A $1.2 billion workforce compact between government, providers and unions hopes to turn around the poor wages and working conditions in Australian aged care. By Darragh O Keeffe and Natasha Egan. The federal government’s aged care reforms are a victory ...

Survey asked emergency care staff in NSW to voice their priorities. By Linda Belardi. Delayed patient access to beds and inadequate staffing continue to be the critical challenges facing emergency care in NSW, a statewide survey shows. Increasing demand for ...

Older workers could be a panacea for the aged care industry’s workforce woes, Darragh O Keeffe reports. Forget Gen Y. If the findings of research conducted by Bupa Care Services are anything to go by, aged care providers should be ...

From conducting forensic medical exams to appearing in court as an expert witness, forensic nursing is a unique and emerging specialty. Linda Belardi talks to one nurse working in the field. It was in the years spent working in accident ...

Innovative approaches are needed to stop the reliance on midwives to fill general nursing gaps in rural and remote areas, new research finds. By Linda Belardi. Rural midwives forced to work in a dual role fear they will lose their ...

The role of the family and child health nurse in Tasmania is fast eroding, Flynn Murphy reports. A push to have mainstream health services play a greater role in family and children’s health in Tasmania has raised concerns that general ...

Final results of a nation-wide survey on nurses’ attitudes to their workplace have been released. By Linda Belardi. Nurses are significantly more dissatisfied with their workplace than the average Australian worker national comparative data has shown. Despite being more skilled ...

Universities have held back student growth in the new demand-driven system, Annabel McGilvray reports. Despite strong demand and new uncapped enrolments, many of Australia’s nursing and midwifery schools have limited their 2012 student intakes due to continuing clinical placement uncertainty. ...

Retention strategies are urgently needed as graduate employment has weakened in recent years, an inquiry into insecure work has been told. By Linda Belardi. The Queensland nurses’ union has called for urgent stimulus funding to secure employment for thousands of ...

Nurses continue their industrial action in protracted dispute with the Victorian government. Nurses have defied Federal Court orders to cease all unprotected industrial action, vowing to continue work stoppages at 15 hospitals across the state. Secretary of the Australian Nursing ...