Midwives go green in bid to reduce waste footprint
Midwives go green in bid to reduce waste footprint
‘Look, feel, learn’: Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2023
Kerry Patford, Chief Nurse for the McGrath Foundation, has worked in breast care nursing for more than two decades. For as long as she can remember, breast cancer was “always part of the conversation” due to a strong family history. Then, while on maternity leave with her second child, a close friend was diagnosed with […]
‘No respect’: Red Cross Lifeblood nurses rally over proposed enterprise agreement
“I just don’t think what they’ve put on the table for us so far is showing very much respect at all,” says Lifeblood enrolled nurse (EN) Kelly Costello about her employer’s proposed single enterprise agreement, which for the first time would cover all workers across the country. Kelly has worked at the Australian Red Cross’ […]
Telehealth reform key to making voluntary assisted dying work long-term, clinicians say
How can voluntary assisted dying (VAD) be improved across Australia over the next two years? According to hundreds of clinicians working in the field who attended the country’s first national VAD conference in Sydney last week, run by charity Go Gentle Australia and VADANZ, improved access to telehealth, which involves some consultations via phone, video […]
CRANAplus marks 40 years leading remote and isolated health workforce
CRANAplus marks 40 years leading remote and isolated health workforce
‘People are crumbling’: Nurse speaks out at price gouging inquiry
‘People are crumbling’: Nurse speaks out at price gouging inquiry
Experts weigh in on how to forge a positive future for mental health nurses
Experts weigh in on how to forge a positive future for mental health nurses
Workforce investment key to ‘unleashing’ mental health nurses’ potential
Skilled and knowledgeable health professionals, mental health nurses possess a range of invaluable attributes including the ability to show great empathy, provide tailored patient-centred care, and respond and adapt to often complex situations. But Australia doesn’t have enough of them working in the system to their full scope of practice, and lacks new and innovative […]
Have your say on scope of practice review
The federal government is seeking submissions for its independent workforce review examining the barriers and incentives Australia’s health practitioners face working to their full scope of practice in primary care. Launched last month, the Unleashing the Potential of our Heath Workforce Review, a recommendation of the Strengthening Medicare Taskforce, wants to hear what key stakeholders […]
Nurse Practitioner pens book detailing ‘honest insights’ into the life of a nurse
Rasa Kabaila never imagined that her everyday nursing stories from a decade in the job could one day form an entire book. That was until a friend planted the seed in her mind that her experiences, and those of colleagues, deserved to be told. “I thought, they’re not necessarily unique stories, but they are significant,” […]