Amidst nurse and midwife shortages, and underemployment of graduates, the Australian Nursing Federation has welcomed the tightening of the 457 visa system. “There’s a predicted shortage of 109,000 nurses by 2025. In aged care alone, there is a current shortage ...

Nurses around the country are struggling to find graduate placements so industry leaders are calling on state and federal governments to solve the urgent problem. Flynn Murphy reports It's an ugly time to be a graduate nurse in Australia. A ...

We need to find graduate positions for new nurses to prevent a future staffing crisis. By Penny Paliadelis More than a decade ago, the National Review of Nursing Education report, Our Duty of Care, found that not all nursing graduates ...

Private providers and government must work together to keep costs down in this growing area of nursing. By Mary Casey There have been many changes in the care and nursing industry in the past 10 years, especially in the community ...

The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) is calling for health to be a top priority leading up to the federal election on September 14. ANF federal secretary Lee Thomas said they are calling on all the parties “to make safe patient ...

The shortage of palliative care nurses is being felt across the nation, with Queensland and remote areas having the least staff. By Yvonne Luxford Nurses are the main carers for people who are dying and their “critical role” in caring ...

Nurses, midwives and the public are being called to action by a new poll launched today by the Australian Nursing Federation. The poll, part of the “Stop passing the buck, Australia’s nursing grad’s need jobs” campaign, seeks to address whether ...

“Stop passing the buck, Australia’s nursing grads need jobs” is Australian Nursing Federation’s new national campaign aimed at ensuring jobs for Australia’s graduate nurses. The campaign was started in order to place pressure on Australian politicians to fund strategies to ...

WA is suffering from a shortage of midwives and GP-trained obstetricians, says AMA. A baby boom in Western Australia has highlighted a shortage of doctors trained to deliver them, the Australian Medical Association (AMA) has said. WA has a surging ...

Moves to increase university nursing enrolments is being questioned due to a shortage of clinical placements. The looming retirement of 'baby boomer' nurses will place unprecedented pressure on Australia's health workforce over the coming years, but contention surrounds how best ...