Nurses at five private hospitals across Sydney have taken to the streets in a historic 24-hour strike over pay rates. Dozens of nurses gathered at Martin Place in the city centre this morning demanding their employer, Macquarie Hospital Services, increase ...

One hundred staff faces the sack at RHH: Wilkie Up to 100 doctors and nurses at the Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH) face the sack because of Tasmanian government budget cuts, federal independent MP Andrew Wilkie says. In the state budget ...

The two nurses who were violently attacked at a western Sydney hospital say they feel "let down", after repeated calls for increased security were ignored. Up to 50 nurses, doctors and security guards stopped work at Blacktown Hospital on Friday ...

QLD Health still unsure of how many staff were being overpaid or underpaid, admits health minister. Queensland Health must regain the trust of its nurses as the bungled payroll saga continues, the nurses union says. Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) secretary ...

The impact bullying in the workforce has on retention and attraction of required workforce needs to be addressed by workforce planners. Close to one third of Australian workers say they have been bullied in the workforce, while 42 per cent ...

Cell death genes that are essential for cancer therapy have been identified. With the number of cases of cancer continuing to grow, a recently launched cancer nursing research unit will help meet the needs of people in NSW by extending ...

It's been three years since Jane McGrath's passing and her dream is taking flight, with the 67th McGrath Breast Care Nurse position literally taking to the skies. In a first for Australia, a fulltime breast cancer nurse will be joining ...

A new study is one of the few to examine pain in non communicative residents with dementia, writes Megan Stoyles. Enrolled nurses and personal care attendants in aged care facilities are better at recognising pain in non verbal residents with ...

Unless work-life issues are addressed, nurses will continue to feel increasingly burnt out. Gaps between policy and practice in ensuring a good work-life balance and the resulting "struggle to juggle" is resulting in nurses withdrawing and disengaging from the workforce, ...

Last chance for nurses and midwives due to renew registration by May 31. Australia’s nurses and midwives who were due to renew registration by May 31 and have not done so have only days left to apply or their registration ...