In an attempt to plug staffing gaps, the Victorian government has started offering free degree places in nursing, but experts say this solution ignores the elephant in the room. According to Dr Lesley Andrew from Edith Cowan University, nursing has ...

Nurses forced to flee their homeland have been given a new chance to use their skills in Australia's healthcare system thanks to a recently launched program.  The pilot 'Scholarship for Refugee Nurses' program, organised by Edith Cowan University (ECU), will ...

In Australia, medical errors result in as many as 18,000 unnecessary deaths, while more than 50,000 patients become disabled each year. Estimates suggest that 86 per cent of these events occur in a hospital setting.1 Medical errors can be caused ...

Nurses may be able to double their income by taking on further study, with workforce shortages predicted for the near future. This conclusion was made in a new report, The Future of Work: Occupational and Education Trends in Nursing in Australia, ...

  Graduates brought in to meet future shortages are struggling to find jobs at present.  Australia may be gearing up for a nursing shortage in 2025, but in the interim, nursing graduates around the country are struggling to find work. A ...

As a federal election looms, it's time to bring major nursing issues to attention. By Louis White On the eve of the recent Western Australian state election, premier Colin Barnett caved in to nurses' demands for a 14 per cent ...