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 ...

Two thirds of Australia’s nurses and midwives due to renew registration. Nurses and midwives who have yet to renew their registration, which is due May 31, are being urged to do so on time or risk not being able to ...

Nurses would support the introduction of the physician’s assistant, as long as opportunities for the nursing profession were not compromised. Significant medical workforce shortages, particularly in rural and remote locations, have prompted a range of responses in Australia at both ...

Legally forcing midwives into compulsory collaborative arrangements won’t work, says a midwifery academic. Writing in a recent issue of Women and Birth, Karen Lane, a lecturer at Deakin University criticised what she called the new “militarised” arrangements for midwives. She ...

Launch of new online diabetes education program for Practice Nurses set to enhance Australian diabetes management The Australian Practice Nurses Association and the Australian Diabetes Educators Association (ADEA) have launched a new online education program, ‘Diabetes Management in the Primary ...

Senior clinical nurses can effectively contribute to the pandemic influenza public health response. Annie May reports. On 24 April, 2009 the World Health Organisation advised of an outbreak of a new strain of flu – H1N1 Influenza 09, to become ...

Rallies continue to gain support to put a halt to any funding cuts to medical and health research. Researchers in Brisbane will be taking part in a rally to show their support for a campaign aimed at raising awareness of ...

Community nurses would benefit from forming a strong united face, writes Sandra Lucas. The health care system of Australia, as in many other countries, is moving out of large acute care hospitals and into the community. This is due to ...

Increasing the amount of clinical placements is the aim of a new Queensland partnership. A new joint project between USQ and Toowoomba Hospital to increase the quality and quantity of nursing student clinical placements has the potential to address an ...

Protest outside Productivity Commission offices over aged care nurses wages. Nurses in the aged care industry yesterday demonstrated in Melbourne demanding better wages and more care for older Australians. The nurses, who marched on the Productivity Commission offices where hearings ...