Properly staffing aged care facilities with an adequate nursing skill mix and at least four hours and 18 minutes per-patient per-day care minimum would not cost the sector anything more than it currently outlays. That’s according to a report presented ...

Mei Krishnasamy has a strong Cardiff accent that belies her many years in Melbourne. The Welsh native has been living in Australia on and off since the early 2000s, and since 2016 has been the inaugural chair of cancer nursing ...

Australian nurses work the least amount of overtime, are generally happy at work, and have more days off when compared to their international counterparts. These are the observations of a recent international study into the links between job satisfaction, absenteeism ...

Long hours, short staffing, workplace safety, higher salaries, bullying in the workplace. These are a few of the issues that are constants for the nurses of Australia. In a federal election year, coupled with a Royal Commission into Aged Care, ...

According to the World Health Organization, around half of the world’s population lives in rural areas but only 38 per cent of nurses and 25 per cent of doctors work in those areas. In Australia, people living in rural and ...

As of 2016, the national mental health commission found that the cost of mental ill-health is approximately $4000 dollars to each tax-paying Australian and more than $60 billion to the nation as a whole. Couple this with the statistic that ...

Nursing shortages have been predicted worldwide, with headlines reporting that this is one of the dominant issues in healthcare today. Nursing attrition is on the cusp of becoming a crisis, with perilous implications for patients and healthcare providers alike. Can ...

Being open to changing tack mid-career is something we’re told we need to get used to, and that’s exactly what Jason Honnery from the mid-north coast of NSW is about to do. Currently a patient transport officer at Macksville hospital, the ...

There are nearly 400,000 nurses registered here in Australia and all of them can trace their nursing lineage back to Florence Nightingale. That is one of the fascinating tales from the new book Nurses of Australia: The Illustrated Story by ...

Education and employment trends for nurses are ready to soar as statistics in the Good Universities Guide show. Published by The Good Education Group, data shows that more than 250,000 jobs will be created over the next five years in ...