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Health professionals advised to stop prescribing SABA (blue puffer) to treat asthma
- September 16, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Asthma
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Frailty – supporting better outcomes
- August 21, 2025
- Category: Career & Practice, Sponsored Post
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
Frailty is a common, yet often under-recognised, condition in older people. It is estimated that at least 11% of community dwelling older Australians, and up to 75% of residents in aged care homes are living with frailty. Frailty is an

The Power of Persistence: How the ANMF’s advocacy laid the foundation for NPs in Australia
- October 16, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
The nurse practitioner (NP) role originated in the United States in the mid-1960s to address gaps in healthcare. But it took 35 years later, on 12 December 2000, for Jane O’Connell (emergency) and Sue Denison

Calling all primary healthcare nurses and midwives: Complete APNA’s 2024 Workforce Survey today
- October 15, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: Primary healthcare
For over 15 years, the Australian Primary Health Care Nurses Association’s annual Workforce Survey has provided a comprehensive snapshot of the working conditions and professional concerns faced by primary healthcare nurses and midwives working across

Enhancing clinical placement learning for nursing and midwifery students: A national quality assurance project
- October 14, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
The National Placement Evaluation Centre (NPEC) was established in 2018 to provide an Australian national approach to monitoring nursing and midwifery student evaluations of their professional experience placements (PEP). The lack of a national monitoring

Strength in numbers: 100 years of improving the working lives of nurses and midwives
- October 14, 2024
- Category: Career & Practice
- / Tag: All Nurses And Midwives
The working lives of nurses and midwives have undergone significant transformation over the past 100 years. In 1938, a typical staff nurse in Victoria earned just two pounds, four shillings, and four pence, for a
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