Plans include grants, campaign to attract talent from other fields.  The NHMRC has unveiled plans for how the $200 million Boosting Dementia Research budget measure will be spent. This includes the opening of the new Dementia Research Grants Scheme, worth ...

Online resource aids the development of staff who address cases of genital mutilation. By Amie Larter.  Nurses and midwives now have access to an online resource to inform those working with women and girls affected by, or at risk of, ...

Conference speakers call for staff to spread the word about improving service to patients by expanding their scope of practice. Nursing engagement and expansion were the hot topics at Southern Cross University’s recent healthcare conference. Frances Hughes, the chief nursing and ...

Project will combine monitoring with RN support. HCF, Telstra and Healthways have formed a partnership to deliver the largest telehealth service of its kind in Australia. The project, which will involve bio-metric monitoring combined with telephone-based health support from RNs, ...

Five of the top managers in the country discuss their careers and how they advocate for the profession. By Angela Tufvesson ‘Take people with you’ Dr Rosemary Bryant, Commonwealth chief nurse and midwifery officer Rosemary Bryant is better placed than most to ...

Distress from ethical quandaries takes its toll on workers. A lecturer in nursing from the University of the Sunshine Coast is on a mission to shine the spotlight on moral distress in healthcare, particularly from the perspective of nurses. Janice ...

Chronically ill, parents of young children face highest increases in cost of care, study shows. By Amie Larter. New research puts the real price tag on co-payments. The elderly, families and those with chronic conditions will all be hit harder ...

Professor puts out call for distinctively Australian tomes to be reproduced in new volumes. An Australian academic is on a mission to find old nursing journals, and she is calling on nurses for help. Professor Megan-Jane Johnstone, academic chair in ...

The health system needs better retention of nurses or the expense will be crippling.  To ensure a sustainable health system for Australia, workforce planning and reform that target nurse retention are critical, a recent study shows. Published online in early ...

Fifield cites eligibility blow-out; providers decry short notice.  The government has announced it has decided to cease the dementia and severe behaviours supplement. Funding will stop from July 31. “The supplement was designed to provide additional resources for providers who ...