A $25.2m government program for nurses and midwives is being funded in hopes of combatting burnout, stress, and abuse that leads them to leave the industry. The Nurse Midwife Health Program Australia is in its first phase with a support ...

The COVID pandemic saw a mass exodus of health-care workers across developed countries, exacerbating an existing health-care staffing crisis. In Australia, turnover rates among hospital staff reached nearly 20% in 2022. Hospital waiting lists in Victoria alone ballooned to 80,000 ...

An estimated 15 out of 100 registered nurses and midwives working in NSW could be experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder due to Covid, a new report has revealed. The Rosemary Bryant Research Centre surveyed 2,300 nurses and midwives across ...

As Covid numbers are fall back and restrictions have eased, a mental health professional says it's time for nurses to focus on self-compassion. His recommendation comes after a recent study found that healthcare workers were at a severe risk of ...

An exhausted nurse finishing a 12-hour shift for the third time in a row is no longer an uncommon scenario since Covid has made its mark on the world's healthcare systems. Over 75 per cent of Australia's front-line workers are burned ...

Paramedics and nurses reported poorer mental health and higher levels of social isolation than other health care workers during the pandemic, a new study has found. The pandemic has impacted nurses heavily, leading to higher chances of psychological stress such ...

Federal Labor has promised to launch a national health and wellbeing service for nurses and midwives to help ease “relentless” burnout and exhaustion across the sector. Speaking to health workers on Wednesday, opposition leader Anthony Albanese said Labor would commit ...

Nearly two years into a global pandemic, and with catastrophic bushfires before that, nurses are at an emotional breaking point and less willing to work, according to researchers. Research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has found that the healthcare workforce ...

Unprecedented circumstances and workforce pressure has led more nurses, midwives and students to call for mental health support during COVID, a national counselling service has told Nursing Review. Mark Aitken, a registered nurse and manager from the Nurse & Midwife ...

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 ...