With Australia set to reach its next major trigger point on the national COVID plan within 10 days, the Health Minister has outlined how COVID-positive people will be treated in the future. Greg Hunt anticipates Australia will reach the 80 ...

Interest in nursing has surged despite the pandemic, with the career choice topping other fields in applications received by five out of nine Victorian public universities. A bachelor’s degree in nursing is the prime choice for students applying to Australian ...

Student nurses and midwives will be critical to assisting Australia’s recovery from COVID-19, but have gone largely unrecognised by the broader system, according to education leaders. Tracey Moroney, a professor of Nursing at the University of Wollongong, says there needs ...

A fresh legal challenge to Covid-19 vaccination mandates for health workers in NSW is “very different” to the two lawsuits knocked back last week, a court has been told. John Edward Larter, a paramedic and deputy mayor of the Snowy Valleys Council, ...

A Tasmanian nurse who contracted Covid-19 last year has detailed how drastically her life has changed since recovering from the virus. Department of Public Health Secretary Kathrine Morgan-Wicks told reporters on Wednesday that the woman contacted her while in lockdown at the ...

Marilyn Laws was prepping her backyard for a Christmas party last year when she tripped over and hurt her arm. Her husband rushed her to the emergency room, where she later underwent surgery for a broken forearm. Four months later ...

Australians living with mental illness are four times more likely to be hospitalised with a vaccine preventable illness compared to the rest of the population, according to recent studies. As NSW and Victoria emerge from extended lockdowns, experts are raising ...

Women in Labor could soon have another alternative for pain relief — water. Researchers at the University of Queensland are conducting research into whether labor pain could be reduced by water injections thanks to a new round of federal funding. ...

Nurses are calling on the NSW government to introduce hazard pay for health workers who have risked exposure to COVID-19. Registered nurse and NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association delegate, Jennifer Le, started an online petition urging the state premier to ...

Doctors and nurses are joining the war on waste after disturbing images reveal a grim plastic waste problem that has been made worse by the Covid pandemic. The scale of the problem — about 70 million pieces of plastic in landfill — ...