New program provides opportunities for practice nurses and general practice. The Practice Nurse Incentive Program, which starts on January 1 of next year, will bring great opportunities to nurses, GPs and consumers, according to participants of a workshop convened in ...

Nurses and midwives at more than 30 Sydney hospitals and community health centres to hold stop-work meetings. Nurses at hospitals and health centres across Sydney have voted to rally against the NSW government's industrial relations changes. The controversial public sector ...

A new report is encouraging more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to take up careers in health. Building a strong indigenous workforce is imperative to improving health outcomes and the life expectancy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people, with ...

A new study finds Australian nurses report greater job strain than their New Zealand counterparts, writes Fiona Cassie. Australian nurses are more likely to report high job strain than their New Zealand counterparts, the early data from a major longitudinal ...

Australian nurses are plagued by too many roles and titles. By Annie May The increasing number of new nursing roles and titles that exist in Australia is out of hand, say researchers. And with the many and varied titles comes ...

Rural nurses and midwives will be supported in undertaking further training. Nurses and midwives will be supported in undertaking further training away from their place of employment under the Nursing and Allied Health Rural Locum Scheme. The scheme, to be ...

A rapid-response nursing service for older people struggling in their homes has won the Innovation in Nursing category of the HESTA Australian Nursing Awards. Do whatever it takes and never say we can’t help. That is the philosophy of the ...

A new batch of scholarships aims to increase the number of prepared, confident and skilled nurses providing patient care in emergency departments. Nurses working, or planning to work in emergency departments may be eligible for a range of scholarships, covering ...

Aged care funding must close the nurse wage gap, says union. Last week’s federal budget failed to include a number of key workforce issues which would help deliver quality care for older Australians, says the ANF Yvonne Chaperon, ANF assistant ...

Nurses are the ‘front line’ answer to tackling NCDs but need greater support, says survey. Nurses want to lead in the global fight against the further spread of non-communicable diseases but workload and time constraints are holding them back, according ...