Tagged with School of Nursing and Midwifery

Access to quality health care can be easily taken for granted in Australia but in rural Laos, where even reliable electricity and running water cannot be guaranteed, professional health care and advice can make a dramatic difference to the wellbeing of local communities. The School of Nursing and Midwifery at Griffith University has offered short […]

Improvements in workforce development within the aged care sector have been a focus of Griffith’s Centre for Health Practice Innovation and School of Nursing and Midwifery.

We are developing new infections and becoming resistant to the antibiotics to treat them.

Kristy Spry felt very privileged recently as she helped give birth to the 23 millionth Australian. The second year Bachelor of Midwifery student was on duty at Redland Hospital Tuesday 23 April, as part of her degree placement. At 7.03pm Kristy helped the nation tick over a population of exactly 23 million with the birth […]

Studying the finer points of midwifery alongside raising four young children on her own has been par for the course for Katherine Pattie. Katherine is one of 23 Bachelor of Midwifery students set to graduate this Friday (December 7) from Griffith’s School of Nursing and Midwifery. But as a single mother with daughters now aged […]