With a predicted shortfall of about 100,000 nurses by 2025, many people say one of the main problems is the shortage of graduate positions in the nation's hospitals. By Flynn Murphy In the last issue of Nursing Review we reported ...

Staff at a Brisbane hospital have been instructed to turn away patients presenting after 10pm, with management guidelines suggesting nursing staff offer sick patients a “blanket and pillow”. Nurses and other health professionals at Wynnum Health Services, formerly Wynnum Hospital, ...

Amie Larter speaks to the head of the school of nursing and midwifery at Edith Cowan University, Professor Di Twigg What first prompted your choice for a career in nursing? I spent a weekend with a high school friend. Her ...

Graduate Isabel Dykes gives an insight into the practical advantages of rural graduate placements. Despite completing my nursing degree at UTS and attending placements at Sydney's metropolitan hospitals it was my rural placements in Bellingen and McLean that I loved ...

Nurses are the very important 'glue' that holds together the delivery of services using telehealth. By David Allen With rapid growth in the use of technology and communication systems including the internet, the application of that to healthcare is inevitable. ...

Meals on Wheels has pedalled a long way since a woman on a tricycle delivered the first tucker in 1952, writes Natasha Egan. A three-year study is investigating best practice and new approaches of the hot meal delivery service Meals ...

Industry leaders are calling on governments to act on workplace injuries, verbal abuse and violence. Cathy Wever reports With issues to contend with such as injuries from manual handing, aggression and even violence from patients and their families, the workplace ...

With the Australian Nursing Federation polling nurses, midwives and the public on whether the Gillard government is doing enough to address staff shortages, Nursing Review asked the Minister for Health, Tanya Plibersek, her thoughts. As a patient, as a carer, ...

The secretary of the Queensland Nurses Union, Beth Mohle, gives her thoughts on how to avoid shortages predicted in the Health Workforce 2025 report There is no doubt there is a lot affecting nursing and midwifery right now at a ...

The role of the disability nurse is under threat due to low wages and a poor perception amongst the community coupled with proposed cuts to salary benefits by the NSW government. Disability nurses play a vital role in the community ...