A new study is one of the few to examine pain in non communicative residents with dementia, writes Megan Stoyles. Enrolled nurses and personal care attendants in aged care facilities are better at recognising pain in non verbal residents with ...

Unless work-life issues are addressed, nurses will continue to feel increasingly burnt out. Gaps between policy and practice in ensuring a good work-life balance and the resulting "struggle to juggle" is resulting in nurses withdrawing and disengaging from the workforce, ...

Last chance for nurses and midwives due to renew registration by May 31. Australia’s nurses and midwives who were due to renew registration by May 31 and have not done so have only days left to apply or their registration ...

New program provides opportunities for practice nurses and general practice. The Practice Nurse Incentive Program, which starts on January 1 of next year, will bring great opportunities to nurses, GPs and consumers, according to participants of a workshop convened in ...

Nurses and midwives at more than 30 Sydney hospitals and community health centres to hold stop-work meetings. Nurses at hospitals and health centres across Sydney have voted to rally against the NSW government's industrial relations changes. The controversial public sector ...

A new report is encouraging more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to take up careers in health. Building a strong indigenous workforce is imperative to improving health outcomes and the life expectancy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people, with ...

A new study finds Australian nurses report greater job strain than their New Zealand counterparts, writes Fiona Cassie. Australian nurses are more likely to report high job strain than their New Zealand counterparts, the early data from a major longitudinal ...

Australian nurses are plagued by too many roles and titles. By Annie May The increasing number of new nursing roles and titles that exist in Australia is out of hand, say researchers. And with the many and varied titles comes ...

Rural nurses and midwives will be supported in undertaking further training. Nurses and midwives will be supported in undertaking further training away from their place of employment under the Nursing and Allied Health Rural Locum Scheme. The scheme, to be ...

A rapid-response nursing service for older people struggling in their homes has won the Innovation in Nursing category of the HESTA Australian Nursing Awards. Do whatever it takes and never say we can’t help. That is the philosophy of the ...