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Healthcare workers are being offered $20,000 worth of incentives to relocate to regional and rural areas in a Minns government effort to fill critical shortages in the bush. The NSW Labor government has doubled the amount being offered to nurses and healthcare ...

The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) critiqued last week’s article in The Australian, saying it misrepresented the College’s position on skilled migration for aged care nurses. Chief of ACN Kylie Ward said ACN was committed to work with the Government ...

Nursing and gymnastics – two seemingly different areas find a harmonious union in Amanda Edwards' life as she balances her life as a registered nurse and a gymnast. The 22-year-old nursing student from Edith Cowan University (ECU) represented Australia at ...

A new project will allow student nurses to learn how to negotiate verbal and physical abuse without being put in harm's way. IVADE is an immersive computer simulation program by Edith Cowan University (ECU), made to help nurses and nursing ...

To honour the memory and sacrifice of Vivian Bullwinkel and the massacred Bangka Island nurses, the Australian College of Nursing (ACN) announced a new scholarship for nurses.  ACN announced 22 scholarships to commemorate the sacrifice of the 21 nurses who ...

Western Australia’s primary health care (PHC) nurses were found to be the most underutilised in Australia. The Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA) released a survey and found that more than a third of all PHC nurses working in ...

With the recent rise of media reports about overwhelmed emergency departments across Australia, calls to the Federal Government have been made to utilise and increase nurses. Hospitals nationwide are struggling to cope with overcrowded emergency departments – resulting in prolonged ...

One hospital's mistake claimed the life of Jon and Diana Searle’s first child, but a court has found the baby’s death was preventable if staff had noticed the error in time. On Friday, South Australian coroner Naomi Kereru handed down ...

Nurse-to-patient ratios have been met with concern after coming into effect last week at Perth Children’s Hospital. Last Monday, nurse-to-patient ratios of one nurse to every three patients started at Perth Children’s Hospital emergency department, with other emergency departments following ...

A mental health nurse graduated with her master's degree, hoping to climb the ranks to help patients at her rural hospital. Sonia Bayley was a consultant liaison nurse at Alice Springs Hospital when she realised she needed to further her ...