - Feb 6 2009
No anaesthetic cover as some Emergency Departments in Sydney - Feb 2 2009
Australian Government says alcohol is not safe for the under 18’s - Feb 1 2009
Superbugs thrive as staff continues with poor hand washing techniques - Feb 1 2009

Jan 09 open-close

New South Wales Nurses Association comments on the Garling Report - Jan 30 2009
Queensland Hospital Death Traps - Jan 30 2009
USA Congress move to improve healthcare funding for low and middle income children - Jan 30 2009
NSW Health on financial crisis - Jan 28 2009
Our hospitals are not safe - Jan 29 2009
New South Wales Health unable to paid bills Letter to Editor - Jan 29 2009
Royal College of Nursing Australia responds to Australian Medical Association criticisms of Nurses - Jan 15 2009

Dec 08 open-close

Shoot out in the corridor in Mexico ER - Dec 4 2008
Gran spends 63 hours waiting for a hospital bed - Dec 7 2008
USA Emergency Rooms under pressure - Dec 8 2008
British Ambulance Services unable to cope with winter demands - Dec 18 2008
Fine drunks who call out an ambulance. The NHS isn't there to pick up the pieces of a drunken night out - Dec 26 2008

Nov 08 open-close

Britian opens First GP Superclinic - Nov 28 2008