New depression resource for healthcare workers. Talking about depression helps break the “fear factor” of seeing it as a weakness instead of an illness. People aren’t ashamed to talk about or seek help for diabetes or asthma, so why would ...

Aged care number one priority for new ANF leadership. The Australian Nursing Federation has a new leadership team with Lee Thomas assuming the role of federal secretary and Yvonne Chaperon taking on the federal assistant secretary position. Prior to taking ...

Medicare Locals will boost GP access to aged care, Roxon says Health Minister Nicola Roxon says no one will be denied the right to see the doctor of their choice under Medicare Locals. The first group of Medicare Locals - ...

Minister says nurses are the backbone of health reform. If we get it right for you, the nurses, it’s likely we will be getting it right for the patients. These are the words of health minister Nicola Roxon, spoken to ...

A national approach is being taken to combat a significant shortfall in organ and tissue donations. Annie May reports. At this moment, there are more than 1700 Australians on official waiting lists – people hoping and praying that someone has ...

Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan handed down the 2010-11 Federal Budget on Tuesday 11 May. During the extensive build-up to the release of the budget’s health measures, RCNA lobbied heavily from a professional nursing perspective, extensively promulgating the key recommendations of ...

Update from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia Australia’s new national registration and accreditation scheme begins on 1 July 2010. From this date, a new National Law (the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009) will come into effect ...

As the winter chill hits Canberra, issues around nurse practitioners and aged care are high on the agenda at a political level. Our messages to government about the role of nurse practitioners in aged care appear to have been recognised ...

RCNA staff and ACT nurses gathered at the Australian War Memorial on 7 May to remember the Australian service nurses who lost their lives. ACT ceremony commemorates Australian service nurses RCNA staff and ACT nurses gathered at the Australian War ...

Bethany Hodgkins has always had an interest in science, having completed her first degree in nutrition at the University of Canberra (UC). At the beginning of 2010, she went back to uni to study nursing - the science of caring. ...