A new batch of scholarships aims to increase the number of prepared, confident and skilled nurses providing patient care in emergency departments. Nurses working, or planning to work in emergency departments may be eligible for a range of scholarships, covering ...

Aged care funding must close the nurse wage gap, says union. Last week’s federal budget failed to include a number of key workforce issues which would help deliver quality care for older Australians, says the ANF Yvonne Chaperon, ANF assistant ...

Nurses are the ‘front line’ answer to tackling NCDs but need greater support, says survey. Nurses want to lead in the global fight against the further spread of non-communicable diseases but workload and time constraints are holding them back, according ...

Two thirds of Australia’s nurses and midwives due to renew registration. Nurses and midwives who have yet to renew their registration, which is due May 31, are being urged to do so on time or risk not being able to ...

Nurses would support the introduction of the physician’s assistant, as long as opportunities for the nursing profession were not compromised. Significant medical workforce shortages, particularly in rural and remote locations, have prompted a range of responses in Australia at both ...

Legally forcing midwives into compulsory collaborative arrangements won’t work, says a midwifery academic. Writing in a recent issue of Women and Birth, Karen Lane, a lecturer at Deakin University criticised what she called the new “militarised” arrangements for midwives. She ...

Launch of new online diabetes education program for Practice Nurses set to enhance Australian diabetes management The Australian Practice Nurses Association and the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA) have launched a new online education program, ‘Diabetes Management in the Primary ...

Senior clinical nurses can effectively contribute to the pandemic influenza public health response. Annie May reports. On 24 April, 2009 the World Health Organisation advised of an outbreak of a new strain of flu – H1N1 Influenza 09, to become ...

Rallies continue to gain support to put a halt to any funding cuts to medical and health research. Researchers in Brisbane will be taking part in a rally to show their support for a campaign aimed at raising awareness of ...

Community nurses would benefit from forming a strong united face, writes Sandra Lucas. The health care system of Australia, as in many other countries, is moving out of large acute care hospitals and into the community. This is due to ...