A Victorian researcher is undertaking the first study to evaluate the impact of enrolled nurse medication administration on skill mix and workload in aged care. By Linda Belardi. Victorian aged care facilities have reduced the number of registered nurses employed ...

Different work conditions between states is behind a push for an industry-wide agreement. Linda Belardi reports. Almost half of surveyed practice nurses say they are looking to resign in the next six months. The Australian Practice Nurse Association’s survey of ...

The ANF has lodged an application for a low pay bargaining case to be heard by Fair Work Australia for nurses working in general practice. The Australian Nursing Federation has filed an application with Fair Work Australia (FWA) to negotiate ...

Community nurses, especially those working in cities, may be neglecting their health promotional role. Fiona Cassie reports. Nurses can get confused between health promotion and just one of its aspects, health education, according to new research. Dr Janet Roden, nurse ...

Nurses are leaving rural hospitals in alarming numbers as employers stray from core values of the profession, writes Susan Bragg. Worldwide, nursing is facing a significant challenge in recruiting people into the profession and then retaining them in the workforce. ...

Registered nurses need to be easily identified as the trained professionals they are, writes Peter Kieseker. This may involve a return to a uniform or some other sign of rank. Something seems badly wrong in the registered nursing profession. December’s ...

The rapid increase of fly-in fly-out workers in rural areas is posing a number of complex challenges for medical staff. Flynn Murphy reports. The resources bonanza has sparked one of Australia’s largest ever periods of uninterrupted economic growth, but the ...

The first participants in a national Emerging Nurse Leader Program talk to Linda Belardi about their ambitions, inspirations and the changes they would like to see. They are all smart, articulate and passionate about nursing - meet the future leaders ...

An education project has been designed to bridge the gap between primary and acute healthcare. By Linda Belardi. Rural acute care nurses will be targeted in an education program designed to help drive down avoidable readmissions in NSW hospitals. From ...

Domestic violence is directly linked with widespread productivity issues at thousands of Australian workplaces, a national workplace study has found. Nearly a third of employees included in the 2011 study – many of them nurses - identified themselves as victims ...