Nurses are indispensable to the proper functioning of healthcare systems. Beyond their medical and administrative duties, they are an important pillar of emotional and mental support to patients and their loved ones. Today, nurses are increasingly playing a greater role ...
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Nurses losing out financially in ‘underperforming, excessively complicated’ VET and TAFE system
The Australian Vocational Educational and Training (VET) sector is underperforming, excessively complicated and suffers from ad hoc policy approaches according to an interim report released by the Productivity Commission last week. The sector costs the government $6.1 billion each year ...
More »From the operating theatre to the flight deck: video
Making the transition from nurse to commercial pilot might seem an unusual career trajectory, but that’s the path Geoff Hay took after training as a nurse at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital in the 1980s and working in operating theatres ...
More »Cultural safety training to complement nursing code addition
Nurses and midwives will soon have access to a cultural safety training course, the Indigenous Health Minister announced yesterday. Ken Wyatt earmarked $350,000 to produce the Australian-first online course for those delivering frontline care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...
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