As the nurse practitioner role gains momentum in Australia, they are moving into specialised and diverse areas. Linda Belardi speaks to three trailblazers Lieutenant-Commander Morag Ferguson is Australia’s first military nurse practitioner with the Royal Australian Navy. She is one ...

The characters on film and TV are often stereotypes, but the internet allows nurses to reshape their public image, writes David Stanley How the public view nursing and nurses is both reflected in and influenced by the way they are ...

A highly successful home-visit program pioneered in the US is making headway in indigenous communities here, writes Linda Belardi Aver the past 30 years, a nurse-led home visiting program implemented in the US has seen dramatic changes in infant mortality, ...

The federal government and the Black Dog institute have launched an e-health initiative to support those living with anxiety. As more Australians turn to the internet for medical help, a new federally-funded website is offering tools and tips to those ...

Acute care nurses need support to introduce spiritual care in their daily work, according to new research. Older more experienced nurses working in palliative care are more likely to include spiritual care in their day-to-day work than their younger counterparts, ...

Registered Nurses will be the fastest growing degree-level occupation and carers the fastest growing vocational occupation, according to Australia’s new productivity agency. Federal Skills Minister Chris Evans says low-skilled jobs are disappearing from the economy and the workforce will need ...

The Australian Nurses Federation said mental health nurses would now receive similar pay and benefits to public sector nurses. Victoria's mental health nurses have settled their workplace dispute with the state government after months of industrial action. Union members representing ...

A conservative think tank has called for local health districts to be given total control of their budgets and greater privatisation. Some hospitals need to be privatised and nurses and doctors should come under the control of health district managers, ...

The Gardasil vaccine will be rolled out to boys aged 12 and 13 in schools nationally from next year. It's expected 870,000 boys will receive the HPV vaccine in the first four years at a cost of $20 million, said ...

One third of nurses cite low pay, high workload and unclear career progression as the reason they plan to quit. Overwhelming workloads are causing dissatisfaction among Australian nurses, with more than half set to leave the profession in the next ...