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,” […]
‘Unleash The Potential’: Thousands more mental health nurses needed to meet rising demand
There is almost 25,000 mental health nurses working across the country, according to the Department of Health and Aged Care’s latest health workforce data. Despite growth in numbers, Adrian Armitage, CEO of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses (ACMHN), says it’s not nearly enough to combat the “silent pandemic” of rising mental health issues […]
Q&A: Wound Clinical Nurse Consultant Hayley Ryan on tackling a ‘hidden epidemic’
This year’s Wound Awareness Week (4-10 September) is ‘Let’s get wound care RIGHT! The RIGHT diagnosis and the RIGHT treatment at the RIGHT time’. It points to the fact that so many wounds can be healed with appropriate care, especially from experienced wound care nurses, and the value of wound-specific education from many other health […]
Study: What would help retention of early career nurses in regional and rural areas?
What would help improve the job satisfaction and retention of early career nurses working across regional and rural Australia? It’s a question often contemplated by Heidi Rose, a clinical nurse based at Mount Gambier, and University of South Australia academics Dr Gemma Skaczkowski and Associate Professor Kate Gunn. So, they asked them. The study aimed […]
Maggie Beer launches new program to train aged care cooks and chefs to deliver better food
Maggie Beer launches new program to train aged care cooks and chefs to deliver better food
‘Our time’: Prime Minister announces Voice to Parliament referendum date
Australians will cast their vote at a landmark referendum to decide whether to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament in the Constitution on Saturday, 14 October, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese officially confirmed this morning at a community rally in Adelaide. Launching the six-week campaign, the PM labelled the referendum a “once-in-a-generation […]
‘Once in a generation opportunity’: Meet Aboriginal nurse and Yes23 NT campaign coordinator, Georgia Corrie
‘Once in a generation opportunity’: Meet Aboriginal nurse and Yes23 NT campaign coordinator, Georgia Corrie