4 tips to keep on top of your Super
Superannuation or super is likely to be one of your largest assets. It starts from the time you started working so it’s worth paying attention sooner rather than later because it makes a big difference to what your balance is at retirement. Here are 4 tips to keep on top of you super: Let’s break […]
Happy International Neonatal Nurses’ Day
August 15th is International Neonatal Nurses Day, recognised by the Council of International Neonatal Nurses, which was officially incorporated in 2005 to represent international neonatal nursing and care. A neonatal nurse delivers care to sick or preterm newborn infants and their families during the first 28 days of life and sometimes beyond the first month […]
Husband and wife career switch to nursing
Husband and wife duo Jacob and Liana Cox have undergone a joint career life change with the aim of becoming nurses in rural and remote communities. For Jacob, a carpenter, and Liana, a police officer, life is a juggle of raising their two young children, while working and studying. Both started a Nursing Science degree […]
Nursing care for people with intellectual disability
With the inception of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) nurses will increasingly need to be competent in the care and support of people with intellectual disability (ID). Nurse academic and disability advocate Virginia Howie talks to the ANMJ. Despite decades of government reform to improve health outcomes for people with ID, mortality and morbidity […]
Voice to Parliament the structural reform needed to Closing the Gap
“More of the same isn’t good enough, we have to do better,” said Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney on the release of the latest Closing the Gap report which shows slow progress with few targets on track to be met by 2031. An Indigenous Voice to Parliament is the structural reform needed to […]
Adelaide nurse provides protective presence against human rights abuses in Palestine
Adelaide nurse provides protective presence against human rights abuses in Palestine
Thousands turn up to support YES campaign for Voice to Parliament
Thousands turn up to support YES campaign for Voice to Parliament
First impressions from a 1st year midwifery student
“I now realise that every woman’s journey is different,” says Eva Barba, first year Bachelor of Midwifery student at the Australian Catholic University (ACU). Eva shares her first impressions of midwifery with the ANMJ. What attracted you to midwifery? I have wanted to be a midwife since I was 10 years old. I was a […]
Back to Bangka: One woman’s journey to uncover the truth
Australian Army nurse Bud Elmes was excited, describing “the opportunity of a lifetime” being in Malaya, to her friends and family back home – only months before her brutal death in the waters off Radji Beach during WWII in one of the worst wartime massacres in history. Melbourne writer Georgina Banks’ search for the truth […]
Engage men earlier for better health this International Men’s Health Week 2023
International Men’s Health Week which runs from 12-18 June each year, is an opportunity to highlight the importance of men’s health, and to promote and support the health and wellbeing of men and boys in our communities. Men are known as late presenters for health concerns and so it’s about engaging them earlier and better […]