Nursing is one Australia’s most in-demand professions, despite nurses and midwives already representing over half of the nation’s health workforce. With the roles of nurses and midwives continuing to evolve, long gone are the days when on-the-job training was the ...

Rhys Thomas White, ESR; David Winter, ESR, and Suzanne Manning, ESR Anyone who has spent time inside a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) knows it’s intense. For the tiny babies cared for in these wards, any infection could prove fatal. ...

The NSW government have issued their response to the Parliamentary Inquiry Report into Birth Trauma, committing to the support of 42 of the 43 recommendations made by the Select Committee. The inquiry, which concluded earlier this year, received more than ...

A new report claims that the public sector 'wages cap' enforced by the NSW Treasury between 2011 and 2023 has had a profoundly detrimental effect on the remuneration of nurses and midwives, resulting in a labour market in NSW under ...

Virtual reality (VR) is helping to create safer birthing experiences for Queensland mothers and their babies in remote towns. Nurses in the remote and predominantly Indigenous towns of north-west Queensland are learning how to prepare mothers for childbirth with the ...

The Queensland Government has introduced new initiatives to boost regional maternity services in rural and remote areas. As part of the $42 million funding announced in June, five new actions have been introduced following stakeholder feedback from the Ministerial Maternity ...

Yesterday, Queensland midwives rallied outside of Parliament House, calling for urgent funding from the state government. In June this year, the state government invested $42 million to help maternity services in rural and remote communities. However, it was revealed that ...

A 23-year-old described her journey of becoming a midwife in rural South Australia as 'a magical experience', where she made meaningful connections and changed lives. Taryn Gartner, a midwife at Mount Gambier District Health Service, described her job as a ...

A Western Australian university has launched a new research department to help train and drive more nurses into remote healthcare services. The federal government allocated $17m over four years to establish a department of rural health at Perth's Edith Cowan ...

Women from disadvantaged backgrounds in rural Australia are facing significant barriers to accessing quality maternity care, new research shows. A recent study from Victoria's La Trobe University found women living in remote areas are to be at a far higher ...