A coalition of six organisations, including the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Foundation (AMNF) and the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association (APNA), have released a joint statement urging Minister Hunt to consider a nurse-led vaccination model. Under the plan, 250 ...

On the frontlines of hospitals and emergency units around New Zealand, nurses and midwives are suffering from deteriorating working conditions.  Nurses claim they are at breaking point, reporting severe exhaustion, dangerous staffing levels and unacceptable pay and conditions. “People, including ...

When asked what keeps her going during 12-hour shifts at one of NSW's major vaccine clinics, nurse unit manager Disha Balraj credits the camaraderie felt by everyone on her team. “We have come a long way in five months," she ...

Nurse practitioners are calling on the federal government to stop ignoring them and make use of a valuable resource to help fight the pandemic. As the vaccine rollout continues to become unbearably complicated, the Australian College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) ...

A collection of stories paying tribute to the efforts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives was launched in Melbourne yesterday. Caring and Community: Stories from Aboriginal Nurses and Midwives details the achievements of eleven women who have ...

It’s not hard to see how people working in the health care sector can develop a sense of powerlessness with the inevitable constraints, pressures and compromises we can face every day in our work. This might include a relentlessly busy ...

Nursing has changed enormously since I started my nursing training as one of the last cohort of solely hospital trained nurses in the late 1980s. Although we transitioned to a degree qualified profession more than 30 years ago, there are ...

As the world continues to navigate through an unprecedented and ever-changing pandemic, the role of nurses remains visibly crucial to the care of patients. After all, it is our nurses who spend, and continue to spend, enormous amounts of time providing direct care to patients who ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the Federal Government’s record budget boost to healthcare spending is opening up more management positions in the healthcare sector for nurses, and those with postgraduate degrees will be perfectly positioned to advance into leadership roles. The ...

Burnout is on the rise in our health sector. It is an occupational phenomenon resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed – and, in the health and social sectors, chronic stress is the rule, not the ...