Structured support systems will assist nurses to pursue further study, writes Annie May. Fostering further study among nurse employees is an important recruitment and retention strategy for hospitals. However, the support to do this isn’t always there, according to new ...

Darragh O Keeffe reports on new efforts to provide quality clinical placements for the health professionals of tomorrow. Providing students from various disciplines, such as nursing, physiotherapy and podiatry, the opportunity to learn and work together in aged care facilities ...

A new snapshot Australian survey of mental health consumers and carers indicates continuing difficulty in accessing care. The lack of a specialist mental health nursing workforce in Australia continues to make it difficult, and frustrating, for consumers to access the ...

New figures show there are more doctors and nurses, but supply varies across regional areas. There has been an increase in nurses and doctors over the past year, new figures reveal, however, there is concern that the numbers aren’t enough ...

Clinical training for health professionals has been given a shot in the arm. Extra undergraduate places for health professionals will be supported by a boost in clinical training days, with nurses to see the highest increase. The government has announced ...

Retired nurses, policemen and school teachers may become the new front line against child abuse under a new proposal. More than 1300 children at risk of abuse and neglect don't have allocated case workers in Victoria, despite money being thrown ...

It has been a rocky start to the national registration and accreditation scheme, with AHPRA coming under fire for its handling of international students and overseas-qualified nurses. Annie May reports. In the two months since taking over the registration of ...

University-trained nurses are here to stay, writes Peter Kieseker. Four second year nursing students from the University of the Sunshine Coast stand excitedly – and nervously – in front of a ward office in Nambour Hospital awaiting their first “real ...

Negotiations resume as government agrees to “genuine talks”. South Australian nurses have suspended industrial action over staffing levels and resumed negotiations with the state government on a new enterprise agreement. Nurses recently accepted a 15 per cent pay rise over ...

International nursing students who feared they would be deported at the end of the month because of changes to nursing registration rules have won a reprieve. Hundreds of international nursing students caught up in the transition to the new national ...