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This year, 12 Monash University and 8 Federation University nursing students successfully participated in the Inspired by Singapore: Design for Healthy Ageing study tour, from 7 – 22 June. They travelled to Singapore with 8 design and media students from the University of Canberra (UC). All three Universities now form the consortium in this $550,000 project, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade New Colombo Plan Mobility Program. Following an intense, two days of cultural immersion activities on their first weekend in Singapore, the 28 Australian students came together with 42 students from nursing, design and media at Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) (Singapore). Formed into 15 cross-cultural, inter-disciplinary teams of students, they undertook team formation and empathy activities and visited aged care services and facilities, where they discussed key issues related to promoting and supporting healthy ageing with residents/clients and staff. Each team worked together to develop their ideas for solutions to key issues/problems using design thinking methods. A final visit to the care facilities/services enabled them to review the potential feasibility and effectiveness of their proposals with residents/clients and staff. The process and outcomes of their work was recorded on posters, and exhibited in the main Nanyang Polytechnic library for a three week run. The exhibition opening, where the students’ proposals were really put to the test, brought accolades from fellow students, academic staff, aged service managers and visiting dignitaries. Ms Lauren Hernandez, Second Secretary to the Australian High Commission in Singapore, opened the exhibition as she has done since 2017. Ms Hernandez stated she was in awe of the student’s work and praised the "Inspired by Singapore study tour asan exemplar of the New Colombo Plan mobility projects".

The sector trusted with preventing illness and protecting health is partly responsible for the global climate emergency! A team from Monash University including Monash Nursing and Midwifery received funding to explore teaching future health workers about environmental sustainability & impacts. - - Monash University Peninsula Campus #monashlens

When hospitals make us sicker: One in 10 patients pick up infections from care One in 10 patients contract infections as a result of their hospital stays and procedures, including surgical wounds, blood and urinary tract infections (UTIs), pneumonia Australian research suggests. Lead Researcher, Associate Professor Philip Russo from Monash University, Nursing & Midwifery - “These infections are happening possibly undetected and are clearly a big burden on the healthcare system”