An increase to award wages for Certificate III aged care workers has "finally" been secured. The Fair Work Commission ordered pay increases of 23 per cent for assistants in nursing (AINs) and personal care workers (PCWs) with a Certificate III ...

Around 60 aged care nurses and carers from across Australia travelled to Canberra to address "ongoing failures" by providers, and to call for accountability. The group stood together to call out aged care providers, saying "they can't be trusted" to ...

Nursing staff from St Vincent's Private Hospital (SVPH) in northern NSW have threatened to strike after a backpedal on a pay increase. In a statement by the NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association (NSWNMA), the private hospital had negotiated a pay ...

An expert panel has said social media myths could contribute to high rates of unplanned pregnancies in Australia and urged for broader education on birth control. "There has been a lot of misinformation around pain and IUD insertion," Professor Deborah ...

A new project will allow student nurses to learn how to negotiate verbal and physical abuse without being put in harm's way. IVADE is an immersive computer simulation program by Edith Cowan University (ECU), made to help nurses and nursing ...

Hundreds of nurses and midwives from two prominent private hospitals in Sydney have voted against a new enterprise agreement. Over the past six months, the NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association (NSWNMA) pleaded with St Vincent's Health (SVHA) to address the ...

New quarterly data has revealed that people in NSW continue to wait beyond clinically recommended guidelines for elective surgeries.  The latest Healthcare Quarterly data, covering the first quarter of 2023, also found that elective surgery activity has bounced back to pre-pandemic ...

The NSW government will establish a staff working group with Australia's largest nursing union in a bid to improve to staffing levels in state hospitals. Last Thursday, the state government announced NSW hospitals would have one nurse for every three ...

Two aged care experts have said providers creating a better work environment for its staff would fix the majority of the sector's issues. Earlier this month, aged care provider Wesley Mission announced it would close its remaining three facilities after facing difficulties ...

One of Australia's leading nursing unions is calling for more research to battle the sexualisation of the workforce. In early March, 120,000 NSW registered nurses and midwives received an email from the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW (NMC) warning them not ...