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With reports of nurses in New York burning their scrubs in protest against vaccine mandates and footage of workers protesting in Melbourne against lockdown, the divide between 'vaccine mindsets' is growing. Around 90 per cent of health workers in Australia ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this material may contain images of deceased persons. Across the vast, red desert of northwest South Australia, Terrie Ivanhoe is helping to deliver the COVID-19 response in the country’s most remote Indigenous ...

Nurses who have taken a prolonged break from their careers are being offered short courses to fast-track their return to the workforce.  La Trobe University’s ‘re-entry to practice course’ is the only approved 10-week course in Australia available for nurses ...

“I’ve had a patient strangle me, throw poo on me, throw urine at me. I’ve been spat at,” said registered nurse Jackson Heilberg in his short docu-series about violence in nursing.   “The verbal abuse is mind-blowing,” said another nurse. ...

Hundreds of Queensland nurses who oppose the health worker vaccine mandate may walk out of their jobs, according to a state employee union.  Nurses Professional Association of Queensland (NPAQ) Secretary Aenghas Hopkinson-Pearson said within the past week the union has ...

With ongoing social distancing and lockdowns, the use of telemedicine has skyrocketed across the globe, with more patients than ever reaching for the phone to meet their healthcare needs. A new survey has delved into how primary care nurses have ...

Twenty-six-year-old Gabby Cleophas was in the first semester of her nursing diploma when the pandemic first came to Australia. Just over a year and a half later, she now works in the centre of one of Queensland's mass vaccination hubs. ...

Unprecedented circumstances and workforce pressure has led more nurses, midwives and students to call for mental health support during COVID, a national counselling service has told Nursing Review. Mark Aitken, a registered nurse and manager from the Nurse & Midwife ...

Nurses in regional NSW fear that ongoing staff shortages and daily changes in exposure sites will leave them overwhelmed in the coming weeks, advocates have told Nursing Review. Health authorities have flagged the Central Coast as a growing area of ...

After hearing news he had won a national literary award Queensland palliative care nurse Adam Brannigan said he had no plans on becoming a best-selling author.  “I think a writer is not made of that stuff. I just keep offering ...