A mental health nurse who launched a tirade of "vulgar and abusive language" at a deaf patient has been struck off. Andrea Burdon had threatened to "knock out" and "kill" the patient on a ward at ...

The SA Medical Association said the strain on healthcare workers is worsened by intoxicated patients, and impatient relatives ...

A nurse found to have given a patient one unit of blood when two units ... “If we questioned him, he would get angry… which made me quiet and want to please him,” she told the panel.

Her colleagues described the scene before she arrived on assignment from the West Coast in late April: Nurses were banging on windows to get more support, patients were crashing left and right ...