The Victorian branch of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, in their submission to a federal parliament Senate committee, has called for a one-day reduction in the working week, or for a 32 hour week rather than 38. The ANMF told the Select ...

An exhausted nurse finishing a 12-hour shift for the third time in a row is no longer an uncommon scenario since Covid has made its mark on the world's healthcare systems. Over 75 per cent of Australia's front-line workers are burned ...

Nursing's national voice has welcomed the migration cap's expansion and support of work rights for international students from last week's National Jobs Summit, but says the work is far from finished. ACN chief and adjunct professor Kylie Ward had hoped ...

For the fourth time, nurses and midwives have coloured the streets from Tweed Heads to Albury navy blue as they proudly wore their scrubs while advocating for better work conditions. The NSWNMA's statewide 24-hour strike on September 1 came in ...

The Honorary Fellowship Award handed down by Australia's largest nursing union, the Royal College of Nursing, went to Professor Patricia M. Davidson this year, recognising her distinguished career as a nurse, researcher and educator.  Having co-authored over 500 journal articles ...

Mental health care in Australia has undergone a dramatic transformation since the 1980s. Old-fashioned institutions where patients received psychological care in hospital wards made way for flexible, community-based environments with an individual-focused approach. Mental health nurses were compelled to adjust ...

Picture: Supplied. Nurse practitioner Sue Hegarty had the honour to receive the 2022 HESTA Nurse of the Year award. She was one of the three nominated nurses this year and won because of her exceptional contribution to the not-for-profit organisation ...

Professor Kylie Ward loves her job and is proud to be a nurse. In light of today being International Nurses Day, Nursing Review asked ACN's chief executive what the 12th of May means to her. She says that 2022's theme: ...

HESTA has announced its finalists for the Nursing & Midwifery Awards 2022 to shine a light on ordinary people doing extraordinary things in our health system.  Nursing Review spoke to the finalists and dove deeper into the trio's lives to find out about ...

Scrubs are day-in, day-out uniforms for nurses and other healthcare providers. From the outside looking in, it may seem like the uniform is just a singular part of the job that we don’t think about much, but the truth is ...