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With Australia set to reach its next major trigger point on the national COVID plan within 10 days, the Health Minister has outlined how COVID-positive people will be treated in the future. Greg Hunt anticipates Australia will reach the 80 ...

Interest in nursing has surged despite the pandemic, with the career choice topping other fields in applications received by five out of nine Victorian public universities. A bachelor’s degree in nursing is the prime choice for students applying to Australian ...

A fresh legal challenge to Covid-19 vaccination mandates for health workers in NSW is “very different” to the two lawsuits knocked back last week, a court has been told. John Edward Larter, a paramedic and deputy mayor of the Snowy Valleys Council, ...

A Tasmanian nurse who contracted Covid-19 last year has detailed how drastically her life has changed since recovering from the virus. Department of Public Health Secretary Kathrine Morgan-Wicks told reporters on Wednesday that the woman contacted her while in lockdown at the ...

Women in Labor could soon have another alternative for pain relief — water. Researchers at the University of Queensland are conducting research into whether labor pain could be reduced by water injections thanks to a new round of federal funding. ...

Doctors and nurses are joining the war on waste after disturbing images reveal a grim plastic waste problem that has been made worse by the Covid pandemic. The scale of the problem — about 70 million pieces of plastic in landfill — ...

A man contracted by Victorian contact tracers has been refused bail after police allege he threatened to have an isolating nurse deported unless she had sex with him. Abdulfatah Awow, 24, of Carlton, made a bail bid in Melbourne Magistrates Court on ...

'Freedom day’ in NSW has arrived, and families, staff and residents are preparing for increased visits with loved ones after enduring over three months of strict isolation. As part of the eased restrictions, aged care residents are permitted two visits ...

A Melbourne nurse has described patients “begging” for the coronavirus vaccine when they’re about to be put on life support as Victoria considers whether to fly in help from interstate. Royal Melbourne Hospital Intensive Care Unit nurse supervisor Michelle Spence ...

The nursing and midwifery workforce is the largest group of regulated health professionals representing approximately 60 per cent of the registered workforce in Australia, and contributes significantly to the health outcomes of individuals, families and communities. As the COVID-19 pandemic ...