Significant underemployment of graduates is predicted for 2012. Linda Belardi reports on how government policymakers are managing this workforce challenge. Australia is currently experiencing a boom in tertiary nursing enrolments. Federal government figures released in September show new commencements in ...

Mapping research launched to monitor the impact of moving health workforce. The NSW Nurses' Association in collaboration with Public Sector International (PSI) will undertake a joint research project to map the migration of health and social care workers into Australia. ...

A NSW symposium canvassed the latest trends in nurse migration, reports Linda Belardi. In the past decade, Fiji has lost 57 per cent of its graduating nurses to external migration, the head of the Fiji Nurses' Association has told a ...

New figures reveal over 1700 Kiwi nurses applied to work in Australia in the last year, Fiona Cassie reports. The number of Kiwi nurses seeking work in Australia continues to grow but the nursing workforce in New Zealand is also ...

Kate Leaver reports on the latest developments in Health Workforce Australia's (HWA) reform agenda. It's more than three decades since a group of 130 remote area nurses congregated in Alice Springs with a collective goal in mind; getting the government ...

A multidisciplinary mobile team is improving the quality of life for older people living in the community, reports Darragh O Keeffe. It may be just 16 months in operation but a multidisciplinary 'geriatric flying squad' has already made a world ...

Nursing dean calls on the profession to break its policy silence, writes Linda Belardi. A ''virtual policy'' school to encourage the active involvement of nurses in public policy is to be established. The school will be an international collaboration between ...

Southern Health management withdraws request to meet with employee over evidence given to a parliamentary inquiry on security and violence. By Darragh O'Keeffe and Linda Belardi. Victoria's largest public health service provider has apologised to a nurse it summoned to a ...

Australian study to investigate the impact of nurses practitioners in Eds. Four universities and five state health authorities are collaborating in a major study to examine the effectiveness of nurse practitioners in emergency department teams. Between 2007 and 2009 there ...

A lack of clinical placements delays graduation for up to 150 UWS students, reports Annabel McGilvray. An acute shortage of practical nurse-training positions means that up to 150 students at the University of Western Sydney will be unable to complete ...