Specialist nurses can make a huge difference to the quality of life for people with asbestos-related diseases. Specialist nurses can make a huge difference to the quality of life, access to treatments and compensation for people with mesothelioma and other ...

Up to 30,000 health graduates across Australia will soon be seeking registration. The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) is urging students due to graduate from health profession courses later in 2010 to apply for registration early, to avoid year-end ...

Nurses join aged care workforce from new graduate program. The first cohort of registered nurses have successfully completed Bupa Care’s new graduate nursing program in aged care. The one year program, run in conjunction with The College of Nursing is ...

Victoria to get an extra 1700 nurses under Labor government pledge. Victorian Labor has promised to employ an extra 2800 doctors, nurses and health professionals if re-elected in a bold bid to take the upper hand on health. The new ...

Protests are due to take place in a number of Sydney hospitals this week, as nurses call for reform. Nurses campaigning for a major reform of the NSW public health system are planning to protest at Sydney's Liverpool Hospital amid ...

Hundreds of nursing jobs were cut in Sydney's west and north shore and the NSW central coast in the 12 months to June 2010, the state opposition says. Freedom of Information documents have revealed 340 nursing jobs were shed by ...

Specialist nurses are in high demand. Despite job vacancies nationwide falling in September, health care professionals remain in demand. Job agency IPA Recruitment said the number of job vacancies fell 5.7 per cent in September, following a steady August. IPA ...

Nurses welcome boost for clinical placements in regional Australia. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced the start of more funding for health services in regional communities. The opening of applications for the new round of funding under the Health and ...

A new orientation program is helping nurses make the transition from hospital to general practice, writes Julieanne Crow. The Otway Division of General Practice (ODGP) has conducted an innovative Australian-first pilot orientation program designed for nurses in their first 12 ...

Pessimistic about job prospects in New Zealand, nursing students are looking across the Tasman. A snapshot survey of Dunedin third-year nursing students shows most want a job in New Zealand but the vast majority are pessimistic about their chance of ...