Despite risk of exposure to influenza and other infectious diseases, vaccine take-up rates among health professionals remains dangerously low. By Amie Larter Despite almost constant recommendations for an annual influenza vaccination, there has been little change in the levels of ...
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Beyond the future
The career path for nurses is now branching out in many directions, giving rise to new, and challenging, opportunities. By Terry Smyth It’s an image thing. Nurses consistently rate as the most trusted profession, yet the public’s perception of a ...
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Nurses and midwives are committed to better staff-patient ratios. By Aileen Macalintal A record number of NSW nurses and midwives are backing pay and staff ratio demands, according to the NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association. The NSWNMA wants guaranteed safer ...
More »Government’s billion-dollar bid to boost aged care wages
While Labor’s plan to boost pay draws criticism from the Coalition and LASA, the ANF welcomes the Aged Care Workforce Compact. By Amie Larter The federal government has announced a $1.2 billion injection into the pocket of minimum wage aged ...
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University nursing courses are not only increasing intakes of indigenous students, they are also learning how to keep them. By Mardi Chapman. Changes in recruitment and retention strategies are ensuring university nursing courses are not only getting more indigenous recruits, ...
More »Care or cost-cutting: what is driving the push for health assistants
Health assistants are an emerging role in Australia’s public hospitals. Linda Belardi reports on the battle to ensure they support, rather than replace skilled nurses. “OUR NURSES have three years’ education, experience and training and hundreds of hours of medical ...
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Nurses around the country are struggling to find graduate placements so industry leaders are calling on state and federal governments to solve the urgent problem. Flynn Murphy reports It's an ugly time to be a graduate nurse in Australia. A ...
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We need to find graduate positions for new nurses to prevent a future staffing crisis. By Penny Paliadelis More than a decade ago, the National Review of Nursing Education report, Our Duty of Care, found that not all nursing graduates ...
More »SA $14m cut ‘short-sighted’
Taking money out of primary and preventative care will cost more in the long term, say nurses and health advocates. Leading South Australian health groups have joined forces to launch a petition against recommendations for cuts made in the McCann ...
More »Grads flock to Gold Coast
Planning and forecasting for the future workforce should be a nationwide focus to protect the needs of our graduate nurses, says Professor Ged Williams, executive director of nursing and midwifery at Gold Coast Hospitals and Health Service. By Amie Larter As ...
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