nurses
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Mar- 2025 -6 MarchIndustry & Reform
Pay rises for aged care nurses funded with additional $2.6 billion
The Albanese government has quashed any remaining questions of how it will afford a pay rise for over 60,000 aged…
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Feb- 2025 -20 FebruaryNews
Health sector reacts to antisemitism ā Pollies speak out, nurses rally, migration questioned
A nurse who vowed to ākillā Israeli patients and another who claimed he had already sent Israeli patients to the afterlife have…
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Jan- 2025 -31 JanuaryWorkforce
CPD made easy ā The experts’ guide to continuing professional development
Nursing is one Australiaās most in-demand professions, despite nurses and midwives already representing over half of the nationās health workforce.…
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Nov- 2024 -14 NovemberTop Stories
Gender pay disparity still rife in nursing
New data has shown that the gender of an Australian nursing graduate has a profound effect on how much they…
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11 NovemberTop Stories
Primary care involves more than GPs. A new review shows how patients can better accessĀ care
Stephen Duckett, The University of Melbourne Australians today are more likely than previous generations to live with complex and chronic…
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4 NovemberTop Stories
Albanese pledges fee-free TAFE as election campaign kicks off
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has thrown Laborās first election pitch at a major campaign rally in Adelaide on Sunday, saying…
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Oct- 2024 -28 OctoberTop Stories
1/3 of healthcare workers delay tax return despite looming deadline
Data has revealed that over a third (38%) of health and wellness professionals are yet to file their tax return…
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Jul- 2024 -18 JulyTop Stories
Supply and demand: Nursing shortfall predicted to grow
As Australian nurses grapple with sector wide staff shortages, the Department of Health and Aged Care has revealed that demand…
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18 JulyClinical Practice
End-of-life patients suffering unnecessarily due to pain med shortage
In the past year, at least six pain-relief products have become unavailable in Australia. The Australian & New Zealand Society…
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15 JulyTop Stories
Violence against healthcare workers increasing
University of Queensland (UQ) research shows violence against healthcare workers is increasing in frequency and severity, not only in Australia…
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May- 2024 -27 MayNews
NSW offers nurses pay rise, short of unions demands
The NSW government has offered public sector workers, including nurses, a three-year pay rise worth 10.5 per cent, which is…
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2 MayIndustry & Reform
Government program to help nurse burnout
A $25.2m government program for nurses is being funded in hopes of combatting burnout, stress, and abuse that leads them…
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Apr- 2024 -8 AprilOpinion
NSW may end its COVID vaccine mandate for health workers. That doesnāt mean it was a bad idea in the firstĀ place
Katie Attwell, The University of Western Australia and Jessica Kaufman, Murdoch Children's Research Institute Months after COVID vaccines were introduced…
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Mar- 2024 -28 MarchIndustry & Reform
Aged care nurses call for accountability
Around 60 aged care nurses and carers from across Australia travelled to Canberra to address "ongoing failures" by providers, and…
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Feb- 2024 -29 FebruaryTop Stories
Aged care sector failing to find nurses
New figures from the Department of Health and Aged Care found that residential aged care is facing a gap of…
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Jan- 2024 -29 JanuarySpecialty
The latest innovations in workwear
From the use of robotics and artificial intelligence in surgery to wearable devices that physicians can use to monitor patients,…
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Dec- 2023 -14 DecemberSpecialty
New study finds night shift workers need support to manage metabolic health conditions
A study by Monash University says that work policies must be designed to target specific barriers that night shift workers…
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Sep- 2023 -25 SeptemberNews
Aged care, nurse workforces grew the most this quarter
The labour market update for 2023's September quarter found employment grew the most in the aged and disabled carer, registered…
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Aug- 2023 -2 AugustNews
WA primary health care nurses found to be undervalued
Western Australiaās primary health care (PHC) nurses were found to be the most underutilised in Australia. The Australian Primary Health…
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Jul- 2023 -24 JulySpecialty
‘Reclaim your health’: burnout tips for aged care nurses
Overworked, overstretched, and overstressed ā it is no secret that aged-care nurses are burning out and quitting their jobs across…
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17 JulyTop Stories
Funding boost to pave the way for aged care nurses
The Australian College of Nursing has received a funding boost to help train and upskill more nurses to work in…
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May- 2023 -22 MayAged Care Royal Commission
Accountability concerns rise as aged care workers await wage hike
Concerns are mounting among industry experts about the government's lack of enforceable rules to ensure the pay rise funds are…
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Feb- 2023 -22 FebruarySpecialty
Unsafe staffing ratios pushes UK and Australian nurses ‘into a corner’
British nurses are staging a 48-hour strike and 'won't back down' in a bitter row with the government over wages…
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2 FebruaryTop Stories
Not enough workers to solve labour shortage in 2025
The aged care staffing shortage is likely to deepen by 2025, a recent report found. A National Skills Commission (NSC)…
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Nov- 2022 -24 NovemberIndustry & Reform
‘Overworked’ nurses at breaking point
Nurses and midwives have taken to the streets as part of a 24-hour strike to pressure the state government into…