A new film by a registered nurse turned filmmaker has been released, with the help of Edith Cowan University, to celebrate the dedication of our nurses and midwives. Helen Hanson-Searle is an RN, actor, writer, director and sometimes opera singer; ...

Nurses and Midwives at the embattled Blacktown Hospital in Sydney are continuing protests against their employer, again voicing frustration at understaffing and what they see as a disregard for patient safety. Staff and members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ ...

A new 24-hour donation drive has been announced by The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) so Australians can give back to the nurses who've led from the front during a year beset by bushfires and a deadly pandemic. The inaugural ...

An Ipswich nurse committed to managing chronic diseases in her community has taken out the Health Minister’s Award for Nursing Trailblazers. Shannon Wallis was recognised for her work on MeCare (Mobile enabled Care), in which she developed a virtual nursing ...

Paula’s regular shift is 2pm to 10pm, she tells me. It’s only ten past and today a police officer has already come to her desk to fill her in on a domestic violence-related incident with mental health implications. The incident ...

As the NSW government looks to hand down its 2020-21 budget, treasurer Dominic Perrottet has given people a taste of things to come in his pre-budget announcements on Sunday. The budget will be squarely aimed at post-COVID-19 recovery, stimulating the economy ...

The next wave of the pandemic may be a wave of mental health disorders that will arise throughout Australia. Preliminary data taken in the height of lockdowns showed that people are already reporting psychological distress during the pandemic. One preliminary ...

Maree Bernoth is angry. It doesn’t appear straight away; she’s affable on the phone and the kind of interviewee you enjoy chatting to on a Friday. She’s open and likes a yarn. I ask her if I can record our ...

In a departure from the policies taken to the last federal election, Labor leader Anthony Albanese has come out in favour of minimum staffing levels in aged care.   Speaking to the National Press Club, Albanese decried the state of ...

The CEO of an independent aged care home in NSW is calling for help from the government as she is forced to reinstate some lockdown visitation measures and her home is on the brink of running out of PPE. Viv ...