The 2019/20 Australian Bureau of Statistics found that almost 80 per cent of workers in aged care were female, with over 40 per cent of CEO positions being occupied by women – the highest workforce percentage in Australia. Nationally, the ...
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What older Aussies need, deserve and expect should drive reform: LASA
It has been over a week since the federal government released the final report from the aged care royal commission and, with the government not set to announce its full response until the May budget, the sector has had time ...
More »UOW academic makes WHO list of nurse and midwife leaders
Four Australians have made the 2020 List of 100+ Outstanding Nursing and Midwifery leaders around the world. The list was announced to mark last year's International Year of the Nurse and Midwife and is a joint venture from the World Health Organization (WHO), ...
More »New consortium will make immediate difference to aged care: opinion
One issue the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety’s report hasn’t changed is that Australians still do not have visibility of whether care provided by a residential aged care facility is good, bad or indifferent. The publicly available ...
More »Two reports for the price of one: the royal commission numbers game shows there is still work to do
The final report from The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety was released today, and after two years it looks like this could only be the halfway point on the way to transforming the sector. Titled Care, Dignity ...
More »The aged care system is broken: we need proper, hard reform – Ged Kearney
On Friday the Aged Care Royal Commission handed its final report the government. And fellow nurses, haven’t we been waiting for this for a long time. For decades, we’ve been raising our voices, telling anyone who would listen that the ...
More »Should the COVID-19 vaccine be mandatory for healthcare workers?
With phase 1a of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout underway this week, questions still stand about the public's appetite to get vaccinated. Recent data from the Melbourne Institute’s fortnightly Taking the Pulse of the Nation (TTPN) survey found that willingness to ...
More »Aussie CEO makes WHO list of nurse and midwife leaders
Four Australians have made the 2020 List of 100+ Outstanding Nursing and Midwifery leaders around the world. The list was announced to mark last year's International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife and is a joint venture from the World Health Organization ...
More »Nurses set new mums on the right path through the right@home program
New research has found that mothers from disadvantaged backgrounds show improved mental and physical wellbeing when given regular visits from maternal and child health nurses during pregnancy, and up until the child is two years old. Maternal mental health is ...
More »Nurse crawls from car wreck, still makes her shift
An American nurse involved in a 1.5 mile long car pile up crawled out of the wreckage of her car and went straight to her shift. Rebecca Benson described the scene that left six dead and 36 people injured as ...
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