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'The Nurse' podcast is the harrowing tale of sexual abuse and institutional mismanagement that has rocked Tasmania and its health system. Journalist and creator of the podcast Camille Bianchi, joins Nursing Review to chat about the story.

Episode 24 || Tony Hecimovic, treating COVID in the community by NursingReview

On the podcast this week, Host Conor Burke is joined by Michelle Dowd the Nurse Manager of Intensive Care Services at Liverpool Hospital. Michelle has been intimately involved in the treatment of the sickest COVID-19 patitnets since the beginning of the pandemic. They talk about the recent COVID outbreak at Liverpool hospital and how the virus has eveolved over the year.

The Black Dog Institute have come up with an e-health hub offering mental health support. TEN (The Essential Network) is a multifaceted e-health hub, developed by health professionals for health professionals as part of the Australian government's COVID-19 response. Melissa Black joins NR to discuss the hub.

Nurse Vishnugar Arunasalam from Western Sydney LHD joins host Conor Burke to discuss the role pop up drive through testing sites play in the battle with COVID-19.

Early on in the pandemic host Conor Burke was joined by Professor Peter Curson to discuss the history of pandemics and what effect they had on Australia.

Daily life is consumed by the pandemic, but how much do we know about other viruses that are lurking in our community. The emergence of COVID-19 is a timely reminder that diseases can jump from animals to humans in our own backyard. This week guest virologist Dr Sacha Stelzer-Braid joins host Conor Burke to talk about why we shouldn't kiss our pets.

This week, host Conor Burke is Joined by Jenny Wallace, NUM on the respiratory/COVID ward at Liverpool hospital in Sydney. Wallace has been on the respiratory ward for 11 years and talks about how her team treat COVID patients and how this disease differs form anything she has seen on the ward before.

Andrew Ingersoll is one of only a handful of Chief Nursing Information Officers nationwide. Andrew joins host Conor Burke to talk about his unique role and how it has played a key role in the fight against COVID-19.

Associate Professor of Food Microbiology Julian Cox, from the UNSW school of Engineering, joins the podcast to discuss the risks of contracting the coronavirus through food and groceries.

Professor Nick Talley, editor of the Medical Journal of Australia, joins host Conor Burke to discuss the use of masks to combat the spread of COVID-19

Senior Associate Will Mackey is an economist and data scientist at Grattan Institute. He joins Conor Burke to discuss Australia's strategy for fighting COVID-19. In the wake of the Melbourne outbreak, should we be aiming for elimination of the virus rather than suppression?

Joining host Conor Burke this week is Professor Michael Ward from the university of Sydney. Ward is the lead of a study which suggests COVID-19 could be a season winter virus much like the common cold or flu.

Dr Ben Beck, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University,joins host Conor Burke to discuss ways in which we can safely physically distance in Australian cities.

This week host Conor Burke speaks to infectious disease specialist Assoc. Professor Sanjaya Senanayake about how we teach the spread of virus at universities and our preparedness for pandemics.

In Episode 11 of the Coronavirus Podcast we delve into wet markets, what are they and are they bad for us. Host Conor Burke is joined by Dr Petr Matous, Senior Lecturer at the School of Civil Engineering at Sydney University.

Tammy Hoffman, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Bond University joins host Conor Burke to discuss what we do in the future if no vaccine is found. What is our plan B?

This week, host Conor Burke speaks with Ashleigh Peters, a nurse who has direct working experience treating COVID-19 patients at Sydney's Westmead Hospital.

Jill Newby, Associate Professor at UNSW based at the Black Dog Institute, talks to Conor about mental health during the pandemic and gives tips on how to keep anxiety at bay during times of uncertainty. She also talks about an upcoming service designed to help frontline workers deal with mental health.

Professor David Paterson, from the university of Queensland's Centre for Clinical Research joins host Conor Burke to discuss the COVID-19 clinical drug trials he is running and the possibility of a vaccine for the virus.