It will take more than higher wages to get workers to the bush, reports Annie May. Financial incentives alone will not attract more health workers to the bush, a new report has found. Instead, governments need to offer incentive “bundles” ...

Queensland nurses are advised to check their payment summaries as pay bungle continues. Queensland Health workers will be paid under a local pay model from September as the government struggles to fix its sick payroll system. Premier Anna Bligh announced ...

Providing nurse unit managers with better support and training to improve patient care in hospitals and aged care services will be the focus of a new Australian study. Providing nurse unit managers with better support and training to improve patient ...

Leadership groups will help guide best practice. The federal government has pledged $58 million to create special leadership groups, made up of nurses and doctors, within the hospital system. The lead clinician groups will help guide local hospital networks on ...

Nurses are still seen as most trusted by public. Nurses have again been voted the most ethical and honest professionals. In the annual Roy Morgan Image of Professions survey 89 per cent of Australians rated nurses as most trusted. Nurses ...

Patient safety and care is set to improve when nurses have access to electronic health records, according to the profession. From last month, every Australian was given an individual healthcare identification after the federal parliament passed legislation giving the scheme ...

With insufficient numbers entering nursing, new innovative models of recruitment and retention are needed. Insanity, according to Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And it could soon be a definition that ...

Caffeine can help those working shifts or nights to make fewer errors, according to a new study by Cochrane researchers.  The findings have implications for health workers and for any industry relying on shift or night work. More than 15 ...

Plans are underway to merge two national cancer agencies. The federal government plans to merge the commonwealth’s two leading cancer agencies – Cancer Australia and the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre. Health Minister Nicola Roxon said the single national ...

New research shows that women who breastfeed are not receiving adequate advice as to the possible effects of medication.  Research released by Dr Lisa Amir of Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, found women are making the decision ...