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Industry & Reform
Federal budget a chance to empower nurses: Unions
As the Budget coincides with International Nurses Day, national nursing bodies say recognition must be matched with investment, warning that…
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Aged Care
Nurses central to $3b aged care reform
Nursing organisations have welcomed Labor’s $3b aged care package but warn the reforms will only succeed if workforce planning, training…
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Industry & Reform
Nurses key to Medicare success in rural Australia
Health organisations have told a Senate inquiry that Medicare is failing rural Australians, warning that restrictive telehealth rules, workforce shortages…
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Clinical Practice
Endorsed RNs now able to prescribe scheduled medicines
Endorsed RNs are now able to prescribe medications in partnership with a doctor or nurse practitioner – a change that…
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News
Nurses key to combatting falling vaccination rates
A National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance report has confirmed that Australia’s childhood vaccination rates are in decline, a…
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Career & Learning
CPD: Your career compass
The thought of accumulating a minimum of 20 hours of CPD per registration period might feel like a chore, it…
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News
ACN exec axed after alleged “financial irregularities”
The chief of a nursing peak body has been fired following an investigation finding alleged "financial irregularities" within the organisation.…
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News
ACN exec stood down pending investigation of ‘potential financial irregularities’
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) chief is one of the three executives who have been suspended pending an independent…
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News
New scholarships to boost aged care nurses
The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) has opened scholarships to help boost the aged care nursing workforce. Last week, scholarship…
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Specialty Focus
ACN honours nurse veterans through new scholarships and statue
To honour the memory and sacrifice of Vivian Bullwinkel and the massacred Bangka Island nurses, the Australian College of Nursing…
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