‘We have come a long way’: Nurse Practitioner Week 2020

This Saturday, 12 December, marks 20 years since the first nurse practitioners were endorsed in Australia. The landmark moment serves as a constant reminder of how far the advanced practice nursing role has come and, importantly, what is still left to achieve. Nurse practitioners have been well-established internationally but in Australia their introduction and acceptance […]

Nurses in government-run aged care homes provide the most amount of care, study finds

Nurses in government-run aged care homes provide three times the amount of care to each resident per day than not-for-profit and for-profit facilities, a new study from the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety has revealed. The study, described as the most detailed profile on the quality of residential aged care facilities ever […]

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