Australian dialysis patients are not signing up for kidney transplants and the waiting list has shrunk, despite a rise in kidney disease, new research shows. Kidney waiting list guidelines need to be overhauled to address the low number of Australian ...

New agreement provides a three per cent annual pay rise and improvements to allowances and working conditions. Queensland nurses and midwives are to vote on a new workplace agreement after a draft deal was reached with the new LNP government ...

Amanda S. Gossman provides tips on keeping documentation up-to-date. Nurses are talented and intelligent professionals, and our clinical skills, education and personal attributes are admired by many. These attributes need to be demonstrated at all times by our documentation principles. ...

Associate professor Roianne West, of James Cook University, is the first full-time Aboriginal academic in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition. She spoke to Aileen Macalintal. We understand how gruelling doing a PhD is. How did you brave the ...

Sandy Anderson is a women's health nurse and practice nurse at the Baarlinjan Medical Clinic at Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative. Last year, Sandy was awarded the ASHM/NSW STIPU/GPV Best Practice Nurse Award for Sexual Health for her work in ...

Adelaide researchers have found that emu oil has therapeutic potential, not only for the treatment of various common bowel diseases, but for intestinal damage caused by chemotherapy. New research from the University of Adelaide not only supports emu oil’s claimed ...

Continuing a tradition that began in 1931, the Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital Easter appeal hit a new record. Victorians have dug deep to raise a record breaking $15 million for Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital in their Good Friday Appeal. The ...

Alzheimer’s Australia is calling for an additional $500 million in the upcoming budget for dementia care services and research. Australia's aged care system is failing people with dementia. That's the feedback from public consultations held by Alzheimer's Australia around the ...

$60 million to target those at risk of entering residential aged care prematurely. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced 21 organisations will share $60 million to help build community-based accommodation for adults with severe or profound disability. The Supported Accommodation ...

Is the role of EN falling off the radar? By Disheartened EN/PCA I am tired of constantly hearing about the plight of graduate RNs. I read many nursing magazines and feel the professional role of EN is disappearing from view. ...