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A proposal to roll out support services to nurses and midwives is currently before the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. By Linda Belardi Support services for nurses and midwives with substance abuse and mental health problems could be implemented ...

Nursing and health groups are calling for a boost to scholarship funding as the proportion of nurses awarded a scholarship falls dramatically. By Linda Belardi. The National Rural Health Alliance has called for the number of government-funded undergraduate scholarships available ...

Calls for nursing to address racism and prejudice as a matter of urgency.  Nurses have continued to deny the issue of racism in the profession that continues unabated and unaddressed, says Scott W. Trueman, a Queensland mental health nurse educator. ...

The University of NSW has appointed Australia’s first dedicated workplace mental health clinical research post. By Flynn Murphy Australia needs to address the stigma and confidentiality issues surrounding nurses that suffer from mental health problems, said the newly appointed University ...

A roundtable forum will be held this month to advocate for the right of international students to access public healthcare. By Susan Woodward International students in Australia should enjoy the same rights to access public healthcare as citizens, says University ...

UK calls for minimum staffing levels and fewer health assistants The care of the elderly is being compromised in UK hospitals because there are too few nurses, says the Royal College of Nursing. Research by the RCN suggested everything from ...

NSW nursing workforce grows An extra 2000 graduate and experienced nurses and midwives have begun work in NSW public hospitals following one of the biggest recruitment drives in the state’s history, said the Minister for Health, Jillian Skinner. She said ...

In a career that spanned World War II to Vietnam, Brigadier Dita McCarthy had to care for wounded soldiers in sometimes primitive conditions. Linda Belardi reports. The Royal Australian Army Nursing Service (RAANS) has lost its highest ranking officer, Perdita ...

Diabetes Australia has called for annual screenings for the disease to be introduced for all Australians over 40. Linda Belardi reports. The next generation of adults may be the first in centuries to have shorter life expectancies than their parents ...

If the threshold for gestational diabetes is lowered then nurses will need more training to care for the increased number of patients, say experts. Flynn Murphy reports. Up to 50 per cent more women could be diagnosed with gestational diabetes ...