New research estimates around 46,500 nurses and midwives in Australia and New Zealand engage in harmful drinking. By Linda Belardi. Nurses working long hours are drinking harmful amounts of alcohol, a new study shows, prompting calls for workplace intervention programs ...

Victorian hospitals are seeking to halt the ANF’s rolling work stoppages with an application to the Federal Court today. The nurses' dispute worsens today with the four-hour stoppages spreading to three more hospitals - The Alfred, Sunshine and Latrobe Regional ...

The Australian Nursing Federation (VIC) will hold a stop-work meeting on Wednesday to plan its next move in the long-running dispute. Nurses should think carefully before they wager their jobs on a "drastic" union campaign, the body representing Victorian public ...

Victorian Health Minister David Davis said interstate nurses won’t be needed if mass resignations of public sector nurses go ahead. Victoria's health system will be able to withstand any nurse resignations that may come and staff will not need to ...

Hundreds of nurses will begin doorknocking a key marginal seat as the stalemate with the Baillieu government continues. Victorian nurses will doorknock the state's most marginal seat in the latest chapter of its protracted feud with the Liberal government for ...

The global movement of nurses provides an important opportunity to improve care for an increasingly multicultural society, writes Sophia Dywili. A relative of a patient asked: “Where do you come from?” “From Bankstown ma’am,” I replied, happy that I easily ...

If managers want to increase the retention of nurses in hospitals they need to adopt generation-specific strategies, writes Kate Shacklock. Skilled nurse shortages are well known and commonly experienced within the Australian nursing community. These shortages are also experienced across ...

The Royal Flying Doctor Service, in partnership with the McGrath Foundation, has appointed its first breast cancer nurse. Linda Belardi reports. Jo Beven’s patients live in an area that takes in three states - about 640,000 square kilometers. As part ...

A Victorian researcher is undertaking the first study to evaluate the impact of enrolled nurse medication administration on skill mix and workload in aged care. By Linda Belardi. Victorian aged care facilities have reduced the number of registered nurses employed ...

Different work conditions between states is behind a push for an industry-wide agreement. Linda Belardi reports. Almost half of surveyed practice nurses say they are looking to resign in the next six months. The Australian Practice Nurse Association’s survey of ...