Community nurses, especially those working in cities, may be neglecting their health promotional role. Fiona Cassie reports. Nurses can get confused between health promotion and just one of its aspects, health education, according to new research. Dr Janet Roden, nurse ...

Nurses are leaving rural hospitals in alarming numbers as employers stray from core values of the profession, writes Susan Bragg. Worldwide, nursing is facing a significant challenge in recruiting people into the profession and then retaining them in the workforce. ...

Registered nurses need to be easily identified as the trained professionals they are, writes Peter Kieseker. This may involve a return to a uniform or some other sign of rank. Something seems badly wrong in the registered nursing profession. December’s ...

The rapid increase of fly-in fly-out workers in rural areas is posing a number of complex challenges for medical staff. Flynn Murphy reports. The resources bonanza has sparked one of Australia’s largest ever periods of uninterrupted economic growth, but the ...

The first participants in a national Emerging Nurse Leader Program talk to Linda Belardi about their ambitions, inspirations and the changes they would like to see. They are all smart, articulate and passionate about nursing - meet the future leaders ...

An education project has been designed to bridge the gap between primary and acute healthcare. By Linda Belardi. Rural acute care nurses will be targeted in an education program designed to help drive down avoidable readmissions in NSW hospitals. From ...

Domestic violence is directly linked with widespread productivity issues at thousands of Australian workplaces, a national workplace study has found. Nearly a third of employees included in the 2011 study – many of them nurses - identified themselves as victims ...

Compromised standards of patient care are forcing many rural nurses to quit, research suggests. A Charles Sturt University (CSU) PhD graduate may have some of the answers to the persistent problem of nursing workforce shortages due to challenges in retaining ...

Amanda Gossman combined her clinical expertise as a registered nurse with an interest in the law to forge a new career as a legal nurse consultant. Linda Belardi reports. Legal nurse consulting is an emerging specialty area for nurses. First ...

While the number of part-time workers rose by 33,600 in November, overall employment fell, the latest job figures show. By Colin Brinsden. An unexpected tumble in the number of people employed in full-time work justified the Reserve Bank of Australia's ...