Australian nurses work the least amount of overtime, are generally happy at work, and have more days off when compared to their international counterparts. These are the observations of a recent international study into the links between job satisfaction, absenteeism ...
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Look into my crystal ball: what the peaks see for 2019
Long hours, short staffing, workplace safety, higher salaries, bullying in the workplace. These are a few of the issues that are constants for the nurses of Australia. In a federal election year, coupled with a Royal Commission into Aged Care, ...
More »How do we keep nurses in rural Australia?
According to the World Health Organization, around half of the world’s population lives in rural areas but only 38 per cent of nurses and 25 per cent of doctors work in those areas. In Australia, people living in rural and ...
More »Relieving job stress: the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation
As of 2016, the national mental health commission found that the cost of mental ill-health is approximately $4000 dollars to each tax-paying Australian and more than $60 billion to the nation as a whole. Couple this with the statistic that ...
More »From Florence to flourishing
Nursing shortages have been predicted worldwide, with headlines reporting that this is one of the dominant issues in healthcare today. Nursing attrition is on the cusp of becoming a crisis, with perilous implications for patients and healthcare providers alike. Can ...
More »Job security, increased opportunities behind one man’s mid-career shift to nursing
Being open to changing tack mid-career is something we’re told we need to get used to, and that’s exactly what Jason Honnery from the mid-north coast of NSW is about to do. Currently a patient transport officer at Macksville hospital, the ...
More »The bolshie bunch: the history of nursing in Australia
There are nearly 400,000 nurses registered here in Australia and all of them can trace their nursing lineage back to Florence Nightingale. That is one of the fascinating tales from the new book Nurses of Australia: The Illustrated Story by ...
More »Nursing graduates find success in employment
Education and employment trends for nurses are ready to soar as statistics in the Good Universities Guide show. Published by The Good Education Group, data shows that more than 250,000 jobs will be created over the next five years in ...
More »Cosmetics procedures growth sparks new course
Training provider The Advanced Skills Academy has launched a new cosmetic injectors course to meet the rising demand for cosmetic procedures. The course is only open to RNs and doctors, who have seen the number of cosmetic procedures grow between ...
More »Poor staffing contributes to missed care in residential aged care
The recent announcement of a Royal Commission into aged care has brought issues of the staffing levels and skill mix of residential aged care facilities into focus. Demand for aged care services is increasing due to the ageing of the ...
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