Proposals to remove midwifery qualifications for child and family health nurses have attracted widespread criticism. Linda Belardi reports. Child and family health nurses have slammed recommendations by the Productivity Commission to remove midwifery qualifications from their training. Nurses predominantly in ...

New agency must tackle nursing shortage, says union. The new National Workforce and Productivity Agency will provide a pathway to help address Australia's critical shortage of nurses, the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) has said. Minister for Training and Skills, Senator ...

A recent RCNA conference identified development issues for nurses in Australia. Here, researchers Kasia Bail and Louise Schreuders reflect on these workforce challenges and the need for nurses to get better at telling their professional story. Nursing is an increasingly complex ...

Strategies need to be developed to improve the delivery of nutrition advice in general practices, according to a recent study. By Annie May. Nutrition-related chronic disease and weight issues are on the rise in Australia but some at-risk patients aren’t ...

Collaborative care for the management of depression, heart disease and diabetes brings positive results. By Annie May. Practice nurses can improve depression in patients with diabetes and heart disease, a recent study has found. Researchers from the Greater Green Triangle ...

A new global campaign led by the International Committee of the Red Cross is seeking to improve the safety of health workers abroad. Linda Belardi reports. It was dusk on an unassuming evening when Ruth Jebb, a Brisbane nurse on ...

Nurses raise the issue of wages and quality training in aged care with federal minister for ageing during recent public forum, reports Darragh O Keeffe and Natasha Egan. Federal Minister for Ageing Mark Butler has said the government may respond ...

The number of employed nurses has increased by 13 per cent since 2005, a report released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has found. In 2009, 276 751 or 86 per cent of registered and enrolled nurses ...

The way employers engage recognised training and provide an environment for skill development must also be addressed as part of improving careers and retention, writes Robin Flynn. In Dr Maree Bernoth’s article “No surety of standards in Cert III for ...

High demand for aged care workers and cost-cutting is contributing to the deterioration in cert III quality, writes Dr Maree Bernoth. If the Certificate III in Aged Care Work and the Certificate IV Assessor and Trainer were designed to be ...