Study find early-career staff in rural settings must take on more responsibility and need more support.  A senior nursing lecturer at the University of New England has found rural graduates need more support when completing transition-to-practice programs. Although “workload, skills ...

Academic says improving security for healthcare workers will take more research and better design.  People in the healthcare professions are amongst the most exposed to workplace aggression, second only to that of protection and security services personnel. This was the ...

An admired academic, researcher and nurse is leaving her university post to pursue national and international policy matters. Professor Jill White, dean of Sydney Nursing School, will finish up her tenure at the University of Sydney on January 21. White, who has ...

Amanda McClelland, Australian senior emergency health adviser with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, worked in Sierra Leone from July to September. McClelland, who has recently returned to West Africa, gave Nursing Review a rundown on ...

Laurie Bickhoff, RN and founder and editor of the Defining Nursing blog, is completing a transition-to-cardiology nursing program after last year finishing a transition to practice with Hunter New England Local Health District. In 2012, she was one of five ...

Heads of nursing schools grapple with big issues all the time; here’s what’s front of mind for three such leaders now. The reforms of the education minister, Christopher Pyne, have been a hot-button topic over the last few months – ...

Reflective practice should be a tool for building resilience against racism in nursing and midwifery, attendees at the recent CATSINaM conference were told. Griffith University professor of first peoples health Roianne West delivered the presentation, following recent membership forums at ...

A sloppy, poorly constructed application can doom a deregistered worker’s hopes. The process of applying for reinstatement to the nurse’s register, having been suspended, is not to be taken in a cavalier fashion. The neatness or sloppiness of the application ...

Woman’s new musical show weaves together the joy, pain, compassion and humour of the profession. A Victorian nurse is touring her one-woman musical comedy act – a show born from a desire to promote the nursing profession. Zuleika Khan, who ...

The role of the nurse has probably never been more important in society than today. An ageing population combined with record hospital admissions and cuts to health budgets around the country, topped with pressure to discharge patients as soon as ...