Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan handed down the 2010-11 Federal Budget on Tuesday 11 May. During the extensive build-up to the release of the budget’s health measures, RCNA lobbied heavily from a professional nursing perspective, extensively promulgating the key recommendations of ...

Update from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia Australia’s new national registration and accreditation scheme begins on 1 July 2010. From this date, a new National Law (the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009) will come into effect ...

As the winter chill hits Canberra, issues around nurse practitioners and aged care are high on the agenda at a political level. Our messages to government about the role of nurse practitioners in aged care appear to have been recognised ...

RCNA staff and ACT nurses gathered at the Australian War Memorial on 7 May to remember the Australian service nurses who lost their lives. ACT ceremony commemorates Australian service nurses RCNA staff and ACT nurses gathered at the Australian War ...

Bethany Hodgkins has always had an interest in science, having completed her first degree in nutrition at the University of Canberra (UC). At the beginning of 2010, she went back to uni to study nursing - the science of caring. ...

Aged care nurses in Queensland and NSW can pre-emptively protect their wages. Aged care nurses in Queensland and NSW can breathe a little easier with news they can pre-emptively protect their wages. In a win for these nurses, workplace relations ...

Nurses demand government funding to prevent needlestick injuries, saying their lives are being put at risk. A needlestick injury can be a devastating event. Although the risk of contracting a blood borne pathogen is statistically low, the psychological trauma that ...

Federal government strikes deal to give midwives professional indemnity insurance. For the first time in more than seven years, midwives will be able to purchase professional indemnity insurance, under a deal struck by the federal government with a private company. ...

Being a nurse offers no protection from illness, including substance abuse and mental health problems. Writes Annie May. Susan had a few drinks every night after university or work to wind down. She never thought it to be a problem. ...

Health outcomes for indigenous women during pregnancy could be improved with the growing number of Aboriginal midwives. For the last 20 years Aboriginal peri-natal mortality has been well above the average and has not improved. One critical way to address ...