Tasmanian teachers and nurses will strike for better pay as the state government refuses to budge on its two per cent offer. The Liberal government's proposed increase was refused by unions in their bid for greater wage parity with the ...

The Royal Hospital for Women in Randwick, NSW, is offering a homebirth option for low-risk pregnancies. One of only 14 public hospitals across the country currently doing so, the new scheme provides the support of two experienced midwives at no ...

Poor sleep is a pain in the leg. Literally. University of California Berkeley researchers have uncovered a link between poor sleep and increased sensitivity to pain. The team applied uncomfortable levels of heat to the legs of 25 undergraduates, first ...

As of 2016, the national mental health commission found that the cost of mental ill-health is approximately $4000 dollars to each tax-paying Australian and more than $60 billion to the nation as a whole. Couple this with the statistic that ...

Academics at New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing are pushing the boundaries with their latest innovation in nurse training. As part of their Star Trek-inspired Holodeck project, Associate Professor Winslow Burleson and his team are using state of the ...

Nurses and midwives will soon have access to a cultural safety training course, the Indigenous Health Minister announced yesterday. Ken Wyatt earmarked $350,000 to produce the Australian-first online course for those delivering frontline care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

This summer Australia has endured record breaking temperatures and the hottest December on record, with the 27th of December becoming the hottest nationally recorded mean maximum at 40.19C. At the time of writing, the temperature across all of South Australia ...

As we head into the Australia day long weekend, the AMNF has followed the lead of the AMA and many prominent politicians and clinical experts to call for pill testing at Australian music festivals. Federal secretary Annie Butler said: “Supported ...

Poorly trained security staff at one of Queensland's biggest hospitals aren't able to cope with violent patients and could be dumped amid concerns they are putting nurses in danger. One of the state's nursing lobby groups said nurse reports of ...

Social media is a great way to advocate for change and network. Social media is a great way to get in trouble. Nurses hear both of these pieces of advice in near equal measure. Indeed, international researchers, led by Associate ...