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Leadership groups will help guide best practice. The federal government has pledged $58 million to create special leadership groups, made up of nurses and doctors, within the hospital system. The lead clinician groups will help guide local hospital networks on ...

Nurses are still seen as most trusted by public. Nurses have again been voted the most ethical and honest professionals. In the annual Roy Morgan Image of Professions survey 89 per cent of Australians rated nurses as most trusted. Nurses ...

Patient safety and care is set to improve when nurses have access to electronic health records, according to the profession. From last month, every Australian was given an individual healthcare identification after the federal parliament passed legislation giving the scheme ...

With insufficient numbers entering nursing, new innovative models of recruitment and retention are needed. Insanity, according to Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And it could soon be a definition that ...

Caffeine can help those working shifts or nights to make fewer errors, according to a new study by Cochrane researchers.  The findings have implications for health workers and for any industry relying on shift or night work. More than 15 ...

Plans are underway to merge two national cancer agencies. The federal government plans to merge the commonwealth’s two leading cancer agencies – Cancer Australia and the National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre. Health Minister Nicola Roxon said the single national ...

New research shows that women who breastfeed are not receiving adequate advice as to the possible effects of medication.  Research released by Dr Lisa Amir of Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, found women are making the decision ...

Hospital management and policy is hindering Australian hospitals from promoting and supporting breastfeeding, according to a new study. Looking specifically at what stopped hospitals from gaining Baby Friendly Health Initiative (BFHI) accreditation, the University of South Australia study involved focus ...

Annie May looks at how the nursing profession fared in the latest national report card on health. Nursing and midwifery professionals have the lowest growth rate within the nation’s health services industries, which as a whole is growing at a ...

From the beginning of this month, nurses and midwives will be under a national registration scheme. The introduction of a single national registration and accreditation system for health professions became a reality on the first day of this month. The ...