This a podcast produced by, for and with the amazing nurses and health professionals of the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital community. Our purpose is to inspire, educate and connect our local and global healthcare community as we collectively move from surviving to thriving in our personal and professional lives.
Frail older people may be harmed by prolonged emergency department waits and single-diagnosis thinking. Assessment should establish baseline cognition and function, screen for delirium, clarify patient priorities and consider whether equivalent care is available at home or in residential care.
Nurses, emergency clinicians and mental-health teams get a practical suicide-prevention framework. Direct statements about wanting to die and subtler signs such as burden, shame, entrapment, withdrawal, agitation, insomnia and increased substance use are linked to sensitive direct questioning, immediate safety actions and rapid connection to appropriate support.
Good for nurses, GPs and shift-working clinicians discussing difficulty falling asleep, snoring, witnessed gasping or daytime sleepiness. It links sleep cycles, circadian disruption, caffeine, alcohol, screens, naps and sleeping position to practical sleep hygiene and clinical review triggers.
Start here if cardiac arrest care still relies on instinct rather than measured CPR quality. The gain is early feedback pads, metronome support, rapid full release and a CPR coach, then using report card data to coach the next arrest better.
Perimenopause is diagnosed clinically, not by a single hormone result. When insomnia, mood change, palpitations, bleeding and urinary symptoms cluster in midlife, look for one endocrine explanation and exclude common mimics rather than treating each symptom in isolation.
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