Five participants in a national nursing leadership program speak to Linda Belardi about their first year as trainee leaders The profession faces a significant loss of leadership and experience in the next decade as 40 per cent of the nursing ...

The role of males in the profession has been understated but significant, writes Thomas Harding Men played a significant role in caring for the sick in colonial Australia but their contribution has received little attention. What emerges from the fleeting ...

Nurses experienced in one form of care can gain a lot by a brief secondment to a different area. Linda Belardi reports Aged care nurses in Toowoomba have hit the wards of a busy private acute care hospital as part ...

Australia’s health ministers should support the introduction of physician assistants (PAs) as a safe and cost-effective workforce strategy, a national review has found. The Health Workforce Australia (HWA) report said medically trained PAs would help fill rural medical shortages and ...

Nursing is rapidly evolving due to advances in technology and extended scopes of practice. Linda Belardi talks to some chief nurses who reflect on the changing face of the profession. From growing roles in private practice and business to Australia’s ...

Overseas nurses and students want to come to Australia but our educational institutions need to cater for their needs, writes Ruth Terwijn Australia has always needed to supplement its workforce and population by embracing people from other countries. This young ...

Midwives have praised a decision by Australia’s health ministers to extend collaborative arrangements to include hospitals and health services. The Australian College of Midwives has welcomed the move by the Standing Council on Health on Friday as a long-fought win ...

The Victorian government may consider new legislation designed to better protect emergency workers from violent attacks. Health Minister David Davis said draft legislation that would increase jail sentences for those who attack emergency workers would be discussed at length with ...

Australians are happier to stay home for work compared with nurses over the ditch. By Fiona Cassie More than a quarter of New Zealand’s new graduate nurses were working or intending to work overseas compared with just 12 per cent ...

Qualified senior nurses overseas have been ordering and administering drugs safely for years and soon their Australian counterparts will be doing the same. By Mardi Chapman Midwives are another step closer to getting approval as PBS prescribers with the commencement ...