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The Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN) has urged the Federal Government to consider greater access to MBS items for Credentialed Mental Health Nurses (CMHNs) as a means of dealing with high demand for mental health services. This comes ...

Hospitals will be stretched thin on Tuesday as thousands of nurses are set to walk off the job for 24 hours despite being banned from taking industrial action. Crisis talks between health authorities and nursing industry representatives failed to reach a ...

While Kasey Chambers was inspired to write the song entitled ‘Not Pretty Enough’ about her feeling that she did not fit in to the music industry, many injured children can relate to the sentiment of not being pretty enough: feeling ...

An experienced nurse says she can’t get a job in Western Australia’s healthcare sector. The woman, Ebony, obtained her nursing degree in Australia and recently returned home after almost 14 years in the UK. She said it was “easy as pie” to ...

A Sydney doctor has declared “pre-Covid life has died” as he made an impassioned plea for the nation to get vaccinated as the only way of returning to some form of normality. In a now viral Facebook post, Sacha Kepreotis described ...

A recent Roy Morgan survey of Australians’ perceptions of the professions has once again put nurses at the top of the list. The Image of Professions Survey 2021 found 88 per cent of Australians rated nurses ‘high’ or ‘very high’ ...

We’ve lived with it for so long, it was beginning to seem like the Royal Commission on Aged Care would always be with us. But now that the astonishing, apparently never-ending series of revelations that shocked the nation will no ...

For some people a profession is what pays the bills, somewhere they go every day for eight or so hours. Others are more lucky and can say their profession is something they love to do, a calling, and for an ...

Lung cancer advocates have launched a petition calling for government funding for 15 specialist lung cancer nurses. Led by Lung Foundation Australia, the petition was launched this week at the 2020 Lung Cancer Conference to ask for the specialist nurses ...

  Managing your own health while navigating the health system can be hard enough for most of us, but imagine having to do it with the added burden of being homeless. That’s the scenario facing clients of Erin Longbottom, nurse ...